I read a post on here a not too long ago where a fellow CRHer was doing 45 boxes of halves a week for the past 9 months. Thats 180-225 boxes a month.I don't recall anymore ,but I thought he had mentioned getting 350 keepers a month out of that. I'll bet there are plenty of people out there with special arrangements doing this amount or more every week.
In my opinion the silver supply is drying up. I think road trips are the way to go, but only if you hunt in an area where the tellers don't have a full set of teeth, and read your drivers license upside down.
Here in CT. many of the tellers that they are hiring look like the Coast Guard just fished them out of the water from a sinking banana boat. Can't understand a word they say,but they sure as heck know what silver is.
My last road trip I took I ran into a teller who greets me with a smile. All of his teeth are filed into points, just like a cannibal from the Congo. I asked him for halves. He says'' Aya Aya I keeps da silba, Aya Aya. I got out of there before I ended up with the carrots and potatoes in the stew pot.
HH
Rich