For the people who go out door knocking...what is your ratio of yes to no answers from property owners?
No just giving my thoughts on begging or i mean door knocking..sorry ..Looks like someone needs to re-read the question.... ::eyeroll::
Yes i know what you mean ... But my home was built in 1896 and some one is always knocking on my door ... Drives me crazy..I have only cold knocked a few times. 3 yes, 2 no, 3 come back another time. I have hunted 28 other permissions this season, a few were friends places, but most were gotten when I saw the owner in the yard. Being 56, local, and friendly, I pose no threat.
Keppy I can see your side, but I am willing to ask for permission, since the odds are much higher on digging old coins even a bucket list coin on private property. If someone asks to hunt my property (built in the 1970s) I would take them to the back of my van and show them my detectors. I'd explain that I used my yard learn to hunt and they are welcome to detect. I doubt if they'd hunt it after that. (They may find 50 to 75 cents in clad and I hope they'd big the beer tabs out of the back yard).
I hunt in the woods i find old foundation's and old cellar holes .. It is not easy like running to the park, the play ground or the beach ... It takes work to find these places... I found a old cellar hole this summer way out in the woods ... I think now a days there is no land that is not owned by someone or the government .. But there is still places to hunt were no one cares if you are there .. Away from all the people so you can enjoy the peace & quiet of the only sounds is the beep of your detector and the sound of your shovel digging...Not trying to be a jerk here but if you don't hunt other people's land " .. FOR i do not believe in hunting other ones private land... " then where do you hunt? The local parks around here have been hit hard and I am just looking for some virgin ground. Enlighten me on the places I must not be thinking of.
I will start looking and asking about places like this when talking to friends. Thanks
When I was a kid starting out with this in the late 1970s, my success ratio was 90 to 100% (rarely ever got a no). But I guess being a freckle face kid who rolls up on his Schwinn bike, looks very harmless and innocent. Now that I'm a ugly mean looking adult guy, my success is below half. Doh!
The best way is to "catch them on their front porch" so-to-speak. You know, like if they're out front washing their car, or watering the lawn, or unloading their groceries from their car, etc.... I will sometimes purposefully, if scouting an old block of homes to find a lawn to do, will drive around several blocks looking for someone out in their yard doing yard work or whatever. Because by catching them outside (and wearing a big smile), your odds are much better. You're not "in their private space" so to speak, when you are just on the sidewalk talking to them.