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Oct 13, 2009, 05:08 AM
#1
How often and how long do you metal detect?
Just curious as I am new... reading posts seems to show some go daily for a hour or so while others go a couple times a week but for longer periods.. Please enlighten me.. Thanks
Steve
I Love Metal Detecting!!!!!!!!
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Oct 13, 2009, 05:17 AM
#2
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
No easy answer to this question oh by the way welcome to tnet some great folks here. Personally I hunt all the spare time I have.
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Oct 13, 2009, 05:18 AM
#3
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
Thanks for the welcome, I have met a few members in person already and everyone here in all sense is good hearted people, what would you say is your average time spent?
I Love Metal Detecting!!!!!!!!
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Oct 13, 2009, 08:40 PM
#4
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
Hola from Colorado by way of Oklahoma, HunterSteve. I don't really have a set schedule for detecting and the time I spend will vary, from 15 minutes to 4 or 5 hours. If I find somethin I think is pretty cool, then I'm there for a while. I'm pretty much shut down for detecting where I'm at now from about November to the middle of April, due to weather conditions. Yesterday, I went over to the local tot lot and found some change. I spent about 30 minutes. Last week, I was over at Half Moon Gulch and started finding a heavy concentration of 45 caliber lead balls in one area, and did a systematic search of the area. For about 5 or 6 hours. So the time I spend varies, as work will interfere with it sometimes.
This world is not my home.
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Oct 14, 2009, 03:20 PM
#5
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
I try and detect at least twice a week between 5-6 hours. On days I can't be out the long an hour would be fine. I keep the short hunts for the kiddie parks.
Please note, the author is not responsible for any ideas, facts, etc stated in his comments and does not constitute any liability for his dribble.
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Oct 14, 2009, 03:38 PM
#6
 MR.
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
How often and how long do you metal detect?
Its like sex, it whenever I get the urge until the urge is satisfied.
The older I get, the span of time incr....never mind
The more one learns the more he understands his ignorance. I am simply an ignor ant man trying to lessen his ignorance Those with the most birthdays live the longest
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Oct 14, 2009, 08:20 PM
#7
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
My main times is Sept thru April.....I don't like the vegitation, the insects and the heat.
Have detector, Will Travel
RJW
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Oct 15, 2009, 11:06 AM
#8
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
with school, work and family obligations,
i can only detect a few times a month and
usually for only an hour or two.
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Oct 15, 2009, 12:24 PM
#9
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
Depends on how long my kitchen pass is good for then I usually exceed it by 2 hours. my average hunting is around 6 + hours
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Oct 15, 2009, 01:21 PM
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monty
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
I usually hunt in the hot summer time. But I go out before daylight and stay until about 9:00 or until it gets too hot. I really love the fall but dang, it's rained so much and got cold so early this fall I haven't got to go as much. When my health is holding and I feel Ok, I'd guess about 12 hours a week. Monty
Don't make me loose the hounds! If you dig, Cover up your holes.
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Oct 16, 2009, 07:09 AM
#11
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
Geologists are gneiss, tuff, and a little wacke.
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Oct 16, 2009, 07:28 AM
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monty
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
I know stefen. What you're saying is it takes you all night to do what you use to do all night? 
Monty
Don't make me loose the hounds! If you dig, Cover up your holes.
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Oct 16, 2009, 11:57 AM
#13
MR.
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
 Originally Posted by Monty
I know stefen. What you're saying is it takes you all night to do what you use to do all night?
Monty
Or a Confusius (or Monty) said:
Once a Knight, alway a knight
Once a Knight is enough
The more one learns the more he understands his ignorance. I am simply an ignor ant man trying to lessen his ignorance Those with the most birthdays live the longest
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Oct 17, 2009, 09:27 AM
#14
*************** WHAT YOU DO WITH THE FINDS YOU DIG UP IS YOUR BUSINESS AND NO ONE ELSES, IGNORE ANYONE ON A SOAPBOX TRYING TO PREACH OTHERWISE! **************
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
I would like to go every weekend but would settle for every other weekend, but don't always make it. It is about 1 hr 20 mins drive time for me to the closest beach with traffic.
I am primarily a water hunter, if there are any reports of errosion on the beaches I am "in route". If a sub tropical, or tropical storm or Nor-eastern is forcasted I am gone for the weekend.........................
All posts begin with "In my opinion"
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Oct 17, 2009, 04:57 PM
#15
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
I'm retired, so I go as often as I can. With early life injuries, (war injuries, motorcycle wreck, stupid kid stuff) if I feel up to it, I go. Lately, have found others that have detectors, almost every day for about 3-4 hours.
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Oct 18, 2009, 09:25 AM
#16
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
My wife says "too often" 
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Oct 18, 2009, 12:17 PM
#17
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
A big, fat zero..... 
Last time I was out was May 1st...probably a couple hours that day. Havent even been on T-net for a few months. Just didn't want to rub my own nose into my inability to get out.
I did renew my charter membership tho....would really hate to see this forum disappear while I was gone. 
Work just went crazy and decided to lay people off and work the few of us left to death. Besides my regular 40 hours, been working almost every weekend and still have to deal with emergency call outs in the middle of the night. I've just been plain old exhausted....my detector sitting in a corner by the front door...battery's probably dead. What's worse...I had just bought the machine in March...a new Vision to add to my arsenal. Pretty expensive to just sit in a corner collecting dust.
The little waking hours I do have....well...you know life. Have to shop, do laundry...all those basics...just dont leave much time for a hobby.
Hope the economy picks up soon. Really hate things right now.
Al
I think...therefore I am.
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Oct 24, 2009, 09:20 PM
#18
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
As often as the weather and the wife (kitchen pass) allows me....
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Oct 25, 2009, 10:28 PM
#19
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
Originally Posted by HunterSteve
Just curious as I am new... reading posts seems to show some go daily for a hour or so while others go a couple times a week but for longer periods.. Please enlighten me.. Thanks
Steve
Both. For hours on end, when I can. For short jaunts, when that is all I can manage.
You'll get it all. Or you won't
Someone else will get it. Or they won't
Someday, you'll die and leave it behind.
Act accordingly.
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Oct 26, 2009, 07:57 PM
#20
Re: How often and how long do you metal detect?
My hunts are long. I have gone 12 hours in a day. Just done one sunday for 9 hours. You either love this hobby and treat it like an addiction or you'll fall off in the cracks sooner or later. And I'm married, too 
Enjoying the "Good Life" in SoCal
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