How many holes?

[underarock]

Just curious to see how many holes you think you dig per hour while metal detecting? One a minute? 2? depends on other factors I know I'm just curious what people think they are averaging. This question is for Land sand underwater wherever you dig. Thinking about trying to go swimming for treasure next season so would definitely love to hear from all the scuba steves out there.
thanks

 

[Lowbatts]

You need to find a local club holding a seeded, competetion hunt and go watch how fast some folks are and how slow and sure some folks are in a dedicated hunt for known targets. It's some of the best fun you'll ever have from a lawn chair. It gets more fun if you get into it.

Sometimes I swing like I'm in a seeded hunt, well good bye deep faint targets, save 'em for the next guy...

So the recovery is a subset of the hunting style, IMO. If you're not hunting right, you can be digging a lot of shallow clad and junk rapidly. If you're using good swing technique, then you'll be digging deeper targets at a more measured pace and you're goodie pouch will show the difference at day's end.

I know what you mean but no amount of slow detecting will hear the deep targets under shallow trash (depending on the sizes & depth of items) If you can hear a gold coin under a horse shoe, you have a detector I need

Very true Cru,
But remember we're talking parks with pull tabs and canslaw this far west of of you. Not a couple millenia of metal mayhem. My oldest coin this past weekend was an 1864 fattie, which was minted only 32 years after the Pots, Sauk and Fox sold this part of the country over to the settlers and the coin droppers started moving in.

Fortunately, it was several feet away from the horse shoe and axe head but since I knew I was digging them types of targets up anyway, eh, it's all good.

I think for the purposes of the original line of thought from the post, we're generally talking about those pesky parks and you can hit in between them trashy targets, but not if you move fast. Slower pace, fewer holes, better return ratio.

I am too many bottles of dammitol past the last time I really spent a lot of time following the "dig it all" principal in most city and town sites.

 

[CRUSADER]

You need to find a local club holding a seeded, competetion hunt and go watch how fast some folks are and how slow and sure some folks are in a dedicated hunt for known targets. It's some of the best fun you'll ever have from a lawn chair. It gets more fun if you get into it.

Sometimes I swing like I'm in a seeded hunt, well good bye deep faint targets, save 'em for the next guy...

So the recovery is a subset of the hunting style, IMO. If you're not hunting right, you can be digging a lot of shallow clad and junk rapidly. If you're using good swing technique, then you'll be digging deeper targets at a more measured pace and you're goodie pouch will show the difference at day's end.

I know what you mean but no amount of slow detecting will hear the deep targets under shallow trash (depending on the sizes & depth of items) If you can hear a gold coin under a horse shoe, you have a detector I need

Very true Cru,
But remember we're talking parks with pull tabs and canslaw this far west of of you. Not a couple millenia of metal mayhem. My oldest coin this past weekend was an 1864 fattie, which was minted only 32 years after the Pots, Sauk and Fox sold this part of the country over to the settlers and the coin droppers started moving in.

Fortunately, it was several feet away from the horse shoe and axe head but since I knew I was digging them types of targets up anyway, eh, it's all good.

I think for the purposes of the original line of thought from the post, we're generally talking about those pesky parks and you can hit in between them trashy targets, but not if you move fast. Slower pace, fewer holes, better return ratio.

I am too many bottles of dammitol past the last time I really spent a lot of time following the "dig it all" principal in most city and town sites.

True, comes back to my point on flexibility being more important than just 1 way suits every occasion

 

[deepskyal]

I'm old enough to have too many aches and pains for my age..

I spend a lot of time scaning a hole before I dig. If I'm in an average park, I'd say I dig a target every 5 minutes or so. I'm in no hurry, like to have a general idea what I'm about to dig, then guess at it like a game, relish the sound my detector is making like sipping a fine wine when it hits silver and those all-so solid copper tones.
My back aches when I bend and stoop so I make the best of my time that I feel is comfortable and enjoyable for me.

Now out in the boonies, maybe dig a signal when I get one. Never know what you find back in those sticks. Not real concerned about perfect fill-ins of my holes but I do try erase my tracks...shift some leaves, etc. Still probably average around 5 minutes or more per dig.

Like I said...just ain't in any hurry....just out to enjoy the day.

Al

 

[mydejavooo]

Depends how trashy it is.

But I have dug 1.5 holes a minute for 4 hours;

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,373401.0.html
(1 button every 1.5 minutes then add the other keepers plus all the trash not pictured)

Speed digging is my secret to good field hunting

Wow! Well, I certainly cant dig up targets that quickly, but I blame that on the fact that "old" around my neck of the woods is 100-150 years old! The joys of living out west!! I can only IMAGINE what living in an area that has had regular and steady inhabitants for thousands of years could yield to a detectorist!! Shoot, maybe those 4-holed buttons are like pull-tabs to us! LOL!! Cheers mate!

DeJa