Relic Hunting for Dummies

[Canewrap]

Imagine you were writing this book because you have years of invaluable experience. What tips would you be passing along? Like how do you look at a piece of ground and figure out where to start? How best to handle hard ground or roots? At what point do you figure its time to move on when hunting an already hard hit ground? The kinds of things that experience tells you how to handle and that perhaps someone more experienced, helped you with when starting out. Most of the books I've gotten my hands on are all, We were here and this is how it went stories. There really doesn't seem to be any decent authoritative guides that give advice on the intricacies of relic hunting. A mentor on paper, if you will.

 

[jnjross]

for hard ground we a garden weeder and a flat head screwdriver. for CW stuff i like areas are high and flat top or creek sides clean water was hard to comeby. If you want to get to know your area look into geneology sites, I haven't run across hard hit area yet, just really trashy areas.

 

[SoArk]

I have found that Dave Poche's magazine-style books to be pretty darn helpful in finding CW camps, etc. I had been hunting relics for 15 years or better when I first bought them, and picked up on some valuable information in those books. Now days, it seems with most of the known places having been hit so hard........ that some hard research will pay off on locating some new places to hunt..... then the fine-tuning can begin out in the field.

 

[relics4plus]

I beleive a book like this would be a good seller. Are you planning on writing this book?
I beleive the input from this forum alone would make for good reading.
HH

 

[d-2]

For most CW sites look for places close to water a creek, spring, river etc. Look for places you would camp, hit the OR's, do your research and go SLOW. Also if there is a swimming hole on a big creek or river check both sides of it because it was probably used as a crossing and camping area and if there was CW activity in your area it may not be in the OR's...d2

 

[Canewrap]

I'm really giving it some thought.