Minlooker
Senior Member
A CARRY PERMIT won't help if you don't see "it" coming. Detecting and self defense both rely on concentration. To divide your attention 2 ways serves neither well. Move on, the rewards aren't worth it.
Too Bad - Dangerous Park
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Carlo
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Heard awhile back that the city of Detroit is advertising properties to the Chinese at $1K per home and they are gobbling them up. Imagine that, Chinese investors from China step in and save Detroit
WildDigger
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Umm you are wrong in the sense that you need to pay close attention when detecting to your detecting. I always keep my head on a swivel and pay attention to my surroundings at all times. It is something you need to teach yourself to do. It is a necessity this day and age for everything you do. Never zone out not even on your couch. I also hunt with 1 headphone or ear buds that do not block out all my background noise.
Minlooker
Senior Member
OK.....
I tend to hunt rural wooded area's , when the bugs get bad , I find other fun and relaxing things to do. To hunt a area around a bunch of dirt bags and city trash would never make my list of things to do on any day. For me the reward is getting out to enjoy a remote home site ,beach or park . The " Treasure " we find is secondary . It would take a lot more than all the finds on this forum to get me to hunt a place like that and I would not enjoy the hunt .
Stay Safe and enjoy the Hobby
HH
Stay Safe and enjoy the Hobby
HH
I've hunted parks in Detroit, and the biggest two problems I encountered were security for my vehicle and the amount of buried garbage. The amount of buried metal trash is unbelievable in some of these poorly maintained urban parks and it makes detecting nearly impossible! Just imagine a park where the garbage overflows from the cans (If there are any cans) and then a couple times per summer a mow crew comes through and shreds it to a million pieces. Times that by the last 2 decades and you basically have a full 2" level of nothing but undetectable ground.
The only places where I have had moderate success is when they were doing major construction in one of the more popular Detroit city parks. V nickels right on top of the ground!
Unfortunately, the bulldozer worked faster than I did and by my next hunt it was all under fresh soil and hydroseed. 
The only places where I have had moderate success is when they were doing major construction in one of the more popular Detroit city parks. V nickels right on top of the ground!
Unfortunately, the bulldozer worked faster than I did and by my next hunt it was all under fresh soil and hydroseed. 
GLASSHOPPER1955
Elite Member
Just like Gary, Indiana 35 miles west of me...Almost every neighborhood riddled with empty shells of homes or burnt-out homes , many formerly beautiful 1920s-era. There was even a Frank Lloyd Wright house, which is rubble now too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PKgVuMEWgY
HuntNH
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Corrupt politicians is redundant. Just saying!
Ain't unions the best?.......
Yeper, totaly agree.
Banshee, I'm in Ct and stick to parks in the outskirts. I look for small areas that maybe overlooked. I enjoy hunting alone but bring a friend with his ET Pro sometimes.
Its really a shame though here in Ct with the history and many of us are skiddish about hunting a city park due to unpleasant elements.
X2!!
Looks like there would at least be witnesses if something were to happen...
I would rather get shot by a gangster in public, than kept by a hillbilly in private!
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So few truer words have been spoken.
We have a couple of parks that I SHOULDN'T be hitting, but I've found like others have said. "Morning time" is the time to go. Not even like 2-5am because they will still be out, but from like 6-9am. It's only a bunch of harmless bums walking around trying to avoid the same thing, The gangsters that hassle them and pick on them for sport.
I am starting to pack my ATP with me for night hunts in the city because I just can't get comfortable swinging the CTX with that "what if feeling" kicking me in the back while I'm trying to work. I'd much rather lose my ATP than my CTX. Albeit, whoever chose to go down that road would have one hell of a fight on their hands, I'm far from retarded and if it's my life or a machine you can take the machine.
I am starting to pack my ATP with me for night hunts in the city because I just can't get comfortable swinging the CTX with that "what if feeling" kicking me in the back while I'm trying to work. I'd much rather lose my ATP than my CTX. Albeit, whoever chose to go down that road would have one hell of a fight on their hands, I'm far from retarded and if it's my life or a machine you can take the machine.
