Detector for "hunted out sites"

[cheezinoot]

Detector for "hunted out sites"

I live in a small town of 500. 30 years ago mding was the rage here and with talking to ol'timers everything has been hunted out. I own a BH SS 11 and have found no silver around here. My question is by buying a better detector with advanced tech,compared to 30 years ago,should I be able to find missed coins? Then which detector to buy? All replies will be very much appreciated.

 

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[gregl01]

Re: Detector for "hunted out sites"

Your question is a little loaded!!! No place is ever hunted out, and the best detector is whatever someone else thinks. I agree that newer machines are definitely better than those of the past. Just get the best machine that you can afford and understand. If you spend a $1000 on a machine that you don't understand than whats the use?? Good luck
Greg

 

[eagle77]

Re: Detector for "hunted out sites"

I thought that too until I started finding a couple mercs and IH's with a Discovery 3300. You have to modify your search thinking a little. They hit the obvious areas and took the easy pickings. When you are finding only clad and junk, look around and start hitting the outer of the hot spot. I found 2 mercs next to an old schoolhouse elm tree that had a lot of iron signals, a 1899 IH penny under a spruce tree and a rosie on the far end of a football field. This year I found a silver plated spoon 8" deep where the IH was, the signal kept bouncing around and most likley explained why last year I didn't dig for it. Don't buy a new detector thinking you will find those honey spots, you will be disappointed.

 

[l.cutler]

Re: Detector for "hunted out sites"

I have gone back to many places after I got my Tejon and found a lot of missed coins, but I suppose it probably missed some too. Get a good quality detector that has the features that suit you, your soil conditions and hunting preferences. Learn it inside out and you will find the good stuff.

 

[khouse]

Re: Detector for "hunted out sites"

If you want to find targets in a worked out site. Set your disc to just knock out a small nail. Then dig ALL beeps. That's broken,one way, high or low. All the iffy targets most people leave. Commit yourself to dig it all for 2 hours and see what you get.

 

[Rifleman]

Re: Detector for "hunted out sites"

Think outside of the box. One post I read said that this field had given up many good finds and was hunted out so the guy hunted the other side of the fence and in the ditch next to the road, he hit a bunch of coins that others didn't find because they didn't detect there. I always try to find the spots that are more difficult to detect than the main area. It has resulted in several good finds. You never know until you try.

Good hunting, John K

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Re: Detector for "hunted out sites"

Good advice above, but I bet if you took a Minelab Sov GT put on a WOT Coil you would find stuff missed 20 years ago. Don't forget the shovel....

 

[minter400]

Re: Detector for "hunted out sites"

Your question is a little loaded!!! No place is ever hunted out, and the best detector is whatever someone else thinks. I agree that newer machines are definitely better than those of the past. Just get the best machine that you can afford and understand. If you spend a $1000 on a machine that you don't understand than whats the use?? Good luck
Greg

I agree with you that there is no such thing as a hunted out area. Items that couldn't be detected 30 years ago are more easliy detectable with
newer machines. I also can hazard to guess that a high percentage of those people out there decades ago did not have the best understanding how to hunt correctly. You can even see it today with many of the YOUTUBE metal detecting videos. You can readily identify an amature treasure hunter via their inconsistent searchcoil sweep patterns. Instead of incremental coil sweep overlaps of the ground, hunters will swing haphazardly with gaping space gaps ranging from a couple of inches to a couple of feet.

 

[Digger]

Re: Detector for "hunted out sites"

30 years ago? Without a doubt. Detector ability has come a long way in 30 years.

Here is a good example:

I've been hunting our local city park for close to 30 years now, and up until 1991 had never found much more than the occasional wheat. We, my hunting buddies and I, had always assumed it had been hunted out. What changed in 1991 was I bought a then new Whites Eagle Spectrum. My buddies had a Tosoro Toltec 100 and a Garrett Master Hunter, both considered good detectors at the time.

Well we take my new fangled detector to the local park for testing, as we do with all new detectors, and right after ground balancing I get a reading of a dime at 6 1/2". My buddies test the signal and get nothing. I test it again and decide to see what it is. My buddies, and I, watched in awe as I recovered 3 wheats, 3 dimes(2 mercs and a barber) and 1 1942 war nickle out of the same hole. I could walk 2' without the same results. It was as if no one had ever hunted this 125 year old park below 6". I recovered over 2000 coins in the next several years back to the 1800's in a park we thought to be worked out thanks to one single detector that proved technology can be the difference between night and day.