Metal Detecting 72

Coin Hunting or 'Coin Shooting' as it's regularly called, is not only extremely fun to do, but it can easily be terribly rewarding. Finding only one gold piece or any unique piece can easily pay for the cost of the metal detector. When it comes to Coin Hunting or 'Coin Shooting', there are many destinations that I call golden departments, or the best places.riverbanks - pools - Lakes - Swimming Holes : These locations are real treasure hunting top spots. The Riverbank is a huge area that will provide a life of detecting. Brook banks were used as ferry crossings, and some had covered bridges with toll stations. The local old timers may be able to tell you where the local fishing and old swimming spots were. Remember plenty of the old fishing spots were also drinking and boogying spots, and at the swimming holes plenty of folks took off their outer clothes, losing change as they did. And going back even earlier in the years, folks would take their garments to the banks of the river to bathe them in the water. The same applies for old farm pools, many were used as a favorite summer time swimming spot or picnic area. The banks and shores of brooks, ponds, streams, lakes etc, are great locations for coins, jewellery, trinkets and more.faculties - Churches : These are terrific spots for treasure hunting, most cities or even rustic areas have a school, some have multiple ones. if you're as lucky as I am then you live in a rural or country area that keeps a lot of their old buildings. The old one room college homes also served as churches, social halls, farm grange buildings, and as meeting places for scouts, women aid societys and more .Many old Churches and one room college houses had there own treasure chests, that is right. The chest was a type of time capsule containing coins, paperspapers and other unique items from the time when the building was erected. Many of these old buildings rotted away over time, and people forgot about the buried time capsule located close to the corner stone.scanning the land a church is on is like searching for a pirates loot, you never know what you will find. Churches were regularly the 1st buildings built in several towns. Church buildings not only housed folks on sundays however most were marriage sites, reception halls, dance halls, dinner sites, ice cream social locations, group meeting spots and much more.Woods - The woods can be awesome for metal detecting if one knows what to go looking for. Look for old trails, those are great places to see along. Old trails in the forests served as shortcuts to open fields for farm workers to get their equipment thru, or for cattle to follow and more. My grandfather and pa built the road by exploding large trunks of trees with explosives and lopping trees. They employed the trail to quickly get tractors, and other farm machinery to another open field below the woods. Just imagine the number of times my private pop and grandfather probably sat along that old road, eating their lunch or slurping some cool lemonaid beneath the shade of a big tree. Any time someone sat along a road eating lunch, they would often pull an old fabric hanky from their pocket to blow their nose or maybe wipe their mouth, frequently losing some pocket change at the same time.Another rare but great metal detecting site that can frequently be found in the woods is old stone foundations and old stone chimneys, each has the capability for a rare gold coin or a jar of old silver greenbacks.Many other treasure hunting sites can be - Parks, Beaches, Old Ball Fields, Playgrounds, Fairgrounds, Camping Sites, Camps, spook Towns, battlefields, Old Picnic Spots. Ensure that you have permission to search and dig in any location you are going to do your detecting at.