Seeking Advice for Hunting Slopes

[Porschephile]

Hi All,
I am considering taking the CTX to hunt a side of a ridge which is about 30 degrees. People have walked this hill for 160+ years. In the early 20th century, concrete walkways and steps were installed. I am interested in what kind of luck you have had on slopes and if there needs to be a different strategy employed than hunting on flat areas? How about depth? Are the good coins deeper or shallower or does it not matter?

Thx for any help!
Mike

 

[SE-5]

I hunt them all the time, I hold the coil flat to the surface, finds are no different than anywhere else, digging is a tad harder for me due to my back, hips and knees, but thats about all. Oh one more thing, it's MUCH easier to fall down too! Don't ask me how I know.....

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

Mike,

I've definitely noticed dirt formation happens slower on slopes than flat ground. Not sure if this is because of more erosion or less grass. But I've dug lots of signals that I thought were going to be zincolns that turned out to be Indian heads.

Chris

 

[ronfin]

Dug a LOT of silver dimes on slopes, and always thought other MDrs avoided them. Found a Half Cent on one recently, and a few Barber dimes. My ONLY gold ring came on a sloped hill too. If there's dirt you can swing over, by all means, swing away!

 

[Sir Digs A Lot]

Funny that you bring up slope hunting. Just yesterday I found my oldest coin on a hillside just below a grass park. I scored a 1898 Indian head in decent shape on a fairly steep slope.

What worked well for me was once I located a target. I then knelt beside the target area doing my digging and pin pointing off to one side of my body. Holding my machine on the other side. If the slope is steep you need to take extra care as not to have the dirt roll down the hillside. I lost one target as my plug rolled down the hill. I just kept an eye on the three big dirt balls and ended up finding my pull-tab down the hill.

Slopes can be very productive. I have have found several silver coins at or near vista points where people would take in a nice view.
Good luck.

 

[Larry (IL)]

The steeper the hill the better I seem to do just because I think the harder the area to to hunt, the less it has been hunted by others.

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

I have found more targets on slopes at the bottom half. Just my experiences.

 

[grouser]

I like to set my coil for going upslope,,,, then turn and extend it for the downhill,,, HH !!

 

[AngelicStorm]

Slopes have produced for me too. You just have to hold the coil flat to the surface like SE-5 said. The reason why things seem like they maybe shallower on slopes is because of the rain over time. The rain also helps prevent extra dirt build up over targets.