PLEASE TELL ME WHY PEOPLE DO NOT...

[DDLoopscreamer81]

Hello all! I am curious as to why so many people race around an area when swinging...I mean it's fine with me, I'll just swing like a turtle behind them and pick up everything they rushed past. My only guess would be they are "cherry picking" or the "wife" is *****ing and they want to hurry home!!! 😂. I love the curb patches of grass. People are amazingly good at loosing g things fumbling for keys or whatever. The area between the curb and sidewalk produces quite well ***just wear cut resistant gloves***

 

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[Loco-Digger]

yes we are cherry picking, unless it's not our first go at the site, then most slow down to pull all good targtes. Public spaces are hit by everybody, so yes cherry picking is preferred in my area since there are more MDer's now than there were a decade ago.

 

[Texas Jay]

Very good question, DD. Most detectorists are in too big of a hurry these days and I'll admit that I'm often guilty of that too. I make my best finds when I slow down and work a tight grid pattern with little or no discrimination or notch filter. I also enjoy detecting more when I'm not in a hurry and when I remind myself that I'm there to have fun and relax. I'm not there to win a competition hunt.
Just today, I decided to hold an in-the-field Workshop for our Central Texas Treasure Club members, in a few weeks, about How to Get the Most from Your Detector. I will have each attending member flag a small hunt area in a field that's been heavily detected in the past. I'm going to instruct them first to turn their discriminators up to the highest discrimination level on their detectors and hunt their area, digging every target, until they've finished their spot. Then I'll have them hunt it again with their discriminators set on a medium setting so that it will eliminate iron, pull tabs, and nickels. Lastly, they'll detect their areas in All-Metal Mode until they've worked every inch with all three settings. At the end of each round, they will put their cherry-picked finds (full discrimination) in a pile and they'll make separate piles for each of the final two stages' finds. Lastly, we'll all compare our finds from each round and just see how much good stuff we miss by cherry-picking too much of the time. I've successfully used this technique several times in the past in very heavily detected spots. I believe our club members will benefit from such a workshop and hopefully it will help them make better finds in the future.
~Texas Jay

Central Texas Treasure Club

 

[mrwilburino]

Sometimes people move quickly because they are scouting out a site that may be new to them. It gives them an idea of what types of targets are showing up and where they are. At some point they'll usually slow down and start focusing on specific areas.

Some are cherry picking.

Some are just newer to the hobby and are still figuring things out.

 

[Holyground]

When I am swinging fast, I'm trying to get to some bushes to take a leak. At my age you just can't delay.

 

[TerryC]

If those quick swingers are also lifting the coil at the ends of the swing, they are just not good at it, plain and simple. Also, they are only detecting some of the searched area. A complete waste of time, in my opinion. ╦╦Ç

 

[Ammoman]

If i am headed to a specific area, such as a tree on the other side of a property i tend to swing the detector as i walk just for the off chance of getting a signal. the swings are not overlapped because i am not really interested in the area i am walking thru at that time.

 

[Viaqua]

I see people swinging their detector like a sling blade with the coil swinging 2ft off the sand here on the beaches.

 

[mhess22]

I will swing and walk fast if the area is brand new to me and I want to get a feel for what I am dealing with ground wise. I like to see if there is a lot of trash in the ground and also see if I pick up any quick clad coins to give me an idea of how hunted the site has been in the past. I will also just swing the detector fast if I have a certain spot that I want to hunt and I am walking from point A to point B.

 

[Rawhide]

Some folks only have so much time to swing. Some areas have been hunted out and they are looking for new drops. Some see no trash and know someone else has already hunted the area. Last, if your going from one area to the next, why not drop the coil you may just be surprised at the random stuff you find.

 

[McKinney_5900]

I will swing and walk fast if the area is brand new to me and I want to get a feel for what I am dealing with ground wise. I like to see if there is a lot of trash in the ground and also see if I pick up any quick clad coins to give me an idea of how hunted the site has been in the past. I will also just swing the detector fast if I have a certain spot that I want to hunt and I am walking from point A to point B.

All of the above.

 

[faribo]

I saw a lot of that at the ND hunt this weekend. One guy was even going around with the coil knocked upwards. I went wide and smooth and overlapped my swings. Found a lot of coins.

Didn't win any of the big prizes.

 

[against the wind]

Low and slow

 

[Eu_citzen]

When scouting I'll also go around a bit faster then when I grid a site. Eventually, I'll grid it so it matters not. I'll find what I missed later.

 

[mextallion]

If i have like 3 hrs to metaldetect I go slow and try to dig the most i can. Towards the end of my 3 hrs i just try to cherry pick. If im waling to my car i also just dig good targets.

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

I wouldnt say i "Race" around. But I will go quickly in certain or new areas, just to get an idea of what is there. I don't want to spend half the day barely moving to find out it wasn't worth the hunt.

Once i establish that the place is worthy enough for me to hunt, I would slow it down and start griding out spots.

I've been to parks where it was 80% fill dirt..then find that one little sweet spot where I would start popping up wheats

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I walk slow but swing fast. Better target separation that way with some detectors.

 

[ARC]

I see people swinging their detector like a sling blade with the coil swinging 2ft off the sand here on the beaches.

This is an example of how NOT to find much of anything.

My coil "swing" is more like I am spreading and smoothing out dirt... so low it makes the ants duck.

:P

 

[ARC]

In some instances I am vary fast...

Because I am "one" with my detector... :P

Nah... Just know the blips in sound good enough to do so...
I can clear an area in no time flat if already familiar with it.

Low and slow is the way to go though. (MD poetry) :P

 

[TerryC]

Try this, Charlie, Garrett says slow.... take a silver dime at about 5 inches from the coil.... any coil. Go slow. Most will not hit on it. Now, take the same dime and WISK it past the coil. It will hit on it every time. Go figure! ╦╦Ç