- Apr 18, 2016
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- Detector(s) used
- XP DEUS II ,XP DEUS, EQUINOX 800, EXCALIBUR II,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I get the feeling alot of people think because you get on a old site its easy and the old relics just fly out of the ground. I hunt mainly old home sites where I live and have hit probably 20 in the last year. The problem with these home sites is there either dirt poor and have just a few good non ferrous targets on them ,thats just how it goes with them. I want to talk about the other type for a minute and thats the home sites from the civil war and before that lasted up to modern times or someone built on top of or close to in modern times. We have alot of park hunters here and I want to show that some old home sites are like parks and worse in some cases probably. You guys might have seen the 1826 large cent I got a few days ago it came from one such site that lasted up to modern times. On that site you find bottle caps,pull tabs, disposabal razors,can slaw, vienna can lids and every other piece of modern trash you can think of. I think alot people just think these sites are full iron and minus the modern junk ,out the 20 home sites weve hit in the last year only a few have been that way maybe 3 or so. The majority here are on working farms and are trash ridden and some are worse than others. The site I found the large cent is one the worse ive seen its awful really. So really your hunting that site much like a park hunter would hunt a trashy park and trying to decipher between pull tabs,bottle caps , buttons coins, etc. Its a tough deal the older folks didnt know much about green so you get a double whammy modern trash and THICK iron in places and it makes the task double hard. You can swing the coil and it sounds like a machine gun going off with ferrous and non ferrous targets in a small area. Im writing this because I think people get the wrong idea about relic hunting some times its a tough deal .Some say put the machine in 2 tone and dig all non ferrous targets ,impossible in sites like im talking about as you have to cherry pick some or you will be digging aluminum foil all day. That would be like telling the park hunter to do the same ,some of these sites have to be hunted in a cherry pick way and done in layers and see what you find. I dug a 100 holes the other day and pulled 4 keepers and the day before 90 holes and pulled 4 keepers and could have dug a few thousand more and would have still had targets to dig as there is a ton of modern trash there. So sometimes park hunting and relic hunting overlap more than you know.
You mean we actually got to work for keepers? I thought you turn on your machine, swift walk like a senior in the mall in the mornings swinging the coil every so often and a foot off the ground...... Man this sucks.
