Re: detecting locations

I am brand new to the forum and am from corning newyork any good ideas on areas to check ? that you would advise of ? any info would be of help ... thank you  

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Hello and welcome from Arizona. 

The best place to look is any place people gathered and may have lost money.  So if you can find out where picnics used to be held or where the schools were or where the lunch wagons stopped, you're on the right track.   And like my friend GD says the strip between the sidewalk and the street, especially in the older parts of town is a good place to look.  This area is  usually public right of way---but even if it isn't it is not worth getting in a hassle with a homeowner that thinks it is his/her property.    But it does provide some good results.  I hunted a stretch with a couple of fellow detectorists this past Sunday.   We all came back with silver and wheaties (not bad in an area that only dates back to the 1900's).

BA

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Hello,
I am also from New-York state but close to Manhattan were it is very populated and kind of gave up on land detecting.You live in a great area for detecting and full of the American early history.Before you hit the fields where you have a to get the permission of the owners give time to study the local history and old maps at your local  library.

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Hello hardluck,
I slowed on my land detection quite a fews years ago and turned into the sea..As Coney Island is concerned last place that I want to go.I have found my share and continue to do so.My island is 120 miles long by 40 wide.During the summer 10 guys on the dry and 5 on a wet.That is were the challenge is .I much prefer going during the winter when my meterologiques tools tells me it is time to go.

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I'm new here too but have been at this since the 70's.....
Favorite haunts have been fairgrounds and parks, beaches and public open areas.
Remember that although a lot of these places are off limits without permission, that's an easy thing to get....people just want to know who is out there and that you won't leave any damage.

Posted on: March 05, 2012, 04:29:25 PM

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Our daughter went to college at Cornell in Ithaca...you are fortunate to live in an old area. I always wanted to detect around the speedway at Watkins Glen but never had room for the detectors on our trips out there. Many areas date way back to the Revolution and before, with lots of Civil war sites, too. Use your imagination and have fun!
Remember, you can't detect in the battlefield parks themselves, but you can usually go for it right outside the fences!

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