I think metal detecting is becoming a dying hobby ....

[vito]

I think metal detecting is becoming a dying hobby ....​

That's ok for me. As long as I can detect ....

 

[chariot]

We’ve had nothing but heavy rains for the past week. And when it’s not raining, it’s boiling hot humidity. So far I’ve been out in my yard twice since I got my D2. I will guess that my oldish (1961) house has not been searched, but so far it’s all trash.

Our schools aren’t fenced, but it doesn’t matter, they are all legally off limits. If it quits raining, I’m going to try the state park beach.

 

[Coin Rescue Inc]

We have a few Middle Schools that used to be the High School. A new bigger HS was built else where. So it pays to study the history of the facility.
We have one park that used to be a 1950's football stadium. That is gone and they built a Hockey Rink on that spot.
Every once and a while I found nice stuff like Merc's, silver rings and once a 1897 Barber Quarter by a huge old oak tree.
There are a batch of Fenced in Baseball fields too. In the grass islands of the Parking Lot once found a spill of modern one dollar coins. My guess is a Coach had a batch to hand out to his team as prizes and dropped some.
If only these coins could tell the tale of how they got lost!!!
Then there is the inner City of Detroit. I think it risky to visit that spot town alone. you could be a target for ambush.

 

[C.J.M.]

It's so ironic as we have some great machines right now and the good old days are in the rearview mirror!!
I'm sure most beach detectorist will agree gold finds are waaay down. Coins are on the vast decline. Plastic and cell phones rule financial transactions.
Here a 'wedding ring' I eyeballed.
Years ago we thought stainless steel and titanium was going to be the end. Now we have have silicone....
Many years ago i found a local carnival. Morning after was like fishing in a barrel. I had to go back and empty my pouch, it was so heavy. My favorite spot was the ride, The Zipper It flung the kids and the spot was loaded with coins.
yesterday it was pretty pitiful. Just a handful of bright shiny coins. The field is a shared baseball & soccer park thus the brown coins. I remember way back when I had over 75 quarters. i never counted anything but quarters. That was my barometer. At least I found a silver necklace. Times they are a changing

yep,its hard to find a place,no one wants you.YOU SCARE THE PEOPLE WHEN THEY SEE SOMEONE CARRYING A DETECTOR AND A LARGE SHOVEL

 

[Mark kus]

I've never beach hunted because I live to far inland in western PA but I watch a few of the beach hunters on youtube and it looks like fun, I watch them a lot because they are after gold jewelry mostly and you get a clue on how that stuff hits and what the tid's are which seems to be along most of the scale, anyway hunting for gold instead of deep silver gives you a reason to dig a lot of targets you wouldn't normally dig and gives you a reason to get out and hunt in a hunted out park even though gold targets are few and far between in parks where I usually hunt, with gold at around $4000 an ounce a nice size ring would put some bucks in your pocket.

Beach is great especially during the winter here in eastern Ct everything frozen go to the beach and I have a good one that gets dredged every winter so im always
getting a gold ring or two
mark

 

[targets]

too many old timers with health problems

 

[Donna(NJ]

We’ve had nothing but heavy rains for the past week. And when it’s not raining, it’s boiling hot humidity. So far I’ve been out in my yard twice since I got my D2. I will guess that my oldish (1961) house has not been searched, but so far it’s all trash.

Our schools aren’t fenced, but it doesn’t matter, they are all legally off limits. If it quits raining, I’m going to try the state park beach.

Just check in at the rangers station. State parks my need permit. Some parks are real PIA about detecting. Just make sure you know the rules.

Good Luck, State park beaches are usually great places to hunt because they are free or very cheap. They usually get big crowds especially on the weekends.

HH
Donna(NJ

 

[chariot]

still stretches of heavy rain every day...

 

[targets]

in the uk ground is undigable due to no rain for months

 

[BigTony]

in the uk ground is undigable due to no rain for months

New Jersey is the same in the summer months. Very very dry

 

[woodbutcher]

New Jersey is the same in the summer months. Very very dry

When I was a kid growing up we usto go to Cape May, back then I was a youngster but i always think about going there some day and detecting. .I was born in Plainfield,lived in Piscataway till I was about 9.

 

[BigTony]

When I was a kid growing up we usto go to Cape May, back then I was a youngster but i always think about going there some day and detecting. .I was born in Plainfield,lived in Piscataway till I was about 9.

It’s a beautiful place, Cape May. The sand is excellent white color and the ocean is awesome blue. I worked in both Piscataway and Plainfield when I was young.
Tony N.J.

 

[Odanscoils]

In the recent past, I was walking over to a garbe can to get rid of my trash. Not more than 5 feet away, I found 3 kenny 1/2 dollars !!! Never in all my years did I ever find more than one.
Like everything in life, Timing is everything !!!!

Hmmm
Makes me wonder if someone wasn't throwing something away they thought was worthless.
Like an old heavy coat or shoebox full of miscellaneous stuff.
People can be so ignorant sometimes.
Probably would have spent it like cash.

 

[Odanscoils]

We have a few Middle Schools that used to be the High School. A new bigger HS was built else where. So it pays to study the history of the facility.
We have one park that used to be a 1950's football stadium. That is gone and they built a Hockey Rink on that spot.
Every once and a while I found nice stuff like Merc's, silver rings and once a 1897 Barber Quarter by a huge old oak tree.
There are a batch of Fenced in Baseball fields too. In the grass islands of the Parking Lot once found a spill of modern one dollar coins. My guess is a Coach had a batch to hand out to his team as prizes and dropped some.
If only these coins could tell the tale of how they got lost!!!
Then there is the inner City of Detroit. I think it risky to visit that spot town alone. you could be a target for ambush.

Curb strip's can be great in any big city.
Have a buddy who's packing watch over you.
Go early in the morning.
Be gone by 10am.
Early Saturday a are usually good.
Early Monday too.
Sunday it seemed to many grannies shooing youngins out doing chores.
That was Cleveland anyway.

Good Luck. Be safe.

 

[Donna(NJ]

Hmmm
Makes me wonder if someone wasn't throwing something away they thought was worthless.
Like an old heavy coat or shoebox full of miscellaneous stuff.
People can be so ignorant sometimes.
Probably would have spent it like cash.

Its basically a kids parks. playground equipment, basketball courts, tennis courts, etc. Its right near a school and the kids just parade through it on their way home. Ive seen lots of bicycles laying on the ground. They do have an end of summer festival, so Im sure it was just some kids money. It was all clad, not silver.....shucks... I spent it !!!!

HH
Donna

 

[sprchng]

Just check in at the rangers station. State parks my need permit. Some parks are real PIA about detecting. Just make sure you know the rules.

Good Luck, State park beaches are usually great places to hunt because they are free or very cheap. They usually get big crowds especially on the weekends.

HH
Donna(NJ

Most of the lakes here are man made empoundments and State park rules apply. The largest has for years seen 10s of thousands on major holidays. With the drought we have had the current lake is down to 3% capacity and has 100s of yards of old beach to detect. It is also a popular place to run the ATVs , dirt bikes , 4 wheelers and any off road equipment on but detecting is prohibited because it might "harm archeological formations". I have requested numerous times to recover "lost" items for a friend and always been refused with seizure being the threat. I had permission once if the ranger "supervised". It is well into triple heat digits there until Fall but I may get me a lightweight 8x10 enclosed tent and detect inside and then just pick it up and move to another 80 square feet. Unfortunately, it is a 140 mile drive