Hunting Civil War Relics in a creek question

maxxkatt

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I have got a good permission to hunt along a creek near Pickets Mill battle field (not in the park) area. The creek is good size about 30 feet across, high banks about 15-20 feet and sandy, gravel and some bedrock bottom areas.

I will be using my nox 800 and have stock, 6" and 15" coils. Any strategy you could suggest about hunting this creek. I am pretty much limited to the creek area.

thanks for any help.
 
Hunt slow...is a permit required down there to hunt rivers and creeks? It's required here in Virginia. Good luck!

even if its on private property? ill be going to a farm in Va. this Friday my father in law just got. it has 2 fairly creeks running through it. both knee deep. we don't need permits to get in the creeks here in PA.
 
You may be ok on private property. With the temps in the 90's this week, creek hunting sounds like the ticket to beat the heat! Don't forget to post up those finds. Good luck!
 
If you’ve got permission by gosh hunt . You start worrying about everything and you’ll end up only detecting in your backyard. Good luck.
 
If you’ve got permission by gosh hunt . You start worrying about everything and you’ll end up only detecting in your backyard. Good luck.

just asking. I detect all the creeks around in Gettysburg. this Friday will be the first time I ever detected out of state. ill be on a private farm in Virginia with a wide creek. i just like to cover my bases.
 
Hunt slow...is a permit required down there to hunt rivers and creeks? It's required here in Virginia. Good luck!

In Georgia all rivers are pretty much fair game and the same with the creeks. Now if the creeks run through some farm land I would always get permission from the owner. But where I hunt is the suburbs of North Atlanta and it is a mixture of neighborhoods, office parks and shopping centers and nobody really cares what you are doing in the creeks.

One of my favorite 1800's mill sites is down a large hill from the back of a Kroger grocery store. The only people you have to watch out for is the homeless guys living under bridges. Never had a problem with them, but I still am aware of them as I am anyone I find in the brush areas around a creek.
 
Hunt slow...is a permit required down there to hunt rivers and creeks? It's required here in Virginia. Good luck!

No permit from any agency. Also never a problem with owners, they just think you are crazy. But cannot hunt the creeks that go through the battle field park area. All those areas are totally off limits. But here in Georgia the civil war battle field areas are fairly limited areas and lots of the camps and battles spilled off the limited park areas.

Big problem in Atlanta is most areas around civil war battle field parks are neighborhoods. And a sizable portion of them in "bad" neighborhoods where young thugs and druggies would do you harm to grab your detector to pawn.

So until I can get a couple of soldiers from the 82 Airborne or 101st escort me, I will stay out of those areas.
 
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