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[poopoo030260]

i live in the toms river nj region i need help BADLY can anyone give me any specific spots to hunt. I already went to my local park and woods, school playgrounds and found just a bunch of clad so please help

 

[oldranger]

Hi Im new too and Im stil learing This forum
will help you a lot..heres my ideas I tried

Any local park ball field etc as long as its legal
I got permission to go on to an Old school that was shut
dwon and found coins tokens and jewlery

Did ok at a local freshwater lake beach and around
the lake at a sprtsman club i belong to.

this spring im going to hunt along a river bank
that I was told by others should have somne old stuff due to
old factories etc when the twon was young ..
If your close to the ocean theres always the beach
Im learning reserach ideas this winer but some of the folks on this forum said Talk to people
I tried it and it works .. I have leads and a few ( 2) permissions to hunt around old barns i saw riding around

Thats baout it for my ideas but Im sure the experienced folsk here
will really be of help

Have Happy Safe fun Hunts
Ron

Rangers Lead The Way

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

If you are looking for old coins, then I hope you like being a history buff. look for historical societies, libraries and anything else related to your local history. The more research you do, the luckier you'll get. Not very many folks will tell you of specific spots to hunt, as they've done the leg work to find them and it would take a very generous soul to publish that location on the web. In fact this point was brought up on the X-Terrs forum only a few months ago. Folks that mentioned specific spots, found that they were rapidly hunted out.
Charles Garrett has written some good books on how to go about hunting old sites and the like. If you pop onto the Garrett home page, I'm sure you will see a book that may be of interest to you. Just be aware that the site you want to hunt, aren't protected by specific laws,ie battle sites eta.
Enjoy the research side of the hobby. A lot of folks find that just as interesting as the actual hunts.
Mick Evans.

 

[bcoop]

Check with some of the older folks in your area, they have a wealth of knowledge. They can tell you where small carnivals and other community events use to be held. Old fair grounds, old schools, old churches and old homes still standing, and old home sites.
Build a good rapport and ask permission and Good Luck.

bcoop Missouri

 

[jackinaustin]

Don't just hunt the "Normal" areas in the places you have already hunted. Go back and hunt the areas of the schools and so forth that you didn't think there would be anything. You"ll be surprised at what you find. You have to learn to think "Outside the box". Around older houses or where houses used to be are gold mines. There is no place that is hunted out.

 

[jimmy jam]

when you find a place to hunt, use all metal to get i idea of what is in the ground, maybe there is silver and gold, and you just got to dig deeper.

 

[coach c]

poopoo......Purchasing any book by Dick Stout would be well worth the money. "Coin Hunting in Depth" is a great book and his new book "Where to Find Treasure" is great. It is really the newest version with a lot of the first book repeated. Both are very good......Coach

 

[Old Katz]

I went to google maps and BOY your right in the middle of a very
saturated area...buildings, buildings buildings. I did see some nice parks
and it looks like there are some beach areas. I also see Fort Dix Military Resv.
Looks like great farm country west of you though.
Katz

 

[poopoo030260]

tanks for the help guys

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I've written several articles on that subject - hunt the not so obvious places. Be surprised what you can find. I was watching this guy one time hunting all around this big clump of bushes in a park. I asked him if he had hunted inside and under the bushes where lovers went to do their deed. The look on his face was as if someone had just beaned him with a ball peen hammer and turned the light on. He went inside the bushes to a clearing in the center and found a pile of stuff.

I hunted a football field once and found little. I looked up at the end of the field and across the track around the field and there was this piece of ground loaded with football equipment and a bunch of old bleachers stacked up against a fence and I thought, " Bet no one has hit that junk pile." They hadn't and I pulled over seven bucks out of that patch of ground.

Bill