MrLostAndFound
Senior Member
I found 1 clad penny and some canslaw in a totter yesterday...
Canslaw in a totlot?
Can you post a photo?
How many hours to find nice things?
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Canslaw in a totlot?
Can you post a photo?
MrJeep
Elite Member
Exactly, right place right time. No way of putting a time frame on it.
Wow..that's not good. Do you dig all your targets?
jackdaniels
Forum Supporter
No average, it's all just a matter of waving your coil over something nice and being within the detectors detecting range!
Thank you!Nice chunk of gold there. Conga-rats!
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georgeinsc
Elite Member
I beach hunt. I hunt on average twice a week. I had one gold drought that lasted 9 months. I have also found two nice diamond rings in three days.
There is not average. Location, Location, Location and maybe a little luck thrown in.
There is not average. Location, Location, Location and maybe a little luck thrown in.
InShepherdsArms
Elite Member
Are you hunting saltwater beaches or freshwater lakes? If saltwater then start searching for erosion/sand movement. It’s the only way to find it. If you get no erosion on your saltwater beach then that means the water is always calm so you need to be in the water. If your hunting lakes then you need to be in the water. Think outside the box, also just enjoy yourself and the gold will soon follow. 
Please don't tell you me you found this as well!
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=14119&highlight=gold+coin
Joshc214
Senior Member
MEH, my hours per find is quickly dropping 3 hunts now without gold.... starting to develop a random twitch from gold withdrawal.
3 hunts now without gold.... starting to develop a random twitch from gold withdrawal.
I found 5 rings yesterday - no gold!MEH, my hours per find is quickly dropping
Joshc214
Senior Member
I found 5 rings yesterday - no gold!
Ouch, I pulled a gold tungsten ring on Saturday, and a stainless steel ring on Sunday. The tungsten had me going for a second...
We need some weather to help mix things up a bit.
Bagelbites
Forum Supporter
I hunt in parks only. A good find for me is gold or silver jewelry. I average about 24 hours of hunting for gold, and maybe around 16 hours of hunting for silver.
These are averages, though. I've found 2 different gold items in 2 different parks within hours of each other, and also two gold rings in the same hole. I've also gone months without finding any gold.
These are averages, though. I've found 2 different gold items in 2 different parks within hours of each other, and also two gold rings in the same hole. I've also gone months without finding any gold.
Skippy SH13
Forum Supporter
I'm still a greenhorn, been detecting 7 months, total time 100 hours with an Excaliber. April & May, (end of snowbird season), was when I first started finding anything of value.
So I'm wondering if you'd average out the hours you spend detecting for good finds what would that come out to? 1-5-10-20 hours per prize?
I average about 20-30 hours of hunting per gold encounter on land (I've found a few doubles this year, which makes the #s look funny, if I were to simply divide hours by "finds"... which I don't.)
and about every 7-15 hours of hunting to come across silver.
I'm the non-standard, for sure, though when it comes to land gold/silver. I attribute much of this to the area I'm in. Lots of stuff still in the ground, if a person is willing to grid search less-used areas.
I've found, on the dry sand, in the beach, it was about 2/3 the time of my current find rate (about 10-12 hours per gold, and 5-10 hours per silver). I would think, if you're hunting in dense drop areas, you should be able to encounter gold/silver in the water at at least that rate.
90% of this hobby is location, location, location...> When I first got started, I spent a GOB of time detecting areas with little to no chance of finding good drops..> i just didn't know... still found them, but it was closer to 60-80 hours per gold.
Cheers,
Skippy
Skippy SH13
Forum Supporter
Nailed it. Averages lie. I've found 5 gold pieces in the last two months, but nothing between January and late April's finds.
brncofan
Elite Member
Its all different all the time I can go a month without finding gold keep plugging away it will happen
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Skippy SH13
Forum Supporter
MrLostAndFound, I've hit can slaw in a tot-lot... I think it comes in with new bark. A can gets tossed in the shredder or something.
It was the reason I pulled a 10K ring out of a tot-lot this year. The lot had a whopping penny in it, and a bunch of can slaw. Figured I'd check it all, anyway, and sure enough, a 10K ring popped out in the middle of the slaw. Cleaned it all up, and laughed thinking about the guy who came before me, and cleaned out the coins, but left the junk!
Skippy
