TODAYS FINDS! I got some EGGS!

[dahut]

...Lately, I've been trying to come up with some new, un-hunted spots for me and my 'tectin buddy Hal to wade through. I dislike merely driving around looking for likely vacant lots or patches of woods. I wanna know, you know?

But whoever said research was the key to detecting success is pulling a con, I think. I reckon those folks are really just keeping all the good spots to themselves, and diverting the rest of us nimrods off into "researching" our own hot spots.

Today, I took the Vaquero on a few test runs, to some places on my old maps. These are verifiable by my old topo maps, gone before 1975, (some well before then) and way off the beaten path.
I came up with - - zilch. Nada. Nyet. As in doodly squat.
I feel kinda bad for old Hal; there aint many detectorists left around here but me and I'm coming up empty.

Hal is a die hard relichead, not really happy if he aint digging buttons and bullets.
Me? I'm more of a pulltab, foil and screwcap man. I'm happy at any school, tot-lot or ball field.

At one point, I was on my knees feverishly digging and praying to Electro, the Detecting God to cut me a break. All I wanted was ONE silver coin... that's not too much to ask, is it??
I'm fast thinking they have all been mysteriously transported to wherever other detectorists are. They find 'em over there, it seems... you see 'em posted all the time.
But those silver coins don't show up around here much. If I find one a month, I'm doing pretty good.

I hit about five separate places and I'm just glad I like this hobby for itself. The fresh air, sunshine and cool breezes are my reward.
If my enjoyment of it was tied to actually finding anything good... well, I may as well take up golf.

Here's most of the recovery pile from today, that which I hadn't already tossed in the junk bucket:

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Like I said, doodly squat. If I DO take up golf, I at least have some golf eggs now.

Ah well, chin up. Tomorrow is another day!

 

[grumpyolman]

I went to the library to access some old maps, 1909, on line. I located a park that was on the 1909 map and then looked at a modern map. Same park and same place. Found my first Barber dime. 1905 You have to make sure the location is the same on both maps because I have found some schools at location, "X" on an old map, and then find them on the earth a few blocks away from "X". I don't think that is a cartography error but rather the school was rebuilt for the same neighborhood but in a different location. My experience is that research helps. Driving around and trying to find new spots is also research. It's field research rather than book research....Regards...Jim

 

[dahut]

I was just griping, Jim. It's like that some days.

Thanks for your encouragement.

 

[Steve(MS)]

Hang in there David, detecting has its great times and dry times. I like your idea of getting out in the fields and hunting old homesteads with Hal. Hunting old house places are not like hunting parks in that sometimes you may only make one or 2 interesting finds or none at all but the great thing about hunting them you never know what you will find. It takes more patience too to hunt such sites than detecting parks. Even if you don't find anything on one visit to them, go back and keep detecting them and search outwards away from the structures as well as close to the foundations. Research for early settlements that have been abandoned, those areas are always good to detect.