I want an E Trac but....

[jbow]

If I get one I will really need to find some new/old hunting grounds... I look at all these picture posts, (like those by JamesND), and I know I have to find some new places. Man... I wish we had an old park in our town, but we don't. Gotta go crusin' around and find a new spot. I hardly ever find any silver, it's either CW relics or clad and that's ok but I really like to hunt old coinage. I do have one place. I stopped and talked to an old man. He told me about his grandfathers farm. The house and barns are all gone and the site is in some woods beside a newer subdivision. He told me that his GF loved silver dollars and that his sister, (his, not the GF's ) told him about seeing the old man with a gallon jar of them out in the barn. He said it has never surfaced. When the brush get's down and the leaves fall... i'll be out there. I bet it has never been hunted because it has been gone for many years.

It sound's like a great place for a machine like the E Trac.

J

 

[Texan23]

Now there's a story to make your heart beat faster! Don't give up on that one...

 

[JAB/Oregon]

jbow--

Sounds like you and I are in the same boat, needing new dirt and all... Your story reminds me to well that some of the most productive research I've ever done was by getting out and talking to the older folks...

Anymore for me and around my area, I'm finding that my more productive hunts are the result of basically finding the perfect opportunity to ask permission to hunt private properties... Homes, private schools, colleges, academy's and such... I've worked up a brochure that kind of answers common questions most property owners have concerning myself and the hobby. I leave it with them to read at their leisure and it's paid off...

It can be a little awkward at times for myself and the owner when asking for permission but a lot of it has to do with timing... It hasn't worked every single time but it has paid off in the past just to kindly and respectfully ask...


JAB

 

[jbow]

True... the best places I have hunted are private properties I have asked and gotten permission for. It's not too hard once you start, it's the just starting that is hard. It is like sales "cold calling" I have done it in the past... hated it but the only really had call is the first one each day.

The brochure is a good idea. I have mined business acquaintances, both mine and my wife's.

I was just in Kingston, GA at the park. I think I am going to have to go there in the AM and hunt around. It has been hunted to death for CW relics but there have to be some old coins deep... it's an interesting place about 10 miles down the road: http://www.notatlanta.org/kingston.html

Julien

 

[Steve from Ohio]

You really got me thinking where I will be going back to to test out the E-Trac. I have every place I ever hunted written down. I am going back to those places for sure.

Get yourself a GPS unit for your car and type in school, park, beach, lake and any other place that may have been around a while. I look for old brick schools that were built in the first half of last century. I find out about the local city parks and when they were first built and put to use.

Also a trip to the local library can be a goldmine of information about old schools, parks and any other place that may have been an area in the past that people went to. I also like the idea of going to the highest ground in or around small older cities because in the past people would go there to keep cool from the wind up on the hill and any hill that overlooks a small old city would have been a place for people of the past to go. Old train stations are also a gold mine. Old ball diamonds with fences that are falling apart.

I also love to go into the woods and follow old trails that were used way back when. Those trails are usually kept open by animals and people still today.

Street grass strips in front of the sidewalks are really good places especially in front of older homes.

Old farm houses, barns, roadside rests, old fruit and vegetable stands, old amusement parks and millions of other places that I could fill this page up with.

As I drive, I looks for older homes and write down their address so I can get back to them to ask if I could detect.

I may wear out my E-Trac going to all the places I am now thinking about hitting. And I'm pretty sure that even the hardest hit areas are still productive especially with the E-Trac. Time will tell.

 

[king-ghidorah]

jbow--

Sounds like you and I are in the same boat, needing new dirt and all... Your story reminds me to well that some of the most productive research I've ever done was by getting out and talking to the older folks...

Anymore for me and around my area, I'm finding that my more productive hunts are the result of basically finding the perfect opportunity to ask permission to hunt private properties... Homes, private schools, colleges, academy's and such... I've worked up a brochure that kind of answers common questions most property owners have concerning myself and the hobby. I leave it with them to read at their leisure and it's paid off...

It can be a little awkward at times for myself and the owner when asking for permission but a lot of it has to do with timing... It hasn't worked every single time but it has paid off in the past just to kindly and respectfully ask...

That brochure is actually a very good idea.


JAB

 

[jbow]

I live right off hwy 41 and old 41. There are some old roadside rest places. I may go hit some of them, that is a good idea. I easily get in a rut of hitting the same old easy places.

J