z118
01-25-2012, 07:08 PM
Finally getting around to a year end summary. I still haven't figured out how to stick pics in the middle of a post so I'm going to leave the pictures at the end and let them speak for themselves.
Long story short, this was a tough year detecting wise as a slew of events and conditions conspired to restrict my detecting... everything from weather to work and life in general. So I got out less than other years, although the mild December did help. Also a factor is the fact that I've hunted all my favorite spots absolutely silly. I've always been a coin shooter more than anything else, but that stops being as much fun when you don't have a good number of sites that produce coins at a worthwhile clip. So I've drifted a bit more towards the old coins and have started hunting some new types of spots that I would have always avoided until now. We'll see what the future holds with that I guess.
In terms of numbers, I dug 6,728 coins total this year. The clad added up to just over $500. That total includes about 400 wheats, 20 nice older coins, and 78 silver coins (a best for me for silver). I dug 45 pieces of non con silver and only 5 pieces of gold. I didn't get any great relics this year but I included a pic of some neat buttons just for good measure.
I did get my Dad into detecting this year though, and that's pretty cool. He's about as obsessed with it as I am now. I also started using a Propointer (a gift from my Dad) and that has been a huge improvement.
As always, I had a blast digging. Metal detecting is quite the hobby. Thanks as always for the conversations and stories and tips on the forum. They are always much appreciated.
happy hunting!
EDIT - to clarify, the second pic is wheat pennies, grouped by decade. The first pile is unreadable dates.
Long story short, this was a tough year detecting wise as a slew of events and conditions conspired to restrict my detecting... everything from weather to work and life in general. So I got out less than other years, although the mild December did help. Also a factor is the fact that I've hunted all my favorite spots absolutely silly. I've always been a coin shooter more than anything else, but that stops being as much fun when you don't have a good number of sites that produce coins at a worthwhile clip. So I've drifted a bit more towards the old coins and have started hunting some new types of spots that I would have always avoided until now. We'll see what the future holds with that I guess.
In terms of numbers, I dug 6,728 coins total this year. The clad added up to just over $500. That total includes about 400 wheats, 20 nice older coins, and 78 silver coins (a best for me for silver). I dug 45 pieces of non con silver and only 5 pieces of gold. I didn't get any great relics this year but I included a pic of some neat buttons just for good measure.
I did get my Dad into detecting this year though, and that's pretty cool. He's about as obsessed with it as I am now. I also started using a Propointer (a gift from my Dad) and that has been a huge improvement.
As always, I had a blast digging. Metal detecting is quite the hobby. Thanks as always for the conversations and stories and tips on the forum. They are always much appreciated.
happy hunting!
EDIT - to clarify, the second pic is wheat pennies, grouped by decade. The first pile is unreadable dates.