texhomametaldetectors
Jr. Member
Door Knocking
I started door knocking a little over two years ago. I would say that 75 percent of the homes we knock, the home owners give us permission to hunt their yards.
When I started metal detecting again in 2009, I hunted the parks, schools, churches etc. and would find the occasional silver.
A friend of mine in Ft. Worth had told me about getting permission from property owners to hunt their property. Even though I’ve been in sales for years, it was hard at first to knock on someone’s door and ask to hunt (dig) their front yard.
In the past two years I have been in every town in a hundred mile radius of where I live knocking doors. I look for homes built in the late 1800s and early 1900s. I mostly hunt corner lots, they are a little bigger and have had more traffic with people cutting through them.
When I go up to someone’s house and they are hesitant, I start asking them about their home, when was it built, do they know any history about it, have they found anything interesting in it. Most home owner enjoy talking about their old homes.
I have been hunting with my buddy for over three years, it was really hard for him at first. Now we take turns knocking till the home owner says yes. Whoever did the door knocking and gets permission gets to choose where he wants to start hunting in that yard. After doing this as long as we have, you know where the coins (silver) should be.
We have found as many as ten silver coins in one yard. Some times the yard that we think would really produce the silver, may not produce anything. That yard probably was hunted in the past.
I started door knocking a little over two years ago. I would say that 75 percent of the homes we knock, the home owners give us permission to hunt their yards.
When I started metal detecting again in 2009, I hunted the parks, schools, churches etc. and would find the occasional silver.
A friend of mine in Ft. Worth had told me about getting permission from property owners to hunt their property. Even though I’ve been in sales for years, it was hard at first to knock on someone’s door and ask to hunt (dig) their front yard.
In the past two years I have been in every town in a hundred mile radius of where I live knocking doors. I look for homes built in the late 1800s and early 1900s. I mostly hunt corner lots, they are a little bigger and have had more traffic with people cutting through them.
When I go up to someone’s house and they are hesitant, I start asking them about their home, when was it built, do they know any history about it, have they found anything interesting in it. Most home owner enjoy talking about their old homes.
I have been hunting with my buddy for over three years, it was really hard for him at first. Now we take turns knocking till the home owner says yes. Whoever did the door knocking and gets permission gets to choose where he wants to start hunting in that yard. After doing this as long as we have, you know where the coins (silver) should be.
We have found as many as ten silver coins in one yard. Some times the yard that we think would really produce the silver, may not produce anything. That yard probably was hunted in the past.
...about 70% say go for it...we offer to give them anything we find and they always say to keep it.
