stateguy Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 Weather it’s a new site your trying for the first time. Or it’s a site that you got stuff in the past and it’s slim pickings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F350Platinum Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 Usually 7 hours on a relic site, in the summer I go 4 hours a day in the morning on the beach, at home, 6 or 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattlehead Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 Too much. I'm somewhat lazy about asking for new permissions so I tend to pound the crap out of older sites until there's literally not even a single repeating signal. Not very productive I know, but it helps me learn my detectors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Bach Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 Depends on a few diffirent factors.The weather is the main thing when I gets up over 105 degrees and there is not a whole lot of shaded areas to hunt then that gets a little rough.Same goes if it is cold and raining like a heffer pissin on a flat rock for hours at a time.Another thing is how motivated I am by the quality of finds I'm digging.One thing for certain is that I've learned the hard way to force myself to quit when I have reached the point of exhaustion. Because my digging becomes dangerously careless and we all know what can happen then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB_Amateur Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 IT seems there is some confusion as to what "time" you're referring to -- a single hunt or the accumulation of all hunts. @stateguy Please clarify. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Stalker Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 With all the demands of life currently between children, elderly struggling parents and work, time detecting is hard to find. When I get a chance to detect the things that end my hunt are hypothermia, starvation and/or wetting myself. Anything other than that I can usually push through and keep hunting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim tn Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 There are a number of factors that come into play, but I have a few spots in my local that I started hunting on about 1980 and continue to frequent on occasion to this day. Every time I purchase a new detector with fresh technology, I will give some of these spots a try. I hunt every day, weather permitting, early mornings averaging four hour hunts. From Aug of 2021 to June of 2022 I hunted an old golf course that was closed for renovation. That is the only local site I hunted for that entire time frame. It, however, unbeknown to anyone, had seen Civil War activity and making recoveries of bullets, buttons, 2 plates, 2 Spanish Reales, half dimes, U S large cents, Seated coins and more modern era cents and silver coins was more then enough incentive to hunt it as often as I did. A golf course, naturally, is many acres in size and size and results thus are a couple of the factors that come into play for determining how long I spend with a spot. HH jim tn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirius Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 Depends on if I find a coin line or not. If I do, I'll hit the coin line hard and double/triple check around the the area for missed targets. If it's parks, I also spend alot of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stateguy Posted March 21, 2023 Author Share Posted March 21, 2023 A single hunt. How much time do you devote checking a new spot. An old spot that hasn’t produced anything in a long time how much time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kac Posted March 21, 2023 Share Posted March 21, 2023 Usually an hour or 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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