Treasure Hunting Skills

[bill from lachine]

Alan,

I tend to agree about the luck part....I detect almost exclusively in trashy urban green spaces, loaded with fill and hit pretty hard by other detectorists.

Last year 1 managed 4 gold rings and enough trash to fill a few garbage bins...lol...

The rings in my avatar all came from those types of sites....so the proof is in the pudding.

Regards + HH

Bill

I agree with the about, at least in part. I use the hobby, especially nowadays, as an exercise routing. Besides mowing the lawn, it is about the only exercise I get, other tun pushing myself away from the dinner table!

I've had a few good finds, but I wouldn't call them lucky finds. Call it perseverance if you please. But research? None I ever did paid off. As a result, I take a more pragmatic approach, as does Helix apparently.

 

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[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Pateince would be number 1 in my book....ive hunted many areas with people that wanted to leave immedialty once they saw it wa Fill dirt, or trashy, or if a modern coin was too deep......Then I go by myself to the same place and do very well.

Like you mentioned Patrick...I think a good assement of an area is key.

Alot of the parks around our area has huge trees....which you would think are the BEST places to start. but in reality...those trees might not have been that big, or even there 70+ years ago.

I have found ALOT of oldies in areas that have no trees currently, but once i find a depression in the ground where i can tell there was a stump at one time....there is always tons of trash around it,

Looking past the obvious is why i think i have decent luck detecting

 

[DFX DAVE in M.D.]

We use a GPS when Geocaching and we mark where the car is parked so we can find it in case of darkness or a pop up thunderstorm.