A Question for JamesND

[montanagold]

Truth is, I believe that if I was traveling and got stuck in any one of the forum members towns especially James, they would bend over backwards to make sure I was taken care of. As I would do the same. everyone has been upfront and honest and we enjoy talking with each other, lets keep it that way. If your obsession is Poker then I am sure there are plenty of sites out there full of people who like to sit at a table and give their money away and I'm sure they would love to hear from you. We are detectorists searching for that next surprise that we find in the hole, we don't do it to get rich or become the next Poker star we do it to see what we dig up next.

 

[RVL]

We all thank you Maverick for keeping the internets safe from evil silver finders. Your poker analogies are top notch and we need more people like you on this forum

 

[Shambler]

No offense to James, my statement isn't personal

Why would he be offended that you called him a liar?

 

[crazyman]

If you're not willing to take the time and spend long hours at the local library pouring over local history books, old maps and scanning through old newspapers or your afraid to knock on doors you will never have these types of finds. I enjoy the research part of this hobby as much as the actual hunting. About 50% of my time is spent researching through reading and the other 50% spent on leg work knocking on doors and actual hunting. I have a collection of history books and maps that would rival our local library. You wouldn't believe the amount of old areas out there that may never have been hunted because they no longer exist today. A snippet from a published diary from the past or a turn of the century news paper article could lead you to and old picnic ground or ball field that has never been hunted. You could be driving by one of these sites every day and not know it. I would never question James or anyone else on there finds as I have found old sites through the years that have yielded finds similar to these. Believe me not every site is productive but there are still old areas out there to be found if you work for it.

 

[Maverick]

Howdy James,

Thanks for your reply. Let's do the math (according to your own posts):

Let assume that you're driving 250 miles each way. Now I know that things are pretty spread out in your area so a very conservative estimate between sites is let's say 20 minutes. And let's say you hit 15 sites a day which is on the conservative side of your 15 - 20 sites. Let's also assume that you're sleeping 6 hours. So your non-detecting time per weekend day is 500 + (15 * 15) + (6 * 30) = 1085 or 18 hours of travel and sleep time. That leaves you about 6 hours of detecting time per day in which you find about 50 good targets per day (again a conservative estimate). So that means you're pulling a wheat, silver coin, ring, or relic on the average of about once every 7 minutes, again this is a very conservative figure. And your buddy Tim is also finding, according to your posts about the same amount of stuff that you do, though usually a little less (other than the time he found 4 seated coins in 15 minutes a few weeks ago ). Now James these timings don't include eating, using the bathroom, walking and setting up your detector, and socializing with anyone in anyway which brings you in the range of finding a keeper every 5 minutes or less (if you include Tim that's on the average of every 2.5 minutes) every weekend for the past 20 weekends.

As my old pappy used to say: That dog don't hunt!

 

[Maverick]

I'm James Garner! (the REAL Maverick)

 

[James N.D.]

Some of these people on here that don't believe it can be done will always think that way and if you were to take them to a site that was never hunted or barely hunted and they started to find Silver all over the place, they still would sit and argue that it can't be done. I just wish I had a ton of money and knew where some of the non-believers lived because they would be in for a rude awakening when I showed up and found some sites that still had what they could only imagine existed. I guess you can't get thru to some of them and if they want to be that way, negative about everything, they need to get out of this hobby and find a new one all together. Now remember.....you can always go buy a few Silvers fella's (that don't believe) and maybe then you would have a positive day for once and possibly make a friend. Now with that said....thanks again for the response Crazyman! If what you said won't compute to them, nothing will! Good Luck and HH to you.

 

[James N.D.]

(mad) when they see my next post! Did so well this time, I can't believe it! Good Luck and HH to you Grumpyolman.

 

[jeff & Maria]

n/t

 

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

If you've been watching the forums for any length of time you would have seen others that also make finds of several hundred silver coins per year. I also know of a few other hunters that find 500-600 silver a year that do not post their finds.

The common denominator is a willingness to put on hundreds or even a thousand miles per weekend looking for new sites. Much more important than detecting skill. Anyone who has been the first to hit a site with an explorer usually can pull many good coins even from "worked out sites". If you find several sites like this in a day you can do very well.

Many of us remember the incredible finds Mike Moutrey would post several years ago. He put on alot of miles. And he is now finding that most sites he hits have been worked with explorers and the number of finds he makes now are much less.

But there are still virgin sites to be found, or at least sites that haven't seen an Explorer. And James also does a lot of historical research to find new sites.

Chris

 

[BiLL IL]

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