IM new to Georgia and am having a very difficult time finding land to detect. The locals are not helping at all. They do not share spots or like anyone in their areas. Jersey was awesome I'm not sure I can operate here. Anyone here that can help me?
North Atlanta is a tough area for Civil War Relics and the parks are loaded with trash. Some of us have been burned by sharing good digging locations so we just don't do that anymore. Rattlehead is the real deal! Lots of homes in your area near Civil War battle field areas are rather expensive and the owners don't want anyone digging in their cultivated yards for any reason. Plus in your area they probably have been approached by detectorists more than once.
Volleyball courts and totlots are productive jewelry sites. Plenty of them in your area in county and city parks. Boring hunting, but productive. I live in NE Atlanta, Peachtree Corners - Norcross area. I find getting permissions on older homes pretty hard to achieve. North Atlanta was all farms prior to about 1980 and then the housing boom hit. As you probably now know north Atlanta is covered with homes, shopping centers and office parks. A Lot of the county parks are mostly full of metallic trash. Yes you might find some dropped rings, etc, but no old coins. Not even 1960's silver coins. Remember this was farmland. There are old neighborhoods in Atlanta city area inside I-285 but they are either dangerous areas to hunt or very expensive above $1,000,000.00 homes and good luck with trying to convince the owner to allow you to dig on his/her property.
Back in the 1970's and 1980's there were very large numbers of very active metal detecting club members who hunted the few remaining areas near Civil War Battles, camps, etc. They had pretty good detectors to go along with their detecting knowledge. I have had the now older members telling me that finding 25 a month or more 3 ringers was not uncommon back in those days. Now, if I find one 3 ringer in a month I am doing very good.
This has been my experience in hunting north Atlanta area for the past ten years. Northeast and Northwest and north Atlanta are all pretty much the same in terms of detecting. NW Atlanta has more Civil War activity than Northeast Atlanta. Around decatur there was some Civil War Activity. But Dekalb County parks prohibit metal detecting in any of their parks.
There is a lot of good Civil War areas up along I-75 to Chattanooga. But unless you know the land owners or friends of the land owners you will most likely be rudely turned down as an outsider. Heck even guys like me raised in GA but living in Atlanta are outsiders to them.
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