12 Months of Treasure Hunting?

[bigscoop]

Here's the scenario;

You have the equipment and the finances, you are going to leave home on January 1st of 2011 and not return home again until Janusry 1st 2012. Your mission is to travel the country for 12 straight months, anywhere you heart deisres, and your goal is to accumulate as much treasure as you possibly can in a 12 month period. This includes everything from hunting popular beaches to hunting for raw minerals, whatever you can hunt wherever you can hunt it at. So given all of this, here's two questions for you;
A) how much treasure do you think you could accumulate in a year's time?
B) with your year's end goal in mind, what type of treasure hunting situations/areas would you target most often?

 

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[Kentucky Kache]

To see how much I could accumulate, with a time limit, I would probably go out west and do some panning/sluicing...maybe join GPAA and let Tom and the boys show me how it's done.

 

[battlecat]

I would most likely hit Georgia for the gold, and hit Florida beaches. No clue how well I would do but I would hope to at least break even?

 

[bigscoop]

Beaches are certainly high on the list, as these are a proven source of consistent finds and they're are also getting continuously resupplied, so beaches would definitely be high priority targets.

As far as panning and sluicing out west, given the scope of the adventure and constant traveling, I wonder if one wouldn't be better off nugget shooting in select areas in say, Arizona & Alaska? I don't know, perhaps if one was already proficient in these skills it would certainly be on the list, but given the time involved in acquring these skills I wonder if nugget shooting wouldn't be the better option? Maybe some of you guys who have done both could help determine the best option in regards to these two options.

 

[fossis]

Beaches are certainly high on the list, as these are a proven source of consistent finds and they're are also getting continuously resupplied, so beaches would definitely be high priority targets.

As far as panning and sluicing out west, given the scope of the adventure and constant traveling, I wonder if one wouldn't be better off nugget shooting in select areas in say, Arizona & Alaska? I don't know, perhaps if one was already proficient in these skills it would certainly be on the list, but given the time involved in acquring these skills I wonder if nugget shooting wouldn't be the better option? Maybe some of you guys who have done both could help determine the best option in regards to these two options.

From what I have read, if a person is in good physical condition, works hard at panning & sluecing, they may just make wages.

Fossis..........

 

[Old Town]

I'm a Florida guy and happen to dislike beach hunting in general and water hunting in particular. But if making money was the goal? You'd have to learn to be a good beach hunter and hammer Hawaii.

Hawaii gets some very high rollers from the western Pacific and the beaches are used 12 months out of the year. Even Florida is not a year round beach destination. Not really. Few go in the water down here in winter. Hawaii is the place to go jewelry hunting.

OT

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

My goal would be to find as much gold jewelry as possible. At the present time it seems that the elementry schools that have the highest percentage of Asian and Mexican kids have the most gold jewelry. If I concentrated on just elementary schools with Mexican and Asian kids for 12 months straight I bet I should have 1000 pieces of gold jewelry.

 

[bigscoop]

I'm a Florida guy and happen to dislike beach hunting in general and water hunting in particular. But if making money was the goal? You'd have to learn to be a good beach hunter and hammer Hawaii.

Hawaii gets some very high rollers from the western Pacific and the beaches are used 12 months out of the year. Even Florida is not a year round beach destination. Not really. Few go in the water down here in winter. Hawaii is the place to go jewelry hunting.

OT

Hawaii.......hmmmmmm.......now there's a thought worthy of investigation.

 

[The Swed Hunther]

I would read so much history in the last of the year 2010, get so much info as possible!
Then i would try abounded homes/ old settlings and massions. Not so much on the beaches.

The goal is to be an millionaire, and will be that because i would try to find a hidden cashe.

 

[bigscoop]

I think I would trust two hunting formats:

A) I would only hunt for those larger treasures (caches, raw minerals, etc) that I could prove existed, i.e. could document or confirm through really good sources.
B) I would hunt only those places (such as beaches), that are steady producers and constantly being replenished with goods.

A year sounds like a long time but given all the traveling time I think you would want to make certain that all of your actual hunting time was spent in areas with the highest probabilities of realizing some measure of a return.

 

[TerryC]

BEACHES!! Acre for acre, more rings 'n things than anywhere else. South Beach, FL.... NJ..... NY..... Back when dreges were downsized to personal machines, they were paying for them in a weekend off NJ and NY beaches. TTC