Sloppy Detecting

[m bryan]

I tend to get sloppy at times and was wondering if anyone else does this?... So yesterday I slowed down, kept the coil level with the ground, shortened my swings(as to not end a swing at an angle,)and covered an area walking in a direction then recovered the area walking in the opposite direction and had a decent hunt......One of my biggest problems is I want to cover to much ground too quick.......Anyone else ever get in a hurry or am I the only undisiplined one?

 

[stefen]

Anyone else ever get in a hurry or am I the only undisiplined one?

Guess you're totally undiciplined and we are all perfect...

So get with the program

 

[Old Town]

I have good coil control relative to the position of coil to earth. Where I fall down is covering real estate in a planned manner. I tend to hop around and do not work in a precise way using surface grids and like that. I'm all over the place. This is like trolling for fish. Once I hit something good, I tend to stick to that area until I get bored. Then I troll around again.

OT

 

[m bryan]

Anyone else ever get in a hurry or am I the only undisiplined one?

Guess you're totally undiciplined and we are all perfect...

So get with the program

I knew I wasn't worthy.....

 

[stefen]

Go to your room...its time out for 1/2 hr...

I think we have all suffered th same problems from time to time...

 

[Swartzie]

A lot of this hobby is mental. Patience is the key. Get sloppy and you'll miss stuff. I'm most confident when I grid an area and take my time. That way I know it's been covered.

-Swartzie

 

[jeff of pa]

I tend to get sloppy at times and was wondering if anyone else does this?... So yesterday I slowed down, kept the coil level with the ground, shortened my swings(as to not end a swing at an angle,)and covered an area walking in a direction then recovered the area walking in the opposite direction and had a decent hunt......One of my biggest problems is I want to cover to much ground too quick.......Anyone else ever get in a hurry or am I the only undisiplined one?

Absolutely !

I start out Slow, Then get Sloppy
Walking all over too fast.
But IF Something Cracks the tone
I Usually stop & Swing slow over it
to see if it was just an Iron Crackle
Or a Good solid tone
I Swung over too fast for
the detector.

Nice thing , even with the Swingy Thingy
My detector Breaks my back if I Swing too long
without a signal or swing too fast for awhile.

This causes me to Slow to a snails pace
& Those Deep tiny High "Tweets" (For
lack of a better word for Silver Tones)
start popping up.

as far as Coil to the Soil,
When ever possable I Scrub
the ground.
The Sovereign Hates any air between
the coil & THe ground

 

[deepskyal]

Sloppy schmoppy...you're doin just fine. We all appreciate the varying techniques.
I jump from area to area but swing slow. Dont kno what makes me thing 1 piece of ground is any better than another.

Guess that's why sites will never be totally hunted...

Al

 

[Old Town]

Al, at times I think I jump all around just so I won't feel like I've completely denuded an area in a favorite park or school. Wishful thinking maybe. But to grid a spot out and really hammer it would make it dead to me going forward.

OT

 

[Dano Sverige]

I'm a "mow the lawn" type of detectorist and pretty methodical. Also i use a horseshoe type swing instead of the side to side swing..this tends to stop any coil uplift at the end of the swing. "slow and low..is the way to go!"

 

[bigscoop]

I tend to get sloppy when I'm fatigued and refuse to quit. I've even been know to switch arms where I have less coordination and control. Thing is, I don't really recall having found anything too memorable by pushing on like this, it's actually kind of self-defeating but I just can't make myself quit sometimes.

 

[watercolor]

The best advice I learned when hunting a new area was to establish some ground truth by digging everything for the first 30-minutes.

It gave me a good idea of WHAT and how DEEP the targets were running so I could adjust my techniques accordingly.

 

[theseeker]

It's funny you asked because yesterday my friend and I were on the beach and it had just rained. I detected the blanket line and he was on the beach slope that was being affected by the rising tide. He was moving down the beach at a pace 8 times faster than me and swinging like the devil was chasing him home. His form was bad with his coil sometimes 6 to 8 inches off the ground. I was wondering what he thought he was going to find. (LOL). I try to keep my coil as close to the ground as possible and try not to move the coil too fast. I am pretty methodical when covering an area. I do sometimes zig zag the front slope of the beach to try and determine where different types of material with different densities have settled but once I find the line I want I typically move fairly slow and cover all of it moving down the beach. I figure any patch on that line could be as productive as any other. If it's within the signal range of your detector, just got to get the coil over it.

 

[stefen]

Sloppy detecting is when using identical equipment, and you are following the person in front of you, and get many hits he missed.