Captn SE
Silver Member
- Joined
- Apr 1, 2007
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- Location
- Southern CA
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Explorer SE; X-1 Target Probe; Pro Coil, 6x8 SEF, Coiltek Platypus Elliptical, Sunray X8, Expl. 1050 coils
- #81
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Appreciate your response, BB. In all counts your are right about what it's going to take to find a pile of silver coins in one year's time. You've mentioned location (yes, there are many parks within my locale that hold silver coins), free time(yes, I've had all the time in the world to dedicate to detecting this year), and a great machine(yes, the Explorer series of detectors will get the job done on deep coinage). One thing that needs to be mentioned also is a person's abilities to master their detector, and their hunting style...you could say simply that the more you go out and hunt with your machine, the better you will become, thus the more you will find. That's not necessarily true....let me give you an analogy....take two guys who want to take up the sport of golf....both golfers buy the same set of $1500 clubs. They both put about the same amount of hours a week in practicing their swing at the driving range, along with playing a 9 or 18 hole course at least twice a month. At the end of the year, one of the golfers is shooting consistently in the upper 80's, while the other golfer is consistently shooting in the high 90's. What I'm trying to say is that there are a number of other factors that will affect a persons abilities to be successful at a hobby, sport, etc. It's not so cut and dry.
I guess we can call them "intangibles". So two people with the same detector, same amount of hunting time, and same location more than likely will have different amounts of old coinage at the end of the year. You could say it was just luck that one person ended up with more oldies than the other did....Or it might have been that one person simply mastered his machine faster than the other person did. One md'er was set in his ways or was used to a different type of detector for so long that it was difficult to learn a different way of detecting.....there are so many possibilities...one can never know.
That's why I enjoy this hobby so much. I hunt for the deep/old items because that is my passion. When a person is passionate about anything in life, the sky's the limit on his performance and success.
Thanks again everyone...
Dan
CAPTN SE
I guess we can call them "intangibles". So two people with the same detector, same amount of hunting time, and same location more than likely will have different amounts of old coinage at the end of the year. You could say it was just luck that one person ended up with more oldies than the other did....Or it might have been that one person simply mastered his machine faster than the other person did. One md'er was set in his ways or was used to a different type of detector for so long that it was difficult to learn a different way of detecting.....there are so many possibilities...one can never know.
That's why I enjoy this hobby so much. I hunt for the deep/old items because that is my passion. When a person is passionate about anything in life, the sky's the limit on his performance and success.
Thanks again everyone...
Dan
CAPTN SE
Happy Twinkle Musically Delicious Christmas Candy BuckleToes said:To all that asked for the "secret"... The "secret" is not how much you dance with the detector, or do backflips, or anything else...the "secret" to finding that much silver is location. Having sites that are expansive enough, with enough silver still in them, and enough free time to go detectin several times a week at least, and having a machine capable of getting the deep silvers. Simple as that. The Captn himself said in his reply above that this year's silver total would probably not be equalled in the future--because the sites begin to give less and less. I know that you're one hell of a coin shooter, Captn. No one can argue that. And I enjoyed your video a great deal. But to be honest, if you stood on your head and strapped the machine to your feet I wouldn't copy your technique. We've all gotta go with what works for us. So I'll stick with what works for me--and I won't share those secrets
One thing is for sure--you'll be alive and diggin' silver at age 90 with all that exercise.
Best Wishes,
Buckleboy
