Talk to the ol timers

[DirkSears]

Talk to the ol' timers

Has anyone used this technique to find good MDing spots? I talked to my wife's grandfather and he started spilling the beans on all kinds of awesome historical and MDing areas. Not only did he tell me the stories but he showed me newspaper clippings, old journals, and took me to several locations that I can hunt this spring! Here's just a partial list of things he told and showed to me...

Civil War train wreck site (documented) - he found a pistol there when he was a kid.

Train robbery (documented) - supposedly the robber couldn't get the safe open so he used a bunch of dynamite and blew the safe and contents (gold / silver coins) all over the woods (don't know that this part of the story is true but the robbery is documented).

Three old homesteads out in the middle of the woods

Several old tavern and dance hall sites

Two old mines

One old hotel location (can't even tell anything was there)

I couldn't believe it when he showed me all these locations! I can't wait for spring! Once again, make sure you talk to any ol' timers! Not only is the history really cool, the stories are amazing and you might get a few good swinging spots to hunt!

 

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[Montana Jim]

Re: Talk to the ol' timers

Shhhhh.... your telling secrets!


This is one the very best ways to get information and locations, and often permission...

Good post! And welcome to treasurenet

 

[Farmercal]

Re: Talk to the ol' timers

My father-in-law (before he past a year ago) told me and showed me plenty of areas where things used to be when he was a kid. A wealth of information.

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

Re: Talk to the ol' timers

"Oldtmers"??

shucks, just remember that we are sexy, horny, senior citizens.

Don Jose de La Mancha

 

[gnewt]

Re: Talk to the ol' timers

"Oldtmers"??

shucks, just remember that we are sexy, horny, senior citizens.

Don Jose de La Mancha

If I could hear I would listen and talk, if I could remember what the subject was.
Serious, good subject and yes old duffers like me don't mind talking about where those treasures may be. I come along about the time kerosene did, that wasn't before electricity, it was before coal oil lamps. I remember back in the cave, hell wait a minute,yall gonna get me to telling lies again. I am trying to quit.

 

[Tin Nugget]

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So, uh, er, where are you anyway. Sounds like you might need help! Just kidding.
Good luck, sounds like some great places. I keep a pic of me and my grandson with my detector on my desk at work. I get questions all the time and I have landed a few good spots from the conversations. Even some written permission to hunt some of there property's.

 

[DirkSears]

Re: Talk to the ol' timers

Thats a good idea nugget. I'll have to get a picture of my son with my detector.

 

[ivan salis]

Re: Talk to the ol' timers

oh yes indeed ---old folks often love to talk and talk and talk and are warehouses of quality old information ---it a little known fact that old men like to gab as much as if not more than the women do in many cases -- just keep em on subject slowly and gentle like let them chat freely and don't rush them too much--- let them "open up" to you slowly they will gather steam as they go ----- be smart take your time (and take written notes for petes sake !!) and "milk" their brains for all that good juicy old info and knowledge in them, remember they are people and treat them with respect --- if treated well by you, they will show you off to their freinds and you can get even more contacts -- great even more minds to "mine" -- it often makes them happy to have someone to talk to thats "interested" in hearing their old stories that they have often told their family way too many times --- plus it makes you at the very least happy to find out about these spots quickly and easily --speed research I call it --- and in some cases the finds got from this type of research can be quite valuible $$$ indeed. ---- Ivan

 

[cazar]

Re: Talk to the ol' timers

my great uncle and grandmaw have told me of around a dozen sites back home..I was wise enough
to write them down..uncle said that one day your metal detecting hobby would find a valuable piece
there...one site he had found bullets and buttons from the CW...and I know that no one has detected
it..

you can always learn something from older folks...cause most of the time people have forgotten them
and they love to talk to someone who will listen...

and Ivan...good to see you in the LOG ...good luck and HH on your retirement..

HH all ..and be safe

respects

cazar ...

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

Re: Talk to the ol' timers

DUH?? people too? like to talk? etc., etc., sheesh, bunch of still wet behind the ears kiddies. Old timers? Bs artists with only half the data remembered? sigh

As for treating me with respect, I do have to admit that lately the little girls are holding doors open for me
A teenager asked if she could help put some packages in the car for me (If she had only known how sexy and horny I am, she would have run off screaming sigh.

Oh Well, I suppose most consider us as vegitating with no desires, just waiting dumbly for it to all end., no way! Be getting my new airplane later this year. May even go to central America and show Ivan just how to do it.

Remember, I was with Teddy at SanJuan hill in Cuba in 96. so I am only 1/2 way there .

Don Jose de La Mancha

"old timers sheesh, mumble mumble"

heheheheh

 

[ivan salis]

Re: Talk to the ol' timers

ah rememeber the dirty old man motto of central america to feel young again --find a young girl and feel her !!! -- there nothing wrong with a sixty year old man that a fine cigar , good bottle of rum and decent meal and long night with spent with a bad woman can't fix --

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

Re: Talk to the ol' timers

Ivan hehehehhehheheh 60?? stull immature.

Don Jose de La Mancha

 

[gnewt]

Re: Talk to the ol' timers

One draw back to being an old man like me, you get freash with a woman who is not getting a social security check, you feel like a child molester. Besides that check will buy them long neck barley hops.