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By the Acre
- Thread starter nad
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GRAY GHOST
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hi nad. an acre is 43,560 square feet anyway it's shaped. a square acre is 208.7 ft. x 208.7 ft. a lot of your answer depends on how fast you walk, how many digs you'll make, and if your swings are a constant five feet, etc. an acre takes me about 11/2 to 2 hours to do it well on average, and know that i'm missing very little.
i'd rather take my time on a wide expanse and recover all that i can with the 8" coil, than to question myself later about what i may have missed. a wide scan coil will probably work against you - theyr'e so heavy, and wear you out quicker. so, i'm inclined to believe that a widescan would slow me down. they can be difficult to pinpoint, too, eating up more time. just my two cents, and hh,
i'd rather take my time on a wide expanse and recover all that i can with the 8" coil, than to question myself later about what i may have missed. a wide scan coil will probably work against you - theyr'e so heavy, and wear you out quicker. so, i'm inclined to believe that a widescan would slow me down. they can be difficult to pinpoint, too, eating up more time. just my two cents, and hh,
Grey Ghost, thanks,I just could not get a mental picture on the area size..Mowed field, soccer practice and matches.Can be a thousand people there on a Saturday.Private property..Thinking that While the other character(s) bring up the coffee,I could start and plant flags,they do the probing,and recovery.....Holes not relished ,so we are going to give Jabbo's ring puller a try..At the end of the day, divide up.. That way it washes out fair for everyone.A major find is either auctioned off to highest bidder in the group or EBayed. Any way, by using a couple of reference points.I can see where you get your times...maybe a bit optimistic, but I am probably slower...Thanks again, cordially NAD
The photo from Virtual Earth shows a grassy flat across the street from the football stadium here in town. The area outlned in red is used for parking for home football games and the area with the 1 in it is used for tailgate parties before, and sometimes after, the games. The areas marked 1 and 2 each encompass almost exactly an acre. I hunted it back around 1988 to 1990 with a Garrett Master Hunter 7 and found hundreds of coins but didn't hunt it again until the middle of March of this year. The area marked with the 1 is where 95% of the coins have been found, I've spent most of the time hunting that area and counting pennies I've found at least $75 in coins, and most likely closer to 90.. The first hunt in March, all in area 1, produced 96 dimes, countless pennies, over 20 nickels and 43 quarters. Since then I've hunted it for anywhere from three to five hours a week, using three different detectors, and it's still giving up coins, including some wheaties and two silver coins. I spent 5 hours there Saturday looking for a silver religious medallion a local doctor thought he lost leaving the football game Friday night, and found almost $6 in coins. Went back for two hours Sunday and got over $2. I hunt slow, very slow compared to most people I know that detect, and it constantly amazes me that I miss so many coins, and I'm not talking about just deep coins. I've found coins barely under the surface of the ground in areas I've hunted several times. Grayghost said he hunted an acre in 1.5 to 2 hours and knew he missed very little. It takes me at least 10 times that long to hunt an acre, overlapping no more than the diameter of the coil, and I still miss stuff
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Some open areas take much longer than others.
I have been hunting an acre for a year and stuff still is coming out of it.
Others I can do in a a few hours or more.
A lot of fields you can search in all metal and you don't have to over lap as much.
But lots of dig will cost more time.
I am able to search easier than dig.
So lots of targets will take me a long time.
Happy Hunting,
Tabdog.
I have been hunting an acre for a year and stuff still is coming out of it.
Others I can do in a a few hours or more.
A lot of fields you can search in all metal and you don't have to over lap as much.
But lots of dig will cost more time.
I am able to search easier than dig.
So lots of targets will take me a long time.
Happy Hunting,
Tabdog.
GRAY GHOST
New member
hi jb! i'm glad to see your post. as always, i enjoyed reading it. i know that i stated it took me an hour and a half to two hours average to sweep an entire acre. i know that it sounds pretty optimistic. but, yes, on average, a couple of hours an acre. like most older hunters, i try to catch the feel of a spot and run off of that. i reckon it's a sixth sense i'm still trying to develop. fields out in the country around my area either yield a lot or very little. there doesn't seem to be an in between, it's like feast and famine.
lots of old iron and sometimes a nice coin or two will pop out, or the occasional civil war bullet or two. if old iron relics were in demand, i'd be a gazillionaire. there's been lots of times where i was diggin' so many relics and coins [good and bad] on a small plot of ground that i really thought i would never finish it! and it's really amazing how after a good rain or the farmer turns his dirt how new an old spot can be. sometimes, it's as though i was never there! targets and beeps everywhere! changing machines like you did on an old hunting ground gives good results, too. that's a lot of the reason i recommend to many people to own and use at least two machines. what one machine misses, the other will pick up.
you sure have found a lot of coins in that one spot! it sounds good, so it must be good. congratulations on all your finds, good luck and hh,
lots of old iron and sometimes a nice coin or two will pop out, or the occasional civil war bullet or two. if old iron relics were in demand, i'd be a gazillionaire. there's been lots of times where i was diggin' so many relics and coins [good and bad] on a small plot of ground that i really thought i would never finish it! and it's really amazing how after a good rain or the farmer turns his dirt how new an old spot can be. sometimes, it's as though i was never there! targets and beeps everywhere! changing machines like you did on an old hunting ground gives good results, too. that's a lot of the reason i recommend to many people to own and use at least two machines. what one machine misses, the other will pick up.
you sure have found a lot of coins in that one spot! it sounds good, so it must be good. congratulations on all your finds, good luck and hh,