going for several hunts and just piling your goodies in a box .Indians wheats and even silver without even cleaning them up.I have quite a pile of stuff as I type. I get a big thrill out of the hunt and the recovery and then I often loose interest unless it is something out of the ordinary or a nice Seated coin.My teenage son use to jump at the chance to clean the finds but now that he is 17 he has found bigger and better things to do with his time....
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Are any of you all guilty of....
- Thread starter Ray-Mo.
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kraykepler
New member
Yep, I've been doing the same thing. I guess it's the thrill of the hunt, the actual digging, and just being out in the woods or in the fields that matters these days.
I'm not there yet. I just can't stash my finds bag for the evening without washing all the goodies under the faucet, lightly brushing with a toothbrush and inspecting dates on coins,look for markings on everything to identify the object and then it's off to the Red Book or Google or Findmall. I guess I like all aspects of the hunt. I still like to catalog finds, put coins in holders and stack 'em in my safe. I've got distilled water and olive oil baths along with nickels in paper cups with ketchup on the countertop in the kitchen and sometimes I even put my electrolosis unit away for a day before I drag it out on the counter again. My wife is pretty tolerant of me. God Bless Her! I can't wait to go tomorrow!
Idaho PRB
Idaho PRB
Absolutely. I keep my finds in baggies and often bring them in and they get left sitting in a drawer with several other baggies. At the time I bag them, I know exactly where I was hunting, the hunt details, the day I hunted and so forth. But a few months later, I often find several baggies of wheaties, IH"s, silver dimes, an old nickel, a token or two, maybe a piece of jewelry and some odds and ends and I can't for the life of me remember the date I went hunting.
I think the guys doing the video logs really have it made.
Rich (Utah)
I think the guys doing the video logs really have it made.
Rich (Utah)
Cladiator (OR)
Member
Not me. I'm like Idaho PRB and look forward to cleaning them up to see if I happened to get anything special that day. I also keep a spreadsheet of the details of my hunts and place all the old coins (regardless of condition) in coin holders and keep them in 3-ring binders. I like thumbing through them on days I can't get out--keeps me psyched up for the next good hunting day!
I'm not Ray! I'm afraid it'll get lost again if I don't get it to my cleaning spot. I have a cleaning spot, then a pre-cataloging/taking pictures of spot, then I store them in a plastic "what-not" compartmentalized box. I'll figure out how to do something with them this winter.
To me this hobby has many exicting aspects.
1. Reasearching/asking questions...a lot of people do not care about your hobby, but the DO care that you are asking them about something they can remember (what happened where, where was this located).
2. The Hunt....still the most exciting.
3. Cleaning and researching the "rarity" and age of the item, be it relic or coin.
4. Taking pictures and cataloging.
5. Sometimes at my "house" hunts I give 100% of the finds back to the landowners. As long as I've cataloged and photographed it I don't mind letting it go...unless they don't want it (and that happens).
So yes its the "hunt" that contents the hunger.
NebTrac
To me this hobby has many exicting aspects.
1. Reasearching/asking questions...a lot of people do not care about your hobby, but the DO care that you are asking them about something they can remember (what happened where, where was this located).
2. The Hunt....still the most exciting.
3. Cleaning and researching the "rarity" and age of the item, be it relic or coin.
4. Taking pictures and cataloging.
5. Sometimes at my "house" hunts I give 100% of the finds back to the landowners. As long as I've cataloged and photographed it I don't mind letting it go...unless they don't want it (and that happens).
So yes its the "hunt" that contents the hunger.
NebTrac
I always place my finds in ziplock bags, write on the date, location found and the detector and coil used. I didn't use to look through them closely until it turned to winter. Then I'd get them out, sort through them, and put the good stuff in coin holders. A couple winters ago I was going through some bags of finds and came across what I thought was just an ordinary 1901 Barber Dime. I was surprised when I flipped it over and found it was the S, in excellent condition. After stumbling across that dime, and those two 77 IH cents, I pay a bit more attention to dates and mints now. The real good stuff gets put in the safe that day. The rest of it still waits until winter. HH Randy
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I sort my stuff as:
Clad,Other stuff,and junk.
I have three coffee cans full of clad,i use to wash it before it went in there.
Now i just throw it all in there.
Wheaties and better go in my treasure chest.
Other stuff goes in another box,and trash goes in the trash.
I put all silver in coin holders first.write where they were found on them.
LabradorBob
Clad,Other stuff,and junk.
I have three coffee cans full of clad,i use to wash it before it went in there.
Now i just throw it all in there.
Wheaties and better go in my treasure chest.
Other stuff goes in another box,and trash goes in the trash.
I put all silver in coin holders first.write where they were found on them.
LabradorBob
utahshovelhead
Active member
yup! that way I get to find the coins twice!
I take my better finds and keep them seperate ....Clad goes into a big baggie ..... My wife greets me at the door with open arms, AND OPEN HANDS , wanting to know if I found any jewelry for her ..... It's the PEFECT hobbie .....I get out of the house, and she get's jewelry , so she has no problem letting me go out ... Seriously, she has no problem letting me go out anyway .... We have no boss in our house ..... We do what we want within reason ....No permisssion , just notification ....Jim
Johnny Cache
New member
Digger, I think I'll be doing the same sort of thing this winter. This was my first summer for detecting, and I have been storing all my coins in a tackle box. All the silver and really old coins have been taken care of (going to have some graded this winter), but the other 1300+ coins I have found need to be sorted and checked out. We already have snow, and I won't be able to detect again until April most likely, so I guess I'll spend the winter looking through all the other coins and see if there are any rare ones.
Jason in Enid
Active member
I clean the silver and put it with it's other friends. IHs and wheats go into thier own jars, everything else is dumped in the bucket for tumbling and caching in during the winter.
I have to sort and lightly clean my finds as soon as I have time, typically within a day or two of making the finds. I database everything, so I want it fresh in my mind. I also do not want to mistakenly mix finds from two different locations. Plus, I like to issue a rough grade, including any peculiarities, such as scratched, die cracks, doubled-date or repunched mintmarks.
Like someone else said, when I found a rare coin and didn't realize it until 2 days later, I changed my approach.
Like someone else said, when I found a rare coin and didn't realize it until 2 days later, I changed my approach.