BREAKING NEWS!!
Calabash Digger agrees with me!
Yes, in your video you stated you are not fond of digging iron trash, so you could say Monte is like you. But I don't think you started detecting in March of '65. Nor switch to very avid Relic Hunting sites 85% of my detecting time, or more, starting in July of '83, so it's fair to say CB is like Monte .... at least when in comes to dealing with Iron junk on a regular basis.
Now, isn't that something to say you are like me!!!
I started hunting ghost towns and other iron contaminated sites back in May of '69,
but mainly worked them just occasionally due to the type of detectors we had in the ground environment. Things changed in July 83 when we got some good detectors to start hunting those old sites, and that's when I switched to 85% of more of my hunttime working them. Most of them were old RR townsites, long void of people or structures. But the iron and other trash remained.
Like you, spending a lot of dedicated hunt time to recover ferrous debris wasn't fun or make use of my allowable hunt tkme. I concentrated on going after non-ferrous targets such as coins, trade tokens, buttons, insignia. Cartridges and spent cases, and bullets, etc., etc.
My all-time favorite town, that I named 'Twin Flats' was highly productive producing 30-35 Seated Liberty coins for every 1 Barber coin. I found hundreds of coins to fill 4 binders with 2X2 carded coins and still had a small pile to clean and card.
Flying Eagle and Large Cents, 2 Cent and 3 Cent pieces, Capped Bust Half-Dime. A lot of CW era bullets and cartridges and uniform insignia,and buttons from plain to fancy to military.
Most of those old sites in Nevada, Oregon and Utah have now been worked heavily but there are still a lot of masked targets remainkng. Therefore I hunt them the old fashioned way and ignore a lot of iron, OR ... I grid an area to clean it out and remove iron debris.
Monte