I printed my averages in one of the posts below, I was wondering if you could if you still have your logs tell me what kind of percentages, not really interested in total coins you are/were hitting over that 10 year period. I actually thought my nickel average had improved from earlier in the year. But i do know when I am having a good day I normally have more nickels too!
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"I printed my averages in one of the posts below, I was wondering if you could if you still have your logs tell me what kind of percentages, not really interested in total coins you are/were hitting over that 10 year period."... Glad to help.
Last year I didn't get out much at all due to my health, and it was my lowest year. Probably my lowest year ever! Due to very limited and painful movement (or lack thereof) I only got 914 modern US coins last year. That's it. terrible, I know, and it and the modest three years prior in the 3k and 4k coin count ranges really brought the total coin count down. But the percentages seemed to improve.
I will tell you that my biggest return in that 10-year tally was 1998 when I recovered 12,479 modern US coins. Sadly, for me, 7557 of them that year were pennies.
Actually the past six years are what have brought my "average" annual take down, but not all was health related. After working to get that number of coins in '98 I missed looking for (and finding) silver coins and some other older coins. I like to do both old coin searches and "flash money" searches. I lost my counts for 1999 and 2000 during a couple of moves, and in 2001, 02, 03, 04, 05 and last year I was devoting about 80% of my hunting time to ghost towns and older parks and the like in search of silver coins, mainly.
"I actually thought my nickel average had improved from earlier in the year. But i do know when I am having a good day I normally have more nickels too!"... Looking at the averages posted in the one I responded to, you show a recovery percentage of 7.8% in 5
Last year I didn't get out much at all due to my health, and it was my lowest year. Probably my lowest year ever! Due to very limited and painful movement (or lack thereof) I only got 914 modern US coins last year. That's it. terrible, I know, and it and the modest three years prior in the 3k and 4k coin count ranges really brought the total coin count down. But the percentages seemed to improve.
I will tell you that my biggest return in that 10-year tally was 1998 when I recovered 12,479 modern US coins. Sadly, for me, 7557 of them that year were pennies.
Actually the past six years are what have brought my "average" annual take down, but not all was health related. After working to get that number of coins in '98 I missed looking for (and finding) silver coins and some other older coins. I like to do both old coin searches and "flash money" searches. I lost my counts for 1999 and 2000 during a couple of moves, and in 2001, 02, 03, 04, 05 and last year I was devoting about 80% of my hunting time to ghost towns and older parks and the like in search of silver coins, mainly.
"I actually thought my nickel average had improved from earlier in the year. But i do know when I am having a good day I normally have more nickels too!"... Looking at the averages posted in the one I responded to, you show a recovery percentage of 7.8% in 5
per coin average value. It seems in a nice range thanks to the dimes/quarters I have recovered. I am trying to decide what I should change my goal to for the year. My old goal was 5500, which I removed from my coin counter, I think some saw it as a way of just backing down and not going higher....I made that goal before I hunted at all this year and posted it then....
I average 60 coins per trip in the 3 hours I hunt. I hunt usually 3x a week and ends up being just around 10 hours. Usually one day I try to hit 100 coins each week so i stay out an extra hour. Based on numbers...I have been out appx. 65 times...so if I get out 130 times I am figuring I could hit 7800 coins. If i hunted longer I think I could easily hit 10,000. Not sure 12,000 is possible for me unless I really hit it hard and obviously for more hours a hunt. I do have two stretches of 18 days off in September and 18 days off in October....But within reason I think 8000, would be nice....but 12000 might be asking a little much....but now you put that number in my head! But December is cold here....but I did hunt in 15 degree January weather with snow on ground..so anything is possible!
I average 60 coins per trip in the 3 hours I hunt. I hunt usually 3x a week and ends up being just around 10 hours. Usually one day I try to hit 100 coins each week so i stay out an extra hour. Based on numbers...I have been out appx. 65 times...so if I get out 130 times I am figuring I could hit 7800 coins. If i hunted longer I think I could easily hit 10,000. Not sure 12,000 is possible for me unless I really hit it hard and obviously for more hours a hunt. I do have two stretches of 18 days off in September and 18 days off in October....But within reason I think 8000, would be nice....but 12000 might be asking a little much....but now you put that number in my head! But December is cold here....but I did hunt in 15 degree January weather with snow on ground..so anything is possible!
Let me first add that I prefer to set shorter-range goals rather than long-range targets. The reason, or one of them, is that we never know if we might get sick or if we might have a long stretch of bad weather, or if hunt conditions limit our success in the coming months, etc.
This is one reason why I figure in a Per-Target Value and use it to a degree as I want to try and keep my PTV at 5
This is one reason why I figure in a Per-Target Value and use it to a degree as I want to try and keep my PTV at 5