Your Best Place Ever

[cachenut]

I like everyone else wants to find a honey hole of a coin or relic place somewhere and wonder how to do it.

So I want to ask everyone how you came to find the best place you ever detected?

For me I was looking for an old circa 1850 tollgate on an old road and while I didn't find the tollgate house theone I did check had many cw buttons, relics and a few old coins not from the tollgate.

 

[Bill W.]

For shear number of finds, for me it was a park I went to about two years ago. It gave me many months of bring home a handful of coins every outing. Everything was deep and took going slow. I ended that summer with over 400+ wheaties, 30+ IHs and 50+ silver from just that park. For old finds it would have to be a field that is beside an 200+ year old church. I found a 1785 Connecticut Copper there plus some seated, barbers, IHs... it was a very good time.

-Bill

 

[gitterdug]

Way back in 1978, there was this park on the north side of Fort Worth, where hookers plied their trade, until the local ladies burned down their playhouse in 1875 or so......another story.
Anyway, the ladies of the day made it a park, and since it was close in to town, in modern times, it became a place laden with pulltabs. By the tens of thousands. UNBELIEVABLE amounts of pulltabs. Really couldn't hunt it effectively due to the tabs. :-(

So, in 78, the City decided to beautify the park. I was delivering prescription drugs part time from my job as a firefighter, when I passed by the park, on my motorcycle.

There was a tractor in the park, pulling a turning disk behind it, overturning all the soil! I am *almost* ashamed to admit, that I suddenly got a case of the Can't Work Blues, and returned to the drug store, and told them I was sick, and had to go home......I was sick with anticipation, and raced home and got my metal detector and raced to the park.

Over the course of the next week, I took out over 700 coins, many from the 1800's after 2 days of hunting this site, I invited two of my detecting buddies over to help. Together, we extracted a bit over 3100 coins. This park was virgin, and on the first silk stocking road in old Fort Worth.

I have never duplicated that feat again, and I am confident, I never will, but it sure is fun looking for it. Nowdays, I hunt older places, with my EX II, and even after all these years, the sound of silver amps me up.


HH

Dennis

 

[James N.D.]

You have to go and research what you are looking for at your local library if you want to get the most out of the sight. Believe me, there is nothing better than finding a virgin site that was long forgotten that was used alot. I myself do the research thing and still have about fifty pages of research to go and track down. If you know Rick(nd) on the sovereign forum, he can tell you about who I am and about the recoveries I've had since I bought my explorer xs from him. Anyways, do the research at your local library or even better, find out where the history archives of your area is and go there to, trust me, you will be glad you did.

 

[Mikel]

I think finding silver will end up on the ADD ADAH category of modern attention disorders and will be required by FEDERAL law to be treated with drugs.
I found my first silver dime in 1977 and to date have 5 detectors, 11 digging tools, and coils all over the house. Not to mention pouches
probes and pin pointers. Oh well at least they're not clubs for knocking little balls all over the country side just to get them in a little hole in the ground.

 

[RandyNorthridgeca]

The best place I've found was in South Pasadena, Calif. I was driving around looking for some construction sites when I happened upon a school that was scraping the grass off one of their fields. I got out and asked the guy on the tractor if I could use my detector. He said go for it. This was late in the afternoon on a Thursday. I only had about 30 minutes to detect and I found 8 wheat pennies and one was from the 20's. I was going to a meeting in Vegas and I was leaving the next morning so I called two friends of mine to check out the field on the weekend. Mark called me on Saturday and had already found 5 or 6 silver coins and about 30 wheat's. By the time I got back Bing and Mark had scored plenty of silver, buffalo's, war nickels and wheat's. We worked that place for about 3 weeks and pulled out a ton of oldies. We had a blast working that site and we were the only ones that were hitting it. I'd sure like to come across another lot like that one.

HH Randy

 

[carneygeorge]

Hi my best spot was a ski slope that went out of business in 1965 after thirty years of constant use. I found it by going to the local museum and doing a little research. So far I''ve found franklin halves dimes and quarters and wheaties. It's such a big spread out area that it will keep producing for years to come,,I hope

 

[Rick(ND)]

James is one of our top or top hunters in this area with finds many of us only dream about. I would like to take a picture of some of his finds from some of these areas he has found and you will see why he does his research.
Been telling James all about all the great people we have on these forums and the good info that is here. Now that he has got a computer he can meet all the great people we have here.

Rick