What do you prefer?

[paul1410]

Hi All,

Just curious, I'm wondering what type of detecting everyone prefers?

I like beach hunting, but over the winter when I'm not near the shore I'll go to area parks, schools, swim clubs, etc.

I'm happy digging anything as long as it's not trash.

 

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[Farmercal]

I prefer water hunting but like celler holes quite a bit. I will hunt a park but there are few of them where I live.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I like old home-sites & foundations.

Never tried beach hunting but I KNOW I would like that.

 

[diggummup]

Beach hunting is okay but for the most part your pulling up modern clad,pulltabs,bottlecaps and tinfoil balls.Occasionally you find a piece of jewelry but not that often.I like private property with alot of history.Or anyplace with a history.In other words I like old.I like history.I'd rather find an old suspender buckle versus a dollars worth of clad any day.Every lost object has a story to tell and the older the object the better the story.It's all about the history for me.Unfortunately,i'm usually stuck hunting the beaches because it's the closest and the easiest place to hit when I have a day off.I like weekend excursions to other parts of the state for my relic digs.

 

[goldgrubber]

Every kind, as long as there's treasure to be found.

 

[treasurejack]

Depends on my mood. Would prefer something with a bit of older, little known history to it, but I also love the water thing and I spend a great deal of my MDing time getting wet. I also prefer those "uncrowded spaces" but I'll do the parks and modern beaches as long as I don't have to step over "too many people at once."

 

[Gypsy Heart]

I like the woods,campsites ,cellar holes, ghosttowns....I am not big on being around alot of people or crowded places like beaches....now if its a deserted beach.....thats a different story.....I like the old logging camps ,homesteads.....has to have history with it or I usually am not interested....

 

[treasurejack]

I like the woods,campsites ,cellar holes, ghosttowns....I am not big on being around alot of people or crowded places like beaches....now if its a deserted beach.....thats a different story.....I like the old logging camps ,homesteads.....has to have history with it or I usually am not interested....

Gypsy,....we need to do a hunt! lol

 

[lumbercamp]

Late 1800's to early 1900's lumber camps, rr beds, log slides for the tools lumbermen used. I have never hunted in town. I'm not at all interested in finding coins and jewelry.

 

[Ant]

I like homesite demolition scrapes, park construction, and turf to artificial turf sports fields sites.

 

[silverswede]

Logging camps are great, Old backwoods homestead cabins, Disaster, fire, tornado sites.
Most of all I like remote hunting or fishing camps. Anywhere people stayed in tents and sat on the ground.

 

[txkickergirl]

Pretty much open to it all. I like to research the area find out the history until it gets under my skin. Then whatever I find including junk still means something. I just have a feeling that I will hit something really BIG one day. Of course if I do I probably won't know what it is or what to do with it, but I will cross that bridge when it gets here.

 

[lionhrt9]

WOODS, and whatever brings me into the hunt.

 

[Stormtrooper154]

Late 1800's to early 1900's lumber camps, rr beds, log slides for the tools lumbermen used. I have never hunted in town. I'm not at all interested in finding coins and jewelry.

Please send all your coins & Jewelry too....

Stormtrooper
P.O. Box 34......ahhhhh, Nevermind LOL

 

[Mona Lisa]

Cellarholes....preferably that have been abandoned before the 1900's. My favorite!

I love to detect at old home sites where nobody has lived in a hundred years. The roads leading to it are so old that there's huge trees growing in the middle. There was just this little pioneer family trying to make a living off of the land. It's quiet, peaceful....and almost everything you dig is something that was dropped over a hundred years ago. That is what I prefer and why I detect!

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Cellarholes....preferably that have been abandoned before the 1900's. My favorite!

I love to detect at old home sites where nobody has lived in a hundred years. The roads leading to it are so old that there's huge trees growing in the middle. There was just this little pioneer family trying to make a living off of the land. It's quiet, peaceful....and almost everything you dig is something that was dropped over a hundred years ago. That is what I prefer and why I detect!

You know Lisa ...Maybe thats what its really all about....Maybe its not the digging....but the stepping back in time ....because we believe it was so much quieter and stressless then......and just knowing you are touching something from the past. That easy peaceful solice that you get when in the middle of a forest .......

 

[gold fish]

Old home sites, out in the woods if possible. I especially like places that have had copious amounts of gold dumped in them, silver isn't bad either.

 

[treasurejack]

Tranquility & Mystery:
The aroma of a fall forest. The babbling of a mountain brook. Dirt, stone, and leaves under my feet. Trowel and detector in my dusty hands. Who in the past has walked here before me? What lays in my presence that my eyes cannot yet see?

 

[sonny0065]

I like it all. HH Sonny

 

[paul1410]

Thanks for all the great replies everyone. You've given me some new ideas to try. Now I can't wait for the snow to disappear so I can go searching through the woods nearby.