Metal Detecting Goals for 2008

[Neil in West Jersey]

Does this ever happen to you? You have so many ideas for metal detecting and then when the day comes to detect you cannot remember all of the places and things you intended? Well I am not going to let one of those "Oh I forgot all about that place" moments happen again. I am putting together a list of things and places I want to detect. Here are some of my goals, including coins I have not yet found.

What I hope to find:
My first seated coin
My first New Jersey Colonial.


What I am going to try to find:
Any personal belonging of Walt Whitman, who spent much of his time writing an wandering the wooded areas near my home.
I also intend to investigate and find 200,000 counterfeit nickels dated from the 1930's and 1940's rumored to have been dumped somewhere in my area. I have done the preliminary research and intend on following up with more intense research. I think this find would definitely put me on the metal detecting map.

These are just a few of my intentions for the coming year.

WHAT ARE YOUR METAL DETECTING GOALS FOR 2008?

 

[cwilk]

Mine are easier than yours. I'd like to one up each of my 2007 totals so I need:

1. 5558 clad coins for at least $605.55
2. 34 Wheat pennies
3. 14 Silver Coins
4. 25 pieces of Silver Jewelry (Rings, Pendants or Chains)
5. 8 Gold Rings

Top 3 Wish List Items:

1. Walking Liberty Half
2. Indian Head Penny
3. Any Barber Coin

My very short term goal is to just get out and swing. I'd need snow shoes and a snow shovel unfortunately.

I can't wait to see photos of your Nickel hoard. Bet you could make some bucks selling them off as curiosities if that is legal.

Chris

 

[Neil in West Jersey]

[quote cwilk]

I can't wait to see photos of your Nickel hoard. Bet you could make some bucks selling them off as curiosities if that is legal.

Chris[/quote]

Although it is technically a crime, the "curiosities" go for $30-$40 a piece on ebay. I will do the right thing and donate them to a museum. although 200,000 coins x $30= a cool 6 million.....WOW! That would be quite a haul!

 

[John-Edmonton]

n/t

 

[awhitster]

My goals are as follows
A. Not get yelled at by any land owners
B. Not get beat up or robbed by bums, wino's or crack heads while detecting parks
C. Detect as much and as often as I can but spend enough time home so my wife remembers what I look like
D. Out clad coin, out silver coin and out ring Rosco when he comes down to hunt with me in February of this year
E. Try to remember when detecting schools not to smoke
F. Try to be nice to people on this forum (especially John 'n' W.Va)

 

[Parkit]

Yeah, trying not to smoke at schools is one I've got to work on. I usually see enough butts on the ground to understand that the state law "really means when kids are around" (at least, that's MY understanding of it, Officer). A dip of Skoal lasts a lot longer than a smoke when you're digging up 127 coins and 111 of them are stinkin' pennies.

My goals:

1. Find more gold (rings, necklaces, chains, bracelets, earrings, bars, whatever).

2. Stop settling for a school playground and start hitting the places I've researched for the old stuff. 5,344 coins this year was enough for me, I'd rather have 30 nice silvers than 3,821 pennies half of which I tossed because they were corroded.

3. Bribe my wife into letting me go out more often. (This will involve jewelry, see #1 above).

4. Lower the discrimination more often.

5. Play more golf. I know it's not detecting, but it's still swinging a toy.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Right now with all the rain we are having - just to get out.

Bill

 

[NM5K]

Just to detect more... One problem I have, is all the desirable places I can think
of to detect for oldies are usually private property. I'm pretty chicken when it comes to
bothering people about tecting on their property. Or at least if I had to knock
on their door and bother them. If I happened to see them outside, I have much
less problem with it.
But I hate to bother people in their houses.. I feel like a solicitor..
As I've probably mentioned, I'm not a huge coin hunter, although I like
finding old ones.. Clad doesn't do too much for me, although quarters do add up.
I'm more into hunting old abandoned houses, etc.. I could see myself getting into privee
digging, but again, most are on private property and I'm back to dilemma #1
again.. :/ Anyway, I like relics, etc more than anything. I do like pre 1900
coins though.
I plan to detect more of my OK property, but I'm not really expecting to find
much except old slugs and such.. The guy that was there before me obviously
shot a large unit in the .45 cal range.. I've found loads of those slugs.. All the
same, and most didn't really deform much at all. Heck, they might well be 44 mag
slugs.. They are big and pretty long.. They seem too long to be .45 ACP.
You seem to be finding lots of good spots. I guess being in the NE doesn't hurt.
There are old sites to hunt here in TX, but not to the extent or age of the NE area.
It would be very rare to find pre 1800 coins around here. If you did, they would
almost surely be old Spanish coins or such..
Lots of those have been found along the coast from wrecks, etc..
But as in US coins, many have already been grabbed up in years past.
It's not as easy pickings for those as it used to be. Many used to find them
while just walking along the beach. They would wash up with the surf I guess.
Oh yea.. I plan to find my two back survey pins up at OK the next time I'm up there.
I found the front two the last time I was there. Just doing that paid for my machine,
and thats the 2nd time I've used it to find survey pins.
MK

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

Have you tried looking for demo-ed houses. Some of the less desirable neighborhoods have a lot of demo-ed houses and are older homes. You could look for older homes that are being refurbished. I have never been turned down asking to MD a refurbished home. They look like a construction site anyway. Easements are another option. Aways keep your mind open that one door can lead to another door.
Get some old topo-maps and check out the old school houses on it. I have a 1920 topo- map and I high lighted all the old one room school houses.
Friends and family are good leads. My wife's cousin takes care of an old man. He asked the old man if I could MD an old school house on his property that is still standing. The man said, sure. I never even asked to MD it. Another man said he would show me on his property where an old log cabin once stood and I can MD it. I haven't had time to get back with him yet. I started looking into history books and found out that 10 miles from me is a large CW encampment.
I'm not bragging, it is the truth, I have more leads than I have time to follow up on. It doesn't mean I always get the loot, but I have sites to MD.

 

[John(H)]

My goals for 2008:1) Spend more quality time out with the detector! ( at least 4 to 8 hours per Week), 2) Do more Beach Hunting, 3) Find more gold and silver rings, 4) Sift thru an old bottle dump, 5) Find old bottles, 6) Go Nugget Hunting, 7) Go Diamond Hunting...........................................WELL AT LEAST THIS IS A START.........................HAPPY HOLIDAYS ...............Joe

 

[IndianaSmith]

I plan to strike oil while recovering a relic....ala Jed Clampett

Smitty

 

[Leslie(nova scotia)]

From the land of the Bluenose......after 35 years in this hobby I still have a few and here goes;

1. find 20 cent piece
2. find gold coin...near impossible here.
3. hit 100 rings for one year (best was 72 gold and silver )
Hope everyone reaches their goals for the new year!

 

[cwilk]

How many years for 100,000 coins? 20?

Chris

 

[gordygroover]

wow....where to start???
I want to find my first silver coin.. oldest so far is a 67 dime.
Maybe a piece of jewlrey that does not have the word BARBIE stamped on it would be nice.
What I guess my goal should really be is to find some way to not look like such a dork while hunting in full rain-gear. Wearing a mud covered rain coat with a tool belt aroung my middle from which dangles a muddy frisbee and a wet muddy towel just SCREAMS "Dork Alert"!!!!!!!

 

[kickback]

1.Buy a GTI 2500 by mid March
2.Find my first gold ring
3.Find a Barber Dime
4.Find a Barber Quarter
5.Have a 150 coin day.

 

[cwilk]

Goal 1 is easy as long as you have the dough. Give yourself a week to get decent with it and then Goal 5 isn't too tough. Good luck with 2-4. Patience is the key.

Chris

 

[cwilk]

Funny post! I gave up caring how I look MDing long ago. I don't MD in the rain, though. I hope you next ring isn't a Ken ring. Your first silver coin will surprise you I bet. Mine was real shallow at one of those famous "hunted out" old fair grounds.

Chris

 

[cwilk]

Careful what you wish for. You may find yourself in court battling a bunch of environmentalists for the damage you do to the planet. A cache of gold Civil War coins would be less work and less trouble.

Chris