Metal Detecting

Being born and raised out in the country in Missouri, I know tons of good places: OLD country churches. ancient abandoned houses. All I need is the metal detector!

 

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go to walmart like i did any get yourself the $200 metal detector that works great. you can find cheaper ones at walmart too but i don't know how good those work.

 

go to a local realtor in the area, they will be able to give you the name of the owner, or if they can't they will direct you to someone who can.

if that don't work go to the property appraiser's office with the adress or the lot location and they will be able to look up the information and will give you the name of the owner and a telephone, adress, they have all that info on file unless it is a new enough sale that hasn't been changed in the system yet.

wait you have a computer just log on to the property app. web site, but you will have to have the adress for your info.

 

Reading all this reminds me of when I was a kid and there was grass, trees, bushes, gravel roads and alleys, parks you could walk though and even go for a stroll at night. In my area most of the back yards and many front yards are concrete. All driveways I know of are either concrete or asphalt. Most playgrounds are newish and made with fine wood chips and the older ones are concrete. All the streets and alleys are concrete, no gravel, dirt or anything soft. Lots of public parks though and most have been metal detected to death and not to usable at night. I saw a cow once about 50 miles from my house and wondered if there were any coins in that field. I think this area is nothing but rebar and concrete.

 

Coinlover....dang...that's sad! I got cows right here within throwing distance out my back door! Living in the south, we still have plenty of dirt roads, vacant lots, grass for yards, and lots of abandoned houses and such. I guess as "progress" comes this way, the dirt roads and vacant lots will be a thing of the past, but right now they're so plentiful that I imagine that they'll still be around for the rest of my life. I'm a country boy at heart. Lived in Hotlanta for about 6 months one time right after high school and when I got back to our town, I made a promise that I'd never ever live in a city again, and so far, I haven't! Got 3 siblings that think there's nothing any better, and 2 more and myself who like the city.....to visit! But never to live in...lol

Thanks for the tidbits on locating the property owners of those vacant lots johndo....The police department is just a block or two away and I think I"ll see what they know as a start. Small towns, everybody knows everybody else's business, so it shouldn't be too hard to find out who owns it.. )

 

I just bought a metal detector for 70 pounds (Black Knight Magpipe metal detector) wich they say is one of the best cheap ones, and as i'ts my firts metal detector and i'm only 13 i don't mind if it isin't all that great. The only problem is that i have to whait untill we go visit our english falily to use it (i sent it to one of my english relatives so the postage was cheaper). Now I can't whait untill i get there!!! ohhh i'm so excited!.
I'll try to use loads of theese advises you all say here. If anyone whants to say what they think about a black Knight magpipe for a 13 yearold boy please leave your comment.

 

I'd love a metal detector....just a bit too pricey though.

I live literally feet from a roman buiral site....heck there might even be a few skelletons left under my garden.

I'm sure i'd find some...I live out in the open, surrounded by fields, and an ancient roman road.

 

Same here. When I was a kid, there was an old abandoned ice house and several 19th century abandoned buildings and houses within walking distance of my house. It's all upscale housing now. It would have been pretty interesting to have had the opportunity to use a metal detector on those properties before civilization caught up to me. There isn't much undisturbed land left, and people freak-out over the idea of letting someone examine their property with weird looking electronic devices and shovels. So basically I just search at the beach with my son now.

 

Wow, that is sad. I always have been thankfull I live where I do. Alot more modern civilization here now though, than there was 15 years ago. But I can still hear the cows mooing down the road, and my dogs run free and catch all kinds of wild animals. I love visiting cities, but not living in one is nice.

 

It's not that sad. A bad day of metal detecting with my son is more fun than a good day by myself. We have a great time.

 

I'm glad to hear that. I'm sure you two have a blast. Its the lack of nature in our modern world that I find sad. So much pavement, and smog. Technology is great, but us humans are making a mess of the planet, IMHO.


...Hmmmm. I'm getting kind of off the topic of metal detecting. hehehe. My bad.

 

just another tidbit for anyone who has metal detectors.....I've found that the new quick charge rechargeable batteries do a great job and after the initial somewhat expensive initial cost, that they'll pay for themselves many times over if you use your detector a good bit. I have two chargers that charge 4 batteries and a total of 16 batteries, so I can almost always have a set of batteries that are "hot". Even if all the batteries are down, it only takes 15 minutes and a set is charged again.

 

Well, couldn't stand it anymore, so this afternoon, charged up my batteries and took off to the neighboring town to see if I could find anything on the site where those old houses had been torn down. I asked a local guy who I saw in the area who the property belonged to and he said the city had condemned the property so since it was public property, I proceeded to start detecting. Found my first ever Indian cent, but it's so corroded that I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to make out a date on it. It's soakin right now in some mineral oil. Found a couple of wheaties from the 40's and a few clad coins and of course, several Memorial cents. Then a cop came up and wanted to know what I was doing. I told him I was looking for old coins and he asked who I worked for. I told him myself and he asked did I have permission to be there and I told him that since it was city property that I didn't feel I had to have permission. He came up with some excuse about that area had been a drug area and crack houses and prostitutes and I didn't need to be there and for me to leave. Rather than cause a scene I told him that I'd check with the mayor on Monday and see about getting permission to hunt there as it's an extremely old site and once something gets built there that there won't ever be a chance to look there again. All the crime in the world and the guy wants to bother someone innocently looking for a few old coins. Good grief!

 

well at least you found a indian head penny and wheat pennies. old homes are a great place to find old coins. i hate when someone ruins my fun. a guy with a metal detetor is really going to buy drugs.

 

Hmm, sounds like it might not be the safest area, and maybe the cop had that in mind. Be careful!