Ok you field hunters, I musta missed something!

[WHADIFIND]

I could have sworn, that I read on here last year that when the crops are in and the the field is cultivated. That there would be all sorts of Gold and Silver coins all over the place being turned up by the plow. That all one has to do is just walk around "gathering nuggets in May" (or October).

Well, I know that there might've been some exaggeration in that but I didn't figure a goose egg! Zero! Nada! Zilch!

Admittedly, even though I have many, many, many years of experience in hunting, I am a relative newbie when it comes to clumping around in a cornfield. (About a year). Around here the fields I hunt are taken care of by a minimum cultivation technique, whatever that means. I remember my first cornfield last year and the nightmare of getting around ALL those cornstalks! But, I was willing to give it a try again. BOY! Was I surprised when I got there and saw that the entire valley had not only been harvested but the ground had been tilled!! The field was FLAT!! YAY! I was soooooo ready! The farmer said it was just time to disk the fields they were long overdue. I had visions of sugarplums and just knew that the fields HAD to have had all those new targets just waiting for me!!

As I walked out and saw I didn't have to trip every other step this year I was so happy! But, alas and alack! Where are the targets!!!

Too late to make this short, but after 2 and a half hours this was all I found!




Where are all the doubloons, silver, gold, copper, heck! I woulda taken a piece of lead at this point!

Davy Crockett or Daniel Boone must've lived here! They must have hit whatever they aimed at and then took the bullet back from it to recycle!! NOT EVEN A STRAY BULLET!?!?!?

Man! I'm mortified!



LOL

Maybe next time?
Oh that slab that Blingie is riding? Is some sort of broken off piece of an old farm implement of some sort. Iron and very heavy for it's size. The other thing? I dunno it says 522 on it, maybe a pole tag.

Sorry for long winded post. Just had to tell somebody!

 

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[ModernMiner]

Was your detector on? Just kidding.
Sorry to hear about the disappointing hunt. You would think maybe a memorial penny or shotgun shell would pop up. Weird.
You'll get em' next time.
-MM-

 

[WHADIFIND]

Was your detector on? Just kidding.
Sorry to hear about the disappointing hunt. You would think maybe a memorial penny or shotgun shell would pop up. Weird.
You'll get em' next time.
-MM-

Oh I know. This won't be deterring me one bit.

But, boy! I know sometimes we walk over and sometimes we walk "around" the targets. But wow! When I walk around them I REALLY walk around them! LOL

Maybe I shouldn't have been running with my detector today. I was sooooo ready!!!

 

[smokeythecat]

I had a huge tree removed on my property just recently. You'd think SOMETHING would have happened around a 250 year old tree. Not one blasted signal anywhere near it. Something would have had to have happened in the field first for stuff to be found later. I was thinking coin spill. but no. Try finding a place where an old house stood and is no longer there. Old maps are a good place to start. THEN you'll have a place with some history to it and may be able to pull something nice out of the ground.

 

[WHADIFIND]

Try finding a place where an old house stood and is no longer there. Old maps are a good place to start. THEN you'll have a place with some history to it and may be able to pull something nice out of the ground.

I hunted this field last year. Got quite a few very nice things out of here. Even a silver pocket watch! Lots of bullets, buttons, coins, etc. I hope they didn't bury everything deeper with the plow.

I'll keep trying.

Thanks!

 

[diggummup]

Recon the field a little see if you notice any broken bits of glass or pottery shards or anything. Some fields are worthless and some can be goldmines.
PS- I dug an almost identical broken farm implement thingie last week up in Merritt Island, Fl..

 

[S IL THer]

Don't feel bad, here in Illinois I have walked 3 - 4 hours per day over fields (very large ones) for the last 3 weeks; I did dig a ton of crap but also one 1920 Lincoln and one toasted 1854 large cent. All farmers here drink Mt Dew and throw the cans out to be mauled and shredded by the disc/plow . I'm just hoping to find a home site no one
else has hit with a md. at least I got some exercise..............good luck, keep looking ........

 

[DCMatt]

Check your batteries.

DCMatt

 

[smokeythecat]

Look for pieces of slate (from old roofing) and red brick too. Evidence for an old homestead. And look for indentations in the woods nearby or at the edges of the field that were old roadbeds. Last time I hunted an old roadbed got a Confederate button.

 

[flatbutton]

I feel your pain bro! It doesn't hurt to ask the farmer about any history of his property, or if he knows any spots in his fields that have glass, pottery shards and pieces of bricks. A lot of times i'll ask and they will tell me, " you see that high spot in that field? Thats where the old home place used to be" Or "that field down by the creek, when I was a kid, we used to find arrow heads"

 

[Diggincoinz]

That's some good scrap metal to turn into cash with .
I've been detecting fields (my primary subject) for 12yrs. Never have I came across a gold coin, and the silver coins I can probably count on just two hands. Got a few pieces of junk jewelry along the way... and many, many, many old large cents from 1794 - 1855. OMG! ...The BUTTONS!!! I can't even begin to put a number to that qty
Found a couple of old bear claws laying in the open too! Never any arrow heads but I keep looking anyway. Some day We'll hit it big

 

[TNGUNS]

WHADIFIND, I feel your pain. I have been fortunate enough to find some descent sites in an area I am hunting but how could there be not "1" coin in dozens and dozens of flat buttons, CW relics, thimbles, and the list goes one. I have been back to some of them that I pounded, even though I have better places to hunt, just on the principle that there HAS TO BE "1" coin. Nope. Spend lots of those days trying to find new sites that are just miles of pasture and woods and TONS of shotgun hulls. We all have em. Better luck on the next adventure my friend.

 

[PeteWmass]

was the dirt all "puffy" -if you go immediately after plowing the soil is real loose and signals are hard to lock in on...go back after it rains a couple times and compare results.....
I never started finding real old coins until I started doing farm fields.....near rivers/streams always best.........

 

[CASPER-2]

I hunted this field last year. Got quite a few very nice things out of here. Even a silver pocket watch! Lots of bullets, buttons, coins, etc. I hope they didn't bury everything deeper with the plow.

I'll keep trying.

Thanks!

it can happen - friend and I have a field we have got many colonials out of - we hadn't hit there in a while - finds were getting few
one day we drove by and it was tilled big time - we had dreams of all kinds of goodies being brought up- we saw no foot prints - it was fresh - we were wrong
they did what they call a "deep till" turned over like 3 feet - we found nothing

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Sorry you didn't find what you were seeking. That chest of stolen gold was just a tad below your coils reach. I personally think the moles and worms move my targets under the soil so I can't find them. You'd think they would move them "under" the coil so they could laugh when we do the happy dance.

 

[Metdet49]

Farm fields can be fickle. Most of the month of Aug I hunted fields near an old homestead site and found a multitude of interesting artifacts plus 5 large cents and a token. I just got permission to hunt recently hayed fields around another old home site, and so far I have found a couple of clad dimes and a bunch of junk. I'm not done with this site yet, but I guess I got spoiled at the previous field site. Like you though, I am baffled by the lack of good finds at a site that showed great potential.

 

[joeyfresh]

Some of my best finds have been random farm drops but they are rare. What kind of research are you doing? If you're just going to pick a random field to check then do what others here have stated and look for brick, pottery and glass. If I am trying to find the homesite I usually will check the high spots first and if they don't pan out I will cross cross a field listening for the iron. Once I find the iron, I walk around mentally mapping out the perimeter then grid the snot out of it REALLY slow.

Do your research. If I just picked random fields, I would have probably moved on to another hobby.

 

[Beeps in my sleep]

Eh it happens man. There is times I have to check to see if my Detector is on. I take it blingy is pissed though haha. I wish you happy hunting Whadifind! Hell my dry day yesterday one 1940 wheat

 

[mangum]

Recon the field a little see if you notice any broken bits of glass or pottery shards or anything. Some fields are worthless and some can be goldmines.
PS- I dug an almost identical broken farm implement thingie last week up in Merritt Island, Fl..

This is great advice. If there's pottery & glass around hit it hard, its a good sign. I have a site that I hunted arrowheads on for years before I put a detector down. I always noticed pottery & glass, then one day I found a colonial dandy button on the surface. I then started detecting there & it has been one of my best sites & keeps producing! Although I'm finding less arrowheads now because its hard to do 2 things at once!

 

[dfx-kevin]

Maybe they only bartered their goods, I swear here in mississippi 9 out 10 people were poor as dirt during reconstruction , in 15 yrs I haven't found any seated or large cents - did find a 1867 shield nickel and an 1820 half reale and a piece of eight 1812