There is still heavy hunting going on, but the fact of the matter is every new CHR thins out the score for the older hunters, and many people hunt and they do not post, they just use all the Free info and swoop down if they are in your local area.
Mainly its just boring and there are other things going on then posting the results for the same old hand full of %40s and the occasional %90 And why would you want stalkers in your area to know what your finding.
Also, boxes these days are much more sparse than they used to be. And Tellers are more wise to whats going on. You can always tell when some newbi CHR pops up in your area because they open there big mouth and tell every teller what they are doing etc. Then the bank does not carry halfs anymore.
Way to go genius, or some of them do things like dumping back at there supply banks and or end up abusing the privilege. then no one can CRH.
I have that problem around here. I ask around and I get the, Oh yeah some guy came in asking about those, I ask them if it was an older guy that looks kind of like a child molester, They always say yeah thats the guy! Of course I tell them to watch it with him as he has caused many banks to change policies etc. So they dont sell to him often.
Things that can Ruin CRH as fun can be easy, keep good relationships with your bank people, and keep your mouth shut as to what your looking for, say you look for errors, talk up the 87s and 70D and the NFICs etc. Talk about Missing FG Coins etc.
Often they ask, do you find silver,
I say sure, sometimes, Not often, maybe a coin a box, down play the silver fever and up play that your a collector.
Tellers will not help someone if they feel you are greedy and after silver, This is the impression many of them get. And they never want to deal with the Creepy Greedy old guy. If your older, come across as the grandpa building a set for his kids.
Of late CRH is not as good as it used to be. Too many fish in any pond can poison the water, Or dry up the silver. Its all random but the random finds are less and less. And so often the big scores are as well.
Many times a few years ago I would find scoes of boxes that were 1/2 to 1/3 Silver. I dare not post such things, Or when Gold is found.
Too many people think there is a "source" as you may find by reading older posts. there is a source, someone was not careful, But some people believe that they were put in there by someone etc. The reality is. its random deposits by people who were unaware. Or made a mistake.
Perfect example, a teller was telling me how a few weeks earlier a guy came in with about $80 face value in 90% silver, he deposited them, teller took it, unrolled it, ran it thought the machine.
The guy came back a few weeks later to get his coins back. he thought he was checking them into his account for safe keeping.
good enough.
I do genearlly post almost everything I find when I search, but try to contain it to a couple threads a week unless there is something worthy of making its own post.
