What is your detecting style, grid the field or wander?

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

I normally start from gate to gate , then edges, then random.

[Debbie]

A bit of both - start with a wander then go on to more concentrated gridding - usually chanting "hammered, hammered, hammered..................." with each swing of the coil

[Neil]

I may be letting some secrets out now, but I always walk the perimeter of a field concentrating on gates in a new field - its obviously the path most walked. Who walks through a crop of fields and where do you think people rested or got paid at the end of the day, certainly not in the middle of the crop.

Then I tend to walk lines until I get bored and then wander aimlessly until I find a hot spot, then I grid for a while, until finds slow up and then I'm off wandering again! Don't tell Borderfox this though! - Casa knows where I am coming from!

I also tend to mutter to myself about what I would like to find and bizzarely it does frequently come true. Very Strange.

Cheers
Neil

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

I mutter a lot as well, though my muttering is normally about the fact ian Gadget has found more hammereds and I've found another lead blob.

[the sutt]

can i come with you next. me and my mucker dave try and walk in striaght lines but have you ever tryed to walk a striaght line forget it you"ll never do it but we do the best we can.

[jonny]

I like to go around the edges and particularly gate ways, my first year detecting i managed to build a masey ferguson.

[Gadget(Ian)]

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle in the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

For oft when on the couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils
THEN I GET A SIGNAL AND DIG DIG DIG

[Kev]

IAN think i will try it your way then m8

[waltonbasinman]

I may be letting some secrets out now, but I always walk the perimeter of a field concentrating on gates in a new field - its obviously the path most walked. Who walks through a crop of fields and where do you think people rested or got paid at the end of the day, certainly not in the middle of the crop.

Then I tend to walk lines until I get bored and then wander aimlessly until I find a hot spot, then I grid for a while, until finds slow up and then I'm off wandering again! Don't tell Borderfox this though! - Casa knows where I am coming from!

I also tend to mutter to myself about what I would like to find and bizzarely it does frequently come true. Very Strange.

Cheers
Neil

Pretty much the same as me Neil except the muttering. If the field is flat and has a low mound or a higher stretch in it I tend to head along to that part of the field and grid the higher spot of ground.

[Gadget(Ian)]

kev you could try in ever-decreasing circles its a bit dangerous though.
There is a legendary creature heard of in British student songs called the oozelum bird whose alleged habit is to fly round in ever-decreasing circles till it eventually disappears "up its own exhaust pipe". The symbolic quintessence of utter futility and hopelessness! 

[Kev]

nice one IAN , you imagine all of us at the next rally trying that method

[Gadget(Ian)]

would be funny last detectorist left in the field is the `detectorist of the day' and can claim all the days finds.