CLAD- DO YOU MEASURE SUCCESS BY NUMBER OF COINS FOUND OR MONETARY VALUE?

[olprofessor]

The post about whether you should bother digging pennies led me to this question. Some MDers measure success by how many coins they dig (like me). I look at it as targets recovered, and the monetary value is secondary, since I sometimes dig a dime when it says it's a penny. Naturally, quarters, halves, etc give me a bigger thrill, but aesthetically I get more satisfaction that I recovered every target I sought.

 

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[chevyman75]

im happy when i get 1 penny or if i get a silver quarter. its the surprise of the hunt and to me penny's at up to dollars lol

 

[relic nut]

For me its like fishing, if you catch something its a bonus. It's the thrill of the hunt I'm after.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

If it's the beach (like after storm erosion), I go by # of coins found, to measure the success of the hunt. Because that becomes a measure of how much mother nature is grouping up targets (hence upping the odds of an eventual ring). If it's on land, I tend to figure out the face value, since I'm not-so-much gambling on gold jewelry finds when land hunting.

 

[Capt Nat]

For me there's no way it could be about the money because if it was, I would find a hobby that made more but, when I dig a dime, I tend to think, "that's like digging 10 pennies"...

 

[TheHunterGT]

I still get a thrill from tabs and caps....somebody help me please.

 

[airscapes]

Success is having fun.. some days you hit a new school and find $12 in quarters within the first 2 hours and it feels like a jackpot. Another day you are on an old property and find a old coin that you can hardly make out to identify and is worthless and it is a great day.. Another day you go out for 3 hours in the woods and find nothing but it is a really nice day! Dirt fishin is fishin..

 

[WhiteTornado]

I usually hunt places like modern parks and schools. My first level of "success" is, did I find any coins at all? Then my second level is, were they only pennies or did I find any nickels and up? If I can find nickels and up, that's usually nice, at least for me.

 

[Skippy SH13]

The post about whether you should bother digging pennies led me to this question. Some MDers measure success by how many coins they dig (like me). I look at it as targets recovered, and the monetary value is secondary, since I sometimes dig a dime when it says it's a penny. Naturally, quarters, halves, etc give me a bigger thrill, but aesthetically I get more satisfaction that I recovered every target I sought.

For me, it's a bit of both... I won't regularly dig pennies, but if the signal is off even a little bit, I'm on it. Just pulled a 925 ring the other day with a penny signal that had a hiccup... The ring was smashed flat, and gave a weird signal.

At the end of the day, I call a successful hunt, where I make more than $2 an hour in clad, OR I find a ring of some sort. I love rings...

 

[TwoYewts]

For me, I call it a successful hunt as long as I can get away for a few hours and not think about anything but the beeps coming through the headphones. No work, family nonsense, bills...just me and the sound of beeps. If I happen to walk away with enough to cover the gas and the batteries for that day, then its a plus. If a piece of jewelry or an old coin/silver coin happen to show up then I consider it a great hunt. If I were to ever have a day like some of the more prolific hunters on here average like Vino, Casper, Crusader, and others then I would probably consider it an epic hunt for me

-TwoYewts...listening to the beeps.

 

[Showtime2385]

I started with hunting places with lots of change concentration like parks and schools to get a hang of the detector. But once I got into relic hunting old cellar holes and such modern change is not something I love to see a lot of. If I'm finding it then I know the site I'm hitting is not unknown to others.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

I did all acceptable signals. Happy with a cent, delighted with a quarter. Silver coins begat satisfaction of the hunt. Jewelry is a very separate excitement.

Clad buys batteries. Dispose of all trash properly and fill all holes.

 

[Loco-Digger]

It depends on what kind of hunting I am doing? If I go out for clad, I go for the dollar amount. When I do a permission, I am elated if I pull 50 cents, but in that 50 cent there are some silvers, IHPs or other keepers. Last season in 7 months I dug over $500 and mainly hunted public lands. This year I mainly do permissions and am at $241.54, but boy have I found some goodies. The next plug could be "the plug"....

 

[ZR2guy]

Just getting out to swing is a success in itself.

 

[RustyGold]

Love the sand surfing! Sometimes I catch it. Sometimes I don't!

 

[Skippy SH13]

For me there's no way it could be about the money because if it was, I would find a hobby that made more but, when I dig a dime, I tend to think, "that's like digging 10 pennies"...

Oh I TOTALLY do that. My other "Brain bender" is when I find a nickel, I think, "Wayyy better than a pop top!"

 

[thumper]

In a park or school i count number of coins. When you can dig 200 or so coins its a good day

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

I'm a coin shooter by nature, and pride myself on the NUMBERS of coins found,
monetary value, unimportant - however, I (do) search for silver, gold and jewelry (don't you, too?)
Love spills, as well.

 

[SusanMN]

For me clad is all about cash, since it goes into the coin jar which gets cashed in a few times a year for entertainment/fun money. So, a handful of pennies is not the same as a handful of quarters. I do pickup pennies, but generally aren't happy if that is all I go home with. Anything else, like rings or silver is a bonus.

 

[weighit]

My wife is sure i have not found enough to even pay for the batteries, but I just get a smile when I find ANYTHING better than a pop top! I can come home and say I found 23 cents and that to me was a good hunt, she can just roll her eyes and say I'm glad you had fun dear! I actually end up at years end with well over $150.00 worth of coin so I guess I think the amount is how I rate a good hunt.