I have much more respect now, for all you cornfield recoverers!

[WHADIFIND]

I just received permission for one of my very own to hunt! This place has a little over 100 acres!!! (YIKES!!!)

Anyway, I have a whole new perspective on all you cornfield troopers out there!
If I had just left all my equipment in the car and just started walking around in the freshly harvested cornfield, with all it's stubble, etc. It would NOT take very long for me to get very, very tired!!!

Let alone trying to swing a coil or hear a signal! I must have tripped elebenty-nine times!! LOL

Also, the signals are so much more difficult to figure out because of having to raise and lower the coil just to swing it over the target! Deep targets are particularly hard because you have to add a few inches of having the coil off the ground in order to clear!

I just took a strenuously, leisure stroll in a random pattern for about 2 hours today. Trying to figure out where things might have been in the past. Even the mineralization seemed to change from moment to moment! I had to keep retuning.

What I found was about what I expected for a first time. But, I felt like a raw cadet out there today!

Cornfield pros? You have all my respect!

HH!

 

[ticm]

I just received permission for one of my very own to hunt! This place has a little over 100 acres!!! (YIKES!!!)

Anyway, I have a whole new perspective on all you cornfield troopers out there!
If I had just left all my equipment in the car and just started walking around in the freshly harvested cornfield, with all it's stubble, etc. It would NOT take very long for me to get very, very tired!!!

Let alone trying to swing a coil or hear a signal! I must have tripped elebenty-nine times!! LOL

Also, the signals are so much more difficult to figure out because of having to raise and lower the coil just to swing it over the target! Deep targets are particularly hard because you have to add a few inches of having the coil off the ground in order to clear!

I just took a strenuously, leisure stroll in a random pattern for about 2 hours today. Trying to figure out where things might have been in the past. Even the mineralization seemed to change from moment to moment! I had to keep retuning.

What I found was about what I expected for a first time. But, I felt like a raw cadet out there today!

Cornfield pros? You have all my respect!

HH!

LMAO there's a art to it for sure.

 

[jeff of pa]

only tried it once , very tuff with a 15" W.O.T. Coil on too

 

[Diggincoinz]

My primary hunting grounds are corn fields lol so yeah it's always changing. Good thing is year after year (my 3rd season in a few specific fields I've been working) is that I keep finding more stuff!


I see you got a couple of coins too, cool! Keep going back for more

 

[sonofadigger]

very nice ive yet to try a field yet but next year i plan on it

 

[CRUSADER]

100 acres is pretty small, I thought you had huge fields over there, many of our fields get close to 100 acres & some bigger. I was tired last night as it was a big farm & we don't know the hotspots which means tons of walking in sticky mud. If you want to do 5 hour days you will need to build up a little practice.
If you are not already doing it, my tip is to have a spade the same height as a walking stick, I use it as my third leg all the time.

I generally don't do corn stubble very often but we have Oilseed Rape & thats like thousands of 7 inch daggers, generally we wait until conditions improve.

 

[WHADIFIND]

100 acres is pretty small, I thought you had huge fields over there, many of our fields get close to 100 acres & some bigger. I was tired last night as it was a big farm & we don't know the hotspots which means tons of walking in sticky mud. If you want to do 5 hour days you will need to build up a little practice.
If you are not already doing it, my tip is to have a spade the same height as a walking stick, I use it as my third leg all the time.

I generally don't do corn stubble very often but we have Oilseed Rape & thats like thousands of 7 inch daggers, generally we wait until conditions improve.

Oh, there are some humungous fields. But, if my first "trip" was any indication, they would KILL me!!!

One problem I had was that I usually dig just about everything. If I do that I'd never stop digging out there! Would be easier to just get a backhoe and a screen. LOL I'm trying to limit some of the work, at least in the beginning anyway. Another problem is no points of reference. It's just one very big field and it all looks the same to me. Once I can establish some sort of pattern of finds, I might be able to better zero in on some areas. If I can stay on my feet long enough.

Thanks for the tips and anyone else have any, fire away!

HH!

 

[WHADIFIND]

LMAO there's a art to it for sure.

Maybe I should go see this guy? Art?

 

[ticm]

Maybe I should go see this guy? Art?

He hangs out on the wall at the museum.

 

[WHADIFIND]

Oh, by the way, how do you approach the field? In between the rows with a short swing?

 

[ticm]

Oh, by the way, how do you approach the field? In between the rows with a short swing?

I swing the coil in short slow swings between the rows.

 

[WHADIFIND]

I swing the coil in short slow swings between the rows.

Really makes it difficult to use these new "motion" detectors. The old Groundhog is a threshold type. Easier to use slow and with no room to swing.

Guess I'll figure something out.

Thanks!

HH!

 

[BuckleBoy]

The hardest thing about field hunting is finding the sites. The rest is fun cake to eat!


Cheers,

Buck

 

[calmerthanu]

yea its a lot better when the fields have been planted with beans instead of corn

 

[CRUSADER]

Oh, there are some humungous fields. But, if my first "trip" was any indication, they would KILL me!!!

One problem I had was that I usually dig just about everything. If I do that I'd never stop digging out there! Would be easier to just get a backhoe and a screen. LOL I'm trying to limit some of the work, at least in the beginning anyway. Another problem is no points of reference. It's just one very big field and it all looks the same to me. Once I can establish some sort of pattern of finds, I might be able to better zero in on some areas. If I can stay on my feet long enough.

Thanks for the tips and anyone else have any, fire away!

HH!

If its a noisy site, then cherry pick to begin with.
The rows are your point of reference, grid them from left to right or right to left. I normally start where the crop changes direction around the edge on a known tyre track, then I can 'mark off' & return.

 

[GaRebel1861]

I mostly hunt fields here in Southwest Georgia where there are hundreds of acres in one area. How I have had some success in finding the right areas to hunt is to look for the broken glass. After the field is plowed and it is rained on or irrigated, the old glass will sparkle where I can see it at a distance and will generally give you an idea of how old the site is. What I haven't figured out is how to find the old privies in a field. A T-handled probe is truly a needle in a hay stack hunt and hasn't worked out too well so far.

 

[nsdq]

that what i do what till bean are harvested then swing and it paid for the wait double barbers

 

[jeff of pa]

Fields are no longer plowed around here.
I don't think they even touch the foot tall corn stalk remains till they are planting the new years crop
at the same time,

I know I've been watching a field that had a cabin on it.
early this year it finally looked easy to walk on.
When I asked I was told it was just planted .

Now it's all foot tall Stubble & weeds again

 

[nsdq]

i wish they would plow them they are some deep targets and this pa clay is no fun even on a shallow target

Fields are no longer plowed around here.
I don't think they even touch the foot tall corn stalk remains till they are planing the new years crop
at the same time

 

[Silver Searcher]

Fields are no longer plowed around here.
I don't think they even touch the foot tall corn stalk remains till they are planting the new years crop
at the same time,

I know I've been watching a field that had a cabin on it.
early this year it finally looked easy to walk on.
When I asked I was told it was just planted .

Now it's all foot tall Stubble & weeds again

Minimal Cutivation it's called Jeff...the way forward I'm afraid, a lot of Farmers do it here to.

SS