How long over time do you hunt the same site?

[Nathan W]

I'm curious as has anyone hunted same place say over 2 yrs? I've got a few sites that I've worked for about two years now. I do occasionally find something I missed. How do you know when it's really time to never go back. The it's never hunted out has to come to an end right eventually?

If it's a massive place with tons of swingable acres, I'm sure it's worthy to keep at it for a very long time over time. How do you know when the smaller areas are dried up completely? Do you try different programs/ detectors to see if anything else?

 

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[sibbley]

I've been working a couple spots for 2 years. I try new settings and new machines at these spots. Always seem to find something I've missed before.

 

[Oldrvrrat57]

Myself I've have sites that i have been hitting for over 10 years and I am still finding good recoveries!! A SITE IS NEVER HUNTED OUT !! IMO

 

[pepperj]

Been hitting some for over 10 trs as well.
4 different machines, different programs and still I can tweak out a little something.
A few of them are just heavy iron, 200ft x 150ft might be the site size basically.
Haven't even got to the point of removing all the iron yet.
They become old friends, challenging my abilities.
Just this past week I managed 1 notable target.

The best thing about having a few well worked sites, is when you upgrade your machine you can go over the site again to test it out. 👍

 

[Nathan W]

Yeah I've been challenged on a few of them lol

 

[Blackfoot58]

New sites get my priority, but I always return to the old ones too.

 

[pa plateau hiker]

For only two years you say. I've been detecting the same small camp site at least once a year since 1972 and still find items I missed years ago. I guess I fail as a great detectorist for not finding these relics years ago.

 

[GaRebel1861]

I've got sites that I've been hunting for 10+ years. My favorites are plowed fields that get turned every year. Some sites don't produce as many targets as they used to but, give up a good find once in a while.

 

[Glen's Loyalists]

I have hunted sites over 10 years that just keep producing, but you have to be happy with only 1 or 2 good finds per trip, at best, once it has been thoroughly gone over. You will get skunked from time to time as well.
Remember that the size of your scan a foot below the surface is smaller than the coil diameter, to thoroughly hunt an area you really need to overlap, a lot, and go at it from different angles.
The great button we got last weekend was from a place we started hunting at least 10 years ago and it is only about 2 very overgrown acres.
There is always more until there isn't.
Enjoy the fresh air and the exercise.

 

[Sandog]

Fortunately the beaches are constantly changing, especially after storms. Inland I have an old school site turned park that I have been searching for years. The school house originally sat in what is now a turn lane. I am determined to find something, anything, old on that piece of dirt. Lot's of really old oaks and pines and the county keeps the grounds well groomed. Those little porch monkeys had to drop something somewhere!

 

[RGINN]

I've hunted the sites where they dump the snow they clear from the streets every spring when that pile starts to melt down for about 20 years now. You find some weird stuff sometimes. There's a place in Oklahoma where they have a yearly fair and I'll hit that every year I'm down there. Did pretty good one time, found around 20 of those Sacajawea dollars and a bunch of quarters.

 

[Chilli]

I'm curious as has anyone hunted same place say over 2 yrs? I've got a few sites that I've worked for about two years now. I do occasionally find something I missed. How do you know when it's really time to never go back. The it's never hunted out has to come to an end right eventually?

If it's a massive place with tons of swingable acres, I'm sure it's worthy to keep at it for a very long time over time. How do you know when the smaller areas are dried up completely? Do you try different programs/ detectors to see if anything else?

Hi. Temperature and ground moisture levels can play a huge part in an items detectability. Sometimes a wet ground is better sometimes a dry one.
Also the angle of approach. Walking across an area a certain direction may give up items then a change of direction over the same spot wil give up more that weren't heard the other way. Lots of variables.
Its worse with gold nuggets, I have spots that I have got gold off of for over 20yrs. Temperature, humidity, ground temperature, ground moisture, sunspot activity. Sheesh, there's even soils that will be noisy detecting in one direction but not another!