WANTED! your hottest tips for a great hunt.

[GRAY GHOST]

hello all. i'm not asking you to give up your trade secrets or sell your first born child. we all wanna see the hottest tips around. so, here's mine:



le tip: after you are done with the ol' kinda boring straight up and down the field sweep paths, start at one corner and go catty - corner to the opposite corner. example: top right corner to bottom left corner - do it all the way on both sides of the triangles. you might be surprised at what you missed! hh!

 

[Uncle Willy]

I wrote an article for Lost Treasure on that technique many years ago - hunting an area north to south, east to west, and diagonally. You won't miss much that way but you won't get it all. To give you an idea - the average coin fits in an area of one-square inch or so. At depth the average concentric coil is only covering an area of one inch or so. In a 10 x 10 plot there are 14,400 square inches or that many potential targets. This is why no area is ever hunted out. Even if you overlap your sweeps 50% you'll still miss a whole lot of real estate deep down.

Bill

 

[jim tn]

Good tip Ghost. Mine is, to shorten the width of your swing and overlap your swings to the sweet spot of the coil. HH jim tn

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[dirtdigginlady]

Pack a nice lunch, a cooler of cold drinks, all your supplies and take your best friend with you. Take breaks and chat about life and just enjoy nature, digging in the ground, the hopes of a good target and most of all your friend.

 

[slingshot]

Mine is actually the same thing-but in a different format. I was unemployed for a period of 5-6 months and actually lived off my hunting. (I lived in a camper-van). One day I realized that hunting faster did not find money faster. Then, I noticed that 50 dimes was an easy $5-one of those DUH! thoughts. So, I started pretending I was hunting for dimes (and it IS the most overlooked coin because of it's size) and I was stunned at how many of these coins are overlooked, but my pocketbook didn't mind. I used the pennies for batteries, nickels and dimes to eat with, and quarters for savings. I would leave the van at a Walmart and ride my bicycle to my spots and this caused my SECOND tip: the stuff along the highways and roads are stunning in themselves. I found tools, cash, tackle boxes, and a whole lot of other stuff. Finally, scanning is SECOND nature and I only watch the ground as an EYEBALLER-I've found gold chains, tiny rings and earrings by my eyes WHILE I'm searching.

 

[NH ANDY]

Unfrozen ground?

 

[thejetman]

I talk sweet to my detector. Tell it that its the best. And with it , I will slay coins from thy ground. Self-fulfilling proficy at its finest.

 

[Boris]

I talk to my detector too, I just tell it how good the Jetmans detector is and she drags me to the coins and jewelry. OK I may be exaggerating a bit.