Do you think a site can be "Hunted Out"

[DFX DAVE in M.D.]

Do you think a site can be "Hunted Out" ? its a term I hear often. Unless the site is tiny, about the size of a High School gym I dont think so. When I do find a good site, which is hard anymore to do, after I work it good and the finds become rare and I think its hunted out, I end up making a good find here and there. I had two old big schools next to each other that would not give up anything old, it gave up tons of clad though. I hit a 1772 spanish half reale on the football field after several years of trying. I am glad I did not give up on the place, then I worked the woods at the same school a few weeks after and in a very trashy area I got two silver Washington Quarters. On woods areas that I put a good cleaning on, I would wait maybe a year and go back, and with trees falling, water run off making new ruts I would make good finds there also, the landscape changes. The other thing I do is go after a good rain and drag that coil slow on the ground to pull them deep ones out.

 

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[golden sluice]

Do you know what hunted out means to me... better finds! Switch your detector to find all mode and search deep. Because all the trash has been picked out. True, I think you are going to find less targets but when you get a signal and its deep and fant go for it.

 

[jeff of pa]

Hunted out ? No !
Hammered ? yes

 

[RustyGold]

I was thinking that surely the area I hunt has been "hunted out" but every time I slow down I double my finds!
It can't possibly be all hunted out! At least I hope it isn't!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Yes I believe a site can be "hunted out". But humorously, in answer to this, persons will come on citing places where they found more good coins, at a place that was "hunted out". Hence they conclude that .... no ... you can NOT "hunt a place out". But doesn't anyone here see the self-contradiction of that? If they found more there, then by logical definition, the place was NOT HUNTED OUT then. Doh. If someone can point out a place where they found a 1772 reale, then, by golly it was not hunted out yet then, now was it ?

 

[Silver Searcher]

The only time a site can be hunted out, is when you do not get a signal after the length of time you want to give the site, I have yet to come across such a site.

SS

 

[Muddyhandz]

Well, take that square area of a school gymnasium and invite a hoard of professional treasure hunters down.
Make sure you have a Jedi master of every make and model of detector present.
Let them devour the site until everyone is satisfied there's nothing left.
Analyze the area and figure out where the main concentration of finds came from.
Grab some shovels and dig out that concentration and run it through a sifter.
The results will show you that it's virtually impossible to completely "Hunt out" a site.
This does not apply to tot lots but rather a real genuine colonial site or something with at least a hundred years of habitation.
If you're talking about an old park then have the same hoard of hunters dig every signal and then record how many keepers completely discriminated out, due to being masked by trash.
I'm sure someone with an expensive miracle machine will disagree with my post, but they don't count as they're only repeating the manufacturer's hype.

Cheers,
Dave.

 

[Rodbuster209]

IMHO I think a site can be close to hunted out,ie "hammered" but only if it has been hit by different people using different machines, and the people using the the machines are highly proficient. Myself if I have a spot that is producing I am not going to tell everyone, maybe one or two people that I trust so that it does not become hunted out. Only if a spot is sifted could it be truly hunted out.

 

[Argentium]

There is something strange about metal detecting that I have experienced and I know many of you have too - specifically when you have
"hammered" an area and you go into it one day and bang ! there is a find smack dab in the middle of a place you are convinced that your
coil has been over before . This has certainly happened to me at least a couple of times - I have no good explanation for this - I was using
the same equipment - in similar weather (ground conditions )- no way of explaining this !

 

[Jason in Enid]

You can completely "hunt out" a site if you hunt it with an excavator and dig down to a level where you get absolutely zero metal detector responses. Then feed all the scraped soil through a screen and wash plant. Then you will have removed absolutely everything and it will be "hunted out" until the the next person walks through and drops something.

 

[Lifes A Garden...Dig IT]

Every time the suggestion comes up of a site being "hunted out", it suddenly proves that this is definately not the case. I would like to have a list of so called "hunted out" sites and be the fellow that is called in to verify that fact.

 

[Frankn]

Two truths of treasure hunting that should answer the question!
-No-one finds it all.
-It is constantly being replenished.
Frank...
Two golden rules.

 

[YumaMarc]

There is something strange about metal detecting that I have experienced and I know many of you have too - specifically when you have "hammered" an area and you go into it one day and bang ! there is a find smack dab in the middle of a place you are convinced that your coil has been over before . This has certainly happened to me at least a couple of times - I have no good explanation for this - I was using the same equipment - in similar weather (ground conditions )- no way of explaining this !

There's a place I hunted regularly in Arizona, where I found LOTS of good finds. I went over one area at least fifty times over a couple years, but one day when I was crossing it to get to a "better" place, my MXT went off. I found this Walker on edge beneath a tire rut made by the park service after the last rain.

 

[luvsdux]

I think "hunted out" is seldom the case. However, there are areas that are long on space and short on targets.
luvsdux

 

[aa battery]

Hunted out ? No ! Hammered ? yes

wats that mean?

 

[Man o' War]

Love this thread, almost makes me wanna start a 'Find pics from"hunted out" spots

 

[nuggetdog]

With plastic taking the place of cash, more and more people are carrying less cash, hence fewer dropped coins. I think the future is looking pretty bleak as far as coin hunting goes.

 

[Tnmountains]

Once it is paved over it is hunted out.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Once it is paved over it is hunted out.

Not always! Sometimes it's a treasure trove just waiting for a repaving to unlock them for a few days (or hours) of hunting!