Parks VS Woods

[JakePhelps]

I think i may upgrade detectors sometime next summer after i get the last one i bought payed off. I didnt want to originally because i didnt want to have to dig all the nails and all that junk but i think i may just hunt woods only, no parks or other stuff. And of course the beach when i go to the cape. btw- im going to the cape friday afternoon till sunday, gonna try my luck at those paths i found the sterling charm on last time.

 

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[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Jake,

why only woods? Lots of other interesting places to hunt also. I enjoy the woods but I also want to hit historical areas in towns and cities, its where the people were more concentrated in most cases..

have a good un.............

 

[JakePhelps]

because in those areas its too trashy and i usually only have an hour or two to hunt an area So i usually end up not finding much. and if i upgraded detectors i would never get anything good cause id be too busy digging nails Sides, almost anything you find in the woods or in a field is bound to be old

 

[Nana40]

Although I do enjoy hunting in the parks I think I'm with you....I favor being out in the woods.

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Much safer! And the views are nicer!

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Nana?

 

[JakePhelps]

Thats another thing, no loud noises and anoyances like at a park and stuff Thats a nice pic nana! is that a natural stream? it looks so perfect

 

[AK in KY]

Depending on how much of an up grade you are thinking about, I would think you would want to hunt areas with more traffic. After all, a better machine and some practice should alow you to avoid so many nails.
Just a thought.

AK in KY

 

[Nana40]

Thats another thing, no loud noises and anoyances like at a park and stuff ? Thats a nice pic nana! is that a natural stream?? it looks so perfect

Thanks!

Yep Jake.....all natural! It originates just around the bend in the mountains.

Nana

 

[JakePhelps]

not much of an upgrade, maybe around the 300 to 400 dollar price range

 

[tallpaul]

the woods are a good choice to detect, as when there were no banks this is where people would hide there stash, and i mean a long long time ago,, they would pick out a tree maybe walk so many paces away in a direction they would remember, this is where its all at and the plough fields,, i found my gold stater right on the edge of a woods, funny too thinkin now because i found it right inbetween two tress almost dead center, stick to the woods and fields, i use parks for testing and when i aint got a head ache.

 

[jbow]

Nana...

How do decide whether to detect or fish? I love fishing little streams like that with a rooster tail.

Julien

 

[Nana40]

I get my share of fishing too! When I can keep the dogs out of the water!

 

[Michigan Badger]

As always you're right on...JakePhelps.

The woods rule. The plan is to hit the timber lots in early spring and then head out into the fields come summer.

I'm highly allergic to poison ivy and the skeeters would like to carry you away in the woodlots come summer.

Do that research and take along a rake. Sometimes even a battery powered electric chain saw for heavy brush? ? ?If I have everything clear with the landowner, I may even mow weeds and rototill a spot. One must do what?s necessary and the circumstances very greatly.

I do research and hunt until I hit a honey hole. Then I dig the dickens out of it and screen everything. That's when I get the old marbles, pottery, clay pipes, arrowheads, toys, and coins my detector missed.

Even when I get skunked I have a great time. Good friends, food, and drink?yes!

I love the hunt and the find is the climax?

 

[IrishCharlieM]

I have a grove of trees here that had been turned into a hiking and bike riding park by the city in the 60s......

The grove of trees which has a park name shows on an 1880 map listed by the same name as the park has today...It has never been developed. And in the 1880s it shows it smack dab in the middle of a then farming community....

My MD died on me this past summer and I am getting a new one for x-mas the wife wont let me know what brand or model but she says I will be VERY HAPPY.

So you can see where my time will be spent next spring....Hell x-mas day......I'll just have to dig a little harder.....LOL

 

[slow sweeper]

because in those areas its too trashy and i usually only have an hour or two to hunt an area ? So i usually end up not finding much.? and if i upgraded detectors i would never get anything good cause id be too busy digging nails ? Sides, almost anything you find in the woods or in a field is bound to be old

I don't understand why you think you'll dig MORE nails with a better detector. Just the opposite is true.

 

[JakePhelps]

the detector i have right now i never have to dig a nail I have heard that any good detector will find nails on disc or tone mode Are you saying good detectors will NEVER find nails? I wish they made a good relic machine that could find other iron relics besides nails and cans

 

[Born2Dtect]

I too feel your pain Jake, All the areas that I hunt where there has been recent activity, after pull tabs and aluminum can came to be, are full of it. People were litter bugs years ago. I find fields, woods and old places not used for the past 40 to 50 years are better to hunt. I hate trash!

Ed

 

[Monty]

Most of the woods around here has never been anything but woods and there are no artifacts, rarely even a nail! You might occasionally stumble onto an old Indian camp and find some stone implements but nothing to metal detect. You will fnd several old home places here and there but they are severely overgrown with weeds and trashy and hard to detect. If you just intend to hunt the woods are you sure you even need a detector upgrade? Concentating on hunting artifacts you are bound to dig nails as they are not discriminated out. I have a BH Land Ranger with all the bells and whistles that can completely discriminate out ferous metals, but set that way you miss a lot of artifacts of the type you like to collect! So it will be nails and artifacts or no nails and fewer artifacts! Ever now and then the Halo effect will fool even the most discriminaing detectors, but not necessarily a well trained operator. Monty

 

[JakePhelps]

Definetly need an upgrade, i get no depth with the tracker4. maybe 4 inches on a penny.

 

[treasures4me2find]

Being retired, plus moving out of the sunshine state, I now live in the Nantahala National Forest and hope to get back into detecting a lot more. I live in a dense part of the mountains. We have some small streams running through the area. On my property I have found a small grave site. I was hoping for some info on how you would go about detecting through the woods. We do have some steep water run off areas that have made a dry sort of river bed that runs from the top of the property down to the streams.

Now that the winter is here, most my trees have lost there leaves, putting a heavy ground cover everywhere. Should I look for trails that might exist, or try the small stream areas. I read that when the Indians buried there dead, they would sometimes bend trees a certain way to mark the grave site areas. There are a few trees around my site that have strange bends in them. Once I get my detector out of storage and cleaned up (next few days) I hope to check the area around this site.

Any info on detecting in heavy wooded areas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Ken

 

[Nana40]

Don't step on the snakes and don't touch the poison ivy!

I started out here following the old trails. But...now that the leaves are down they might be difficult for you to see. Maybe just start with one big square area and hunt that -- then go to the next area....

Hope you find somethin good!!!!

Nana