Sorry if I seemed to probe too deep into your personal issues. Or that I may have seemed to push my thoughts, in the other thread about detectors, so hard. I simply trying to give things that might be relevent considerations and be helpful while giving the space for you, or others who might read these posts to make their own decisions or interpretations. After all, you will have more fun, in the end, if stuff is done with your own understandings and personal choices. Whatever detector you use or where you hunt, if it is the decisions you chose for yourself, with all the understanding that was presented. You will be happier with that decision and have more enjoyment in the end. I simply put forth what I think, My Opinions and Philosophies, with the hopes that it will be helpful to others to make their own choices.
As for your location, you say you don't see how it can give you more valuable information. That you aren't looking for specific sites. On the contrary, in my opinion. I did say, in my post, that there wasn't a need to be too specific but a little more discription could be helpful. I mentioned some other ways to say Chicago that left for more broad suggestions. Like Western Lake Michigan Shore or, I could say NE Illinois, or maybe Lower Great Lakes. That could allow people to visualize the area and suggest stuff from Green Bay to New Buffalo or St. Joseph Michigan. Knowing the areas some might say, Check your forest preserves, or local parks. Go to Lake Michigan beaches or suggest some other areas that might only be a couple hours away. Knowing how much of this area has been indian and farm land, people might suggest, finding locations of indian camps or old farms. Whereas, if I said Great Plains, some of the suggestions of pioneer camps and indian sites, might be more valuable than beaches or tot lots. Also, I believe I acknowleged that you said no ocean beaches. However, that doesn't mean there aren't sand beaches in your area. I, for example, live on Lake Michigan where we have fresh water and sand beaches that aren't considered Ocean Beaches, unless LAKE Michigan seems like an OCEAN to you. I am not meaning that as a criticism though. If you live in an area where your vision of a lake, is an inland lake that might be a few square miles or something, One where you can stand on one shore and see the other or swim accross, You might see Lake Michigan in the same eyes as an Ocean. Anyways, you don't need to be so specific to give you exact location, but you can still give people some thoughts on what MIGHT be in your area. Giving a little clue can help others in similar areas or regions, give you a few specific types of locations to look for. Not specific places but specific types of geography or types of facilities that might be common in your area. Because of their general geography, it could be rocks, or mud banks on a little fishing lake. Or rivers.... Maybe, by saying you were in, or near PA or NC or MD or VA... KY TN or GA, someone might say, Well you might go check out this area or that, for some Civil War relics. Maybe giving you a specific public location that was permissible to hunt. Even if might be a couple hour drive from your specific location. As I said in my previous post. That is still in range for a short weekend day trip. Go out, do some hunting.... be home before dark.
Then, there is the issue of certain areas out west like California, Alaska, Oregon, Utah, Nevada... where one might direct you to some gold or silver mining sites, ghost towns from the gold rush days or the old west, where you might do some prospecting or some relic hunting from the "Westward Journey". Again, doesn't require your specific town or location but the difference in some of the possibilities if you say Virginia or Utah or Wisconsin or Maine... could give some interesting specific advice.
However, as the last post I read in this thread said, you are going to start getting general COIN SHOOTING advice, as that is all people can be sure of. As I said in my post, Old Homesteads, construction sites, play lots, athletic fields and swimming holes. If that is all the advice you want than, that is OK. You won't get a lot more. Or suggestions of where you might find a 1 pound nugget of gold because that would require more specific detail than you want to reveal. Why suggest a mining area in UTAH when you might live in Illinois where there isn't any known source of measurable gold. Or some advice about Civil War relics, because, for all we know, you might be in Arizona where that wouldn't be relevent to your area either.
The possibilities in places in Kentucky or Mississippi or Texas are greatly different than in Chicago, or some places in Nevada or along the Florida Coastlines (I know you said no ocean beaches but just an example). Even saying inland Texas or Dallas/Fort Worth, can be a lot different than Corpus Christi or Houston or Galvaston or Brownsville.
Then, something just came to mind. Being from the US, I tend to make a lot of recommendations based on sites that are here. Other than, in your other post, where you mention Radio Shack or Walmart, in this thread have you ever established that you are in the United States. There are a lot of participants here in various parts of Canada and Europe, Central and South America, perhaps, Australia maybe...... What might be good in Chicago, might not be relative in the countrysides of the UK or suggesting Civil War sites might not be too good in Germany.
Any pics of the stuff?
