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[MasonDixonMding]

I was thinking the other day when or if someone find some of these old sites that I have hunted. There’s not going to be much to find. What do you think about this. I take some badly worn silver quarters. Stamp a date I found the site in it and maybe my name or initials. Leave one or two at some of my best sites. At least they will know why they aren’t finding much. Maybe in the future they maybe a highly prized local find for someone?

 

[metaladdict]

I was thinking the other day when or if someone find some of these old sites that I have hunted. There’s not going to be much to find. What do you think about this. I take some badly worn silver quarters. Stamp a date I found the site in it and maybe my name or initials. Leave one or two at some of my best sites. At least they will know why they aren’t finding much. Maybe in the future they maybe a highly prized local find for someone?

Some say a sight is never hunted out....but that's not me.

 

[LovestheShiny!]

KG & Ringy (of the Diggers TV show) would leave a custom made tokens marked from their town of Anaconda Montana in areas where they detected.

 

[vmc1161]

I was thinking the other day when or if someone find some of these old sites that I have hunted. There’s not going to be much to find. What do you think about this. I take some badly worn silver quarters. Stamp a date I found the site in it and maybe my name or initials. Leave one or two at some of my best sites. At least they will know why they aren’t finding much. Maybe in the future they maybe a highly prized local find for someone?

My backyard is hunted out ...

 

[MasonDixonMding]

My backyard is hunted out ...

mine to.

 

[TommyLee]

How would anyone know what it is or the likelihood of anyone even finding it... I'm all for paying it forward but that seems a shot in the dark but that is just me.

 

[vmc1161]

mine to.

I'm first in line ... umm ... I'm getting old can you hold my spot I have to go pee ...

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Yeah, the future generation has it tough. They pick up the same history books and maps that we pick up. They spot the same cellar hole / adobe mounds we're spotting. But alas : We beat them to it. I pity the poor soul who does the same research I did in the last 20 to 30 yrs., and shows up at the same sites I pounded decades ago.

It's the same logic for park turf hunting : In the 1970s/80s there were parks that EVEN THE NEWBIE could have a fighting chance at getting silver on his first day out. Now I would not touch those same parks with a 10 ft. pole.

The only hope is that the "next generation" is going to need to turn to old town demolition hunting ("follow the bulldozers"), or beach storm erosion hunting. Those are two perpetually renewing frontiers.

 

[hoser]

Just declared an endangered species, Sorry Tom, LC's are alive and well in New England.

 

[davemill]

What do you think about this. I take some badly worn silver quarters. Stamp a date I found the site in it and maybe my name or initials.

The thought that East Coast guys find so much old silver that they want to toss it on the ground makes West Coast guys crazy.

 

[KOB]

The thought that East Coast guys find so much old silver that they want to toss it on the ground makes West Coast guys crazy.

That's OK. They are jelly of us West Coasters throwin' down the gold.

 

[MasonDixonMding]

The thought that East Coast guys find so much old silver that they want to toss it on the ground makes West Coast guys crazy

I’ve found a lot of cool things here. But silver doesn’t come out of the ground much for me. Maybe 4 out of 10 sites may have (A) silver coin there? I always am wishing for more but that doesn’t seem to help.

And to those that will say they were hunted out before me. I find a good many coppers at most of these sites. Coppers are hard to miss so I’m very sure they haven’t been hunted before.

 

[Drew61]

Not too concerned with future detectorists, improving technology will have them wondering how we ever got along.