When discussing metal detecting with anyone interested

[Sandancer]

I have frequently been asked, " How often do you find anything?" My honest answer to that question is that I have never been out metal detecting and not found money. I have been out detecting hundreds of times over the past several years and have never been skunked. Sometimes it wasn't much, but never the less it was money. It never ceases to amaze me where coins are found. It can be of course in likely places such as the beach or parks, but it can also be in the middle of nowhere, far into the woods, in a remote pond or some other place where you would think that no one has ever been. Has anyone else had this experience?

 

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[austin]

Sure, probably most of us. I have always been a bad boy. I would throw pennies away during slow hunting times. This was back in the 60's. A gift for the future.

 

[dirtscratcher]

I've got a ghosttown site that many times, more than I'd like to admit produces zero coins. But when it does they are good ones. I know what you mean though, I found clad in crazy remote places.

 

[cactusman]

I've been skunked while cache hunting, gold nugget hunting, meteorite hunting, and at some well-hunted ghost towns, but I've never been skunked for regular coins. And yes, I've found them in unusual places, even while nugget hunting in the middle of the desert (probably dropped by a fellow detectorist.) I found some modern change on the side of a dirt road in the middle of no where while stopping to adjust some things, just by sight. Sometimes I wonder if there isn't at least a coin or two under every tree one sees...

When I walk back to my vehicle to go home I leave my detector on with the coil at search height and almost every time I get a hit, or two, sometimes more, in the middle of a field, etc. There's money to be found just about everywhere.

 

[Sandman]

Tell these people that ask if you've found anything that besides coins there is gold and silver jewelry to be found.

 

[Loco-Digger]

Treasure is in the eye of the beholder, I tell them that I always find something. Most of us MDers like to pull what others would call junk i.e. harmonica reeds, dog tags, lead soldiers, tootsie toys, dog tags, and other artifacts such as buckles, buttons, pocket watches, the list is endless. I always take my keepers from the weekend to work on Monday. The 1st question my Boss always asks is "what's it worth?" I always answer that it's priceless, how many have you dug? Many of my fellow employees live the MD life vicariously through my finds.

 

[beerguy]

My honest answer is the same as yours, and probably everyone on this forum.

My answer to those that ask me what I have found is " a few coins and some junk".

I am careful not to make our hobby appear too lucrative.

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

Well, I (almost) never get skunked..., when I do, I've been hitting super hunted-out sites.....like (my) city park, half a block away.
I've been pounding it for nine years now, and almost always yields a little. Skunks STINK, don't they...?
But, I'm with you, I like to hit those remote places, where a small possibility you might be the SECOND person ever to be there, and BINGO, a coin...!
That's all it takes to make my day...!