do you document your finds?

[GRAY GHOST]

hello everyone. do you document your finds? how important do you think it is? do you think what you document now will be relevant later on? i went for many years without documenting a thing. as i get older, i've noticed my memory isn't as good as it used to be. i'm paying dearly for it now. i finally started to write everything down and trying to preserve the pieces in my collection during the winter months. it's the old game called catch - up. i understand treasurefiend has a good spreadsheet for finds, but i'm not ready for that yet. your thoughts on this matter, please. hh,

 

[Cosmo]

So far I

 

[JoanInCreek]

I keep a notebook and note what i find at different places.

 

[BH-LandStar]

I have not found anything significant enough to warrant keeping a log...Most of my finds have been clad and junk...No Gold, and very little Silver...Hopefully when the Land Star comes back from First Texas, we can change all of that...

HH,

BH-LandStar

 

[dobbie]

i like to take pics of my finds and to date the pics. keep them it a scrap book with the info...what machine, where it was found. how deep, and maybe any research i have done on any item...not so much for documentation but also for sentiment reasons. look back at what i have found.

 

[dougmoore34]

Well Sir the thought has crossed my mind that a spreadsheet or notebook would be really cool. The reality of the situation is me throwing my goodies in a treasure chest whenever my pouch gets full enough to force the extra effort from me. Who would care about my notebook in 20 years? Nobody at my house. Would a notebook require time and effort? Yes and I would rather be hunting, napping, etc. For me it's enough to know that my treasure chest is filling up. Who cares. I don't even post much anymore about my finds. I started taking it all very seriously so not posting has eliminated my having 'bragging rights'. I needed that. I would however build a small shadow box IF I ever found anything worthy of such an honor...that might get me to write.
HH,
Doug in OR

 

[BH505Man]

I keep a small spiral notebook that I keep a log of my finds in. In my log I write the location searched, date, items found, detector settings used and any special notes or things of interest. I also make notes of posible future search sites, contacts etc.

 

[mudpuppy]

I kept track of clad last year just for giggles.. wrote the date and denominations and all that into a spiral notebook...It was a good thing to do just to set a goal and see exactly how much clad a guy could grab in a typical year hunting...I water hunt all summer, so not much clad during those months, but just generally dinking around, I got 10,200 coins for 802.16......really poured on the effort in November I recall, and went right up into late december to hit that 10K...so at least now I know...I did not keep the notebook though, it was just for my own idea how much clad can a guy get if he had to?
Mud