Bad Locations Metal Detecting

I have not written much here,because my adventures out in the field can be summed up as some bad lacations for metal detecting.

Not bad as in nothing has been lost at these locations over time,it's just they are cleaned out.

So I decided to vent a little here tonight,and have come to the conclusion that the worst places to metal detect are locations that have been cleaned out by other coin hunters with a detector.

I know this is not positive news to the readers here,but the best places have been cleaned out long ago.

So just by typing in google looking for the best locations to metal detect here in Minnesota..A thousand other folks with metal detectors just did prior to yourself.

Odds are you'll be digging up the same junk targets the guy/gal prior to you dug up,and you'll begin to notice you're un-earthing the same crap,then reburried in the same hole more than once.

Now that's a bad location.

Now..I know we all hear the salesman do his pitch,and those that promote specific brands of metal detectors,and some of the encouragement from other metal detector folks.

They say this old quote ->

"Just because someone else already metal detected the area,don't mean he,or she found everything".

No,I guess it don't mean the place is 100% cleaned out by the prior person metal detecting the area.

But after 100 people over time have metal detected that area,one can say it's pretty cleaned out.

So that old saying,and quoute I just mentioned..really is a weak statement when it comes to regards of Mn metal detecting.

We don't have the beaches,with the tides churning sand un-earthing things over time.

We have parks,and locations where people have gathered over a period of 120 years..Such as churches,old picnic spots etc.

But for the last 40 years,we've had people like you & I on the hunt for lost objects,no matter what they may be.

The last for metal detecting trips I've done,have left me with new change that is lost,and it's rare lately I find any silver anymore.

It's frustrating when a person has to plan road trips of some distance,and in hopes he can detect in some of these locations etc.

Every place is a bad location.

The trick is finding good locations to metal detect that have not been detected before.

The other factor in that location,is the garbage factor.

I swear trash was left more so on the ground,than being picked up by todays standard with trying to make a difference from 40-50 ago.

Most good detectors can avoid alot of the junk all together...But not when it's a junk pile you're on...(to much crap per square foot)

Nails,weld chunk,pull tabs..and aluminum.It only takes so many pieces of this crap per square foot to make it so frustrating that a person might as well sift the ground through a screen mesh.

I've metal detected areas that obviously had great finds in the ground,but some of these locations are so full of "shit" in the ground that gives a great signal,but lack the finds due to the fact you're un-earthing all kinds of crap make it a full time job digging up crap.

Bad locations...Locations where people drank beer,and locations that have been detected 10 + times or more.

Auuugh...