Hunted Out???????

[Johnnyanglo]

If most detectorist realized all the variables involved in getting a deep target to respond to the detector then "hunted out" ground would be changed to "difficult" ground or "challenging" ground. The targets are there, you just have to be better than average to find them.

Not only are the ground variable changing hourly, daily, monthly, seasonally ... they are interacting in myriads of ways to make a target visible and later making it invisible the next (at least to the myopic hunter).

Hit the same area when you aren't distracted, in a better mood, more patient, sweeping slower, or by chance center the coil over the target for a change, have more knowledge of your machine ... and you get a hit. Some of it is chance and some of it is knowledge (probably 20% chance and 80% know-how).

Not to be mean, but an area is often proclaimed "hunted out" by detectorists who are not adept at anything but finding shallow targets with big easy signals. They miss the deeper targets because they have lousy technique and don't understand how to use their machine. Once they cherry-pick the easy fruit the area is declared "hunted out".

A better term would be "hunter-is-out-of-patience" or "Newbied-out". Just say'n.

 

[MINELABBOB]

MY GUT FEELING
remember the old park i talked about and the gut feeling well here it is. now by no-means are these the find of the year

but this is what i mean, wen people talk about SLIM PICKENS and hunted out!! just how many places we dont go back

to, because we think it done!! so some times we need to think positive, and go back to some of them old sites with some

NEW SETTINGS!!!


your old pal MINELABBOB

 

[chuckciao]

Congrats Bob! Three silvers is a great day in my book. I found another park in my town that goes back to 1906. You can bet i will hunt it till the first frost!
HH
Chuck

 

[MINELABBOB]

NOW THATS WHAT IAM TALKING ABOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[utahshovelhead]

I like this topic as Ive hunted some of the same sites over and over for years with different techniques, machines, and setups. One of them is close so Ive seen quite a number of guys hunt it, however I would consider it hunted out because it takes so long to find a good target opposed to sites where I can find more items in the same time frame. I hunt this site anyway because its close when I have little time and I know it so well...and yes I still have hopes that there is something hiding from me. I have other sites that I get skunked at but Im still willing to keep trying new things because if there were good targets there once than I know that there is a very good possibility that there are still good targets just few and far between. In these OLD hunted out sites It come down to two things...time and effort. A lot of guys walk out and after an hour of nothing go home and call it hunted out, they don't know the site, where things were and where some of the good targets may be found so they walk around and say Humbug. I think it takes time to figure a site out and the good stuff with it. I like the hunted out sites but I would rather you tell all the other guys that they should only spend an hour on them as they are hunted out.

 

[MINELABBOB]

HI SHOVEL HEAD!!
HAD 1 IN 19 71 ELECTR-GLIDE you know it is hard to put a time frame on a (hunted out spot) you need to consider all the factors . as 4 my spot

no#1 its been around 4 120years no#2 its 5-7 acres BIG!! and things can be any were. i guess no# 3 would be how much time do you spend there!

that my friend, is the 100$ question?? again i think there are a lot more coins there, and i am willing to put the time in. i put no time on what i like to do

and makes me happy. another big + is teaching any one that wants to learn the hobby/job. at the old park. every one needs to consider in there own way,

how much time to put in a hunted out spot. or any spot . there is no way that i can say put 1 hr. and leave!! so to sum it up shovel head it is up to any and all to make that

call!! my point i am trying to get across is sure there my be better places to hunt 4 a lot more finds , but no one can say 100% there is nothing there.

but thanks 4 chimming in and we all really under stand .( i hope ) good hunting and best of luck to you!!



minelabbob

 

[glenn3-88]

My wife and I live 2 miles from her abandoned high school. I have "hunted it out" with the AT Pro, then I "hunted it out" with my Minelab Safari.
Yesterday afternoon I went back with the CTX and it is now a NEW hunting place for me as I found 5 nickels (one being a 1931 buffalo), 6 wheat
pennys, and 2 zincolins. I'm just one of many detectorist that hunts this school. I found these coins in an area I know others also thought to be hunted out
because I have not seen anyone else there in months including myself. What I found out is that the CTX is hitting the same targets I was hitting
with the other machines but could not identify due to the depth. For instance, the Buffalo was dug with a Sampson t handle with a 7" spade. I
had to get down with my hand digger and dig another 2" and I hit it and scratched it with that. It ID the target as a 12-12 at that depth. What the
kicker is that it was black sand down to about 5" and from there down was red clay. The depth and ability to correctly identify it's target at depth
will turn a lot of "hunted out" parks and other places into "new ground". If you ain't got one, git one.

 

[INSAYN]

If most detectorist realized all the variables involved in getting a deep target to respond to the detector then "hunted out" ground would be changed to "difficult" ground or "challenging" ground. The targets are there, you just have to be better than average to find them.

Not only are the ground variable changing hourly, daily, monthly, seasonally ... they are interacting in myriads of ways to make a target visible and later making it invisible the next (at least to the myopic hunter).

Hit the same area when you aren't distracted, in a better mood, more patient, sweeping slower, or by chance center the coil over the target for a change, have more knowledge of your machine ... and you get a hit. Some of it is chance and some of it is knowledge (probably 20% chance and 80% know-how).

Not to be mean, but an area is often proclaimed "hunted out" by detectorists who are not adept at anything but finding shallow targets with big easy signals. They miss the deeper targets because they have lousy technique and don't understand how to use their machine. Once they cherry-pick the easy fruit the area is declared "hunted out".

A better term would be "hunter-is-out-of-patience" or "Newbied-out". Just say'n.

+1

I have a local park in my little town that has been hammered since detectors really started hitting the shelves. Compass detectors operated in my town from the 70's till early 90's when it burned down.
Since their existence, my little park was one of only a few parks even available to hunt other than the schools, and curb strips.

I myself have hammered this park for over 15 years with the Whites IDX, Whites XLT and over the past few years with my CTX. My hunting buddy lives 2 blocks from it and has pounded it with his Whites DFX, and Whites V3i regularly.

This park regularly is a very veryslow park. Any target shy of a nail is next to nill. 3-4 hours and we can easily come out with only an old beaver tail tab, a few nails and recently dropped penny.
However, every so often we will find something good. If I added this up right, over the past 3 years and at a minimum of 50 trips or more to this park, my buddy and I have VERY SLOWLY recovered, 2 old pocket knives, 1 brass wax seal, 2 local tokens, 1 Indian head penny, 20 wheat pennies, 2 war nickles, 5 mercs, 5 rosies, 1 toasted shield nickle, 2 V nickels, and my favorite from last year my 1875 seated dime in my avatar.

We now just pick a section of about 10' x 10' each and just grid the hell out of it, change a setting, and grid some more. It just takes the right setting, swing speed, moisture content, worm activity, frame of mind, and comfort level to make a deep or masked coin "pop". So, we keep hitting this park when we have a few hours to kill, or bored at home and just need to get out and do something.

No expectations.

 

[MINELABBOB]

YES GUYS AND GALS!!!
you need to approach each area with a open mine. yes we know were not going home with are pocket filled with gold and silver. we think more on

getting out and getting dirt under are nails and maybe 1 or 2 good finds. it cant be a hay-day every time we go out!! and that is the bottom line,

or the bottom of a nice hole. trying different settings/modes can bring a smile to you and your buddy, haveing a good time doing something you

like.

minelabbob

 

[DetectorCdunk]

I have been over my parents yard at least 4times. Their yard is roughly 5 acres and the where the house used to sit in the late 1800's is gona and also a barn was moved from one area to another. I seem to find something new each time whether I swing at diff patterns or change setting it seems I will never clean it out.

 

[MINELABBOB]

YA THATS HOW IT IS
many factors that can change things. to many to tell, but you know!!

 

[PMonday]

This is my front yard, I've lived here since 1995 the same year I started detecting. I started out with a garrett gtx 600, in 2000 I moved up to an xs explorer. I have found plenty of civil war bulletts and a nice collection of union general service buttons over the years. The union camped out along the Savannah river in this area for a few days while closing in on Savannah. These tracks are with the stock coil using auto +3. I have been going over it with the 17" using auto + 3 without much success. I've just started going over it using the 17" manual as high as I can stand it. I now dig all signals just because.

 

[MINELABBOB]

THAT IS A COOL
setup you have. you got that yard covered pretty good !!

 

[MINELABBOB]

3 SILVER DAY

at a hunted out site!! dont you just love-it !!

 

[PMonday]

I guess I was trying to say I think it's hunted out. Been awhile since I've pulled anything out of it. And that was with my CTX and stock coil. I got plenty more just like it and starting to cool down where I just enjoy being outdoors, maybe I'll find something.



HH

 

[MINELABBOB]

ALL IN FUN !!

SOMETIMES WE GET LUCKY !!


minelabbob

 

[Dirtbag Kevin]

Hahahahahaha... I love when I hear someone call a site "hunted out"...... If something worth keeping was found there before, then there is more.. There is always more.. SLOW WAAAAAY DOWN!!!

 

[glenn3-88]

My wife's old "hunted out" and closed down high school with a 250' x 75' front yard since 9/15/15
has yielded 33 finds so far. 16 of the finds have been zincolns & modern day non silver dimes.
17 of the finds have been 9 wheat pennies and 8 nickels, 3 of those being buffalo's. I'm not yet
through as one of the comments referred goooo sloooowww. My age has adjusted my speed for
me so I am fairly slow. There are more there to be dug up that due to depth I feel would be some
great old coins. When it cools off here, I will be digging those at depth. The ones I have located
so far have been from the 5 to 9 inch depth. But if you look at the stats, more than 50% of my new
"hunted out" finds have been old desireable (not to everyone) coins to me. One of those 9" er's was
a 1943 d war nickel that looked like the day it was minted. Another impressive fact about the CTX
and hunted out areas is it's ability to pick out and distinguish those nickels from pull tabs and beaver
tails. Nickels in my opinion are the most "left behind" item most other detectorist don't find and there
are a lot of them. So, again, my opinion is THERE ARE NO HUNTED OUT PLACES. I too love to
hear a fellow hunter say "that place is hunted out". He either doesn't want me there or he truly can't
can't find anything else.

 

[MINELABBOB]

YES GOING SLOW

in an area that gets allote of traffic is the way. and or going outside the box with your thinking !!

i have been over this area a few times but now i GO SLOW !! and able to pull some coins out.