hunted out

[john sullivan]

i have hunted this small park many times, the thought came to me ,maybe i have cleaned it out.finding no coins, but alot of junk. my point is, if i am finding junk that i missed before , could be coins that i missed before.

 

[JimmyCT]

You are exactly right John. If you are digging lots of garbage, you may very well end up unmasking some goodies. If you are use to hunting with one size coil at this park, try using a little "sniper coil" through the same area(s). I have been amazed at the amount of good stuff left behind because there are some that just don't take the time with using smaller coils. ( I am glad they don't grin. This gives me the time to "wade" through the trash and find what they scanned right over. One thing that has really worked well for me is driving to the park and just sitting in my vehicle for a few moments, (I close my eyes and sit back in my seat) and start thinking about the last place I would ever think of hunting. Then that is where I head off to. This strategy has worked well and have "netted" me some nice keeper coins and jewelry. As many would state, no place is ever truly hunted out. It may become a little more difficult but that is the challenge of the land. The park near me has been "left for dead" and I am one of maybe one handful of people or less that still hunt it.( I live in a good size city too) This past year I went to a small part of the park that isn't used anymore ( use to be the side entrance - now blocked off ) and found a buffalo, several wheat cents, a few merc dimes and about 3 bucks in clad. Not bad for a "cleaned out" park Sometimes I get the feeling I have beaten a certain place to death and start to become bored that I have seen the same landscape over and over and over again lol. So what is a person to do? I will go to a few different hunting locations and "stay away" from the particular location that isn't producing. Then in a month or so I will return back to this certain location and give it another go. It is then I usually make a few good finds. Also try hunting at a different angle, coil size or sensitivity setting and especially after a good soaking rain. Good luck and keep the faith in your hunting spots. - Jim

 

[EtracTom-AdirondacksNY]

That is some good advice there by earthlypotluck. works for me too!!

 

[MNCoinhunter]

Yes ... no place is ever truly hunted out. Even if you have to think outside the box to find stuff, it is still worth the effort in my book.

 

[camb1]

That is a great post earthlypotluck. Really enjoyed reading it. HH

 

[widebody]

[size=large]as an example. i have a city park that has been hunted over and over by at least 30 people. some for years before i got here. most easy targets are gone. i hunted an area that would be very obvious to everyone to hunt. things going on there every year for decades. people always walking through. i still found a very nice silver .925 ring 5" down just three days ago. it was the first time I ever hunted that part of the park but i know of at least three others who have hunted the area constantly for years. it proved to me nothing is hunted out.

HH[/size]

 

[JAN1]

Over here some men had been detecting in the same area for about 30 years then one day with a new detector they had a massive hit, reported it as it was so deep, turned out to be about 3/4 tonne of Celtic and Roman coins worth up to about

 

[JimmyCT]

Over here some men had been detecting in the same area for about 30 years then one day with a new detector they had a massive hit, reported it as it was so deep, turned out to be about 3/4 tonne of Celtic and Roman coins worth up to about

 

[MAcle1997]

I went back to my favorite park down by the beach last fall because I'd run out of new sites to try.
I had learned to use my first good detector there in 1980, I think it was a Compass X-400. This park
must have been a popular place for metal detecting ever since they were invented. The land was
cleared in the early 1870's and has been a park ever since. Part of it was used as a youth camp
up to 1940.
With all the good finds made by dozens of detectorists over the years its getting tough to find old
coins now. A few years ago I was down there with my Explorer II and found a 1942 half, 1908 quarter,
1961 dime and a couple of Indian Head cents and wheats in a rocky strip of land between the ball
field fence and the road. I don't know why everyone else overlooked those coins but I'm glad they did.
The quarter was the deepest at 8 inches, the half was laying on the shale bedrock just 2 inches
deep.
Last fall I noticed that there was an area where the grass was thinner and the ground was uneven.
I figured this area hadn't been landscaped as much as the rest of the park so I started a grid pattern
instead of the random wandering that I usually do. I found some wheat cents and a Mercury dime on
my first day in that area. After covering the entire area in about 17 hunts I managed to find over 50
wheats and 25 silver coins. I give the credit to the E-Trac that I got last spring. I'd hunted in that area
with my Explorer II and rarely found silver.
I doubt that any site is ever really hunted out. Someone with a different detector, coil, or settings can
usually find something that's been passed over by many of us in the past. Can't wait go get back out
there this year! Pictures show most of the silver found during last fall's hunt at my favorite park.

Mark in Western New York

 

[sgoss66]

Wow, GREAT story MAcle!

Steve

 

[JimmyCT]

Great story and super finds! Thanks for sharing - Jim