I will always continue to go back. First off, most of the places I go are constantly active. Like the local beach or local Tot Lots and playfields. Even if these places do get hunted out, every season there is more stuff lost. Go on a regular basis and hope to get there before the other guy. Further, I am sure our local beach gets hunted. Yet, every time I go out I find stuff. I always walk away after a couple hours with a couple bucks in change, at least. Sometimes, things older than the last time I was there. So, it is highly possible that one can't find everything in a single trip. We always miss something and it is always there for the next time. Then, add to the issue, the size of the area. If it is a large area, unless you put out grid patterns and go methodically over every square foot, you are bound to miss something between the swings of your detector. You might swing right past one thing on one pass and hit something on the next. When going out to the beach, the space is quite large. I usually take small, managable areas that I can work in a couple hours and concentrate on that. Then, when I go back, I will try another area. By the time I have searched most of the beach, I go back and try again. By then, hopefully someone has lost something new there.
i suppose there are some places where there is little activity and if you are really confident in your detector and your skills, you might not find much the second and less the third time out and so on. But, my short experience, so far, has shown that there always seems to be something left there that you or someone else has missed before.
Read a post a couple nights ago about someone searching a park and some 11 year old came up and tried to tell him it was hunted out. Then told him how much stuff he took out of there the previous year. i was just thinking how funny it would have been if the writer of that post was able to pull an old coin out of his pocket and say, Oh, You must have missed this one.
