new to detecting, need any help as well as places to go.

[theloverspoet]

Inm new to this whole thing and need help finding places in/close to westerville ohio to go hunt with my detector. Thx.

 

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[michigan michael]

Hey Welcome to Tnet! The words of wisdom I received when I first started was pratice in your yard to learn to dig and fill proper holes first. Then maybe a beach and or playground. Always lost stuff there. Learn your areas history and start exploring! Good luck and Happy Hunting. Look forward to seeing your posts!

 

[steve from ohio]

Inm new to this whole thing and need help finding places in/close to westerville ohio to go hunt with my detector. Thx.

Get a GPS for your car. Type in "school". You will find gold rings, clad coins, silver coins and much more in older school yards.

Research is 90% of finding older items. Go to the library. Find books about the history of your area. Find out where people congregated in the old days. Look for areas that had old stores.

Hilltops overlooking smaller cities were gathering places in the days before air conditioning for being a cooler area to be during the hot days of summer.

Older ball diamonds. You can tell because the backstop is falling apart and the fencing is almost rusted away.

City parks. Around old pay phone booths or drive up phones.

Old drive in theaters.

County fairgrounds. City center areas. Around old WWII cannons.

Around the edges of parking lots. Snowplows push coins and jewelry lost in the winter as people get out of their cars or horse buggies of old into piles of snow that melt and deposit coins on the edges of parking areas.

It is legal to detect tree lawns. That area is part of the public right of way for the road. Many coins have been lost in older sections of cities on the tree lawns.

Find out if there were any old amusement parks in your area. The parking areas are where lots of coins were dropped.

Beaches with sand. Watch state park hunting. You need special permission to land hunt in state parks. It can be gotten if you ask and make sure you fill all your holes so that no one would know you were there. And pick up any trash you find....the rangers will appreciate that.

Drive through parking lots. Lots of clad dropped and then snow plows move the coins to the grassy areas. Probably not deep but you can find a whole lot of clad which can be used to buy silver.

Get to be bold and ask people to detect their yards. If you ask the right way, most people will say OK. Look for older homes.

Network...ask friends if they know of any areas that are older and might have something of value in them.

Join a metal detecting club. They often set up hunting in areas that otherwise would be off limits.

Older relatives homes. Often hey have been living there in the times of silver and gold coinage and so there might be valuable silver or gold in their yards just waiting to be found.

Around old fishing holes. Around old river crossings. Any old bridges in your area? Lots of coins thrown down for luck in the old days.

Around old military forts. Watch because some are national parks and you cannot ever hunt there. Lots of $1 gold coins lost in those areas. Soldiers complained that they would often lose their pay for the week due to the $1 gold coins being so small and easily lost. They had no place to keep them safe and so they carried them around with them.

Old farms. Make sure you get permission. Many farmers did not trust the banks and kept their coins in glass jars buried near landmarks on their farms.

One room school houses. Lots of those around still.

Small state rest areas, not on the interstate roads though.

Pathways through woods. Often they are very old and full of lost stuff.

Your own back yard. It is amazing how many people neglect this possible gold mine.

Go slow and methodical. Get some time on your machine and learn everything you can about it. Learn how it speaks to you and what it is telling you. Follow that and you will have a great time and possibly find something really valuable. You can't find it unless you go out and look.

 

[gary s fl]

Steve, good info/advice.

 

[mlayers]

There should be plenty of places to hunt around the Columbus area. Just do some rescreach and good luck. If you ever get up north near Toledo maybe we can get in a hunt together....Matt