Howdy Folks!
Living as I do in the west, there are still many places that a guy would want to detect that are inaccessible to anything other than foot traffic or on horseback. Such sites include locations where outlaws stashed purloined treasure while a posse was hot on their tails, old remote ghost towns, and lost mines throughout the west.
All my metal detecting up till now was supposed to be helping me learn enough to embark on the type of expedition I'd like to pursue. The best possiblities for finding old relics, stashes, caches, buried robbery loot, nuggets secreted away and all those real interesting targets are not going to be easily reached. If it is easily reached, you can bet hordes of weekend detectorists have already reached it and plundered it properly! So I am looking at going into backcountry locations where cars can't go. Not even 4 wheel drive!
As I already have some locations pinpointed, I know that reaching them will require using a horse. I've ridden horses since I was old enough to stick my foot in a stirrup. Now that my leg will be mending, I should be able to sit a horse by summer easily enough. So now I only need to ask a few questions:
Have any of you gone detecting on horseback?
What are the unanticipated issues I might run into doing so? (aside from horse shoes being steel. I got that part! LOL!)
What's a good way to carry the detector on horseback so it doesn't get damaged? I believe the rifle scabbard will already be carrying a rifle in it, so that's out!
Essentially, if you have experience detecting on horseback, I'd like to know what you can share about this particular type of hunting.
Blessings,
M-Taliesin