A site that looks good " on paper " but produces nothing .

[martinguitar]

I have spent over 40 hours hunting the property where an old church (1800's) and later a one room school house (1920's) stood . It is just a small lot and has a few very large oak trees on it . I mean it just looks like a great place to find an old coin even without knowing the history . It is a very trashy site due to the fact that a house trailer was later moved on the site . Many cans , screw caps etc . It's close to where I live and a quick easy place to hunt if I am short on time so I hunt it often .
I have hunted in TTF with the Etrac as well as with a sniper coil when I had my MXT Pro . I have found a few modern clad coins but nothing old .

I keep thinking that I missed that certain area and the next time I hunt it silver will pop up .
I suppose I am going to have to grid a certain area and dig all the signals to make sure that something good isn't being masked . I just hate the thought of doing that .

Has anyone else worked and worked a site without any good finds and then suddenly something good ?

 

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[gerryk]

I have worked one site many times for several hours and not found much, not even a lot of clad. I finally find out that the area was raised up a few feet with fill.
Check the history, that area may have clean raised up or the ground scraped and backfilled. Find an old timer to ask,

 

[martinguitar]

That doesn't seem to be the issue here . The landowner is an elderly gentleman and he gave me some of the history on the site . To my knowledge it has never been hunted before .
I'm sure there is an old coin there somewhere . Being a rural area I doubt there is an abundance of old silver , but I'm sure there's something I'm missing . I guess it's turning into a challenge for me now . I'm sure the neighbors either think I am getting rich or have lost my mind as much as I detect here .

 

[Jason in Enid]

Lots of sites have great potential but poor results. It's just part of the game.

 

[Normsel]

I have found that if I grid an area I sometimes pick up a few coins I missed in my 1st pass.

 

[PullTabPete]

Lots of sites have great potential but poor results. It's just part of the game.

That is so true. I had a chance to hunt an empty lot across from 100+ year old train station yesterday. I hunted the lot a little bit before and found a couple of wheat pennies but not much else. Now they are putting some housing on the lot at the I happened to go by and notice that they started excavating. So I was able to get there over the weekend and have a look. Unfortunately I only found a little bit of clad and bunch of iron. Next time I am in the area it will probably be too late.

HH,

Pete

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Lots of sites have great potential but poor results. It's just part of the game.

I hear that....I have hunted places with major potential...and until i got alot of the trash out...it "seemed" to be a bust....the more you get the trash out...the more chances you have....all the modern trash is masking the goodies

 

[daemon1971]

I've hunted an area in a local park for a year, just "cherry picking", with mediocre results, but it's a good place when no where else is available . Over the last 3 weeks I started to grid and dig all. I have dug a lot of iron , but I've also found 3 Indian head cents , and a couple of pocket spills with coins from the 40's. still no silver but I feel it's been worth digging all.

 

[FreeMindStuck]

I've worked sites again and again with good results. Grid off small areas from different directions. I'll dig every non ferrous target and the large ferrous targets if I know a site is old. Sometimes you uncover stuff. Make sure you rescan your holes after digging. Good luck!