Hours detecting to gold found ratio

[Water wizard]

Hi guys, just out of interest I wondered how many hours on average you spend hunting per item of gold found. I just did 30 hours since I found my last gold, not that good! When I'm wading aboard in the winter it's more like 10. How does your hours searched to gold found ratio compare?

 

[Cupajo]

Will vary with the type of beach you hunt!!

"High end" resort beaches will usually produce far better than the "Mom, Pop and Kiddie" beaches frequented by working class folks.

My dollar value results for all the recovered items have been less than minimum wage since 1982.

It's not about the money that's for sure!!

When people ask me, "What are you searching for out there?, I reply that I am searching for a little sanity in an insane world!!!!!!!!

The result is usually a big smile, a nodding of the head in understanding and the question, "How much does one of those machines cost??"

GL&HH Friend,

CJ

 

[BootyHunter]

Too many:too few!!

 

[John(Tx)]

the one I go to, I will detect 3-4 hours and honestly, I will find atleast one piece of gold, sometimes a ring, other times it may be a small gold earring but I do find gold. I also find some nice silver rings. What a great hobby. HH

 

[Water wizard]

This is so interesting! I like your out look CJ I think you have to see it that way, and just enjoy detecting, the good finds are a bonus. John(tx) that's a good ratio 4 hours to 1 piece of old. When I wade I think it's about 8-1, at home in the uk it's 30-1! Paul from Venice (Italy) posts some brilliant finds, i'ld bet he is on 4 to 1 easy! If you remember scubadetector who used to post here, he was awesome! I'ld love to know how he's getting on. Mud, Plymouththian and all you other regulars on here, what's your ratio?

 

[mudpuppy]

Yeah, its tough here too...I try to read the signs and hunt the likely locations, and then more often than not, when I do find a ring, its a fake! That's frustrating, because I read the signs right, but the person I was hunting was obviously a cheapskate. We are indeed in a race against time regarding beach gold up here, sometimes I wonder if a fellow would be better off hunting the totlots and sportsfields and leave the beaches alone, but then, BANG! Huge gold shows up. It sure is a lot of effort and commitment to get out there everyday. Whats a guy to do? make the best of it in your given area and think a little about some of those hidey holes nobody has gotten to yet I suppose.
Mud

 

[seeker41]

"I wonder if a fellow would be better off hunting the totlots and sportsfields and leave the beaches alone".......

I already know the answer to that and im sure you do also!

lots and lots of new faces on all the forums and I wonder how long they will stick with it! as far as my finds to hours hunted ratio, I don't even want to think about it!

congrats to anyone that has beaches that are not constantly sanded in!!!!!!

chuck.

 

[Water wizard]

Yeah, I know what you mean! It's frustrating when you do a good piece of detective work and come up with fake stuff, I wish all you guys across the pond a nice bit of wind to blow the sand away and uncover all the gold that we know is stuck beneath it

 

[jyt2017]

CJ,

Nice reply there. Its true. We don't make much. Ok. One in a few land a 10k band...but those are far and few.

It is for sake of sanity...so true. hh an gl -Joe

Will vary with the type of beach you hunt!!

"High end" resort beaches will usually produce far better than the "Mom, Pop and Kiddie" beaches frequented by working class folks.

My dollar value results for all the recovered items have been less than minimum wage since 1982.

It's not about the money that's for sure!!

When people ask me, "What are you searching for out there?, I reply that I am searching for a little sanity in an insane world!!!!!!!!

The result is usually a big smile, a nodding of the head in understanding and the question, "How much does one of those machines cost??"

GL&HH Friend,

CJ

 

[JimGilmore]

The answer to this question is the same as how often do you find gold when you go looking in the desert.
It is alot likie the question about real estate.
Location Location Location.
In the last 6 months I have found at least 1 gold Item every month.
I figure thats about 8-12 days a month hunting from 2-4 hours each month.
When I go to the desert I rarely find gold with my detector.
But always get some color with the drywasher.
At present this year I've spent about 24 days looking for 3-5 hours a day and have about 3 grams of golds. I got myself a cheap scale.
But being in the desert I only travel to and from the claim every 2 weeks and do not pay rent or such.

 

[jyt2017]

I have gone 4 hunts without a gold find. Each hunt was at least 4 hours, with two being more like 8. So its been about 20 hours since my last gold find. The last ring a was a luck hit too. Second thing I dug up that day. Time est is on the conservative end.

Its tough to say. I know probably 2 nights this week I will be trying again.

Prior to last 4 hunts, I averaged 1 every 3.


I mainly water hunt.

Hi guys, just out of interest I wondered how many hours on average you spend hunting per item of gold found. I just did 30 hours since I found my last gold, not that good! When I'm wading aboard in the winter it's more like 10. How does your hours searched to gold found ratio compare?

 

[GeorgeinSC]

I spend most of my time detecting parks, playgrounds, around ball fields etc. It is over 30 miles to the nearest beach so due to the price of gasoline I do not go nearly as often as I would like. I have been detecting for one year this month and found my First gold ring (10k) last week. I have no idea how many hours I have invested in the hobby but I am retired and sometimes go three times a week. If I did not thoroughly enjoy the hobby I would give up as the finds do not make the hours invested profitable. But that next target just might be a valuable item. HH

 

[mgtmadness]

Maybe 3 years worth. Hours? No idea

 

[Water wizard]

1 out of 3 is really good Joe, I think that's the best I've ever managed, I was doing 4 or 5 hours each hunt. Here in the UK, I'm doing about 20 hours per gold at the moment.
Well done George with your gold ring, a 10k ring is a great find! I'm sure it will be the first of many! I hunted for about a year before I found gold as well. It's such. Great feeling, and like you say, you never know what the next find will be! Good luck guys

 

[EL Pulltabio]

There is a gold rush on the beaches. Last year I got
a dozen gold/platinum rings and that number was
half of my usual yearly haul. This year only 4 gold so
far despite improved equipment. I found that the idea of hitting deep targets
attracts most people. So, I fight the urge to work far out in knee deep water
realizing that it's hunted out. I stay shallow instead. This week, I hit two gold
bands. See my post "Fun at the beach" for a picture of the beauty I pulled out last night.
And yes, it was lost close to the dry sand.

 

[birdman]

I would say it is 50%machine/skill and ou can be at a hot beach with a poor beach machine or the other way around. When you hit a hot beach and you have one of the better machines with smoe hours of pratice then your in the money. So many hunters now a days makes the finds hard to come by..

 

[Water wizard]

Yes I think you're right birdman. You are on a gold rushlights now, long may it continue dude

 

[mudpuppy]

With all the new hunters out there...whats the easiest sand to work/wade? Think about it or watch the beach web cams like I do and see where the other guys are hunting...He's right, most people find it "easier" to work water waist to chest deep, beyond where the surf curls, and where the water aids in motion and buoyancy of their body, or the hardpack at the waters edge to about 10 yards inland up to and including the towel line depending on the slope, just like walking down the street, easy cruising all day long...the toughest sand to work is the fine powder higher up and the knee/ankle deep surf edge. Its just much more strenuous on the body to swing a coil in the shallow breaking surf, lots of falsing and chatter, and definitely harder to walk the high powder. As if gold is not hard enough to find, we are racing against everybody sweeping these zones without thinking about it, couple that to the fact that the typical gold dropper is being more careful with the real stuff and wearing junk to the beaches makes for one hard to find target. Perhaps a modified approach like he mentioned will help? Good subject!
Mud

 

[birdman]

I need to start spell checking more often..

I think most of the better finds are in the water but I have never been able to master the scoop... I think I just need to find the right one. I have had three and one was way too heavy,one too small and the one I have now is not at any type of angle to make an easy recovery.

 

[Water wizard]

Hi birdman, When I get a signal in the water I follow a procedure that works well.
1. Put your left foot along side the target so the target s in the middle of your instep.
2. Put the scoop level with your heel directly behind the target.
3.keep the scoop there, step away with your left foot and then step your right foot on to the scoop and dig.
4. Before you pick the scoop up put your left foot alongside again, and keep it there.
5. Pick the scoop up, detect the hole to see if you've got it. If you have shake the scoop. If not tip the scoop empty, check your singl is still at your instep of your left foot and repeat.

Practice chucking some coins in a shallow area and recover them by this technique without looking down to the water. When you've done 5 or so you I'll be awesome with the scoop! Just go super slow, and follow the procedure steps. It will work, it takes longer the first 10 or so times, but then you will get to be so quick and first dig often. Don't care what you recover just, be proud of how many digs it takes to get the target. If you take 5 minutes to recover each target you can only recover 12 targets an hour max. If you get it down to 2.5 minutes you can recover 24. Loads more coins and gold in the same hunt time, as if by magic!

I have got an advanced technique which I've never seen anyone else do, it s awesome, but I'll save that one, ask if you wanna see it! God luck mate, keep your streak going!