Welcome for your first post. You bought a good detector and from the right place too. Bart is a great guy. If you have any questions and I expect many, just ask and someone will answer you. chirp in if you know the answer to someone's else's question. 
Not a problem. I'm in a different situation than you are. I've been messing with this stuff off and on for several years but recently moved here from NH 2 years ago so I don't know any good places to go. I've heard that the laws in TN are very different too as far as public property. In NH parks, schools, playgrounds, etc. were all fine. Here I've been told you need permission pretty much everywhere.Thanks guys!
NHBandit, I go through Kingsport every day on my way to Milligan College. I may have to pick your brain while learning the ins and outs of this
It's not always cut & dry either. There was the remains of an old town in NH I used to poke around alot. It was a flood control area and under the jurisdiction of the Army Corps of Engineers. A large sign posted at the entrance had all the rules for camping, riding bicycles, etc. and included a specific paragraph that said metal detecting was allowed but that anything over 100 years old should be reported. Well one day after going there regularly for years I had a ranger in a Chevy Blazer with government plates pull up next to where I was standing. He procedes to tell me that I can't be there with a metal detector. So I politely mentioned the sign to him. He gets all puffed up and tells me that when HE is on duty HE makes the rules and that if I don't leave immediately he will arrest me and take my equipment.. A month or 2 prior I had a different ranger driving the same truck ask me if I was having any luck and pointed me to where the ferry used to cross the river and tell me that other guys had made some good finds in that area...
Here it is in case any of my NH friends want to take their chances. http://www.nhtourguide.com/history/hill_village.htm
It's not always cut & dry either. There was the remains of an old town in NH I used to poke around alot. It was a flood control area and under the jurisdiction of the Army Corps of Engineers. A large sign posted at the entrance had all the rules for camping, riding bicycles, etc. and included a specific paragraph that said metal detecting was allowed but that anything over 100 years old should be reported. Well one day after going there regularly for years I had a ranger in a Chevy Blazer with government plates pull up next to where I was standing. He procedes to tell me that I can't be there with a metal detector. So I politely mentioned the sign to him. He gets all puffed up and tells me that when HE is on duty HE makes the rules and that if I don't leave immediately he will arrest me and take my equipment.. A month or 2 prior I had a different ranger driving the same truck ask me if I was having any luck and pointed me to where the ferry used to cross the river and tell me that other guys had made some good finds in that area...
It's a cool place. Founded in the mid 1700s as New Chester and had schools, factories, 3 churches, a railroad depot, etc. ALL gone.
