Got tired of scribbling half-assed notes about my hunts in an old spiral notebook and decided that some type of preprinted log book along the lines of what we use in diving would be just the thing to tidy it up and impose a little organization on the process. I looked online and found only one preprinted log tailored to MDing and I really didn't like the layout and it wouldn't easily record the info that I wanted, so a custom job was in order. 
Below is a jpg screenshot of my form so if it looks fuzzy in places its because things didn't always line up well with the scan lines on the monitor and I wasn't able to save directly to jpg. The original was done on Framemaker and prints crystal clear on a laser printer at 600dpi. Anybody handy with a graphics editor could whip up something similar, customised to their own liking, using Visio or some other suitable program.
Some of my goals in creating this form were to combine overall ease of use with detailed year-to-date tracking of clad finds and flexibility in recording older coins and other items. Having my detectors and coils listed with check boxes was inspired by dive logs that use a similar system for gear used on a dive. Separating zinc and copper pennies for individual tracking was kind of a judgement call, but since I had been keeping separate data for them it seemed like the thing to do. They do detect like completely different coins and I will often skip the zincs if I'm cherry-picking for some quick clad. It worked out that 3 hunts fit pretty nice on one page which keeps things fairly compact. Then its two forms (6 hunts) into each sheet protector and into a 3-ring binder. I might intersperse log pages with those sheets that hold the 2x2 carboard flips so my finds and records of the hunts are stored together.
If anybody has a cool system for keeping records of their hunts, please share!
-pete
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Below is a jpg screenshot of my form so if it looks fuzzy in places its because things didn't always line up well with the scan lines on the monitor and I wasn't able to save directly to jpg. The original was done on Framemaker and prints crystal clear on a laser printer at 600dpi. Anybody handy with a graphics editor could whip up something similar, customised to their own liking, using Visio or some other suitable program.

Some of my goals in creating this form were to combine overall ease of use with detailed year-to-date tracking of clad finds and flexibility in recording older coins and other items. Having my detectors and coils listed with check boxes was inspired by dive logs that use a similar system for gear used on a dive. Separating zinc and copper pennies for individual tracking was kind of a judgement call, but since I had been keeping separate data for them it seemed like the thing to do. They do detect like completely different coins and I will often skip the zincs if I'm cherry-picking for some quick clad. It worked out that 3 hunts fit pretty nice on one page which keeps things fairly compact. Then its two forms (6 hunts) into each sheet protector and into a 3-ring binder. I might intersperse log pages with those sheets that hold the 2x2 carboard flips so my finds and records of the hunts are stored together.
If anybody has a cool system for keeping records of their hunts, please share!

-pete
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