Coinshooter YTD total question

[DirtAngler]

I've been seeing posts where some are claiming 400.00 to even 700.00 YTD coin totals. Just curious as to what environments and circumstances allow such totals. This is my best YTD and I'm only at 100.00 and that has mainly climbed since I got permission to metal detect a closed club property grounds that is a colin haven. I mainly hunt parks and ballfields 3 to 4 times a week and this year have been able to hunt year round although summer dry weather inhibited a lot of summer hunting. My area finds are usually the typical penny, dime, quarter and nickel variety, not an area where you find dollar coins.

 

[MNCoinhunter]

For the amount of time that I am able to get out, and due to my hunting spot preferences. I usually average $80 to $100 in clad a season. If I spent more time at schools and sports fields I am certain I could double that in a year. I guess I always assumed that the guys who are pulling $500 to $700 in change a season are either unemployed or retired. If I had nothing better to do I could attain that easily.

 

[Mtnmn]

I have a retired friend who finds between $2200 and $2500 every year, but that total will go down this year as he won't be able to go to Florida for the winter like in other years. He admits that it is getting tougher all the time as he gradually cleans out the places he hits. He travels on a specially equipped motorcycle and won't hesitate to go 60 or 80 miles one way to hunt for sites in a town. I can only hunt in the spring and fall because of my summer side jobs, but even so since retiring 4 yrs. ago, my totals have went from $77 the 1st year to $225 this year. Mostly because of gaining a better understanding of what to look for when it comes to finding good locations, one benefit of having a world class metal detectorist for a friend.

 

[DirtAngler]

That's kinda what I was trying to find out Mtnmn. If you're hunting beaches, I understand your clad totals could be fairly high. Same as for hunters who go to sports fields at high schools and similar areas every week after games.

 

[mudpuppy]

You dont have to be retired to rack up a stinky pile of clad, just half crazy! I go year round, through the snow, rain, cold and dark. I travel for business and take my detector and google earth likely locations in towns I've never been to before. So, instead of sitting around in a bar, or golfing, or even sitting down for lunch, I go sweep! It IS a different way of hunting though, fast, shallow and gone! No need for a shovel, just a screwdriver. If a retired fellow was going to really do this right, he would need a fuel efficient vehicle, and sort of follow the sports seasons, outdoor fairs, music events and the like. A guy can wipe out the easy pickings in his local area very quickly and then need to find new hunting grounds. The snowpiles up here are regular piggy bank zones in the spring. Every so often a guy gets into a spot that is just loaded up and can pull 40 bucks or so out of there in Q's and D's. I found that spot this year on Nov 3-4 weekend. Weekend totlottin in schoolyard playgrounds is the quickest and easiest way to clad grab, I'm usually out for 4-5hrs max on the weekend mornings, and during the week, whatever the schedule allows, a fellow can clean out the avg. totlot in 10 minutes or less. Again, its just a different way of hunting is all..no big secrets to it, just speedy retrieval, location recognition. Its fun! I really enjoy this way of hunting a lot, but stand in awe of the guys that have mastered the deep silver/relics, and the guys that have mastered the water. This sport has so many different styles of hunting a fellow can try to master as many of them as possible once the clad runs out.
Mud

 

[mudpuppy]

The beach hunting really set me back this year on the clad totals...they were all getting worked all day and every night, it was hard work and slim pickins. Soccer fields sidelines and school main entrance sidewalks, under bleachers are easier and more productive.
Mud

 

[Mtnmn]

Mud Puppy, you must be from the same mold as my friend. He operates exactly like you do and hits the same type of places. He hit the Fla. beaches in the winter, but seemed to like the parks and ball fields better. Needless to say a screwdriver is his best friend and he will pop a coin out of the ground faster than it takes to write this sentence! The best way to find good coin-shooting sites is use Topo satellite pictures to "zoom in" on towns looking for any kind of ball field or park.

 

[plidn1]

At 30 coins a day X 365 = 10,950 coins. Hopefully not all pennies and a few rings.
I have hit several tots that yielded anywhere from 6 to $9 in coins. One such lot that gave up $7.50, of them 100 pennies, and a nice 14K diamond engagement ring.

 

[Goes4ever]

I average 150 bucks a yr, and I normally skip shallow coins, I am primarily interested in old coins and therefore only hunt places that are normally 100 yrs old or more.....am I missing some shallow old coins? Sure.....I am, but I only have so much time therefore when I am at an old house I dig the first several coin signals regardless the depth to sort of gauge the yr, depth they are at etc.....I dig all quarter signals regardless if they are one inch or 8 inches.....quarters add up quick. Nothing for me to come home with 3-4 bucks clad hunting an old house. I hunt around 20-25 hrs a week, yes I work full time......so getting $150 In a season is nothing and very easy to accomplish.

 

[midas888]

Now if the feds will eliminate the dollar bill and only have dollar coins our totals will go up exponetially.
Take a hint from Canada.

 

[skookum]

In Europe they have 1

 

[GeorgeinSC]

I am new to the hobby but haven't done too badly so far. I purchased my first detector in July and actually started detecting in August. So far in a little over four months I have found over $150.00 in clad. Also a few pounds of zinc's. I found an area at one of the nearby beaches where people park alongside the street. The beside the street areas are sandy and a dropped coin disappears. Best day was something over $13.00 in clad. On the beach itself there would be three or four guys detecting and I was having a blast in an area where no one had detected in years based on the number of coins that I was finding. Of course I also hunt the obvious places like parks, playgrounds, old home sites etc.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I've hunted a few clad zones where I've pulled 100+ quarters in a single hunt. In each case, clad was so prolific, I purposefully ONLY dug quarters. And I've had some clad days on beaches after storms (where 300 to 400 coins in a single hunt are very possible), where the face value can be $30-ish alone (silver coins values aside )

 

[Roscue2]

I don't get out enough with college and what not, but this year my goal is $60. A lot of the parks here do not have a lot of signals, and I haven't found a tot lot that has much in it other than a few batteries and a couple pennies. The most luck I have had in my town is the green in front of schools. I have just finished off one that I have slowly been mding throughout the year. Unfortunately, just about all of the sports fields that belong to the schools are fenced off and locked, so those are not an option. A good option that we do have, if I had any independence, would be the nearby lakes that have beaches.

HH and Gl