anyone MD their own driveway?

[Goes4ever]

I had a few spare minutes before I have to leave for work so I took my detector out with the sniper coil and went around my driveway, found a 68 dime a 77 penny, an old style pulltab, and a matchbox car dated 1977

hard to dig in though

guess I need to check the whole thing

 

[treasurefiend]

Cool!!!

 

[Eu_citzen]

Yes I've dug in my drive way only trash.

 

[awhitster]

I have MD'sd my whole property, 70x 200 feet. I found an 1893 Indian head penny.

 

[bob1350]

only sections of the yard on rainout days

 

[dahut]

Ive covered my own yard completely and I still find stuff in it. Done the neighbors, too. Always start close to home - in fact there is little reason to go far from it, unless you know for certain that something lies there and you have permission.
I did a "5 mile Radius" research around my home on a map, and found more places to hunt than I can cover in a lifetime. I bet you can do the same.

 

[elvis earnhardt]

Yep!! Several wheats... and the first trip out in the yard with the ACE got me a 1918 merc....

 

[lainylainy]

Mostly I find black flies and skeeters.

Last year I did quite a bit in my backyard, but most of it is fill, so if I have to dig more than 6-8 inches or so it's all big chunks of old tar, rocks and bits of cement. I did find some clad but nothing great.

 

[Cliff KS]

I dug a clad nickel 6 inches deep in my driveway. It is packed gravel and the hardest digging I ever done and it wasn't even a very old coin. It had turned copper in color (due to the lime in the rock, I suppose?). I have had other signals in my driveway, but gave up trying to dig them because it was during a drought and the drive was even harder. It is almost impossible to get any kind of bladed instrument to penetrate packed gravel and I do not want to use a pick and loosen up a big spot that doesn't repack properly and leads to a pothole. I would rather try to dig about anywhere else than a driveway or parking lot that has been used a long time and the rock is really packed down.

 

[awhitster]

I've poached a few driveways too

 

[treasurefiend]

[quote awhitster]I've poached a few driveways too[/quote]

Naughty Naughty!!! Did you bait the driveway before you poached it??? (a big saltlick, or some canned corn)

 

[Bozack]

No never! I can just hear my wife: "After you're finished detecting around the yard, I'm sure you wouldn't mind cutting it...................................

 

[johnhinnc]

I found a 9 inch piece of rebar at 11 inches deep, a sardine can, and a couple newer coins.