I live in a rural county, the largest town has under 6000 people and the 400 sq. mile county has just over 20000 people. Not all of them know I detect for a hobby but a good number do.
I was heading for my car today after work and a fella working my shift hollered at me to wait on him. He told me that he found a 1913 qtr while mowing a field at his Parents farm. He knew nothing about the qtr so I told him it was a Barber and was silver. Scott(the fellow i'm talking about) told me he didn't want it and since he knew I detected for old coins he would bring it to me tomorrow at work. I'll bet you can't guess what I will ask him tomorrow. Now I don't know what most people's success rate of asking permission to detect is but mine is 100 percent yes if I know the people. I know Scott's parents and have been meaning to ask them to detect their property but have just never gotten around to doing it. I also have another deal in the works. The site where I recently found the silver Rosie and 14 wheatie is owned by a family my wife knows well. I didn't realize they farmed and owned considerable ground. My wife was talking to them and told them how the early planting this year fouled up my field hunting and they told her they had quite a bit of ground they hadn't planted yet and their neighbors did as well. Probably over 1000 acres total. I'm cleaning up the wheatie and the Rosie to give them and going to go visit them as soon as I get a chance. I'll take my plat map atlas and we'll see how many home sites are on their land. Then I'll ask for permission to hunt any unplanted ground now and the rest of it this fall after harvest. I'll also ask them to put a good word in with their neighbors which is almost a guaranteed yes for permission to hunt. I love it because almost all of my best sites are on private property and I don't have to worry about somebody else hi-jacking my sites. Living in the sticks does have some advantages.