Maximizing your time

[swizzle]

I very recently purchased a X-terra 30 and I've been making polka dotted dead grass spots on my lawn while practicing with it. i originally started with the minelab musketeer and dug every signal. Over 125 pieces of scrap and crap the first day. With the X-Terra and can pick and choose more and often wonder what if i avoid digging pennies. Yeah its money and its usable but maybe 2 or 3 out of every 10 pennies I dig are corroded so bad that it won't fit in a coin roll. I was thinking about it and was wondering what you guys think about not digging pennies. Ok say over the course of the year your detecting time sucks and you only get to detect lets say 500 hours. How much of that time do you actually waste by pulling out pennies. If you waste 5 minutes a day pulling out pennies wouldn't it pay off more at the end of the year to put that extra time into pulling out an extra piece of gold or silver? Anyone here have an experience with the X-terra 30? What do you guys and gurls think? Swizzle

 

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[Montana Jim]

Dont know anything about your machine... I wish you the greatest luck with it!

I do know that the "do you dig pennies" question was asked here...:
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,74282.0.html

It's a good perspective.

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

"Ok say over the course of the year your
detecting time sucks and you only get to
detect lets say 500 hours."

ONLY

I wish I only had 500 hours.

Lets say I hunt for 6 hours on average, and
that is a high figure. That would be about
83 hunts.

I wish I could get out 83 times a year for
a 6 hour hunt.

And your sitting there and have a problem
digging pennies.

Its a hobby, have fun, relax, enjoy. Are you
sure it is only a penny. So much is left behind.

God bless you, you got it made.

have a good un...........
SHERMANVILLE

 

[Sandman]

You have to remember why you got interested in the hobby. Many of us don't do it for the profit. There isn't one! Gold rings start at foil and go up into dimes. You wanna take the chance of missing a gold ring? However I understand the thought of disregarding the pennies.

I mainly hunt the water now with a Minelab Excal. It not only ignors iron and reports on a gold ring or coin underneath, but the sounds are different so I can pass on ALLthe coins and keep sweeping for the special ramp up, ramp down sound gold makes. There is after all only so much time and if I dig every target I will be missing something great just a couple feet away. One reason I gave up using a PI is because of to much digging.

 

[swizzle]

I'm using an x-terra 30 and can discriminate out zinc and still pick up wheaties and indians. The 500 hours was a hypothetical situation. I wish I could get out that much myself. Swizzle

 

[aleman]

Sandman

It not only ignors iron and reports on a gold ring or coin underneath, but the sounds are different so I can pass on ALLthe coins and keep sweeping for the special ramp up, ramp down sound gold makes. There is after all only so much time and if I dig every target I will be missing something great just a couple feet away. One reason I gave up using a PI is because of to much digging.

Hello Sandman,
How hard is it to distinguish Coins from Gold? And Is there a chance you are missing any?? Sounds like a lot easyer hunting. I have a Sea Hunter and found that sapphire Ring you see on top of the page. I guess you know how many holes I've dug :-) . But it was worth it. aleman

 

[Sandman]

Aleman, You get to learn the differences in the tones and the way the sound peaks or levels off. It is hard to describe an best learned by moving coil over targets to see the difference. I am sure I am missing coins sometimes as like when a coin is on edge. But I at least don't have to worry anymore about it nulling out on a ring and piece of iron at the same time. With all the compition out there, ya gotta cover ground fast and throughly.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I originally started with the minelab musketeer and dug every signal. Over 125 pieces of scrap and crap the first day.

I've had my Musky since 2003. Not much metallic in the first 12" of soil slips past when the ground is favorable. But you need a good digger, kneepads and a lot of patience. I'm fillin the kitty at this moment for a new fangled detector that can display or at least notch some of the more common trash. When I come to the shrapnel field where five years ago the grounds crew mowed down an aluminum soda can at the park I hunt on my lunchbreak it can ruin a whole day's hunt for me.

 

[beavis]

Enjoy the hobby. Competition means sport.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Enjoy the hobby. Competition means sport.

That's true too. If I'm digging I'm already doing something I like. "Maximizing my time" would then be things like letting the lawn go another week or calling in sick to work and sneaking out to a cellar hole.

Sweep faster.