Do you look at lawns and fields differently now?

[dirtlooter]

Since I have gotten more serious about metal detecting the last several years, I can't help but wonder what every strip of land holds. I can't hardly drive thru an older section of a town without checking the lawns out. I drive by a soccer field or baseball field and all I see is a place to detect, not to play ball. Even my wife will say something about a place as we travel. You know that some places have been hit pretty hard but still I wonder what they hold. I am always amazed at what people have lost and how valuable some of them are. You see a piece of dirt or lawn, I see possible hidden goodies.

 

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[13dolphins1]

All the time....or out walking with the wife and I start pulling coins off the walking path....lol. Never had those powers before!

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[DiamondDan]

I have permanent detecto-vision. Even watching some of the travel shows on PBS I'm always like "I would KILL to detect there!"

 

[Molewacker]

Yep - guilty of eyeballing areas and muttering under my breath "Beep!, I wanna Beep!"

 

[AlienLifeForm]

Yes, all the time.

 

[dirtdigginfool]

O yea...especially driving for work through old mining towns...drool...

 

[Sandman]

I used to have this problem when I fished Bass tournaments. Cast every where.

 

[against the wind]

For sure.
I try to envision what the view was from that hill before those buildings were built in the 1960's. I have a few parks that I hunt where some of the hills once commanded a view of the ocean, a river, or a lake. The view is now blocked by the construction of residential or office high-rise buildings. Hills are always good. Hills with a view of the water are excellent.

 

[sprailroad]

YES, Once your affected, there really is no cure, not that I would even want one. It's what we do, it's who we are, Oh well........If we are not detecting, then we seem to always be "eyeballing", love it.

 

[Coil-2-Soil]

It seams like I'm always looking at old houses and fields and commenting to my wife that THAT or there would be a good place to dig and she just laughs. Even by myself I sometimes find myself saying it out loud that those would be great places. That's what keeps everyone in the dream of finding the perfect place to search..... until you find the next perfect spot. Lol To me that's part of the fun. HH all.

 

[fistfulladirt]

[h=2]Do you look at lawns and fields differently now?[/h]I do!

And then I think to myself, ​sure glad I don't have to mow that!

 

[Peyton Manning]

yep every 1800's house I see I wonder if it is unhunted ground

 

[GA_Boy]

O yea...especially driving for work through old mining towns...drool...

Or, I want to troll my Bomber or Waterdog past that cove. Or maybe a Lazy Ike inside the cove.
I guess that comment by me kinda "Ages" me.
Marvin

 

[GA_Boy]

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Marvin

 

[dirtlooter]

Or, I want to troll my Bomber or Waterdog past that cove. Or maybe a Lazy Ike inside the cove.
I guess that comment by me kinda "Ages" me.
Marvin

Waterdogs? We still use them here, just a little, ok a lot harder to find them. Best bait ever! the bombers? still have five or six of them if the grandkids haven't lost them.

 

[coinman123]

When ever I go past a very old house or building, I am drooling about detecting there. It is sometimes painful, I can see the old silver or relics just inches below the soil. The funny thing is, I have one the oldest houses on my side of town, yet wont detect the lawn yet because it is too dry and brittle (going to try and hit it after the next rain storm). I haven't detected grass since 2013 (mainly stuck to woods, sometimes farm fields, and will probably give metal detecting a bad name if metal detect someone's beautiful lawn.

 

[coinman123]

I have permanent detecto-vision. Even watching some of the travel shows on PBS I'm always like "I would KILL to detect there!"

Same, Anytime I see anything pre-1800, on a show, docomentary, photo, or even posted here. I always think, "Man! I would kill to detect there!". I was in a long conversation with my neighbor, who owned a house from the 1770's, belonging to an extremely famous person in the early 1800's (on the NRHP, and has a sign five miles down the road mentioning the place). The whole conversation all I was thinking was, "I would do anything to metal detect on the huge perfect field and lawn!"

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[Honest Samuel]

Old houses make me very happy.

 

[BFR]

It seams like I'm always looking at old houses and fields and commenting to my wife that THAT or there would be a good place to dig and she just laughs. Even by myself I sometimes find myself saying it out loud that those would be great places. That's what keeps everyone in the dream of finding the perfect place to search..... until you find the next perfect spot. Lol To me that's part of the fun. HH all.

My wife has started tuning me out when I start talking about the history of some property we are driving by.

BFR

 

[Wudnut]

I only been metal detecting for a month but YES, i look at property much different and when see new construction i cringe at what could be unearthed and never noticed. Just like fishing the other spot always looks better.