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Competition Hunting. I think the best way to do this is for me to tell you what I think I know, and you who have the experiance to tell me if I'm right, an fill in the blanks for me. I was planning to attend a hunt but had a fairly bad accident that has kept me down for a few months.
I think it works like this, you all line up in a line, shoulder to shoulder, and start detecting when the whissle blows.
question: Is there a lane that you need to stay in, or can you go any where once you get started?
I think you need to work on your retrival methods, such as fast pin pointing, and removal. The more you retrieve the more you get, but please share with me your retrival methods that you feel have made you a success in competition hunts. From the time you identify a target, please give me a blow by blow discription of your retrieveal method.
question; How deep are most of the targets?
question: What type of grownd are you usually digging in? grass., or just dirt
question: Are the targets burried enough ahead of
time so you can't tell where they are?
question: What is the best retriveal tool, and why?
The detector that I have chosen to do these hunts is the Eldorado, but any info that you can fill in for me will be appreciated.
Thanks ALL

 

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One more thing, on setting up my Eldorado for a hunt I plan on setting it up to where the arrow on the discrimination is used.
I will be comp hunting in S Califoria, which are there more of tokens or coins in your experiance?
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[Anonymous]

Hi James, it has been some years since I've comp. hunted.I've seen hunts where the coins were just throwed on top of the ground or buried 1" or 2".Also depending on who's burying the coins they may be deep or standing upright.People would take a knife. stick it in the ground and drop the coin in.Most hunts get volunteers to bury the coins, 15- 20 people to bury several thousand coins.Many times you can see the small plugs where the coin is buried if the grass is thin or bare ground.most time the coins is buried either the day before or an hour or two before the hunt.There's mostly coins with some tokens with stamped numbers assigned to prizes.When the hunt begins you can go any direction within the hunt field.The hunting is very fast the first 15-20 minutes then finds will start to slow down.You can practice by tossing a given number of coins in an area see how quick you can find them all. Good Luck Jerry

 

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