10 Secret Metal Detecting Locations Most Hunters Never Consider

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  @BrassMedic · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

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  @vanderpoolfarmsl.l.c.9983 · 1 year ago

  My dad bought a Whites detector with all of the coils back in 1965. He soon focused on coin hunting and within a couple of years, he filled 2 1/2 coffee cans with coins. I don&apos;t know about permissions because I was very young, but we traveled around Northern Minnesota combing county fairgrounds. One time we saw a square sawdust layer where a concession had been. All of a sudden, he jumped for joy like I had never seen. He found a roll of quarters in the sawdust.

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  @Zach-qs2bw · 1 year ago

  heres some ideas :old train tracks, tent revival locations, attraction found in outdated travel guides, areas prone to flooding, areas prone to tornados , ghost towns/abandoned towns

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  @ScottOuellette-p1d · 1 year ago

  In 1989 I found 23 20 dollar gold pieces in an abandon canal turnaround. The canal is one of the first transportation and trade transit canals in America. It is the BLACKSTONE CANAL in Massachusetts in Uxbridge. I used a Garrett groundhog detector with a 8&quot; co-axial coil waterproofed. I found them under 3&apos; of stagnant water in 9&quot; of muck. I used a snorkel mask snorkel and a hand garden pronged cultivator. I spent 3 full days looking for more after the strike. The sovereigns date from 1841-1847. I never told no one and still have them in my extensive coin collection found metal detecting. I detect ghost towns out west I detect the high arid deserts for artifacts coins gold nuggets and meteorites that I sell of EBAY to the highest bidder.

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  @ThelifeandtimesofBarneyTaylor · 1 year ago

  Lone trees on the side of the road are awesome

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  @GorillaCookies · 1 year ago (edited)

  The very first place I bought is a 1.9 acre lot that is bordered on all 4 sides by city streets . It had a mobile home and a garage on it when i bought it in 91. But the garage dated back to the 1920s . There used to be a old victorian house on the property that was built back before the city incorporated in the 1860s. &nbsp;And then sometime in the 1930s up until the 1970s there was also a Auction building and storage area on the opposite half of the lot. Both the House and auction building burned down in the 70s and then the mobile was placed on the property in 1987. I got a whites goldmaster at a yard sale for a whopping $25 bucks in the early 2000s. Belonged to the sellers late husband if if memory is correct and appeared to be unused and was still in the box with all accessories etc. I started playing with it on the lot after buying it. And the amount of coins , old cast iron toys and trinkets along with rings , a watch and earrings that I found on the lot was astounding. &nbsp;I found coins that dated back to the 1860s . I think my oldest found was a 1865 Shield Nickel But i found every denomination of coin from 1865 - 1990s except for gold coins other than a single 5 dollar piece. A 1913 Gold high school class ring and multiple other pieces of vintage jewelry. &nbsp;Not a huge amount of jewelry and other valuables. But a lot more than i ever would have imagined. &nbsp;I still own the finds , the lot and the metal detector. But the mobile home i let the fire department use as a training tool and it was burned down and hauled off. The garage unfortunately came down in 2023 thanks to a homeless individual breaking into it and using it as shelter . And he ended up burning part of it down and i finished it off with a chain and tug from my old bumpside Ford 4x4. &nbsp;I may go detect on it again with a more sophisticated detector soon. Nothing to lose and ive been looking at modern detectors so...

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  @kellystewart8360 · 1 year ago

  I have been hunting a 27 acre field that the college owns and have been finding a bunch of silver coins, a couple of gold rings, etc. &nbsp;When they tore down the old high school they hauled all the dirt there. &nbsp;Also projects from the city that needed a place to haul off dirt went here. &nbsp;They recently scraped it and smoothed it out, and of course I was the first one there. &nbsp;I am nowhere near done hunting it yet. &nbsp;Winter showed up and put a stop to things here. &nbsp;There is another property owned by the school district where dirt has been hauled for a long time. &nbsp;It hasn&apos;t been scraped yet but I watch it close. :)

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  @sneakypeteprospecting · 1 year ago

  Bicycle races were huge in the late 1800&apos;s..early 1900&apos;s..and a lot were outdoors.

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  @stewarts7347 · 1 year ago

  The Civilian Conservation Corp started in 1933 had large camps, often in remote areas for temporary worker housing. &nbsp;Research for locations.

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  @toadrepublic · 1 year ago

  I found an untouched campsite along a northern California pioneer wagon road. Trime, Seated Liberties, three-ringers, musket balls, old buttons. You&apos;re welcome to join me next time I go back.

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  @RBG-tr9ce · 1 year ago

  I detected old race tracks and drag strips and found them covered up in pull tabs, bottle caps and crushed beer cans! &nbsp;Old parks with leaning trees capable of children climbing them paid off, closer into the park was beer tabs.

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  @mindforge1984 · 1 year ago

  Ghost towns, ancient casinos and gambling houses, Curvy winding roads... Many of the really winding roads were originally deer trails that eventually became Indian trails that eventually became wagon trails, then eventually were paved and used by cars.

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