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Little Advice for New Hunters

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daddyflea

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I just got permission for this House





As you can see this house looks very old. When I got permission to hunt here I was told that two other Hunters had hunted this House. I know both these Guys and have hunted with one whom I consider a really good Hunter. This guy really has a good ear for the Detectors. I was kinda disappointed that he had beat me to this site. I decided to check it out this afternoon and had only about an hour to hunt. Now my buddy has a good ear but he rarely ever Grids and just wanders around when hunting. I arrived to find that as bad as this place looks, it has not been vacant too long. Although I have found no Zincs, I found mainly Memorials. My first signal was a 1965 Quarter. Kinda shocked me that there was a bunch of these Modern Coins here. I found so many Coins I call this a Virgin Site. My advantage may be the Cows keeping the grass down or my Etrac with the small Coil. I only found one 1956D Wheat but I got very little hunted. I did find a couple 63 Nickles. Since I hunted right in Front I bet I am hunting right where the other Hunters went straight at.

Moral of the story and advice to other Hunters is do not assume a place is real old or real new from the appearance. The fact that you are told another Hunter has been there means nothing. Always Grid your Sites.
 
Gridding sure seems like it takes some of the fun out of detecting,having to have almost a "military" or "structured" approach to the site. But if you don't want to waste time and cover a site as completely as possible....GRID!!
 
Is that 40's era ????? Looks that way looking at roof line and Dormer.
 
No idea I was just shocked at the fact it has not been that many years since people lived there. It does have a double car Garage. I would think it should be older than 40s. Oldest coin so far was 1956 Wheat. If everything goes good I will hit it again for about an hour this afternoon.
 
Yes, if a site has been hunted by others just run a grid ( from at least two different directions) and just as important - go very slow and be sure you swings overlap.

I got permission to hunt a local 1800's house that was up for sale last Summer - the home owner told me that "I would probably be wasting my time" because his nephew and his friend had hunted the yard for two full days a few years ago - and "they must have found everything already".
He was right - they did get everything - except for the barber dime, mercury dimes, silver war nickel and the indian cents that I found. :detecting:
 
Yep. I got permission to hunt a house. The person living there owned a detector and stated "sure but you will not find much I have hit the yard hundreds of times". I grid and I go slow.
I found 2 mercs, 1 silver rosie, military button, several wheat pennies, and several clad. I did this in about 2 hours with my EXII. I did not tell him what I found because I knew he would be upset that he missed so much.
 
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