Whats the record for a single day/year clad hunt?:shrug:

[mudpuppy]

Curious about a Big clad amount? Snowed in to be danged with nothing to do but think (and drink)

I know theres a few of you out there that I can remember...Larry and Nancy...BHlandstar, Asiandigger, Wandering Yoda, Zeek?..and I know John Edmonton has over 100,000 coins for his lifetime....

Anybody remember the most coins and $ amount found in one day/year by a cladder? Even somebody long gone whos post stuck in your mind?

Anybody ever get over 500 coins or over $100 in one day cladding? Even you Aussies and Canadians and you Euro guys? I would like to hear the stories about your experience please!

I suspect it would be from somebody hunting in the 70's or 80's and just really knocked it down!
Mud

 

[ironsight]

Here's the collective pic i took of all the clad for the 2012 season including copper pennies, the only collective pic i took as it was a messy PITA.
Was gonna count em and total it all up but my brain started to hurt just thinking about it.
About 70% found with my eTRAC and the rest with my ATPro.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o273/moparado/2012Finds4_zpsfc089e03.jpg

 

[Ed Steinhoff]

Mud, here are your stir crazy numbers!
My personal best day was just this last summer in two well hunted tot lots.
1 cent - 160
5 cent - 27
10 cent - 67
25 cent - 75
total = 324 coins for $ 28.40 plus 3 gold rings valued at $150, $225 and $350, for a total value of hunt at $753.40
That makes the day most clad found in one day and most value found in one day!!
I've been snowed in, froze out, since December also, hope this weather breaks soon!
HH Ed in co.

 

[RLOH]

Mud, I never kept track of coin numbers until my third year of detecting. At that time (199 I was using a Garrett GTAX 750. I had exclusive rights to a locked football stadium that was built in the 1930's. I got 225 coins in four hours on one particular day and I am positive that I had found more on previous hunts, but I was not counting or keeping track. In June of that year according to my records I found 3500 coins and over 9000 for the months of June, July, and August. Mostly clad, but an occasional silver and a handful of wheats. Those were the days, but with my sore knees and back, I would not be able to move for a week if I could duplicate a day like that. For my overall career counts since I have been counting: over 72,000 coins with 1422 silver coins, 6500 wheats, and 250 buffalo-V nickels. I had many years of over a 100 silver coins, but the last three or four the silver count has dwindled. Biggest silver years were with Fisher CZ's, Minelab Explorers, and DFX's.

 

[mudpuppy]

I remember that day of yours Ed! That one was really something! Anybody that gets a century day is dialed in, let alone over 300.....Thats a great shot there ironsight! A big stinky heap of clad! RLOH! this is what I want to see! a great backstory on a massive haul! For anybody that does 3500+ in a month?...inspirational!

Its sort of fun when we are snowed in like this to go back and read those old posts!

I remember reading a post a few years back by an Aussie who got into a schoolyard and knocked the hell out of those $1 and $2 dollar coins one day...I cant remember who it was though, or the totals.....I dont think I've ever read any that posted over 400 coins/day let alone 500...but I know they must be out there....somebody had to have been in the right spot at the right time?

From what I remember, BHlandstar consistently hit big clad for several years straight along with old silver and gold along the way...just trying to pattern success here...getting primed for when this weather breaks...how many of you have pulled 300+coins in one day? Anybody pull over 10k/yr? This site should dish out merit badges or something...or at least bookmark these kinds of days and finds posted for the tribal knowledge they contain...for the betterment of us all...
Mud

 

[Tom Slick]

I had over 600 keeper targets hunting the wet sand on a So Cal beach during a winter storm about 1990. My buddy Don Brown had more than I. Don also got over 500 Clad one day while we hunted a park in Orange County CA about the same time. Don has since pasted but I owe just about everything I know about detecting to him. A super friend, Great hunting partner and all around great guy.

 

[togg77]

A friend of mine hunted from late 60's to 1980-1 and had over 2000.00 in face value silver. Cashed in and bought a 35,000.00 motorhome--this was a helluva motorhome in 1980.

 

[Larry (IL)]

Wow, those were the days Mud........ now long gone for us anyway. Due to age and health we now hunt for the deep oldies and take what clad comes along with them.

But back in the day (10 years ago) when I worked night shift and hunted during the days, Nancy and I commonly found $50 to $60 a day plus jewelry with our Bigfoot coils, working the school yards and sports fields when school was out for the summer. I normally did not keep track of the numbers except for one year, I remember going over $1400 in clad and over 12,000 coins plus over 200 silver coins and jewelry, even some gold........... Since I have been hunting on and off for 30 years, it is pretty safe to say that I have hit the 100,000 coins milestone.

 

[daddyflea]

I consider myself very successful in this area as a metal detector. I have dug around a 100 coins per day myself. After that I am done, wiped out, regardless if it is money or not. I cashed in right at $90.00 clad for last year.

 

[ironsight]

The problem with totals found in the 70s for me is back then i didn't need no stink'n record or log books. Too much trouble.
My detecting buddies and i would detect all day and then afterwards spend some of that freshly dug up loot at the local adult beverage establishment.

 

[BH_Landstar_]

On average I can collect $1000 in clad / change per year. 2014 I had just shy of $860.00 in clad and I did not get out as much as I did the years before due to working long hours.

The most for one day has been around the $40 mark.

As for the gold, it's hit or miss, 2012 was my best gold year.

Silver finds have dropped a little, but that's because I've not got out much over the last year.

 

[coinhunterseth]

Not very much by your standards. My record for one day of hunting was between 19.60$ and 19.80$ at a baseball complex. The only parts of the breakdown I remember are the 46 Quarters, 2 one dollar coins, one wheat cent, and a silver ring the rest being a mixture of dimes nickels and pennies. I definitely broke 100 coins because even if the rest of the coins were dimes ( which they weren't ) I still would have had more than 60 more coins on top of the quarters and dollar coins. I love hunting baseball complexes, they are the best clad hunting locations I have found. I probably could have found more if I was a good cherry picker but I'm not. If it gives a good coin signal for any denomination including zincs I have to dig it. Mud, If you ever decide not to cherry pick quarters why don't you give your AT Pro a try? It works great a long as you don't need to tell the difference between dimes and quarters by sound.

 

[D&P-OR]

Hey Mud---this topic comes up ever so often & is always fun to talk about (I think so anyway).-----My wife is a retired school teacher--and you know how they are---they keep records on about everything!------Our best once in a lifetime (for us) single day coin number hunt was on 4/11/'08 and it was a total of 677 coins---186 quarters--230 dimes and the rest in nickels & pennies for the day-----total of $72.35.-------This was turf hunting in a park with swimming pool, school & venders came to all the time----also, was most assuredly never hunted before.-----I've never seen anything like it for coin numbers before or since!-----Since my wife started keeping records in 2002, we have recovered 134,216 coins (she just now looked in her log book).----Also, bear in mind---these numbers are with both of us hunting (not just me) and we almost always hunt together.------------Del

 

[mudpuppy]

All this is great!

Hey Seth, I know a few guys (asiandigger and yoda) who snipe massive dirt clad with their AtPros...I cant do it on account of what you mentioned, the D's, copper pennys, and Q tones all sound the same to me! The screen is so small, I cant see the TIDS...I dont know how they do it, but they do...so thats impressive work...

My F70 set on DP tones is my dirt rig, my Pro is my water rig...they seem to get along very well together, never fight each other for my attention, and respect each other for what they do... between the two, they make me one happy fellow!

A guy should get good at sniping clad just in case a fellow ever wanders into an area full of old silver and needs to make a massive haul in short order...massive clad grabbing teaches a lot of basic hunting lessons that translate across into other genres of this amazing Sport....thinking retirement income here...daily needs met etc....
Mud

 

[ChicagoJohn]

Lot of clad in Chicago Park! I don't do clad anymore because of my elbow. All of my time is to look for OLD coins! I found 35 cents without metal detector in Disney World!

 

[Dancer]

Happened about 12years ago, Early one nice Sunday morning hunted this small park near me. No luck at all till I neared the pavilion. Came across a big patch of straw. Started hitting quarter after quarter just below the straw. Couldn't lay the coil down without putting it on more. Ended up with $63 & 1 penny. I had forgot my finds apron that day. And was wearing elastic waistband pair of shorts. Talk about hunters crack! Lucky I got wasn't arrested.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I see that Tom Slick & DP have bested this, but ...... my best coin count in one day, was 466. That was during a winter storm beach erosion event of the 1996-97 storms. The only reason I didn't exceed 1000, was that I had only arrived at this beach at low tide time. So within a few hours, the incoming tide and dangerous swells/waves, were forcing me back on to the dry sand. If I'd started before the low, and worked it out, I'd have gotten many more. Many scoops contained multiple coins. Signals so fast and furious, you could barely swing without multiple beeps.

Amongst the 466 coins, were 46 silver , over 100 wheaties, and a 1914 $2.50 gold piece.

I've heard of some guys around here who approached 700 coins during storm erosion . When you start talking totals like that, it's sometimes conditions that are so thick they're sometimes putting down the detector, and randomly scooping in the bed-rock tide-pool pockmarks with their sand scoops.

 

[mudpuppy]

Butter my buns and call me a biscuit!

Truly legendary days!, those big beach storms and cuts! Similar to the stories of an old local swimming hole being drained, like pulling coins out of the fountains at the Bellagio! Well, it would sure be great to get a quad or a quint, just once!...its a respectable badge to get a century day a few times a year, something everybody can aspire to and have a decent chance of accomplishing...+200 is a super day, +300 is really something like when a fellow gets into a gated area, (with permission)...tough to do +200 on common public grounds running totters and sports fields ..

Man, if all the right conditions present themselves, and the stars are in alignment, it would sure be something to get 1000 coins in a day...that would really be a once in a Lifetime feat...might take a bit of research to locate a potential coin heavy area that hasnt seen a coil...it might be an innocent looking melting snowpile outside a highschool or someplace..or else underwater is all I can figure..still, a guy would really have to be dialed in and ready for such a haul to make it happen....
Mud.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Mud-puppy, the buddy of mine who was around 700 in a day, was at Seacliff beach during some storms that occurred in 1980 here. The erosion had scoured down to reveal some concrete K-rail sections, that had previously been buried in the sand. They were the result of some attempt, back in the 1930s, to create erosion buffers, to trap sand and help prevent erosion of the then-newly created parking lots & picnic areas. But as the years went on, these old concrete k-rail structures just got buried in the sand, and forgotten about. Till the storms of 1980 revealed them again. As the sand would go rushing out around these fixed objects with each wave's wash, I guess those acted as a sort of pole or gravity trap. Like one giant sluice-box fin!

My friend started getting more and more coins, the closer he got to this concrete thing. However, he couldn't swing right up next to it (where he could see the surf had scoured a turbulent eddy dip all along behind it.) Because it had rebar in it, that was setting his machine off. So , on a hunch, he took a random blind scoop at the base of the formation. And it had multiple coins in it! (and sinkers, rocks, etc...). So he put down his detector, and ....... for the next 2 hrs, just randomly scooped, without any detector, repeatedly all along the base of this. Eventually the incoming tide chased him out. But his final count was somewhere around 700 coins, of which 100 were silver, and 7 gold items (rings, and a Big Mr. T gold chain).

makes ya sick, eh ?

 

[mudpuppy]

Tom, I can see that as plain as day! Sometimes a guy hunts, and sometimes he just harvests!

Thats really the only way a guy could score a 'grand' just a once in a Lifetime situation where its a regular slugfest of coins and targets...that one would be very hard to beat..massive coins, silvers, golds..hot damn, I would love to read that post and see those pics!...friggin A, what a massive haul!.....is this even a possibility now a days?
Mud