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I no longer live in the Boreal forest. And some of my hobbies\interests are urban oriented. And ''bush'' time for me is usually a drive out to a prairie lake with wooded ravines, just to remember what a tree looks like. 
So I do a lot of metal detecting when the ground thaws and I go into some really rough neighbourhoods, some of the roughest, were I would not venture at night. The old turn of the century houses are often willed to yuppies that use them as rentals, which inevitably start to slum. So I try to use a little urban ''survival'' mentality. I dress down in dull unattractive colours, no yellows, oranges, whatever. I keep one ear muff off to hear what is walking around/behind me. And I keep the noise down. I have a chirping and vibrating locator for objects in a hole, which I put on quiet vibrate. I tend to wear dark digital surplus clothing as long as it, in and of itself, does not stand out as too aberrant. I have a Propper BDU coat and pants coming in with digital subdued urban pattern. I wear Rothco tube head wraps in dark green or whatever. You get the point. Survival in the outdoors can be bush or urban related. Yes the two are worlds apart, but there is a little mentality cross over. I am lowering my noticeability because I am tired of having groups of scruffs seeing me from across a park and bugging me. I picked up a bit of stuff in a warm spell here a few weeks back in a scruff area. I consider most coins junk unless old, but hey, it's coffee or battery money.
And sometimes I find this stuff
So I do a lot of metal detecting when the ground thaws and I go into some really rough neighbourhoods, some of the roughest, were I would not venture at night. The old turn of the century houses are often willed to yuppies that use them as rentals, which inevitably start to slum. So I try to use a little urban ''survival'' mentality. I dress down in dull unattractive colours, no yellows, oranges, whatever. I keep one ear muff off to hear what is walking around/behind me. And I keep the noise down. I have a chirping and vibrating locator for objects in a hole, which I put on quiet vibrate. I tend to wear dark digital surplus clothing as long as it, in and of itself, does not stand out as too aberrant. I have a Propper BDU coat and pants coming in with digital subdued urban pattern. I wear Rothco tube head wraps in dark green or whatever. You get the point. Survival in the outdoors can be bush or urban related. Yes the two are worlds apart, but there is a little mentality cross over. I am lowering my noticeability because I am tired of having groups of scruffs seeing me from across a park and bugging me. I picked up a bit of stuff in a warm spell here a few weeks back in a scruff area. I consider most coins junk unless old, but hey, it's coffee or battery money.
And sometimes I find this stuff
