last dig in the field for this year-weeds are just to high:(

[GunnarMN]

The weeds are really making it hard to swing the coil , so this was the last hunt for this year or until it gets plowed , i was finding targets in the 13" range as you can see i found a small aluminum handle at 13.5 " deep was hunting in all metal pinpont I checked this in disq and it only nulled no sound thats why i hunt for the deep stuff with all metal pinpont , why at turned blue I do not know it is aluminum probley from the 30,s but just think a quarter could have been donw thear may have to hit some vile parks now or a beach I still think thear is some good posiblilitys in this feild but hunting it with the coil 4" off the ground is counter productive the weed win for now

 

[JimmyCT]

I can see the weeds growing hmmmm How about navigating through the bare spots that I see? Well, it certainly isn't a "wash" how about where your actual home is? Was anything in that area way back? How about the two big lakes north of you - any public beaches or is it all private? I do see some parks around in your area....
They even mention that they use to be old farm fields. Maybe some of them are cut....There is one park that has a huge hill that the kids sled down in the winter....The park system goes back to 1908.....oohhhh and the old foundations at one park are begging for you gunnar. On July 8th 1908 over a 1000 people attended the first picnic in the park. You have some cleaning up to do I read through all the park ordinances and doesn't prohibit metal detectors. The closest thing it mentions about destroying park property is that you can't pull up, flowers, trees or shrubs. Best of luck to you Gunnar! keep us posted.

 

[GunnarMN]

yes thats city park, i have never found silver coins thear but i may not be in the right spot and thear is a small beach on specticle lake that you seen you are right i will have to hit them now one thing is I have never hit them with a soveregn GT and i seen the old foundations that was the starch mill they are filled with trash from the 70,s as for our farm its been over run with gophers but i have them all trapped out and i would not be suprized if our 135 achers has a few coins on it it was farmed 100 years ago i did find a 1862 indian penny in great shape but no silver yet rumers that the old german left a stash somesheare

 

[Neil]

Hey Gunnar,

You never mention ticks up your way, are they up there? Id love to hit some old colonial spots now or even go looking for them(plants that dont belong are one of the things you look for) but there are alot of ticks.

There must be some rivers/lakes near you so you can do some beach hunting?

 

[GunnarMN]

Ticks are in the woods and tall grass wich i completly avoid in may june or i tuck my pants into my socks and Isolate the clothes after wearing them the farm field has no ticks but i may have to build a trial out to a old moonshine spot and will have to be carfull , and the mosquitoes are badd , but a army of dragon flys and toads and frogs has been deployed to do battle and soon you have to watch out for bee nests but I get really suted up so i could escape stings I like fall and early spring

 

[Critterhunter]

Up here near Cleveland Ohio there are pretty much no ticks. Only once have I found one on me in the woods around here. I think the winters are too harsh for them. But, if I head 100 miles south to Coshocton county where I do a lot of fishing/hunting the ticks are real bad. I won't even walk on ANY grass down there from like April to August unless I've sprayed my shoes and legs with something with DEET in it. Learned that lesson one day when I took a hike around a strip mine pond and ended up having about 12 or 14 of the little buggers crawling on me. Had to strip nakid and luckily none were feeding yet. It seems like they in particular like to hang around water sources but I've got them on me in fields, brush, or the woods too. I really try to stay out of the woods or weeds down there until September even if I've sprayed up with a good bug spray. Just walking across short mowed grass I've got them on me.

 

[JimmyCT]

Thank God you got them all off before they did start to feed. Those little stinkers are bad news. My buddy went hiking one day ( I didn't go) and that evening as he was taking a shower he found one right on the family jewels When he called and told me this I was shocked. These little blood suckers are vicious. Even further, here in Connecticut (where lyme disease was first discovered ) (Lyme, CT) it is absolutely horrendous in the woods, long grass, brush etc. especially after my last trip to the old 1790's homestead where I found my large cent. I came home and they were all over me. One hitched a ride piggy back on my neck.That was it for me. No more of that until early next Spring when it is still cool out and they are still kind of dormant.

Up here near Cleveland Ohio there are pretty much no ticks. Only once have I found one on me in the woods around here. I think the winters are too harsh for them. But, if I head 100 miles south to Coshocton county where I do a lot of fishing/hunting the ticks are real bad. I won't even walk on ANY grass down there from like April to August unless I've sprayed my shoes and legs with something with DEET in it. Learned that lesson one day when I took a hike around a strip mine pond and ended up having about 12 or 14 of the little buggers crawling on me. Had to strip nakid and luckily none were feeding yet. It seems like they in particular like to hang around water sources but I've got them on me in fields, brush, or the woods too. I really try to stay out of the woods or weeds down there until September even if I've sprayed up with a good bug spray. Just walking across short mowed grass I've got them on me.

 

[Critterhunter]

In Ohio down 100 miles south in Coshocton from where I live I find that they are bad from about April through August. Come September squirel hunting I've never got one on me or through the winter. Still, I still spray up unless I'm deer hunting when of course no scent is the way to go.

Once I drove down to Coshocton, got out of my truck onto a dirt road, and then waded in the water knee deep fishing all the way around a pond. I never walked through weeds or grass or anything, yet taking a shower that night at home I found one dug in on my leg. How in the heck did I get that thing? Only way I could figure is it was floating in the water and got on me.

Another time I drove down there and had yet to get out of my truck, yet one was on the driver's seat! Only thing I can figure is it fell through my open sun roof as I was driving down the road. Maybe it fell off a tree branch on the road.

Now if those two stories don't make you paranoid about getting ticks on you I don't know what will. I spray up and good and avoid grass/weeds/brush in the summer down there.

 

[GunnarMN]

my frend got one from his dog he got lime diseas and it turned him into a weakling he could not even lift a shovle his shoulder was just so sore that right conneticut is really a badd place for them special precautions must be taken all you rclothes must be put into the frezer and that will kill all the ticks shoes and all total air port pat down . or you are risking your future we just past the summer solstice and fall has begun days will be shorter now winter is knoking at the door say good by to the summer

 

[Critterhunter]

Don't say that! To me it isn't even mid summer yet, at least in my mind. This past winter was the worst and I don't want another one so quick.