I ask this because over the past month I have been out on average 6 days a week for about 4 hours at a time detecting and have not seen another detectorist. I bought my first MDer over 10 years ago, but just started detecting hard the last month or so, I can`t say I have seen many out detecting over the last 10 years. If they are not out there are my hunting areas hunted out? I have not made any big finds, just enough clad and a couple of rings, to keep me interested and going back. I think my lack of a nice silver find is due to me still learning, or are these sites hunted out?