Where are the best places to hunt?

[LabradorBob]

I have hunted parks,old houses,church yards.
Have found a few goodies,but,what are your opinions on the best places?
I do a lot of research,but there were several metal detecting clubs,very close.
old home places seem to be the good spots,but hard to come by.
what are the better places?

LabradorBob

 

[halfdimenut]

All the place's you mentioned can be good or they can be bad. All depends on the activity that was at the place and how hard it was hunted and how good with your machine you are. keep doing research and give them a fair shake at producing, if they don't produce move on to the next researched spot. I have found coin's in all the place's you mentioned but also have bombed out at all the place's you have mentioned. Good luck

 

[Howard Berry]

The spots you mentioned are all good. I live in an area that has a lot of folks who love to hunt. Most of the parks have been pounded hard for years and a lot of great finds have been made. I try to be patient, look at the surrounding area and try to hunt the out of the way areas that may have been missed by the folks digging the easy stuff. A lot of my hunches have paid off well too. Research is a great tool but I still have to get there and put a coil over the target. This year my silver count is lower but the ratio of older coins is a lot higher. I have recently started hunting the river banks in areas that have eroded with some success. A lot of people traveled by water in the old days. Great topic.

 

[MAcle1997]

My favorite sites are private yards. Chances are good that they've never been detected before.
I usually make several good finds whenever I mamage to get permission to hunt a yard.

Mark

 

[Hotcz70]

WORST area of any site. If I know the history of my site...and I usually do because I have been hunting the same parks for 30 years or more...I head DIRECTLY to the trash infested or Iron infested area. There are still a lot of good coins hiding here because most people don't have the patience to sift through the "nasty zone". 90% or more of the nice coins I've found this year have been in iron or trash...and through nulling. Some people don't feel confident if there machine is nulling over iron..but I have 100% confidence in mine.

To find a park that hasn't been pounded or "explored" would be like hitting the lottery...so you have to adapt and learn new techniques to pluck some goodies that others have missed. Nobody gets it all...ESPECIALLY me ...but I feel like I learn something each time out...and I love to go back to sites that have frustrated others and myself...and try to sniff one more out of the iron or trash.

 

[Philo_NY]

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[Tinfoil]

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[Buddysox]

They are right Bob, I have been detecting for about two years now and the old parks and first places I went to are still producing. But they are all trashy and take a lot of patience to work.The first park I went to, another detector saw me and stopped by and told me I wouldn't find anything because his club had "cleaned it Out". As I stood there I had two Mercs, a buffalo nickel, and a 1000 peso Mexican coin along with a ton of clad in my pouch. I think a lot of people get the easy stuff and then call it a day. There is a spot near some fruit trees I have found porbably 30 dimes near, later I went to the same spot with a smaller coil and pulled 20 more out. It has a lot of trash. my formula for a spot is People+Trash=CASH Hone your skills and like Bryce says, dont hesitate to work the trashy areas.

 

[Jason illinois]

I have been revisiting regular old public grass areas between side walks and street that by all reasoning should have been cleaned out years ago and found that if i slow down and do 6 inch sweeps or wax on, wax off method I picked up from watching someone I have found 3 barbers ( 2 of them were quarters) recently where they should have been cleaned out. What I noticed is that I can sniff out silver anywhere and usually park my car 10 ft from a silver find when I stop to begin detecting. As soon as I find one my concentration and detecting style I have learned goes out the window I get excited and i begin to do the traditional long sweep trying to cover a lot of ground and not find anything else for the rest of the time I am detecting. I am disabled airborne vet (orthopedic training injuries) and my knees are not that great so I get achy and go home after an hour. I believe you can find the stuff anywhere you look still if you....

1. slow down to a snails pace, the more the null the slower you go

2. shorten your rod until you can stand over the coil and use your weight to press down compressing the grass instead of sweeping it out in front of you or else all you will hear is shallow stuff

3. shorten your sweep according to how trashy ( 6 inch sweep if necessary), restart the same sweep over again wherever you get a beep cause the machine takes a sec to reset after it detects something causing it to skip stuff

4. Do not get excited after you find something good and go sweeping like crazy and forget the technique you have developed like I do.

 

[JJ]

What part of the country do you live in Bob? If you live in Ag country, like I do, then you can drive 20 minutes or less in any direction and come across old turn of the century farmsteads with big old farm houses. They are everywhere here and most have never been hunted. Nice folks to talk to, usually get more yes's than no's when i ask to hunt. Many times these farmsteads sit on multiple acres and farmers will say help yourself. More than once they have had me look for property markers while I was at it. It doesn't get any better than these spots for me. JJ

 

[LabradorBob]

First of all:Thanks for all the great replies.I live about seven miles out of Neosho Mo.
A lot of farm country,but not the old homesteads,a few,but far in between!

 

[cachenut86]

Best places to hunt. A spot where money was exchanged or people spent a lot of time.
A spot that is old, 1800 and before.

toll houses on old turnpikes, banks, pony express, stores, businesses, old houses, any old structure, fair grounds, picnic groves, race tracks, campgrounds, banks of rivers or streams, crossroads on old roads or trails.

In short where the old coins are! That is where thay were used in the past. Old newspapers can offer some unexpected good locations if you dont mind reading for a couple of hours.

 

[cachenut86]

Also I go into mudpuddles. No one else I know does. They want to keep their shoes clean. So no one goes in there or into the muddy or wet areas to hunt. Often there are many targets still there on the surface and a few good ones.

Also like this is sticker bushes. No one wants to get stuck so they don't go under them. I do.

Same for hillsides too steep to hunt easily. Stuff all over them. You can slide down a little and hunt then slide some more if it is a steep one.

In a word if it is hard to hunt then go there. stickers, mud, creek beds, hillsides, rock ledges. This always works in hunted out areas.

 

[chuck ky]

what is the wax on, wax off method. thanks.

 

[Jason illinois]

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