I was able to get the green light on a big piece of property (approximately 700 acres) recently and am planning to start detecting it this weekend. According to the owner, who has lived on the property since the 50's, no one has ever detected any of it. The property has been in his family for many generations. There are 5 old home sights that I know of, but only one still has the house partially standing. There is an old grits mill by a creek and an old saw mill by the same creek further up. Both of the mills are just some boards and stone left where they once were. There is also a old trash dump on the property near one of the old home sights.
So there is a lot of places to start and honestly probably more than I will ever get around to hunting. But, say I do hunt all those areas hard and decide to look for fresh areas. Is it worth going out and hunting the woods around the property? there is a lot of really old hard woods and a bunch of large planted pines in areas that used to be agriculture fields. Would it be a good idea to run through the areas that are not known home sights or anything other than old agriculture quickly to make sure there is not some unknown home sight there? I mainly want to find coins but would not be opposed to civil war relics and there was some civil war activity in this area. How do you go about searching such a large area?
So there is a lot of places to start and honestly probably more than I will ever get around to hunting. But, say I do hunt all those areas hard and decide to look for fresh areas. Is it worth going out and hunting the woods around the property? there is a lot of really old hard woods and a bunch of large planted pines in areas that used to be agriculture fields. Would it be a good idea to run through the areas that are not known home sights or anything other than old agriculture quickly to make sure there is not some unknown home sight there? I mainly want to find coins but would not be opposed to civil war relics and there was some civil war activity in this area. How do you go about searching such a large area?