basstrackerman
Elite Member
hello.. anyone in south alabama? foley area? maybe mobile? hoping to come across someone that would like to get together and do some detecting.
I live in Foley and would like to get together sometime. I am new to metal detecting and I am having trouble finding some areas to go.
I live in Foley and would like to get together sometime. I am new to metal detecting and I am having trouble finding some areas to go.
I live in Foley and would like to get together sometime. I am new to metal detecting and I am having trouble finding some areas to go.
Do what I do...because if I was in Foley, I'd be all over this. Search for your city on Bing or Google maps. Skip the satellite images and just use the road version. Look for any green-shaded areas. Those are usually (but not always...golf courses are NOT public property, and state or federal lands are usually off limits) good to go for beeping, you are just subject to your level of comfort.
So, I did that for Foley and found some places I would jump on:
1) Foley Sports Tourism Complex. Soccer fields are my favorite. I've found more and better stuff on and around them than baseball and football fields.
2) City of Gulf Shores Sportsplex. Keep in mind when beeping baseball fields that most of the people are OFF the field...watching the games usually from chairs parked along the sideline fences. Beep those areas, for sure. I've not had much luck on the actual fields, except along the fences from about 10 yards past 1st and 3rd base. Towards and behind home plate from about that mark, beep the crud out the dirt.
3) Aaronville Park. Looks like the basketball courts don't have a fence around them. That's good. Because peeps lay their jewelry, coins, etc. on their shirts or backpacks while playing, forget about that, and just grab their stuff and lose coins and jewelry. Beep around those.
4) Foley Sports Complex. That's a new layout that I've never seen...5 baseball fields around a central area. I'd call that a rose petal arrangement. Go beep that!
5) Melvin Roberts Park. Ditto. See above.
Those 5 should keep you busy well into 2019, if not the entire year. I've been doing this since April of last year, hunting my local places just like that, and I've found 47 rings (8 gold, ~20 silver, 2 tungsten, the rest junkers), over 5700 coins, and a ton of interesting things, including lots of sterling silver necklaces, pendants, and charms.
Still haven't been to the beach. I'm kind of shy and don't like beeping around people, so parks and sports complexes suit me fine. I **should** have gone to the beach today...but I went to the Milton Riverwalk and found a sterling pendant, 60 coins, and a few other interesting things. It was gusting 30-35 mph and freezing, but I put on two fleeces and layered up and carried on. Get out there and find some loot!
Thanks,
I just went to Aaronville park last weekend. I will check out your other suggestions. I appreciate it.
I don't like beeping around crowds either. there were very few people at Aaronville. I'll try one of the others this weekend
Thanks again
Awesome ring! You paid your dues on that one.
Let's do this! Y'all want to meet somewhere in the middle this weekend?
I found a tutorial that may make this work. Here is that ring:
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And after I got back to my truck and brushed it off some:
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Let's do this! Y'all want to meet somewhere in the middle this weekend?
I think I can meet up for 2-3 hours sometime this weekend. Where are we going?