IDXMonster
Elite Member
I unexpectedly was able to meet up with ol' "7 silver" this morning at the spot that has been producing. Trapper worked hard for a 3 silver day with a couple wheats and I cranked out 2 more Mercs and 6 wheats. We had about 3 hours into it before we moved to a park around the corner at which he had found a wheat on a 5 minute "test hunt" before. We spent an hour or so there and didn't manage anything but 1 more wheat on my end! OK IDX,you say...what's the lesson?
The ballfield we started at just about did NOT get our return trip,we had cleaned out the school side and really weren't thinking about going back. Well,we went back to the adjoining ball field and for about 12 man hours invested we've pulled 17 silver coins out of a place that we thought was done for,it looked too "messed with".
The park? Well! It sure LOOKS good and there are old houses around it...what's not to like? It was a complete BUST,there wasn't even hardly any clad to speak of.
The lesson is don't assume ANYTHING(and as a disclaimer,this is really more for the newer detectorist). ANYTHING can be ANYWHERE,and this is proven time and time again through posts here. You HAVE to get into the site and hunt it for a certain period of time to get a read of what might be there. And even then,that's not a complete analysis. But when you're driving an hour to get to a site,it has to be determined at some point whether or not it's a good use of time to go back!
At the bare minimum...go take a look, if the precursors show promise. You can make an educated decision whether or not to continue with it when you hold some targets in your hand. Some will be good,others you'll never return,and that's OK. We all work extremely hard to get the good targets out of the ground,and the responses we get on the forum are confirmation of that hard work!
It is NOT easy. I don't believe we would find what we do if not for some of the great machines out there, they are an absolute MARVEL of engineering,no matter how much I gripe!
The ballfield we started at just about did NOT get our return trip,we had cleaned out the school side and really weren't thinking about going back. Well,we went back to the adjoining ball field and for about 12 man hours invested we've pulled 17 silver coins out of a place that we thought was done for,it looked too "messed with".
The park? Well! It sure LOOKS good and there are old houses around it...what's not to like? It was a complete BUST,there wasn't even hardly any clad to speak of.
The lesson is don't assume ANYTHING(and as a disclaimer,this is really more for the newer detectorist). ANYTHING can be ANYWHERE,and this is proven time and time again through posts here. You HAVE to get into the site and hunt it for a certain period of time to get a read of what might be there. And even then,that's not a complete analysis. But when you're driving an hour to get to a site,it has to be determined at some point whether or not it's a good use of time to go back!
At the bare minimum...go take a look, if the precursors show promise. You can make an educated decision whether or not to continue with it when you hold some targets in your hand. Some will be good,others you'll never return,and that's OK. We all work extremely hard to get the good targets out of the ground,and the responses we get on the forum are confirmation of that hard work!
It is NOT easy. I don't believe we would find what we do if not for some of the great machines out there, they are an absolute MARVEL of engineering,no matter how much I gripe!
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