I've been knocking around the idea of doing some curb strip hunting, and since I had an hour or two I decided to go for it. I had scoped out a good possible spot in front of a vacant house in a older area of town. Before swinging I knocked on the doors of the houses on both sides of the vacant house. I was just going to be courteous and let them know why I was there, and also ask if they minded if I hunted in front of their houses as well. No luck though as there was no answer at either house.
With only about an hour of daylight left I had at it. Used the little 6'', sens around 25, IM and just paid attention to the higher tones. An hour later I had 3 wheats, a '43 Canadian penny (a heart stopper because I thought it was an IH at first), and a bunch of clad. I also found a jack (not for raising a car, but for playing on the sidewalk). Thought this was a cool find as I could imagine the kids playing on the sidewalk 50 years ago and losing it.
A good hunt considering the small space I was detecting and the short time period.
I'll definitely be hitting some more strips.
With only about an hour of daylight left I had at it. Used the little 6'', sens around 25, IM and just paid attention to the higher tones. An hour later I had 3 wheats, a '43 Canadian penny (a heart stopper because I thought it was an IH at first), and a bunch of clad. I also found a jack (not for raising a car, but for playing on the sidewalk). Thought this was a cool find as I could imagine the kids playing on the sidewalk 50 years ago and losing it.
A good hunt considering the small space I was detecting and the short time period.
I'll definitely be hitting some more strips.
The jack was a cool find.
Those strips are excellent places to detect and with those wheaties you got, there's gotta to be some silver there someplace. HH.
Curb-hunting is a blast .... ther always seems to be a high concentration of matchbox cars.
