Hunting At Odd Angles Other People Don't Hunt At

[Critterhunter]

I know this has been touched on by me and a few others over the past year, but it's still a fun topic to bring up. More and more I'm trying to hunt at odd angles to nearby objects such as sidewalks, parking lots, wood lines, roads, and so on. It's natural human behaviour to do a parallel pattern to these objects. Less common but still done a lot would be to hunt at a 90 degree angle to those objects. When I remember too (don't remember it enough, though) I try to hit spots like this at weird angles to nearby landmarks such as this.

There are many masked coins out there that will only give you a good coin signal from one very specific direction, and that direction can be VERY small and tight...As I've witnessed various masked coins me and my Etrac friend were comparing signals on over the last week or so before digging them...Many of which did indeed turn out to be coins, but were a total null or real junky sounding from all other directions.

Even hunting a spot in the normal parallel or 90 degree angles there are still MANY of these coin signals out there that even hit good from those directions, as most people won't dig those signals. I feel in the future these are the only signals that are going to be left at most sites and it will become fashionable to be digging those all the time to find silver, because no more deep good coin signals will pretty much be left in the future, unless they are super deep and you have to be using the right machine and a larger coil to hit them.

Just saying...Even though there are still many of those one way signals left that will hit good at the "regular" angles people usually hunt, I'm sure there even tons more waiting for you at those odd angles that nobody ever hunts at. As very few people dig the one way signals when gridding an area in normal fashion (but some do), so there should be even more waiting at those odd angles that nobody at all tends to hunt at.

Sure, there are hard hit spots in extremely high competitive areas where even the one way signals have all been dug and are gone, but I bet if you hunt those sites at the "odd" angles you'll hit on more of those one way signals that those guys simply didn't see by paralleling or hunting a site in the other (90 degree) normal fashions.

Trying to make this "my religion" this summer. Odd angles while hunting for me for now on, just like the odd angles I use in conversations on topics.

 

[Ism]

I do a random hunt to kind of map out an area. A lot of times I make my best finds this way and its what stops me to grid the area.
Some area parks are so big than I never grid them, I just concentrate on the busy areas. The only areas I seriously grid are farm fields and soccer parks (my best jewelry finds).
However I would never use the Sov for soccer field hunting.
Unless a farm field is turned, the stubble forces a perpendicular grid. A bummer to be sure as I had some good targets right next to and under corn stubble.
I just happen to get a hit on the edge of the coil and then kick the stubble down. Thats what I love about the Sov GT, the huge footprint under and around the coil!
Most near surface targets won't escape its wrath.
My post is all over the map like my hunts...grin

 

[matthias]

Great strategy. I will do that sometimes. Other times I change detectors and/or coils. HH. Matt

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

Many beach hunters hunt parallel to the waves. This has an affect on the detectors preformance. The ocean and waves make a great amount of electircal noise. This may not be apparent to most. But if you hunt both directions over the same area in a checkered board grid you will surely see the difference in your finds both type and amount! BCNJ