coach c said:
I have always considered myself purely a coin hunter with a infrequent ring find. Back in the day when you found silver at any hunting site, you could get a good coin collection and build on it. Now I am an infrequent coin finder and an infrequent ring finder.
Advice please on the best jewelry locations and techniques.
I think there are a few things you cannot change - .
-There are more detectorists now.
Thanks to Charles Garret, Ken White, the folks at Fisher, Tesoro, First Texas/Bounty Hunter and innumerable copy-cat's, there seems to be a detector in every closet, these days. Say what you want, but I sincerely wish fewer people had them. Don't ban guns, ban the sale of detectors this Xmas!
- There have always been a lot of detectorists
Uncle Willy is regaling us with nostalgia about the good old days and detectors from the past, but there is something going on there below the surface: detectors have been around for a long time. I'm seeing handy, reliable detectors going back into the early 60's - that's 45 years or so! This was only their first heyday, too. There have been two more since then, and we are in the middle of the most recent.
- You have hit all the easy places
There cannot be much left in the places you have access to, since you and everyone else has pounded them. The notion that new detectors will continue to find older and older coins has one flaw - they cannot find what isn't there.
Unless you access ground that has seen lots of people as far back as man has settled the land in question, there is a natural point of diminishing return.
As to jewelery, finding it has a certain set of requirements. A lot of people must pass through a spot for them to lose these gilded "goodies," since MOST people keep their jewels on their person. The few that do lose things, tend to look for them. It is only the small percentage that are lost and not found, that can be recovered by us.
This fairly demands that you must hunt places, where there has been a lot of active traffic before you go there. Beaches are one spot, fairs and carnivals are another. Schools are obvious, as are gravel and dirt places where cars are parked. Parks fairly leap to mind as sites to hunt for jewelry, especially those places where people are active, like sports arenas or athletic fields. Picnic areas, not so much. Sitting and eating leads to trash, and not many losses.
Swimming pools and their grass aprons come to mind, as do any place where lots of people come and go. Walkways from one area
to another where many people travel are possibilities.
And if you are
really serious about hunting for jewelery, you must ignore all the coins but nickles. That's right, no coins for the dedicated jewelry hunter. Set your instrument to
ignore quarters, dimes and copper cents, then include everything from foil through zinc cents. Your targets must be the dreaded foil, pulltaps and screwcaps - for these are the kin of jewelery. In this case, the lowliest trash points the way to the greatest of riches.
. heres my tip DIG,DIG,DIG THEN DIG SOME MORE & when your sick of digging DIG SOME MORE 
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