I have only been MDing about 2 months, and to me it seems allot like mushroom hunting and fishin. With room hunting, you can walk around blind in a woods and find nothing. You have to know what areas(trees) to look for to find rooms... Same with fishing, you have to know where to go to find the fish... That is what I am doing when it comes to MD hunting woods, so far I am blind.
Parks/playgrounds/campgrounds/etc. are obvious, but mostly only clad coins are found there. But in the woods its tuff. I have 2 areas so far around my town I thought might be a good spots to find old coins and relics. One is where 859 Potawatomi Indians and US soldiers camped for 3 days back in 1838 during their forced removal from northern Ind to Kansas, called the "trail of death" . And the other is the Erie Wabash canal that ran thru what now is France Park, back in the mid 1800's. The canal I think started at the Great Lakes, ran to the Mississippi and ran for 30-40 yrs, so it had to see allot of traffic. I have come to the conclusion. That dense woods are best hunted in early spring or late fall, when the leaves are gone.
Parks/playgrounds/campgrounds/etc. are obvious, but mostly only clad coins are found there. But in the woods its tuff. I have 2 areas so far around my town I thought might be a good spots to find old coins and relics. One is where 859 Potawatomi Indians and US soldiers camped for 3 days back in 1838 during their forced removal from northern Ind to Kansas, called the "trail of death" . And the other is the Erie Wabash canal that ran thru what now is France Park, back in the mid 1800's. The canal I think started at the Great Lakes, ran to the Mississippi and ran for 30-40 yrs, so it had to see allot of traffic. I have come to the conclusion. That dense woods are best hunted in early spring or late fall, when the leaves are gone.