New places for me to search for treasures

[ccclontz]

I am beginning to get a little depressed as have not found anything of value. Have searched old house lot & found coins no older than 1962 mostly pennies, five dimes, one quarter & one antique Stanley coaster.I have found a total of $2.14! I went into this hobby knowing it would not make me rich but was hopefull to at least pay for my equipment with coins & jewelry found. Went twice to 1915 school house lot, once where I think it stood found only two nails & some old metal farm implement stuff & an old wrench.Went to it again & searched around the well & found only old pieces of metal pipe. Now I have to admit 2 hours isnt much time to spend on several acres.

Monday we are going to a big flea market. Its been there for more than 20 years & gets thousands of customers every weekend. The manager told me it would be fine to search. The gravel will be harder to dig than the grass but I am guessing the grass would be where the treasures dropped & no one saw them. He did tell me there are other several other treasure hunters that also search the flea market. It is a big place several acres so surely I can find something to make me feel better about all I have spent for nothing found yet! Now if it is nice weather next weekend I plan to drive to the beach to treasure hunt for the first time. my granddaughter & grandson will be happy to dig for me!

 

[larryk56]

Don't get discouraged! I haven't found anything really decent
yet either but here's the way I see it.

In order to find the goodies ... they must be under your coil.
From all that I read about the Silver Umax, it's a great machine and
many have found all kinds of gold, silver, and coins with it.

Then .. I think you have to have a little bit of "luck".

Every hunt increases the odds so keep at it!

 

[hatpin]

I feel your frustration. Where I live the competition has hunted the obvious places to death.Ive been finding the oldest coins of my life in the two months that Ive owned a Vaquero by forgetting about those spots and searching more difficult areas. It has paid off.

 

[Dirtdigger33]

I think of this hobby sort of like fishing. A whole lot of patience is required to land that first great find. With fishing you bait your hook and hope to land the big one for the day. The one stories and legends are made of only to come home some days having caught fish that could be classified in the same category as your bait fish. Metal detecting is the same way. There are alot of days that you come home with a handful of clad and some cheap costume jewelry. My first gold ring was not found until I had detected for almost a year. I had found clad and silver jewelry but was empty in the gold department. Six months after I picked up my compadre, my silver finds increased and I found my first 14K wedding band, in my second year of metal detecting. I cannot describe how that felt to find my first significant valuable item, other than elation and a small rest from needing to find my first big find. Now I am just excited for the next time I can go out and hunt with working full time and raising a family. This hobby is all about patience. I have found that sticking to a site for a period of time and taking it very slowly, working a 20 ft by 20 ft area has really paid off. Like I said this hobby takes a lot of patience and time to finally find something amazing. It is persistence and research that pays off. Learning your machine. If you build a test garden and get used to how your machine sounds with different buried objects, the monotone your machine makes now will become a whole new language to you. Most of all just enjoy being out, getting some exercise, and spending time with nature. Just keep trying and don't give up. One benefit to metal detecting over fishing is you do not have to gut your finds only clean them. good luck and HH.

 

[thump7]

I was in the same place almost a year ago. I was tired of going out to the same spots I always go and finding very little. Almost gave up the hobby.
As a last resort, I bought a canoe and headed out to no mans land and never looked back (other than school playgrounds where I like finding some nice clad counts). You may or may not do well at the flea market, but If I could give any advice at all, get off the beaten path - it's been beat to death.
In my experience good hunting sites fall into 2 categories. Either they are obvious (beaches, parks, yardsites, school yards and play equiptment) that are frequently replenished. Or that one site no one has found yet.
Good luck.

 

[joe dirt_1]

I use old county atlas books to locate my treasure hunting sites. You can Google your state and county atlas and pick a year from the list that pops up. As some of the other posters have said, you have to think outside the box so to speak, and find sites that have never been hunted before.
Have patience and enjoy the time you get to get out and hunt.....the finds will come if you keep trying and learning your detector...............HH


Roger

 

[jmaryt]

it's unfortunate! but a lot of places are "cooked" granted no one gets it all,
but you have to be patient in this hobby! too many other people doin' it
with top shelf equipment too!..just sayin'

(h.h.!)
j.t.

 

[POLEWAGGER]

A true addict will constantly be thinking of and researching new areas to detect.
I've found a merc dime and also some wheaties in areas that have been heavily hunted, but the percentage of good finds in heavily hunted areas will be small.
I recently dug a nice pile of silver from a wooded area of a large park. The many hours of researching aerial photos payed off well for me that time.
Woods can be a lot of fun if there's low trash, and you can hunt in AM. When you start finding old hunting rifle shells in the woods of a park that hasn't allowed hunting in 100yrs, you know you're the first one to detect that area. The old bullet shell evidence in parks is a great indicator of undetected "hot spots". I pretty much gave up the location of my last glory hole since I feel like I recovered all the silver coins that remained. Three trips produced silver, the last two produced none. It's cleaned up now. I've tromped through just about every detectable inch of those woods.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0CQvHwj6ZA My second silver producing hunt in this location.

 

[JerseyHunter]

I agree with DirtDigger33, I also compare this hobby to fishing. I've been working a "hunted out field" near my home. I've been there 4-5 times always found junk and a couple of clads. Last two times, an 1892 indian and then an 1864 two cent piece. Very happy I didn't give up. I will be going back again soon. Remember when the going gets tough the tough keep going. HH
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