Seeded Hunt. count or not?

[GoVidGo]

I thought I would throw this out there to see what you think? I try to keep an acurate total of what I find per year. Coin totals, silver totals, jewelery totals, silvers, etc. It's mostly just for me and to see how I stand for the year, what I got lucky finding, how I compare to last year, etc. Just for fun, but I try to keep it accurate.
I just went to my first seeded hunt and found a lot of loot. I just posted it over in "My Finds Today" section. (I forget the exact workding of the section...LOL). Please let me know what you honestly think.
I go back and forth on it thinking:
"you didn't traditionally find it, it was planted, so how could you include those?"...
"you should count them, as you found them, and they were placed as a challenge"...
"it kind of discredits what you found as who finds 5 ikes and 10 halves!?"...
"It's like someone telling you where a ring or cache was lost. you'd count it"...

Count them or not?

 

[ron_c]

Just "free ranging" coins count, but include the seeded hunt coins with a * (asterisk) by them.

 

[KinTN]

Not.
If you do, you have to count your entry expenses against your finds imo.

 

[BarberBill]

IMHO if you found it with a detector in hand even eyeball finds might be counted. However, if it were me, I'd keep planted hunt totals separate from "wild" finds. I attend several planted hunts yearly and have retrieved many coins from them, but haven't kept track of the totals, other than prize tokens.
BB

 

[mudpuppy]

Good question...I guess for the purist silver coin hunters, only wild coins would count. Otherwise, a guy could go to many planted hunts and do pretty good for the year without ever finding a wild one...I like the asterisk idea though, or keeping the tally separate. Its sort of like when somebody loses a gold ring on the beach, calls you from the exact spot with their cell phone and you come out and find it...great job, but pretty easy in comparison to finding a wild one. Don't get me wrong, those are wonderful posts to read and sometimes theres a small reward, but as with wild silver, theres nothing so sweet as finding wild gold.
Mud

 

[Roscue2]

I would include the finds in my mding notebook, but under a special caption such as "Seeded Hunt" with the date next to it.

 

[Elton]

Those are Store bought/ Private purchase, or donated pieces for a club hunt event.. Sure it's fun. But it isn't like you found a coin that was lost..

Your only claim to fame would be you were faster than the others cherry picking at the same event..

That said there are no set rules and if you want to say you found them detecting..Go Ahead.. You did in a sense..they just were not lost coins.... I would not for the record.. Only real in the field finds count to me..

 

[REVIER]

I found enough silver dimes in my clubs seeded hunt last Sept. to pay my $75 entry fee for this year's hunt...but I would never count any of them in my yearly totals.
I only count free range coins and other finds found in the wild.

 

[marcomo]

No, since seeded hunts are like big game hunting at the zoo...

 

[KinTN]

I've seen people count ebay-bought coin roll hunts in metal detecting contests, so if you Do count them, you are not alone.

 

[Steve O]

For your categorizing, I like the asterisk idea also.

 

[dirt doctor]

I thought I would throw this out there to see what you think? I try to keep an acurate total of what I find per year. Coin totals, silver totals, jewelery totals, silvers, etc. It's mostly just for me and to see how I stand for the year, what I got lucky finding, how I compare to last year, etc. Just for fun, but I try to keep it accurate.
I just went to my first seeded hunt and found a lot of loot. I just posted it over in "My Finds Today" section. (I forget the exact workding of the section...LOL). Please let me know what you honestly think.
I go back and forth on it thinking:
"you didn't traditionally find it, it was planted, so how could you include those?"...
"you should count them, as you found them, and they were placed as a challenge"...
"it kind of discredits what you found as who finds 5 ikes and 10 halves!?"...
"It's like someone telling you where a ring or cache was lost. you'd count it"...

Count them or not?

no !!! It took me about 5 yrs. to find my Morgan dollar out in the fields and 5 minutes to find a clad Ike dollar which entitled me to a Morgan dollar on a seeded hunt . I went to 3 seeded hunts and realized they weren't my bag . It just doesn't have the feeling of adventure for me . Those seeded coins don't get to be included in my find's albums just my general coin collection . To each his own .

 

[REVIER]

Hell no !!! It took me about 5 yrs. to find my Morgan dollar out in the fields and 5 minutes to find a clad Ike dollar which entitled me to a Morgan dollar on a seeded hunt . I went to 3 seeded hunts and realized they weren't my bag . It just doesn't have the feeling of adventure for me . Those seeded coins don't get to be included in my find's albums just my general coin collection . To each his own .

Feeling of adventure?
You should join our club.
Our seeded end of the year hunt consists of a field loaded with 1000 coins, some odd and end targets that win you special prizes, 105 tokens that would win you the main prizes, and one primed and ready blasting cap that detonates the moment anybody touches it.
Lots of fun!
Adventure...you bet!
Actually terror is more like it.
If you want to join and enter I can get you the number of our treasurer...We all call him "Lefty".

 

[dirt doctor]

Hell no !!! It took me about 5 yrs. to find my Morgan dollar out in the fields and 5 minutes to find a clad Ike dollar which entitled me to a Morgan dollar on a seeded hunt . I went to 3 seeded hunts and realized they weren't my bag . It just doesn't have the feeling of adventure for me . Those seeded coins don't get to be included in my find's albums just my general coin collection . To each his own .

Feeling of adventure?
You should join our club.
Our seeded end of the year hunt consists of a field loaded with 1000 coins, some odd and end targets that win you special prizes, 105 tokens that would win you the main prizes, and one primed and ready blasting cap that detonates the moment anybody touches it.
Lots of fun!
Adventure...you bet!
Actually terror is more like it.
If you want to join and enter I can get you the number of our treasurer...We all call him "Lefty".

Are you sure THAT'S why they call him "Lefty" it sounds to me like there's a lot of chain pulling going on here ? So what kind of main prizes does your club have , Rick Savage DVD's and " BOOM BABY " T shirts ?

 

[REVIER]

Hell no !!! It took me about 5 yrs. to find my Morgan dollar out in the fields and 5 minutes to find a clad Ike dollar which entitled me to a Morgan dollar on a seeded hunt . I went to 3 seeded hunts and realized they weren't my bag . It just doesn't have the feeling of adventure for me . Those seeded coins don't get to be included in my find's albums just my general coin collection . To each his own .

Feeling of adventure?
You should join our club.
Our seeded end of the year hunt consists of a field loaded with 1000 coins, some odd and end targets that win you special prizes, 105 tokens that would win you the main prizes, and one primed and ready blasting cap that detonates the moment anybody touches it.
Lots of fun!
Adventure...you bet!
Actually terror is more like it.
If you want to join and enter I can get you the number of our treasurer...We all call him "Lefty".

Are you sure THAT'S why they call him "Lefty" it sounds to me like there's a lot of chain pulling going on here ? So what kind of main prizes does your club have , Rick Savage DVD's and " BOOM BABY " T shirts ?

Chain pulling...widdle ol me?

Really, our end of the year festivities my club puts on are a blast.
A big family affair, and everyone brings some great food including some meat grilling onsite.
Last year was my first time, but they have been doing these since about 1976.
We have 2 large areas sectioned off and have two one hour hunts during the day, this is private land they have used forever and members cut the grass throughout the summer to pay for the privilege to use it.
No trash here, if you hit a target it is a good one.
They plant about 1000 targets in each site, and they include 105 pennies painted red and stammed with a number, wheaties, mexican one cent coins and silver dimes, sometimes larger silver depending on silver prices.
It is $125 to enter, but you get $10 off up to 5 for every meeting you attend during the year.
I used my 7" Compadre, didn't really have any experience in a seeded hunt but still did great.
I found tons of wheaties and those Mexicans, and enough silver dimes to pay my entry fee for this years hunt, and I don't expect to have to pay my entry fee out of pocket ever again.

I managed to also find 3 of those tokens and they buy and give out some great prizes for those tokens, each is called in order from #1 on up,
The first one wins the brand new detector grand prize...this year it was an AT Pro.

I won a nice glass front display case with a Barber 1/2 already inside, an Angus McKirk high quality river sluice and White's gold pan both worth about $125, and a fantastic top quality Bill Babbs travel beach scoop that sells for $189 at retail.
If you don't like what you win, lots of the members get together and trade prizes afterword.

Last year we had about 30 people enter these seeded hunts and for the first time every person in these hunts found at least one token...the first time this has happened since the club started in the mid 70's.

Great fun, looking forward to this years hunt where my experience will hopefully help me win even more.