How often and how long do you metal detect?

Just curious as I am new... reading posts seems to show some go daily for a hour or so while others go a couple times a week but for longer periods.. Please enlighten me.. Thanks
Steve

No easy answer to this question oh by the way welcome to tnet some great folks here.  Personally I hunt all the spare time I have.

Thanks for the welcome, I have met a few members in person already and everyone here in all sense is good hearted people, what would you say is your average time spent?

Hola from Colorado by way of Oklahoma, HunterSteve.  I don't really have a set schedule for detecting and the time I spend will vary, from 15 minutes to 4 or 5 hours.  If I find somethin I think is pretty cool, then I'm there for a while.  I'm pretty much shut down for detecting where I'm at now from about November to the middle of April, due to weather conditions.  Yesterday, I went over to the local tot lot and found some change.  I spent about 30 minutes.  Last week, I was over at Half Moon Gulch and started finding a heavy concentration of 45 caliber lead balls in one area, and did a systematic search of the area.  For about 5 or 6 hours.  So the time I spend varies, as work will interfere with it sometimes.

I try and detect at least twice a week between 5-6 hours. On days I can't be out the long an hour would be fine. I keep the short hunts for the kiddie parks.

How often and how long do you metal detect?

Its like sex, it whenever I get the urge until the urge is satisfied.

The older I get, the span of time incr....never mind

My main times is Sept thru April.....I don't like the vegitation, the insects and the heat.

with school, work and family obligations,
i can only detect a few times a month and
usually for only an hour or two.

Depends on how long my kitchen pass is good for then I usually exceed it by 2 hours. my average hunting is around 6 + hours

I usually hunt in the hot summer time.  But I go out before daylight and stay until about 9:00 or until it gets too hot.  I really love the fall but dang, it's rained so much and got cold so early this fall I haven't got to go as much.  When my health is holding and I feel Ok, I'd guess about 12 hours a week. Monty

How often and how long do you metal detect?

Its like sex, it whenever I get the urge until the urge is satisfied.

The older I get, the span of time incr....never mind

I know stefen. What you're saying is it takes you all night to do what you use to do all night?   
Monty

I know stefen. What you're saying is it takes you all night to do what you use to do all night?   
Monty

Or a Confusius (or Monty) said:

Once a Knight, alway a knight
Once a Knight is enough

 


 

I would like to go every weekend but would settle for every other weekend, but don't always make it. It is about 1 hr 20 mins drive time for me to the closest beach with traffic.

I am primarily a water hunter, if there are any reports of errosion on the beaches I am "in route". If a sub tropical, or tropical storm or Nor-eastern is forcasted I am gone for the weekend.........................

I'm retired, so I go as often as I can. With early life injuries, (war injuries, motorcycle wreck, stupid kid stuff) if I feel up to it, I go. Lately, have found others that have detectors, almost every day for about 3-4 hours.

My wife says "too often"       

A big, fat zero.....

Last time I was out was May 1st...probably a couple hours that day. Havent even been on T-net for a few months. Just didn't want to rub my own nose into my inability to get out.
I did renew my charter membership tho....would really hate to see this forum disappear while I was gone.

Work just went crazy and decided to lay people off and work the few of us left to death. Besides my regular 40 hours, been working almost every weekend and still have to deal with emergency call outs in the middle of the night. I've just been plain old exhausted....my detector sitting in a corner by the front door...battery's probably dead. What's worse...I had just bought the machine in March...a new Vision to add to my arsenal. Pretty expensive to just sit in a corner collecting dust.
The little waking hours I do have....well...you know life. Have to shop, do laundry...all those basics...just dont leave much time for a hobby.

Hope the economy picks up soon. Really hate things right now.

Al

As often as the weather and the wife (kitchen pass) allows me....

Just curious as I am new... reading posts seems to show some go daily for a hour or so while others go a couple times a week but for longer periods.. Please enlighten me.. Thanks
Steve

Both. For hours on end, when I can. For short jaunts, when that is all I can manage.

My hunts are long. I have gone 12 hours in a day. Just done one sunday for 9 hours. You either love this hobby and treat it like an addiction or you'll fall off in the cracks sooner or later. And I'm married, too

My hunts are long. I have gone 12 hours in a day. Just done one sunday for 9 hours. You either love this hobby and treat it like an addiction or you'll fall off in the cracks sooner or later. And I'm married, too

Interesting "either - or" imagery, but not entirely correct. Like all absolutes, it isn't one.
I've been detecting for well over 20 years and I don't treat it like an addiction, all the time. I hunt when I can, as long as I can. If it is for an hour or a day, so be it.

I try to get out once a week for a couple of hours at a time......Matt

i have been out maybe 5 times in the last 3 months and usually no more than 3 houses from my house from 12 to 330 when the kids get off the school bus they stop by say hello daddy give me the keys and can i have a snack yup but get the homre work and chores done before you go out to plsy snd i get home about 30 minutes later clean my finds and mom walks in the door but i am goin to hit the grass way in front of the local masonic lodge and the lot next to it next week and get permission to swing around the building itself never know might find a masonic penny of course it isnt the original i am doing some research on where the original one for our area was 

i used to go out for a hour or two about 3 days a week then the weekend i spent many 6 to 7 hour days hunting. that was 10 years ago ---now my body wont go that long.lol  i am lucky to get out once a week . now that fall is here i hope to get in more days each week

I am laid off and detected 7 days a week for up to 5-6 hours a day all year. But I went back to school full time as of september so now I can only hunt thursday afternoon, friday, sat, sun.

I was getting in about 35-40 hours a week, now I am down to about 15-17 hours week. I am addicted, I love digging up stuff, when I am not detecting, I am thinking about detecting....

I have got about 2000 hours detecting time this year.....lol

Just got my ACE 250 2 weeks ago. Been getting up early every morning to go hunt before work for an hour. 

Also been going every Sunday for about 4hrs.....

Man I'm hooked......

2 to 3 hours every available Saturday morning