DFX-Gregg

[clondike clad]

I vote that DFX-Gregg is TOP COIN HUNTER on coin hunting for 2007
I may have found 1700 coins this years he is almost at 4000 coins
He may hit the 6000 mark.
GOOD WORK DFX-Gregg

 

[seek2find3]

I second that and also vote for DFX-Gregg. Way to go Gregg!!!

 

[DFX-Gregg]

talked with...I am not first but I sure dig enough pennies to feel like it! Last two hunts no pics been a little slow 86 coins in 6 hours or 14 per hour. Not happy unless in 25 per hour range. But thanks for the mention!

 

[UK Brian]

Interesting numbers. What is considered a good years total now in the U.S.?

When I first visted (late 70's,early 80's) you had the likes of Gene Coe finding around 10,000 coins a year mainly when his house building work fell off in the winter. Arnold Grieves hit 25,000 one year and had hundreds of rings and four hundred plus silver religious medals (over 10 years) which use to make me mad as I only ever found alloy ones.

This was before we had the supposed advantages of ID meters etc.
Are there that many more people detecting? When I spent a month working the West coast from north to south I saw no one detecting which I put down to my being on the beach at first light every day.

 

[DannyOcean]

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[Tin Nugget]

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[Hotcz70]

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[Monte]

"Interesting numbers. What is considered a good years total now in the U.S.?"... This is the toughie because a lot depends on the type(s) of sites you hunt AND the population density where you live and hunt.

For example, I just sold a fellow a Classic ID that I used to find the bulk of the coins I recovered from May 17th thru June 3rd. he lives in a smaller town in Eastern Oregon that's generally considered farming and ranching country. he doesn't have the number of sites to go hunt, and certainly not the number of people to frequent those sites and lose coins and 'stuff.' To him, finding $1.08 a day, face value, is a "typical" or "average" day. It doesn't take many coins to tally up to $1.08!

For comparison, most playground sites around here get hunted quite regularly. The advantage is that where I live in Portland, Oregon there is a much larger population and it spreads out into the populous metro area abounding in parks and schools that provide some opportunity. Yesterday, for example, I stuck fairly close to home but I know which playgrounds see heavier summer use so I concentrated on working them. Playgrounds at two high-use parks and two schools, all sites that I have hunted at some time between last Thursday and Monday. I gathered up 11 Quarters, 23 Dimes, 6 Nickels and 35 Pennies. That's 75 coins with a face value of $5.70 or better than 5

 

[UK Brian]

When I was in the U.S. in 2003 I was introduced to an how shall we put it? Older married couple who were still averaging 15,000+ coins (mainly East coast beach's I think) per year between them until they had moved to live with the daughter near Williams a year or two before. Not bad if your in your seventies. They had used their detectors as a main means of exercise and getting out almost every day.
Inland detecting/digging was to much for them but they kept the machines for any beach holiday that came up.
What was interesting was that they still used old Bounty Hunter machines from the days when they were metal boxed and of course non motion, which must be years back. They never saw the need to upgrade.
I wonder just what price people are paying by relying to much on notch and even running discrimination to cut out larger foil ?
I prefer P.I.'s myself but at the top of the beach the best machine I have is whats strictly regarded as a land/plough soil machine, the XP Goldmaxx, used in its all metal mode that has tone I.D. adjustable from small to medium iron.
The small silver coins and engagement rings that most machines slide over without a murmur, ring out. You dig the foil and ringpulls but then if someone doesn't we will end up with a solid carpet of them one day.

 

[DFX-Gregg]

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[DFX-Gregg]

Brian I do not hunt the beaches, just dirt! Well once in a while a volleyball court or some woodchip! I think it is just meant as a nice jesture!

I talk to a few on other forums that find more than I do. But also they hunt everyday! I only hunt between 8-10 a week! I would think averaged out per hour in dirt I am doing very well compared to their numbers!

 

[Monte]

First, let me respond to your response:

"When I was in the U.S. in 2003 I was introduced to an how shall we put it? Older married couple who were still averaging 15,000+ coins (mainly East coast beach's I think) per year between them until they had moved to live with the daughter near Williams a year or two before. Not bad if your in your seventies. They had used their detectors as a main means of exercise and getting out almost every day."... For what it's worth, that's part of the reason I get out and do what detecting I can ... exercise and relaxation.

To tally up 15,000 coins between two people is not a problem at all ... IF, and I say it again, you have the opportune LOCATION. Many popular East Coast beaches would certainly qualify as that, as would some coastal beaches in Texas and California.

Additionally, as you mentioned, they were able to get out almost every day, and beach recoveries can generally be the easiest so far as time consumption. Wood chip playgrounds are a close second, many ghost town sites have fairly easy recovery with loose dirt, and then you have the probing/plugging class.

I have some friends in their late 60's to late 70's who are in far better health than I am and are able to hunt long periods and get down and dig and stand like they were in their youth! I only have memories.
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"Inland detecting/digging was to much for them but they kept the machines for any beach holiday that came up."... Glad to hear they haven't totally given up on the hobby.
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"What was interesting was that they still used old Bounty Hunter machines from the days when they were metal boxed and of course non motion, which must be years back. They never saw the need to upgrade."... While it's not a Bounty Hunter, my preferred, #1 detector is a discontinued White's IDX Pro. Also on my list of 'favorites of all time' are the discontinued White's XL Pro, discontinued Tesoro Bandido & Bandido II

 

[UK Brian]

Thats one of the main points Gregg. On one of your posts on another forum you said you were averaging I think 60 per trip at that time. I can detect any day, all day. As I said at that time I can average 40 with a combination of beach and land detecting. Five days a week (I use to do six) and thats ten thousand a year but it really means nothing.
The main advantage I have is the ability to work fields before crops went in and even, if a beach was stripped, go down and clear it out whilst others would have to wait through to the weekend when it would often be to late for the land site or the tides would have brought the sand back in.
The other advantage is to have a reasonable selection of machines and coils. I have seven main detectors + old classics like the Treasure Baron, Compass 77b , Gold Mountain 1650, Arado's etc with many of them as I assume Monty would agree, outperforming the all singing, all dancing machines of today on certain sites , performing certain tasks.

 

[DFX-Gregg]

Funny you put it that way Brian! Most here in the U.S. cannot hunt five days a week every week and all 12 months!We have where I live 3-4 months that the ground is frozen and temps below freezing!

Sure I know of someone I talk to on a forum not sure he wants his name or location mentioned......so I won't mention that hunts daily and is already over 7,000 coins for year! But most are lucky like me to get out 3 x a week at most, some tell me maybe 1-2 times every 2 weeks! So once again the numbers what do they mean? You are right...maybe not a hell of a lot, but seeing all I am finding is clad, I need something to keep me occupied, so I set clad goals and hopefully it keeps an interest for me....

Oh good point about hitting areas during the week that others hit on
weekend. I do hit some areas and talk to people who frequent parks, beaches to see when the activity is.

Also now that Monty mentioned 12,000 what is most you found in one year?

 

[UK Brian]

Highest number for one year is just under 12,000. Worse, 1020 after the foot and mouth outbreak. No one could detect on land so were forced onto the beaches and it really affected them for a couple of years.
Hit ring 1400 last week. Means nothing because thats over thirty years. I didn't start counting for a few years as I lived miles from the beach and any land ring finds were brass.
Interesting thing about rings. One in ten twenty five years back were junk Christmas cracker/fairground type. Another out of the ten would be rolled gold over silver. The rest gold.
Nowdays I still get about one in ten that are junk. Not had a gold over silver in years and only two gold. The rest are silver which the young surfers seem to prefer. Older people still buy the gold but don't go in our cold sea preferring to jet off to Spain for a cheap week.
Price wise your lucky if you can get

 

[DFX-Gregg]

Interesting and I thought our jewelers were pirates! It sounds like they are wearing the eye patch when you walk in! If you still have a lot of your rings Ebay might be a good place to sell some. I recently sold a 10k ring I had, was just over 8 grams got $55 for it. Also I agree but am no expert about the irngs I have 14 for year 2 gold, a couple junk and the rest silver.

There is a place called Midwest Refineries last I heard they pay 94% of spot! Not sure what it would cost for you to send there, would have to be insured.

 

[UK Brian]

I was going to say that the problem is weight. We don't have 'class' 'college' or similar rings that have some real weight to them. But from what your getting it must also be down to original shop price. We have always been, tries to find a polite word, screwed, in the U.K. Fuel five to six times more expensive, detectors double the price with five year or lifetime warranties reduced to two etc etc.
There was a luxury tax on jewellery which gradually got extended to almost anything except food. This now stands at an extra 17.5 % on goods and services.
To still make an affordable ring the manufacturers either hollowed out the inside of a band or in the case of an engagement ring made it of hollow gold tube.
So the U.K. is not the best place to hunt for rings but we do make up for it with old items on the land.