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Oh and Tom in CA, I bet it hadnt been hunted before. Chelan county is out there. LOL. Furthermore, your statement that any good spot has probably been researched and hit, I disagree. Please enlighten me. Before you respond, no hard feelings. I am just trying to pick the mind of a more experienced detectorist than myself
Jsmith, I will qualify my statement: If you are in an area where there's not a lot of hardcore researchers, bold-type-hunters, then yes, it's possible there's a virgin fairgrounds. Eg.: everyone just assumes you "can't hunt", and no one's ever tried, or simply gone in when the gates were open, etc...
Where I'm at, that place would not have been virgin. No matter what any current caretaker on duty thinks. It's common for school employees, rodeo ground employees, fairground people, etc... to say "no one's ever hunted this place before". But truth is, they just don't know.
One time I had a school employee tell me that I couldn't hunt there, because a little league game was about to start. They told me I could come back on another day or whatever. And then they added "...
and you should do good, because no one's ever hunted here before". I asked them "what makes you think that?" (because I know it's been detected as far back as the 1960s even). The employee said
"because I've never seen anyone here doing that". Well gee, that doesn't mean much. I mean, they're certainly not there 24x7
But yes, It's possible to find a virgin fairgrounds here in the USA I suppose. Especially if it only dates to the 1950s, as that may be too new for some hardcore hunters. I've been in other parts of CA, and sometimes been surprised at how seemingly obvious stuff has been left pretty-much un-tapped. Just, I suppose, because it's remote areas that are far from big cities or numerous hobbyists. But in my part of the state, all the old abandoned parks and campgrounds have been studies and researched out ad-nauseum.
Yes, it's possible the employee is right, in your fairgrounds case.
