Gary's Metal Detecting Forum
Gary's Detecting forum => General detecting talk => Topic started by: RyBowk on September 20, 2015, 07:35 pm
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I know its relative ::) but how many targets on average would one expect to hit per hour on a good site?
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Its a question that cannot be answered really,i guess how long is a piece of string,if its a good site then i slow down to a snails pace as i dont want to miss any possible target.
Sorry to have to say i doubt that anyone will give you a answer.
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The other week on one of my permissions I dug 74 targets in a 6 hour session (counted them when I got in). So on average that's 12 targets per hour. The percentage of those targets that were any good is a totally different matter, but just about all of them were non ferrous items that have to be dug. That was on what I class as my "busiest" permission.
In contrast on one of my other permissions I can sometimes go 15-20 minutes between signals, I dare say there's people who can go longer.
As dave said, it's a question with many answers but a very interesting one anyway!
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Sorry to have to say i doubt that anyone will give you a answer.
16.•3 an hour :D
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Then theres type of ground your on .you could have a really busy site with a target every couple of feet ,but if its rock hard stoney dry ground with targets at 4-6 inches your gonna need a more than just a trowel to get them out . in such conditions its took me 15 minutes to reach and find a target,footpaths can be a nightmare to dig but very rewarding .
in contrast ,freshly sown fields can take just seconds to locate your target and move on to next one .
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1 target per hour is an average result
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2 1/2 hours = 54 buttons various bits of scrap copper/lead and 3 coins penny 1861 3d 1943 1/2 penny 1914. gmp 11 inch coil ........... :(
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Too many variations of fields and detectors (some deeper than others) to give a clear answer on that one.then of coarse you have to put the detector user in it as well.i expect some people using the same detector are better at understanding the machine than others.
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Completely depends on the ground really.. ive been on land where ive been constantly digging and ive been on land where its an hour or more between diggable signals..
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Sorry to have to say i doubt that anyone will give you a answer.
16.•3 an hour :D
;D Nice going Rew ;D
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Seriously, I've never thought about it, a good point though.
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never been on a permission that took more than ten minutes swinging to hit a non ferrous target . i guess if a field has produced some gold or silvers you would still keep searching it no matter how void of signals it was . not sure i could go longer than 30 minutes though ,it sounds soul destroying .
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Let us clarify what does target mean? As I understand Topic Starter meant something valuable (coin/ring/pendant/cross etc) under word "target", otherwise we'll be speaking about trashy sites.
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Let us clarify what does target mean? As I understand Topic Starter meant something valuable (coin/ring/pendant/cross etc) under word "target", otherwise we'll be speaking about trashy sites.
Good point. Target meaning nice find not trash. Perhaps I should have mentioned that
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would have helped :D .now you have moved the goal posts off the field ,since for many of us its not GOOD TARGETS per hour ,more how many per se. some days i return with one pewter button ,not exactly a good target but better than a hanfull of non ferrous junk,lol.
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1 a day :D
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What I want to know is what is your good to bad ratio over the last few weeks I've been keeping everything junk and good finds I'll post it up at the end of the month
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What I want to know is what is your good to bad ratio over the last few weeks I've been keeping everything junk and good finds I'll post it up at the end of the month
beauty is in eye of beholder
What is a good find to one is junk to another .most coins from my pasture permission have been georgian copper and very worn . would i class them a good find because they are 200+ years old or just toss them in the scrap tub ?
i found a chassis plate 100 years old off a british vintage vehicle ,to many they would have just tossed that in the scrap .to me its a treasure ,the vehicle it came off has long since become extinct .only early printed documents record it ever existed ,but i have a piece of one. :P
some yanks actually collect different types of ring pulls and rarer ones can have a value ,so did your junk ratio just change upon hearing ringpulls are collectable?