I never was a big fan of gridding(preferred to just wander around) but today changed my mind, I decided to go out detecting even though we had a dusting of snow on the ground, after walking about 60 feet, I looked back and after seeing my tracks in the snow I decided to move over a few feet and work my way back to where i started, then kept repeating that routine over and over till I had recoved 31 coins, and a nice pendent,, now I had covered this ground to death just wandering, I cant wait for the weather to finnaly break and set up some string and really give this place a work over.
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Gridding
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BarberBill
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That's an eye opener. The snow certainly helped to keep you on course.
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In the summer, I drag my feet slightly until I get to the end of the path, then I stop my sweep on the side where I will going with the next path and leave it on the ground-being careful not to overextend. I then walk around the coil with it still on the ground and when I'm facing the direction I came from, I position my body to where the detector feels natural with the coil on the ground at this spot-as if I was sweeping-and square myself with the prints and notice a landmark in the distance correlating to this path. Then I head back parallel from whence I came. After a while, I just spin around and do it sort of naturally and it only takes a second or two.
Gridding to some makes detecting like a job. Bill Revis, the Garrett moderator on this site wrote an interesting article in Lost Treasure about ten years ago telling how gridding works. Yes, it does work. No, sometimes it gets tedious. Yes, if you want to make good finds in "hunted out parks and schools", you better be gridding. If you are running out of hunting spots, try gridding. Gridding will keep you busy for the upcoming summer. I grid every spot I go. Some of my hunting buddies find gridding to make metal detecting a boring hobby. Since I am retired, I have all the time in the world. While I detect, I take the time to talk to the people using the parks and the park workers. It is all in a days work. R.L.
For myself it was a eye opener,, Like I said I recovered coins in areas that i knew I had hunted over before,, even found a few pocket dumps,, 4 or 5 coins in a two foot area, I agree that it might sound like a job at times, but its going to get a good working out this spring,, I want to see exactly how much I missed just wandering around,, now I love to just wander around,, almost like deer hunting,, (that Gold ring or big buck is right over thre),, theres plenty of field there mostly used in the summer for the local footbal teams to come and practice, they spend a week or so on campus and practice daily,, so over the years its seen its share of crosses and rings lost from the head banging, (the change?) I have no idea,, but am still amazed at the depth i;m finding this clad,, 5 to 6 inces down,, and not one wheat yet,, but I have noticed,, not many zinc lincolns
Like R.L. and some others, I grid all the time. Gridding forces me to slow down and ultimately, helps me to better concentrate on every signal. Being retired, too, I'm not out to set land speed records. Just this morning, in fact, if I had not been gridding, I probably would have missed a 1950, 25 Centavos. (30% silver) It gave me just a faint high tone tic that if I had not been concentrating, I would have missed. In truth, I had missed it before, as I had hunted this stretch, previously. I, too, pick out landmarks for going in a straight line...if there is no morning dew or the grass isn't wet. If the grass is wet, I just follow the path I've made in the wet grass. HH jim tn
gordygroover
New member
If you really want to make your brain cramp do as I did last spring. I gridded a park (o.k. it was a chunk of it...maybe fifty by fifty in size) and dug every single beep in all metal mode. I was using my footprints in the wet grass as a guide. When that was done I just turned and went 90 degrees to the original path and did the entire stretch again.
You will be amazed how many targets there will still be.
And the people watching you will be amazed in thinking how boring your life must be.
You will be amazed how many targets there will still be.
And the people watching you will be amazed in thinking how boring your life must be.
I keep about 5 or 6 red poker chips in my pouch. They work excellent for gridding.
You just drop them on your left side, every 8 to 10 feet or so. Then when you get to the end, you just turn around on the other side of the chips and go back.... when you get to a chip, you just pick it up and put it on your left side again.
On your return trips you want to make sure you pass your coil over the "chip line" to be sure you haven't missed anything on the line.
You just drop them on your left side, every 8 to 10 feet or so. Then when you get to the end, you just turn around on the other side of the chips and go back.... when you get to a chip, you just pick it up and put it on your left side again.
On your return trips you want to make sure you pass your coil over the "chip line" to be sure you haven't missed anything on the line.
to grid with.
I also use my witts like old Slingshot.
I don't want to carry anything in tha field
that I don't have to.
I want to carry things out.
I have been gridding so long, I can do it
in my sleep.
It is no extra chore, because it is what
I have always done.
Not to say that I don't just wander around
lookin fer hot spots sometimes. I do that
also.
Ya gotta be versital.
Happy Huntin,
Tabdog
I also use my witts like old Slingshot.
I don't want to carry anything in tha field
that I don't have to.
I want to carry things out.
I have been gridding so long, I can do it
in my sleep.
It is no extra chore, because it is what
I have always done.
Not to say that I don't just wander around
lookin fer hot spots sometimes. I do that
also.
Ya gotta be versital.
Happy Huntin,
Tabdog
When you think you've covered an area real good change directions. You'll get even more! I learned a long time ago how to plow a field perfectly strait. Center up the tractor on one end of the field. Pick a landmark in the distance like a tree, fence post, tower etc. Start driving right toward your target. Do not look back because you'll get a wiggle in your line. I never took my eye off of the target. When I got to the end of the field it looked like I snapped a chalk line. I use the same method when hunting a large area. Ball fields are easy. I usually start next to a fence and move all the way down. Then move over a sweep width. Then site something in the distance to keep me strait. Move across the field in one direction. I find that following lawn mower wheel marks are good too.
Thanks, Tab. They said I was only half-witted in high school.tabdog said:
I have nuthin' against the gridders-but I figured it would take half my detectin' time setting all that stuff up-so I either slightly drag my feet enough to drag down the grass or hunt in the a.m. when there's dew on the ground, or in tot lots where the prints show up as good as they do in the dew.