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Do You Like To Hunt Alone, Or With Friends:shrug:
- Thread starter John-Edmonton
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jackinaustin
New member
Your a lucky
man!
man!I like hunting with a buddy, especially when doing ghost-towns. The reason why is that we often stop to figure things out re. likely places to try. Two heads are often better than one in that respect. There's also a bit of friendly competition involved and bragging over beers around the campfire in the evening. The important thing is not to get eaten up with jealousy and try to horn into the other guy's action. ..Willy.
Uncle Willy
New member
Two heads and four eyes are better than one should you be in buzz tail country. I've got a pic on my hard drive somewhere of a ten footer two guys killed while out tecting.
Bill
Bill
Uncle Willy
New member
Yeah before she was struck down with MS my wife was my constant partner in detecting, fishing, hunting, prospecting, you name it. I really miss her and she really misses it all.
Bill
Bill
Leslie(nova scotia)
Well-known member
n/t
I metal detect by myself because I am unable to do it for more than 2 or 3 hours at the time and I don't want to spoil anyone Else's plans. That way I can come and go as I please and don't have any hassle. If I were in a ghost town or mining area, I would buddy up with someone I knew, for safety. I plan to buy an Ace 250 and use it to get my Mom out of the house for a few minutes per day and introduce a friend of mine to metal detecting, also. She's blind, but with me to do the digging for her and letting her swing the 250 and use the headphones to identify and pinpoint a target, I could dig her finds up for her. That would be more fun than finding something for myself, helping her to find an old coin or piece of gold jewellery.
RickIowa2009
New member
My wife wears me out when she goes with me, she makes me dig all her holes, aint she a lucky woman! I like to hunt with friends, if they decide to leave early they can go and Ill stay! I will work a site hard, sometimes my friends dont find anything right away so they are ready to go!
I hunt alone
I would not mind hunting with others but they would have to be special individuals (ones I could REALLY TRUST)
It is very relaxing to hunt alone and if you did have someone with you it would be a deterence a distraction.
I sometimes bounce from one place to another some people don't like that. Also most people down here in Fl don't like being out after a certain time (gets too hot) I have noticed that I have been letting heat stop me from my tecting. Cold too! If it gets too hot I usually head for a water site in shade (river or creek site).
I like to detect alone as it is a private time for myself when I can relax and concerntrate on what I am doing and think of anything and everything. Or also to relieve stress or a tense moment. It goes away soon after making a few finds.
Don
I would not mind hunting with others but they would have to be special individuals (ones I could REALLY TRUST)
It is very relaxing to hunt alone and if you did have someone with you it would be a deterence a distraction.
I sometimes bounce from one place to another some people don't like that. Also most people down here in Fl don't like being out after a certain time (gets too hot) I have noticed that I have been letting heat stop me from my tecting. Cold too! If it gets too hot I usually head for a water site in shade (river or creek site).
I like to detect alone as it is a private time for myself when I can relax and concerntrate on what I am doing and think of anything and everything. Or also to relieve stress or a tense moment. It goes away soon after making a few finds.
Don
Pyledriver
Active member
Probably 95% of my hunting is alone. Partly that is because of the times that I actually get free to detect. With my regular work schedule and then my part time landscaping biz I usually hunt weekdays only, and then mostly at night. Certainly not the safest but I usually can't get anybody to go with me-they're all too tired or busy! There are some places I'd like to hunt but won't because of being alone. I also discovered another bad aspect of hunting alone recently! Regular detecting isn't extremely taxing, but if you're using a two box...and get a signal...and keep having to dig...yeah, hunting alone suddenly sucks real bad! Especially if you're digging turns up junk..LOL!
I usually hunt alone for several reasons. First, I work odd shift hours and that doesn't make it easy to go with someone else. They're getting off work at 4pm and waking up bright and early on a Saturday morning, while I'm getting off work at 2am Saturday morning and sleeping until at least 10am. They think "half the day is wasted" and I'm downing coffee just to stay awake. I can also hit a spot for 2-3 hours in the middle of the week before I have to be at work in the late afternoon, and most everyone else is at work already.
Another reason I hunt alone is that I've found it easier to get permission for an area when it's jut me showing up and asking. A lot of times when I've gone with someone else, the person we're trying to get permission from has a much more jittery look to them, you can tell that they're eyeing this "group armed with detectors" and either feel overwhelmed or suspicous. I think a part of that is them thinking "there must be something really good out there for more than one guy to show up looking for it", even if it's just an old ballfield or homesite. It seems they worry more about the digging too, if I'm alone I can demonstrate my recovery technique to convince them that I'm not going to leave gopher holes in their yard, but "what about the other guy?". And how many are going to show up next time? There have been times that I've been able to charm a property owner for permission, and my detecting partner has acted like a jerk by stretching the property boundaries, being careless with recovered trash, using foul language or coming off as not being appreciative of the opportunity. That just spoils it for everybody.
I've also found that there are way too many "quitters" out there, people who buy a machine and don't learn to use it properly. It's an old story, someone buying a detector or getting one as a gift then it ends up in the closet because "it only finds pop tops and nails". Some of the people I work with have good machines, and they can't be bothered to spend a few hours getting to know how to use it. Some don't even read the manual. Invariably, these are the same people that "can't find the time" when I offer to "hook them up" with a few teaching sessions, advice or techniques to be more successful with the machine. I offer to drive, I know where to take them so that they'll find enough coins and doodads to keep them interested, I intend to treat them to lunch, and do everything I can to make it an enjoyable experience but they're just not that into it. They hit their own yard once or twice and all they found was a wad of tin foil, so they're convinced that there's just not much more to it than that. One guy I know got a detector for Christmas a few years ago, didn't have any success with it, then stuck it in his garage. I got him interested in giving it another try, but he'd left the batteries in the machine and.... you guessed it, the now-leaking batteries had destroyed the machine. One thing that all these people have taught ME is not to give it a second thought if I see someone else swinging a detector over an area I'd wanted to search. I've only met one other person doing that who actually knew what he was doing, and he welcomed the "competition". We both did alright, but he lived much further away from that spot than I did and I never saw him again. (It's a different story in my experience when it comes to detecting at a beach, lake or pond. Occasionally there are more people swinging a detector than swimming, and the competition is often not-so-laid-back).
So the end result is that I'm usually on my own. And that's fine, I know where I want to go, how long I want to stay and can be on my own schedule. My mind usually just clears itself after two minutes of swinging the coil and I zone out until a tone signals in the headset. If I'm in open country and there's no other reason not to, I carry a pistol, first couple of rounds loaded with rat shot for snakes and other critters. If I had to worry about the two-legged critters at a certain area I just wouldn't go there because I wouldn't enjoy it anyway.
Steve
Another reason I hunt alone is that I've found it easier to get permission for an area when it's jut me showing up and asking. A lot of times when I've gone with someone else, the person we're trying to get permission from has a much more jittery look to them, you can tell that they're eyeing this "group armed with detectors" and either feel overwhelmed or suspicous. I think a part of that is them thinking "there must be something really good out there for more than one guy to show up looking for it", even if it's just an old ballfield or homesite. It seems they worry more about the digging too, if I'm alone I can demonstrate my recovery technique to convince them that I'm not going to leave gopher holes in their yard, but "what about the other guy?". And how many are going to show up next time? There have been times that I've been able to charm a property owner for permission, and my detecting partner has acted like a jerk by stretching the property boundaries, being careless with recovered trash, using foul language or coming off as not being appreciative of the opportunity. That just spoils it for everybody.
I've also found that there are way too many "quitters" out there, people who buy a machine and don't learn to use it properly. It's an old story, someone buying a detector or getting one as a gift then it ends up in the closet because "it only finds pop tops and nails". Some of the people I work with have good machines, and they can't be bothered to spend a few hours getting to know how to use it. Some don't even read the manual. Invariably, these are the same people that "can't find the time" when I offer to "hook them up" with a few teaching sessions, advice or techniques to be more successful with the machine. I offer to drive, I know where to take them so that they'll find enough coins and doodads to keep them interested, I intend to treat them to lunch, and do everything I can to make it an enjoyable experience but they're just not that into it. They hit their own yard once or twice and all they found was a wad of tin foil, so they're convinced that there's just not much more to it than that. One guy I know got a detector for Christmas a few years ago, didn't have any success with it, then stuck it in his garage. I got him interested in giving it another try, but he'd left the batteries in the machine and.... you guessed it, the now-leaking batteries had destroyed the machine. One thing that all these people have taught ME is not to give it a second thought if I see someone else swinging a detector over an area I'd wanted to search. I've only met one other person doing that who actually knew what he was doing, and he welcomed the "competition". We both did alright, but he lived much further away from that spot than I did and I never saw him again. (It's a different story in my experience when it comes to detecting at a beach, lake or pond. Occasionally there are more people swinging a detector than swimming, and the competition is often not-so-laid-back).
So the end result is that I'm usually on my own. And that's fine, I know where I want to go, how long I want to stay and can be on my own schedule. My mind usually just clears itself after two minutes of swinging the coil and I zone out until a tone signals in the headset. If I'm in open country and there's no other reason not to, I carry a pistol, first couple of rounds loaded with rat shot for snakes and other critters. If I had to worry about the two-legged critters at a certain area I just wouldn't go there because I wouldn't enjoy it anyway.
Steve