Thoughts on percentage

[Aussie]

Just curious, I’m thinking 80% research, 20% luck.

 

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[Silvermonkey]

I'm voting 40% research, 60% time in the field...

 

[A2coins]

80 luck 20 research

 

[Professor of Engineering]

I thinking about; 45% research/location, 35% operator experience and time with a machine and 20% machine. I also think do to variability in these categories % can be modified +/- 10 % maintaining the 100% total.

IMHO: Being a scientist I do not believe in luck...all my "luck" in work and life has been created by hard work.

 

[OBN]

I thinking about; 45% research/location, 35% operator experience and time with a machine and 20% machine. I also think do to variability in these categories % can be modified +/- 10 % maintaining the 100% total.

IMHO: Being a scientist I do not believe in luck...all my "luck" in work and life has been created by hard work.

That's the closest breakdown I've seen that I like. It's fits my last 5 years of hunting.

Also I think Luck is more of a fresh drop thing, for me anyway. Like walking up to the wash off area at the beach and before turning my detector off I see something shiny..take a swing over it ...... get a blast..then reaching over and pulling from the sand a white gold ring........ that's luck, no research involved, no skill, no Nox.

 

[CRUSADER]

Just curious, I’m thinking 80% research, 20% luck.

If you want consistently good results (completely different from the odd good find) you need to eliminate Luck completely. Cru'dad & I only use the word Lucky if we wonder back to the car & get the best find or if we are scouting (wandering) a field & get the best find straight off with no gridding.

However, part of success is maintaining a high level of optimism & for some this could be thinking they feel Lucky. If you feel lucky (maintain optimism) then it pushes you past the difficult stages of gridding when you find nothing. Those that are not optimistic will give up before the good find comes.

So its a complicated mix of research,building an honest relationship with the land-owners (gaining their trust), landscape archaeology (field craft; reading the land), positive attitude, time spent (GRIDDING) in the right places, Machine used (by experienced user), Style of detecting (ie. dig all), speed of recovering the item (if your on your knees your not covering the area), Time; is your enemy, so using it wisely is the key - This is for UK field hunting, not public parks etc..

 

[Trezurehunter]

Law of averages. More time spent out detecting = more finds. The older the place, the older or better the finds are. Sometimes research can be something as little as driving by an old home and stopping to ask if you can detect. Other times its hours on the internet or in the library. For me, I would have to go with 40 % research, and 60 % as much time in the field as I can get. No luck involved, as I like to think that I earn every little item that I find !

 

[Rookster]

50% location, 30% operator, 20% machine.

 

[TheCoinKid]

Well, I don't believe in luck either, but I do believe in chance. 60% location (includes research), 30% performance (machine and operator) and 10% chance. The less research involved, the more chance fits into the equation.

TCK

 

[FreeBirdTim]

90% location, 10% skill. If it ain't there in the first place, your skill and 2k detector mean jack squat. Machine is only a factor if you're hunting a cellar hole full of nails. Open fields, any $200 detector will get the job done.

 

[the_mad_cladder]

It’s definitely 20% research, 80% luck for me.

 

[dirtlooter]

quality time in a quality spot or area. problem is that we don't always know what a quality spot looks like due to time changing the terrain (man or nature). sometimes it just takes a lot of time to find the remains of a home place long since gone with no out ward appearance of one. spectacular finds can be found in very odd places....who knows how or why the object(s) were lost there but they were. The more time actually hunting and hunting correctly eventually pays off. but you still can't find something if it ain't there in the 1st place. So, research can increase the odds and sometimes very dramatically as many have the proof of this. swing time Baby!

 

[against the wind]

It's kind of like a forecast,,
When the weatherman says "There's a 50% chance of rain" you have to start thinking, "There's a 50% chance that it won't rain.'

 

[Silvermonkey]

Well said Professor....well said!