How Much Time Do You Spend At A Site

[phrunt]

I've been going to my local field for a couple of years now, it's not like it was at the start pulling masses of coins every day but it's still producing, and the great thing is I get to try new technology as it comes out and see if I find stuff I've missed and work out to myself why I missed it, if it was the detector on me becoming better on my detectors. 

It was found with the T2, then the Nox did some heavy lifting and got a bulk of the targets, the Vanquish come into the picture and did remarkably well considering the Nox had already done the business and then the CTX came along to my collection and proved to me it's deeper than the Nox, possibly due to the 17x13" coil but I think there is more to it than that, and now the Manticore is having a go, while the Manticore hasn't been able to shine yet over the CTX it has the disadvantage at the moment of only having a 11" coil and I've not made my way to the junky area near the clubhouse yet and when I do I expect the Manticore may shine, although I've already done the best of my ability in that area with the T2 and 5" coil, Gold Bug Pro with Nel Snake 6.5x3.5" coil and the Nox and 6" coil so I may have to wait for the Manticores smaller coil to see.

I may even take the XP Deus into the junky area seeing I have one now with all of its coils, the small HF coil may do OK, It's more of a dig it all detector though, I've found its target ID's pitiful so I may struggle, I've got a lot of learning to do with the Deus and I likely won't bother, I may just stick to using it for small nugget detecting then I don't need to care about its bad target ID performance, I've found it not even remotely a deep detector too, even with its bigger coils, but maybe thats my lack of ability using it.

It's been interesting to see the differences between detectors and their strong points in the area, even the trusty old Ace 300 has done well on some of the small deep silvers, some I know I missed with the Nox that the Ace got, the low frequency and the 13x12" Nel Tornado coil I guess or just chance no way to really know but I certainly was surprised by how well it's done.

For gold prospecting I tend to be a 9am to 5pm or 9am to dark depending on location, mainly due to the fact I have to drive an hour or two to get to prospecting areas which explains the 9am start, as I leave home at about 7ish, for coin hunting I tend to do the 9am until lunch time or whenever I know there will be no other people at the spots.  9am is usually a good start time as the kids are all at school and away from the park type areas.

I only beach detect on bad weather days or at night when it cools off, in summer we don't get dark until very late at night so I have many hours after dinner time I can detect with few people around as the air temp cools off.  Between lunch and dinner seems to be peak beach time for visitors, so that's the no go time for me.  I hate people around when I'm detecting.

[TJ Jeepguy]

I never really broke it down before, but I guess I spend a couple hours per acre on initial searches to get an idea of what’s there.  If I find anything of interest, I stay till my wife calls and says it’s time to go home. 

[Joel - cacadordereliquia]

Geralmente eu procuro explorar toda a área se encontrar alguma coisa volto la dê novo, mais se não encontrar nem um indício de algum objeto eu abandono e procuro outro para explorar.

[Doc Bach]

47 minutes ago, Joel - cacadordereliquia said:

Geralmente eu procuro explorar toda a área se encontrar alguma coisa volto la dê novo, mais se não encontrar nem um indício de algum objeto eu abandono e procuro outro para explorar.

Well said Bro!

[F350Platinum]

Our friend who writes in Portuguese says:

"Generally I try to explore the whole area if I find something I go back there again, but if I don't find even a hint of an object I abandon it and look for another one to explore."

Well said indeed ?

 

[Ridge Runner]

Back in 68 I drove 150 miles two weekends to come back to my home town to hunt this house that had two adobe rooms on this wood frame house . The area was about 10 X 15 and total time about 30 hours. 
 Those two rooms had more trash than I’d ever seen. The walls was pushed out and the house was gone. You have to remember this was in the day you had to dig everything.

 Before it was over I found 30 coins all in the 1800’s . It was American and Mexican coins with the oldest a 1854 half dollar. The last day I was there I was looking around where the house was and was running the coil over some bricks that had been the fireplace when I seen a coin covered in dust. That coin was a Indian head coin .

 I never got to hunt where the house was because bye the time I could get back I couldn’t get in there anymore . The place now is government housing for old people.

 Chuck 

[JCR]

Chuck,  If you don't mind saying, what town was that in?

[Badger-NH]

On 3/20/2023 at 6:34 PM, Rattlehead said:

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.

Same here. It can pay off though. I've scored some fantastic finds at sites most people consider to be hunted out.

[Doc Bach]

4 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Our friend who writes in Portuguese says:

"Generally I try to explore the whole area if I find something I go back there again, but if I don't find even a hint of an object I abandon it and look for another one to explore."

Well said indeed ?

 

Thanks 350! So just to clarify I was not trying to be condescending to our fellow member. However i was  looking for a response and translation from the poster or one of our more savvy members.So thanks and mission accomplished.