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High schooles.
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Hunt schools on weekends and holidays. That should take care of most of your problems. I doubt they would want you detecting while in session. Summer break also a good time. It would be impossible to guarantee your safety anywhere you hunt Priscilla. I would hate to say it will be fine and something goes wrong!
Priscilla,I think it all depends on the neighborhood.Inner city schools only hunt with a group and only on the weekends.Schools in rural area should be safe again only on weekends and not during events or games.
Jim West Pa
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ya have to dig with yer fingers because any tool used for digging is considered a "weapon" and weapons of any kind are an arrestable offense on any school grounds.
I use a trowel that looks like a knife and haven't had any problems.I have hunted with at least 6 in a group that used these type of digging tools and haven't had any problems.I do like parks better which is void of these type of problems.I have always tryed to leave the area as I find it and carry a trash pouch.I don't detect in the middle of people and make it a effort to keep a low profile.I'm sure there will always be one or two people that don't think you should be searching at parks or schools,and if I'm confronted with these do gooder's I will just leave.A couple of years ago when I was a Nordic National Ski Patroller I had to tell people they couldn't walk their dogs on the ski trails,which their best response was I have a right to be here to enjoy the park I pay taxes to support this park like the skier's.
Same advice as everyone else really, use your head and be careful. My own favorite time to hit schools is over Spring Break, Christmas break, Thanksgiving, and just after school lets out for the summer. Apart from holidays, Sunday morning seems to be the best for me. What I usually do is start off "detecting the corners", which is kind of hard to define but it's more or less starting off somewhere neither in full view of all traffic around the school nor lurking in the shadows. I don't act nervous, but I don't look at and wave to every passing car, either. I look like I'm working, not like I'm waiting for the cops to come see what I'm up to. I guess the best advice would be that if you don't feel comfortable where you're searching, something's wrong and you should probably leave. I have left public parks where it just didn't feel right, usually because single young adults were meeting up with other singles or groups of two for just a few minutes at a time. Maybe drug deals, maybe not, but not where I wanted to be regardless. I'll be the first to admit having carried a firearm to a few of the places I've detected (I have a concealed carry permit) but NEVER anywhere NEAR a school. Aside from being just stupid, it's a felony.
If you do find a high school you're comfortable with, don't limit yourself to just high schools. You might not think of pre-teenies as having enough loot to lose, but one of my all-time favorite places to hit are the playgrounds on elementary and middle schools. A lot of playgrounds have wood chips scattered around the bases, and these serve multiple purposes such as preventing scrapes and scratches on the kiddies, making a hard landing off the swings not so hard, immediately hiding coins that come out of pockets, and keeping those coins from getting buried in dirt. They come out like new, all you have to do is get your beep on and move some wood chips with your foot.
Actually just about every square inch of ground on a middle school is fertile soil for coin-shooting. Obviously around any picnic tables or decks is where I hit first, any playground equipment, a 20-foot circle around trees, then 6-8 feet to either side of any sidewalk. If you don't have any luck with these places, skip to the next school on your list because someone has already beat you out. I'm currently working on a "conglomeration" of schools in a neighboring community. The high school, middle school and 2 buildings of elementary are all on the same 2-block patch of ground. The high school is the worst to find stuff, there's no place for kids to hang out between classes or when school lets out. However there's a courtyard (grass and dirt) between the middle school and elementary schools, with two different areas of playground equipment, and yesterday I pulled out 172 coins. Last week it was 153. Got my second Sacajawea dollar yesterday, and pulled a 1943d Mercury dime out of the dirt in that courtyard. No reason for it to be there, but I'm not going to wonder about it too much.
Schools are great, they get re-seeded every year with coins and you can go back again and again as long as you observe the basic rules of safety, fill your holes and don't cause a scene.
Good luck!
If you do find a high school you're comfortable with, don't limit yourself to just high schools. You might not think of pre-teenies as having enough loot to lose, but one of my all-time favorite places to hit are the playgrounds on elementary and middle schools. A lot of playgrounds have wood chips scattered around the bases, and these serve multiple purposes such as preventing scrapes and scratches on the kiddies, making a hard landing off the swings not so hard, immediately hiding coins that come out of pockets, and keeping those coins from getting buried in dirt. They come out like new, all you have to do is get your beep on and move some wood chips with your foot.
Actually just about every square inch of ground on a middle school is fertile soil for coin-shooting. Obviously around any picnic tables or decks is where I hit first, any playground equipment, a 20-foot circle around trees, then 6-8 feet to either side of any sidewalk. If you don't have any luck with these places, skip to the next school on your list because someone has already beat you out. I'm currently working on a "conglomeration" of schools in a neighboring community. The high school, middle school and 2 buildings of elementary are all on the same 2-block patch of ground. The high school is the worst to find stuff, there's no place for kids to hang out between classes or when school lets out. However there's a courtyard (grass and dirt) between the middle school and elementary schools, with two different areas of playground equipment, and yesterday I pulled out 172 coins. Last week it was 153. Got my second Sacajawea dollar yesterday, and pulled a 1943d Mercury dime out of the dirt in that courtyard. No reason for it to be there, but I'm not going to wonder about it too much.
Schools are great, they get re-seeded every year with coins and you can go back again and again as long as you observe the basic rules of safety, fill your holes and don't cause a scene.
Good luck!
Parkit,good advice.
HI partkit
I have been hunting a elementary school since last year. I am not quite finished with it, but the school was nice about leting me detect all over there grownds.I don't weary about having compation in my area becouse there is really no one in this area that takes up this hobby. (not that i know of)Thank you for your advise and good idea's on hunting schools.
priscilla
I have been hunting a elementary school since last year. I am not quite finished with it, but the school was nice about leting me detect all over there grownds.I don't weary about having compation in my area becouse there is really no one in this area that takes up this hobby. (not that i know of)Thank you for your advise and good idea's on hunting schools.
priscilla
I wouldn't ask for permission in writing this could have the oppisite effect.
OK,Priscilla being the owner of a small riding stable(hunter jumper's).Don't ask property owner's to sign permission forms or waiver's,because this would be reversed if anyone's going to sign paper's its the visitor's on the property signing waiver's so a landowner can't be sued due to an accident.Be specific example I would like to search your front yard for coins for a couple of hours with a metal detector and the digging will be minimum and that you would include the property owner in the finds.Very simple they will either say no or yes,if no you excuse yourself and explain that you thought this would be an interesting place to search and thank them for their time.
Thank you for explaining to me about signing permission forms and waiver's. I am not looking to have a property owner sign any thing,In order to let me hunt his or here land.All, I was tryng to say or explain is on how to ask permission to hunt privet property.I under stand now about how to ask, and the permission signing. Thank you ron you have been a big help.
priscilla
priscilla
Silver Master
New member
I think in hard dirt it would be virtually impossible to dig a hole with your fingers but then again maybe i am wrong who knows.
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School fields are excellent sites for coin shooting and general metal detecting due to the sheer number of various lost items going back many years in some cases. Many school fields over here in the uk are now out of bounds for metal detecting, not because anyone has banned them but because many now have 10 foot high metal fences around the field which effectively seals the site off from anyone and his dog.:cry
The fences have been put up to stop people robbing the schools which is understandable. Many sites are been built on too with houses been built on all types of what was once good metal detecting land is shrinking all the time!
:School fields are excellent sites for coin shooting and general metal detecting due to the sheer number of various lost items going back many years in some cases. Many school fields over here in the uk are now out of bounds for metal detecting, not because anyone has banned them but because many now have 10 foot high metal fences around the field which effectively seals the site off from anyone and his dog.:cry
The fences have been put up to stop people robbing the schools which is understandable. Many sites are been built on too with houses been built on all types of what was once good metal detecting land is shrinking all the time!
Silverstar_Lawman
New member
I think in answer to the question of high schools being safe due to crime levels the answer is that in this country no matter if you are at a school, a park, or the beach crime is not to far away. You have to be careful no matter where you are and watch what is going on around you, your gut will tell you when things are not right you just have to listen, just my point of view. In all fairness I'm a Law Enforcement Officer so my radar is never far below 80% operating levels and I'm most likely more careful than I need to be, drives my wife nuts.
Jim West Pa
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