This Sunday i get to

[oldranger]

hunt my 1st abandoned barn ... so im excited..
Besides keeping expectations low and filling
my holes.. what other advise can you
experienced folks offer? The barn will be torn down soon
Ill have 3-4 hrs max to hunt Sunday since the
owners want to be on property while im there..
Ill use the 1500 with the std and sniper coil..
I also told the owners they can see whatever i find since
they were curious as to what i was looking for......
I was honest and said artifacts ( old horse shoes
buckles etc? as well as coins tokens etc

should be fun if nothing else
I assume dig everyting applies
Ron

Rangers Lead The Way

 

[murfar1]

Don't know Ron. One-time access with a time limit. I might be thinking of doing some cherry picking. Maybe going back if time allowed.

 

[oldranger]

Hi Murf

I hope that by being polite and
carefull with digging filling etc
Ill get invited back, at least untill
the barn is down ..also I hope to
get some leads of friends they have
that might let me on
their property as well..

cant hurt to ask ...

HH
Ron

RLTW

 

[jbow]

Can you go spend a little time Saturday (or anytime) just looking at it and thinking about where anyone would have come and gone from it? Which direction was the outhouse? Was there a parking place for a pickup or in the earlier years a wagon? Try to imagine what was done where and when and ask anyone who might know. See if anyone has any old pictures of it.

I'd dig pretty much everything, not spending too much time trying to decide if a target is good or trash. If you're getting a lot of a particular nail you might skip them... but i'd move fast and dig all the good signals... then start over and dig everything except small iron... and move fast... beep/dig.

I bet there will be lots of nuts, bolts, nails, washers, and other assorted junk. Knowing where people got out of a truck or off a wagon will help. Was there a farmhouse close? The pathway between the homesite and barn is an obvious target, the walkway to the outhouse, and where ever a clothesline may have been, if you can stray like that.

With that short of hunting time, the more you can know in advance, the more better you will do, unless you are blind lucky. With no fore thought you may find the "hotspot" right at quitting time... you need to stach the deck in your favor if you can, you don't have time to figure it out Sunday while you hunt it, without some help. Make some calls to any older people who lived there or whose parents lived there. Find out all you can.

That barnwood is valuable too but someone has probably already bought it.

J

 

[oldranger]

Good advise Julien Thanks

Too bad we didnt meet on this forum when i lived
in CobbCnty I moved back home to Pa in
2007

HH

Ron

Rangers Lead The Way