How far will you go?

[matthias]

How far will you go (drive) to get to your favorite/regular hunting areas? I stay really close to home usually within a mile. The parks I hit are only a few miles away. I'm currently concentrating on private properties (yards) scattered within a couple miles. HH. Matt

 

[MNCoinhunter]

At this point my longest drive would be about 20 miles. But I only go there when all other options are not possible.

 

[JimmyCT]

Glad you started this topic. For regular / favorite spots: I stay close to home myself. I live in a city that has 700 acres of parks and 15 public schools. For the majority of the time, I stay in this city circle. No need for me to travel and travel to waste $4.00 per gallon on gas and the little time that I DO have. Although, on my weekends, I may go a town or two over to try a different place. HH - Jim

 

[mudpuppy]

Yeah, I'm like Earthlypotluck...seems a feller could just keep hitting the same places with a few tearouts thrown in...we also have a big beach area (Lake Mich) so I get to sweep those in season. I travel (drive) for business and of course I take the detector. It keeps me out of the bars and out of trouble. Right now, I've gotta drive to ATL and back, leaving Wed morn, at Odark 30, and am scoping out some playgrounds on mapquest satellite close to some exits along the way for a quick ransackin'. Seeing some amazing schools in some nice neighborhoods around Nashville!
Mud

 

[kai_gold]

The closest park that is decent is about 5 miles away. I generally hunt within 20 miles but would love to have more parks closer. We have schools but they are all gated and posted no trespassing. I have made some 40 minute drives, but it can be frustrating to make a long drive someplace and find the sites heavily worked. By staying closer I get more detecting time and less time on the road which is nice. Beyond 40 minutes and I better have a good reason for going there like permission to hunt a promising piece of private property.

 

[Critterhunter]

I'm lucky to have many old parks and schools within about a 10 mile radius if not closer with some of them. I do range out about 20 miles to some beaches on the great lakes and also to the odd park or school that friends told me about. We only took one trip of 100 miles to a old house in the woods and also a foundation from a trading post that I had found in the woods when deer hunting. Only problem was I found those things in the winter deer hunting when there was no brush or leaves on the trees. This was summer, and after wandering around sweating badly and worried about ticks, fighting brush, and so on...We gave up on finding those spots and headed for a old park nearby. That was a nightmare, but we stayed over night at a hotel and got good and drunk, so it wasn't so bad.

 

[jim tn]

My favorite silver area is 50 miles round trip. Shortly after retiring in 06 I made that drive an average of 4 hunts a week. Got a lot of silver and some gold and silver jewelry, but eats the crap out of my detecting gas allowance. LOL Most older spots in my area are 10-25 miles away without knocking on doors. HH jim tn

 

[bob.oz]

I guess its the familiarity that keeps me in close proximity to home.Don't like to drive more than 10/20 miles.

 

[Sailorman]

Will often drive 50 to 60 miles each way. Local pickins is slim.

 

[joe dirt_1]

I usually stay within 30 miles of home detecting, but am always up for a drive if a site sounds promising........

 

[osgood]

Have gone as far as an hour (50-60miles) away in visiting nearby towns and parks. Will go further if an all day hunt and perhaps with an overnight campout. CO

 

[fowlercharles]

Hi Matt, Tot lots and parks hold no interest for me so for my most fun hunts one of my digging Buddies and I will drive 80 to sometimes100 miles (one way) and meet up with a couple of other diggin Buddies and hunt a couple of pretty good CW, Rev. War, and Pioneer trail campsites.There are a couple of same such sites much closer for us, but since Katrina the woods are so destroyed by either the storm, or further destruction by the patchy "cleanup" that has been done.Woods no longer exist and won't probably for another 100 years. Terrain is destroyed forever! It is not quite so severe further inland. We tried some beach hunting a few weeks ago on the Coast,(30 mi. or so one way) but found very little, though some folks hunt it regular, I also have made some pretty good finds closer to home (30 mi.one way) while digging with the Archeology club I have been in for 35 years or so.I always want to say that for me,I have learned after many early years of hunting alone,having some good friends to dig with makes a few miles of no matter.I also can step out into my yard and dig on a house site from the 30's . LOL, My yard site comes in handy when I get the fever real bad and now and then I squeeze another goodie from amongst all the nails and junk. HH,Charlie

 

[matthias]

Thanks. Very cool Charlie. HH. Matt

 

[TerraDigger]

Price of gas...for general hunting....no more than a total of 10 miles round trip. I stay in my city....still getting silver.....just takes hitting alot of little areas.

 

[Bill in Oregon]

Well, I have to drive for at least two hours to get to the coast. But that's not stopping me from buying a Sand Shark and a good scoop. I have an Xterra 705 for dry land use around the property and around town.

 

[Rick N. MI]

I stay within a 30 mile radius.

Rick N. MI

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Wherever the locations looks promising I'll go too.
From the backyard too 400+ miles out.

 

[Tin Fin]

Generally I hunt parks on my way home from work or close to home. But there is family land 100 miles away down south, and two different private properties 100 miles southwest. My sister lives a bit more than 100 miles west of me - so, for private property and good hunting locations, that's about as far as I have gone. Will be going on a couple trips this summer, and hope to do some detecting on them. From me, NJ is 1000 miles... but I'm not driving there. Will be going to just outside Chicago and will be driving there - 'bout 5 hours drive. Combining visiting and detecting. If I had a good tip from someone, well, there's no telling how far I might go, as long as it's legal.