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Do you keep a journal?

For me keeping a journal is part of the hunt, actually it is part of the hobby for me. I track just about everything, date location, detector used, finds and comments about the hunt. I started back in the 70's using a note book, now I use a spread sheet and I close it out at the end of every year and start all over again with the first hunt of the next year.

Ron in WV

Welcome to the forum.
 
I do. Date location detector used and what I found. Its fun looking at it in the winter.
 
Most definitely (or rather my wife has for years).----She was working on it just tonight.-----That journal she keeps up can tell you dates of hunts, sites detected, detectors & coils used, finds--the whole shooting match--very detailed.------It is invaluable & we refer to it all the time.
 
For me writing was always a chore that I did my best to avoid. I struggled to get thru various English (Writing) classes in school up thru two years of college.

Since for me keeping a journal would be more work than I care to encounter I do not keep a journal.

The only thing I keep track of is the number of dollars in coins that I find.
 
Really. Isn't that just a bit overly obsessive.

LOL.

This from a guy that just spent all night M/D the park in my back yard.

Now who's the real nut case?
 
:biggrin: We're ALL obsessive nut cases my friend----but ain't we havein fun!!:thumbup:
coondog said:
Really. Isn't that just a bit overly obsessive.

LOL.

This from a guy that just spent all night M/D the park in my back yard.

Now who's the real nut case?
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In 2012 I tracked my daily finds in a notebook, wrote down the coin totals and amounts, I wanted to see just how much clad I could get, set a goal of 10,000 coins and made it happen...a little over 800 bucks worth...all the brothers here were cheering me on and tracking along with me the rising total! Luckily, the weather helped out!..

.It was FUN !....In that regards, this Forum has become my journal, I can go back into my saved photos and remember where and when and what the circumstances were on a particular day...

I was thinking this morning as I hunted one of my main beaches about how once a guy gets to know a place, theres a few really GOOD locations year after year...out of all the miles of barren sand, theres some real hotspots where people do certain things that precipitate a loss...trying to get my mind around this issue to be able to recognize a good location based upon the habits and travel patterns of people...I think a journal or at least some sort of analytical critical thinking after every hunt would help a guy 'see' things better as similarities start to emerge...to develop the right 'hunters mind' when a guy gets on site, so a fellow doesnt have to walk so much and just hope for a lucky hit.:rofl:.

Theres so many specialty subsets this sport affords that can be mastered, might be old silver, might be clad, jewelry, might be relics, or gold, or nuggets, beach hunting, or meteorites... If a guy can at least develop an analytical mind, it would sure help master one subset and jump on to the next, or settle in to what a person really enjoys and work it for Old Glory!...
Mud
 
Yes, that is part of the hobby for me. Nothing elaborate, silver, coins and jewelry, gold, older varieties of coins, relics and $ amount of clad. HH jim tn
 
I only keep notes on properties that have given me permission to hunt, along with parks and a list of coordinates. I can tell you the location of all my most important coin finds, by memory. Funny thing is, my memory on just about everything else is not so good....explain that.
 
Yes, I do! Simple like what I find, where, total of $ and date. Wheats, silver and anything cool then I marked on my map. One park map per paper! Cool to look at what and where I found in park on my map. Some hot spot on small area in park is because of people use this spot as picnic or backyard of old gone house, etc!
 
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