Swing left- Dig right ???

[barberx]

Several years ago when I was more active I attended several hunts and discovered lots of contest hunters swing left handed and dig right handed. I adopted this and really works well. Now with age and really bad shoulder I can't do it, need that right arm and shoulder to swing and lay detector down and dig with right hand.
What do most of you do ?????

While thinking back I also remembered those tiny little repeatable signals that turned out to be silver dimes with the old single tone machines and the knock you headset off that was always a screw cap ...and digging silver was no big deal at all. OH the good old days :>).
Richard waiting on an Edge ID to make it happen again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[deerman]

I'm a switch hitter, swing the detector with both arms and dig with what ever hands the digger is in at the time, and yes i too swing the mighty I.D. Edge sword and i think you will like it alot just this weekend the total was $18.42 and 5 rings two toe rings two silver rings and a junker in six hours detecting

 

[Bling]

age is a good thing and bad.I'm 60 and hurt every where! i have tore cartilage in both shoulders and tennis elbow..i use the Swingy/Thingy..if not for it my hunting time would stop about 1 hr in to hunt from pain.with it i can hunt for about 3 hrs before pain runes me off the beach! i only see it getting worse from here,but thats life i guess.

 

[AllenOK]

I swing right and dig left. I use a Lesche hand digger, and have it mounted on my left side. Since the serrations on the "blade" are on the right side, I dig a "flap", starting at the top left corner, and procede to cut the "flap" counterclockwise. This way the serrations act as a saw to cut through this tough Oklahoma sod. I've done this for so long, at one time, I could detect, pinpoint, drop and recover, then fill in the "flap" in just two minutes, sometimes less if I got lucky.

I'm just a young pup by your standards. I'll turn 35 in March. But, I can already feel "age" starting to creep up on me.

HH from Allen in OK

 

[barberx]

Allen, probably takes me 2 minutes to kneel down :>),
I like that Lesche too, I carry small screwdriver for pinpointing and a bigger one to try and flip shallow coins out. We are so short on rain soil is super hard.
HH to you too.
Richard

 

[Uncle Willy]

I'm ambidextrous so switch back and forth but usually swing with my left mostly.. I can hunt a lot longer that way. Yeah I remember the days when you could practically scoop the coins up with a shovel. What happened to those great days?

Bill