Couple of nice little finds at a "hunted" out location

[Aurium]

Something I've concluded is that people will often tell you a place is hunted out. And I'm sure they've seen lots of other detectorists in those locations. But my experience so far
is change you strategy a little, go a little slower, take your time. And there's bound to be some goodies yet to find. also talk to the locals, be friendly, and that will often clue you into the area that has the best chance of finding some nice little trinkets.

These little samples came from exactly that type of location.

I also picked up 4-5 nice coin spills all clad..but fun to find. My pouch had a pretty nice heft to it at the end of my hunt

Merc is a 1936 plain, and the Barber is a 1908 D (also picked a 1929 wheatie)

HiPro - hunting with the 5.3 coil.

 

[jbow]

n/t

 

[Rob (IL)]

Very nice indeed. Rob

 

[magic]

Nice going! Did you say hunted out???

 

[digger1]

my i ask, what park, greg

 

[Aurium]

my i ask, what park, greg

Actually I got lost on a dark stormy night, it was cold, windy, the sky obscured. Hunting with a flashlight and my trusty V3, I ran across these If I could only find my way back... to this site. (sorry it is the policy of this author to never reveal on a public forum the location of his "hunted" out sites) I hope you can appreciate why that is the case. I can say that a lot of research does go into sites I select, and as with most things a little luck also plays heavily into this.

 

[Larry (IL)]

I laugh when someone says "hunted out"........ Nice finds.

 

[diggin jimmy hoffa]

my i ask, what park, greg

Actually I got lost on a dark stormy night, it was cold, windy, the sky obscured. Hunting with a flashlight and my trusty V3, I ran across these If I could only find my way back... to this site. (sorry it is the policy of this author to never reveal on a public forum the location of his "hunted" out sites) I hope you can appreciate why that is the case. I can say that a lot of research does go into sites I select, and as with most things a little luck also plays heavily into this.

 

[digger1]

i hunted wing park, lords park, trout park in elgin, greg

 

[jbow]

most everyone in the area knows where these "hunted out" sites are... they just don't hunt them because they think they are "hunted out" and to most people they are. One of my favorite places is a "hunted out" park (i've had two people in the last six months come up to me and do me the favor of telling me I am wasting my time hunting there... seriously). Some days I go and hunt there for 4-6 hours and find nothing... other days I have found as much as two carved bullets or two Merc dimes and a buffalo, two eagle kepi buttons one day, a musket band, and assorted other goodies but NONE of them have been good signals with a good VDI, most are only a one way signal... and most people won't dig them so... to them it is "hunted out".

You don't have to tell them about your "hunted out" site... they know about it and if you asked them about it they would tell you... "it's hunted out.." If you told them it isn't "hunted out"... most would go there and leave in after an hour of frustration... patience is an absolute must when hunting these sites, as well as having a good machine and learning to dig trash signals that seem like they might be good, that are a little different... but are still trash signals... If you get a good, solid, two way signal at one of these sites it is either a newly dropped coin or trash.... at least that is my experience. Also, most people really aren't interested in hunted at a "hunted out" site... they are interested in finding something like you found but they don't want to take all day to do it, they swing for 20 minutes and if the haven't found something good they are ready to go to another site.

Wow... am I cynical today or what?? Sorry...

Julien

 

[Aurium]

Couldn't agree more.

I tend to be a bit more methodical. I've done the run and gun thing swinging that hoop like a crazy man. But what turns in results for me is gridding, gridding, gridding. Oh and go SLOW...very SLOW. I'll spend a couple hours at most, but for that time I commonly find a pile of clad, and yup once in awhile some extra goodies. (albeit recently I've been finding a few extra goodies on a lot more frequent basis) I also change my focal areas from the obvious places to the less than obvious, more subtle locations. Besides..it's a hobbie for me, and a challenge, I'm not out for quickie riches just out to enjoy the weather, the sunshine, and yup an occasional bit of excitement seeing a silvery sliver pop out of my little excavations.

Cynical..naaaa..I don't think so. Just a nice dose of reality with a happy skepticism chaser.

 

[digger1]

civil war training area, cavalry ,st. charles ill right on the river, the park called langum park,last year i pulled up, 1864 indian cent, lock,marked 1860, 10, 44 cal minnie pistol balls,all at least 7 inched deep, probably cavalry,all dropped, greg