Hottest Hunting Sites & Coin Relic Secrets

[Michigan Badger]

Hottest Hunting Sites & Coin Relic Secrets

There are lots of potentially good hunting sites but most of them are off-limits to the majority of THers.

In your opinion, what is the hottest type of THing site readily available to the majority?

Just imagine a good friend is getting started into detecting and you really want him (her) to succeed. Where would you tell him to hunt?

 

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[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: Hottest Hunting Sites

I would tell him to detect old houses. The front yards of old homes always have some silver coins and wheatbacks. Check both sides of driveway and sidewalk. Start with people he knows.

 

[Gypsy Heart]

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School yards and sand volley ball courts. Wont find old stuff, but will find jewelry and coin.
And the parking lots where snow is piled ,then melts in the spring...
Campgrounds ....

 

[hollowpointred]

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private yards.

 

[JakePhelps]

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Houses that go back to the 1700's. I mean, over 300 years something had to got lost

 

[bazinga]

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If you really want them to get addicted just find a good spot and bury a few coins in an inch or two deep and maybe a piece of cheapo jewelry or two and then let them hunt it after the grass has grown over your 1" deep holes,haha.

 

[rjnail]

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i would say OLD SCHOOLS AND PARKS, I STARTED THERE DID REAL GOOD,

 

[IrishCharlieM]

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Gentleman I respect all your answers...

But how about this ...........

Your local BEACHFRONT (San DIego California to be exact) on July 5th at the crack of dawn (on a sunday morning) with you and your two best freinds, who you have been drinkin with all night and are avid Metal Detectors with an extra detector in the back of their truck. We were swingin (after i got the hang of it ) for what seemed like hours....After a quick breakfast at the Jack-in-box accross the street.

We were back at it. At the end of the day "ok so we only lasted until 10 am in our hung over state" We had each brought in about $40.00 in clad I found a Rolex, sold to buddy who collected them for $200.00 / 2 gold rings, one class and one wedding and token for a local game arcade...LOL

From that moment on I was hooked ....What do you think I did with the $200.00 from the Rolex......LOL

My first MD'ing experience.....Not the first time I had heard of one. That's a whole another story posted some where else on this site involving, Loosing keys, Drunken High School Graduation Party, Police dogs and the hospital.

CHARLIE

 

[DigEmAll]

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The hottest spots?

Gentlemen, I give you this. Hunt the private property (with permission of course) adjacent to the National Battlefields and parks!

Consider this. The federal government, being the cheap skates that they are didn't buy the entire battlefield. They bought the middle of it.

For example, the Chickamauga Battlefield National Park is about five miles by three miles, this is where the main armies met, yet the battle was fought all over the entire county and with smaller fights in three different states!

FACT: There were more casulities at the Battle of Chickamauga than there was during the entire Vietnam war!

 

[kermit]

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I found a 4H camp that has a big field in the middle of the camp. The place has been open since 1943. All the scouts camp in the field when they come out. I don't think the place had ever seen a detector. I dug coins from day light till dark one after the other. I have hunted it 4 times now and have just started getting to the layer of 60's and 70's. They run at about 4 to 6 inches deep. If I could have that field plowed I could fill a 10 gal fish tank in a week. If I have someone I want to take out for a fun day of diggin that where I take them. It to easy.

 

[lionhrt9]

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Being on of "those guys who is new and never found" a find. I find this post awesome cause now I know where my MD buddies are going to take me (or should) take me when we get out there. After, of course, the southern shores of lake michigan!!.

HH

 

[stoney56]

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Why not let your friend try his own yard 1st? No problem with him getting permission and very likely will be a nice assortment of finds. Then he can try school grounds, local swimming holes, etc. Then if still interested, he might start learning about asking permission from next door neighbors and close friends. By then the ball is rolling pretty good.

 

[ZumbroKid]

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I'd look for a stretch of side walk torn up in the oldest part of a town. I'd detect that over most other sites. Then when i dig a signal i know it is not going to be newer than 1900. Bonus to this is it is public.

 

[TORRERO]

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Houses that go back to the 1700's.? I mean, over 300 years something had to got lost

This is an interesting thing to say, as most people who hunt will probably never have access to
such a site....

Ha, ... if I did, do you think I would hand it over to a newbie....
they would get the local football field... YEA !!!

 

[Night Stalker]

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Any place you can swing the coil could be a potentialy hot spot....you just never know.

 

[JakePhelps]

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This is an interesting thing to say, as most people who hunt will probably never have access to
such a site....

Why not Almost every house in my town is that old, my neighbors house was built in 1745 and the land was used a long time before that. Almost everyone in New england or the easter states should be able to find a really old piece of land. I know, the western states dont have as old places, but they have gold which we don't

 

[northeast hunter]

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construction sites...look for parts that have been scarped up also look in the dirt piles here are a few dirt pile finds

 

[Michigan Badger]

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There are many very good sites but my personal favorite is the private yard.

I guess it's partly to do with the chance that I'm the first to hunt the spot and also there's the history aspect.

If items are dug at a known location it's easier to connect the finds with some activity or persons from the past.

And too--I think yards are ones best bet for an early U.S. gold coin.

 

[rvbvetter]

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With the heading to this thread, I was goin to say Death Valley.

I keep my best sites a secret. So secret, I don't know where they are.

If you have the nerve. I think one of the best sites has to be old neighborhoods. And going door to door and asking to detect their yards. HH

 

[Fast_Dave]

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We've been hunting street construction and the outskirts of parks and doing pretty well the last few years. By outskirts, I mean the walking trails going to and from the park or the ungroomed and brushy areas just adjacent to the park.