ollievon
Elite Member
So, last weekend my MD buddy Steve and I happened to go door knocking at a farm with historical marker signs from 1807; cool thing is the 91 year old farmer is the 6th generation and his family founded the farm, simply amazing.
He was more than gracious to allow us to detect his fields now that they are cut and offered back fields unseen from the road, according to him there were a few guys around a decade ago who detected in the fields, but he hasn't seen them back since. I asked him about his farm house and he informed us that it was built in 1800 and the larger farm house was 1807 - I then asked him for permission to detect his yard, he was more than happy to allow it and said no one had ever detected it - as you can imagine I was super-psyched!
We got there at 9AM on Saturday and started swinging, within the first minute my buddy Steve nails a large dandy flat button, so we felt this is going to be a killer day...fast forward 6 hours later, and all we had as 2 flat buttons and 6 wheat pennies all from the 40's, how can this be????
This is the second time we have hit a really old property that "should" give up some great older finds, just to discover we got skunked and it's bleak...blows my mind. Both of us started thinking our MD's were having problems, but clearly that was not the case, it was just the reality that some older properties just didn't see much activity, although your imagination says the opposite.
How many of you has this happened to?
He was more than gracious to allow us to detect his fields now that they are cut and offered back fields unseen from the road, according to him there were a few guys around a decade ago who detected in the fields, but he hasn't seen them back since. I asked him about his farm house and he informed us that it was built in 1800 and the larger farm house was 1807 - I then asked him for permission to detect his yard, he was more than happy to allow it and said no one had ever detected it - as you can imagine I was super-psyched!
We got there at 9AM on Saturday and started swinging, within the first minute my buddy Steve nails a large dandy flat button, so we felt this is going to be a killer day...fast forward 6 hours later, and all we had as 2 flat buttons and 6 wheat pennies all from the 40's, how can this be????
This is the second time we have hit a really old property that "should" give up some great older finds, just to discover we got skunked and it's bleak...blows my mind. Both of us started thinking our MD's were having problems, but clearly that was not the case, it was just the reality that some older properties just didn't see much activity, although your imagination says the opposite.
How many of you has this happened to?