Depends what your looking for. A person more inclined to coins could go around the playground at a school (when not in session)esp if you know one that has been closed. You can locate old and new ones plus everything the little buggers brought from home of their Daddys and lost!!!! Older churchs, always had the large trees nearby somewhere, that church suppers etc. were held under. Stay out of the cemeteries!!!!! The grassy areas and the fingers of the treeroots are possible (never injure them nor leave any holes anywhere!!!ever. Don't cut holes in the grass during the summertime...plugs tend to die and be brown also.)
But if you want other relics, gotta hunt for areas/fields near roads that have large trees (easier in springtime) and can find clumps of daffodils. The flowers were usually planted near the porches of the older homes. But first find out who owns the land, and get permission!!!!! Written is best if at all possible. You haven't a leg to stand on if you're trespassing!!!! Look for cut nails, always a sign of an old home or encampment there once, springs, firepits or old outhouses are great!!!! locating places to hunt are harder and harder to find!!!imagine that!!!!good luck, be legal with it and leave no trace of your hunt for the owner to have a complaint about. You might be the next man asking to hunt on land that wasn't cared for earlier!!!!
Just getting involved in this (im sure addictive) hobby and need some guidence from you vets. Jeff you answered my question, stay away from stills unless desperate
spent months in them till i pretty well hunted em out. lots of goodys.
any one on here ever found any civil war camps no one has ever found (metel detected) i have only found 2 in all my years of hunting, and they were only one or two day sleep camps. but they were confederate
The official records of the civil war and The official military atlas of the civil war are both online free.I've got the big map book.yep, but if I told you....I'd have to kill you!!!!!
Best thing you can do is research!!!!!!
You can get this humongus book with all the maps the Yankees used (I'm at work right now and can't remember the name of it) and go over it well and find where camps were, then compare with maps now, you'd be surprised what shows up. Also the records of the yankees are all on discs.....really good history there!!! Stories of encampments and bivoacs and scouting parties etc etc. but ya gotta do the leg work.
some off the hardest hunting ever on rocky face.me and friend were talking one time about using repelling ropes to hunt off side but that never panned out.did see some gold hunters on top said there was some sorta gold cache buried on mountain anyone heard of that story before.
