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Detecting alone ....... or with a friend. What is your style detecting ??

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Elton

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For many years I detected alone. Mostly because no one else detected.

As the years went on people started buying detectors, and you ran into them in various places.

Friendships were born, and of course friendly competions were in place.

If you do not hunt with anyone may I suggest you give it a try... You'll enhance the hobby more..make great friendships..... and you will find it will actually get
you out detecting even more...

You will be just as happy when your buddies find great things as if you found them........ Nothing like seeing great things pop out of the hole no matter who dug it, and found it...

Another nice benefit is if you have three or four guys..Someone always has a spot to hunt...
 
Yes! On one of my very first times out, I ran into a guy sweeping, he was very helpful, we have since become good friends and even discovered we have fished together in the past...hes a water hunter pretty much only, so we maybe hunt a few times a year when the Big Lake is flat. I have ran into several newbies and try to strike up a friendly conversation when I can, seems the guys that get hooked on this sport, get hooked pretty deep. Schedules being what they are, its tough to line up anything regular with anybody else, plus the fact that totlot hoppin' is prety much a one man deal. I bet the old retired guys in FL get together all the time, and big beaches allow for that...I would think night hunting beaches as a team would work up here though..This forum allows for us to ALMOST become hunting partners, as we get to encourage each other and share stories, tricks of the trade, and finds.
Mud
 
I really love hunting with friends too. Even my kids. It's great to see what the other guy finds to. 2x the fun. Somtimes they find better things and some times you do. Plus it should get you access to more locations if your both looking.


Mike
 
I hunt alone 98% of the time. I usually go detecting when the opportunity arises and dont want to waste time calling people.
 
n/t
 
solo,but i have run into others on the beach and in the field....im willing to talk if they are ..... i tend to hit the field pretty early on a saturday morn...some times i get so psyched up im already hunting by 3 or 4am ,if a reasonably full moon .... i have taken some 1st timers out and that is fun watching them unearthing treasure...mostly though good meaningfull places to hunt are getting harder and harder to find....i did one time have 2 claim jumpers weasel into my corner of a colonial field,fortunatly i got a 6 hour jump on them..they didnt find anything worth while...
 
It's awesome to share my passion of detecting with him, as far as competition he let's me know when he has kicked my tail but when I get better finds he's not a happy camper! He then says my detector is better than his but when he out does me he tells me that his detector is better than mine and he don't want to hear that he was just lucky.
 
Most others only last about an hour, so I found it was best to go alone or I had to leave early. I meet a lot of hunters on the field and have had nice exchanges and even helped some.
 
I really enjoy detecting with someone else, but find myself going alone 95% of the time. Being lonesome don't deter me none though. Once I get to it I focus on what I'm doing and I'm just fine.
 
I go out mostly alone most of the time. However I've also ran into other detectorists in the field now and then. My girlfriend has been bugging me to take her out detecting one of these days, so, I'll probably go out with her soon. However I bet she'll get bored pretty quick, especially after digging for a few hours. Only one detector, and no guarantee we'll find anything good or not.

I actually wish I had a buddy to hunt with... There's a place I know about that I want to hunt in S. Florida, but it's in a very desolate place, practically in the everglades, and basically in the middle of nowhere. I think it would be a safer hunt if I had a buddy to go with. Could run into anything out there... Dangerous snakes and alligators, possibly even dangerous people.
 
I hunt solo. I never know when I might get a couple of hours free to go swinging. When I do get time I just go and stay out as long as I can or as long as conditions allow. If I feel like packing it in and doing something else for a while I can. If I get to a point in life where I can plan ahead more I think I would like to hunt with someone else.

I have been to places where I've wished I had a buddy with me. I'm sure you all have been to those places where you have to keep looking over your shoulder to see what the "shady characters" are doing. Then act dejected and pretend there really wasn't something of value in that last hole.

My wife tried it once and got excited after finding several coins. She was so sore the next day that she lost her enthusiasm and hasn't tried it since.....although she now considers my Time Ranger to be hers. She still likes to go with me occasionaly and sit in the shade and read her Kindle while I detect.

I bought my 8 yr old grandson a Bounty Hunter Jr. He loves to go detecting with me.......for about 15 minutes then he's ready to do something else. He does stay with it if he is finding coins. I think in another year or two he will be my hunting buddy.

BTW: Florida-Hunter, sounds like you need a buddy with a shotgun.

Happy Hunting!
 
Elton,even though I hunt with friends its nice to unwind and just metal detect alone.Lot of time is interrupted and wasted hunting with a group,LOL always one guy complaining and another asking you ever five minutes what you found? At city parks in high crime areas I try to find others to search with,which you can't watch your back and concentrate on metal detecting at the same time.HH Ron
 
I'm fine either way since my wife and i hunt as a team. She loves doing the digging and I'm not complaining! But the majority of the time we hunt with one or two other folks. We're all a good match it seems. We get in an area and spread out and sometimes compare signals and finds. We all are willing to do many hours when we're out. Everybody gets excited when there's a good find made.

This morning we'll be hunting solo until mid day when the others plan to hook up with us. It's all good!
 
I use to hunt with a friend of mine but over the years he lost interest. He goes out maybe once every two months. If he doesn't find something good in the first hour or so, he gets bored...maybe because he's single and has other things on his mind.
My wife won't even try the detector, says she has zero interest in it...that's fine, no biggie.
My 28 year old son went out with me a couple times, and he seemed to get into it. I was hoping he would find an old coin to spark more interest.
I do miss looking across a field seeing my buddies arms pumping up and down signaling that he found something good. Or calling me over to see what my thoughts are over a certain target.
I'm not complaining, still enjoy going out by myself, still a thrill for me.
 
When I land hunt, I do it with friends. I even water hunt with friends. BUT all my friends wade and I dive. I have a few underwater parks I will keep totally to myself. When you find where a old swim platform was in the 30's - 50's you really want a small spot like that to yourself. I have stumbled upon very old swim areas and have told others and soon everything was gone. That's not happening again. If anyone knew how long it takes to find something like that. Its like some of you relic hunters in a field. Going fast and in a pattern till you hit something and then slow down because a house or some other gathering place used to be there. If your with somebody and let them know, you want to keep that area to just yourselves or a VERY few people. Now try that underwater and find where an old church camp was or an old beach which is now in somebodies back yard. It won't be that big of area AND I have had the most unpleasant experience of a friend taking his other friends and cleaning what I found out so the signals are mostly gone.

I have met a new friend this last fall and he is a diver. I think we will work out as a team most the time. I am positive he will keep to himself. A few of the places I go to I look for new drops, But a lot of the places I discover have never been touched. When you can pick up 18 - 44 silver pieces in one dive along with 3 - 6 gold rings, LOL its hard to want to share!!!!!
 
Hi Elton, Well said! VERY well said!, and no better advice could be given to all our Noobee friends! My early days too were spent all alone for many of the the same reasons as were yours. I was always a" loner"even as a kid with no brothers or sisters, or father, and had grown up accustom to,and being more comfortable in doing things alone. I finally learned though that buddy hunting is altogether much more the way to go, if possible, and you explained the reasons why perfectly!! Thanks Elton, I appreciate your comments and am sure there are and will be others also that feel the same. HH,Charlie
 
n/t
 
I love to hunt with my E-Trac buddy.....but I find the really good stuff when I hunt alone. More focused and I follow my intuition.
 
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