Where and when are you going to search as well as putting work in your rear view mirror for a couple of days.
There is no use fretting over who has been searching areas while you were working your butt off all week, who you are potentially following or who is already searching the site when you get there.
All that matters is how you search the sites you choose when you make it to the beach over the weekend.
That is why I am and always have been a methodical son of a beach using a metal detector, Im used to following and finding stuff behind other beach hunters over the weekend.
I figured if I had to be a weekend warrior I was going to use every trick in the book to be successful on the only two days I was free too metal detect.
So here are a couple of those weekend warrior tricks I used to detect coins, jewelry and artifacts following people lucky enough to go metal detecting during the week.
Work on timing
At tourist type beaches, avoid hitting the beach early Saturday morning because you are way too early to take advantage of weekend crowds at tourist beaches.
The whole point of hitting a busy beach over a weekend is to find stuff lost during the busiest two days of the beach week.
Try searching Saturday evening or even better Sunday evening, all it takes is patience and a little will power.
You will have more success searching after the weekend beach crowds than before the expected beach crowds.
Now you know why It does not matter how many people you see metal detecting at a tourist beach on a Saturday morning, they are in the same boat as you searching the beach before anything has been lost.
Other good times to start your weekend searches off are Saturday evening or Sunday morning if you don't have the opportunity to search on a Sunday afternoon or evening.
You can also add Monday evening into the mix is its a three day holiday weekend, when beaches are even more crowded if the weather is nice.
Please don't get me started on going metal detecting two hours before low tide advice, it sounds like something I would invent to get people to stay home instead of metal detecting my local beaches lol.
Holding off going metal detecting so you have more lower beach to search may have been option years ago but more people are searching for Bobby Dazzlers at the beach now.
Perhaps time your weekend searches to coincide with the magic four hour low tide mark, when you know other beach hunters are still waiting at home.
ROI
It really is about return on investment being a weekend warrior, maximizing your chances of recovering coins, jewelry or artifacts over the only two days you get to swing your metal detector search coil.
No matter if you search tourist type beaches or remote shipwreck beaches, it is better to find something worth your valuable weekend metal detecting time.
During the work week come up with a plan to be successful, for example check beach surf projections to help you decide what beaches will have favorable search conditions.
Check out beach webcams to hopefully show you where people are using the beach or what the lower beach looks like in real time.
Always think about the percentages, how many people do you think you are competing against for the available metal detecting finds at any given search site.
Perhaps you increase your chances of success choosing a site that fewer or no people search.
For example a beach always mentioned on blogs or detecting forums is going to be heavily hunted, so try searching somewhere else knowing exactly where the competition is heading at the weekend.
Preparation and foresight are often the keys to being a successful weekend warrior, oh and don't forget to charge your metal detector batteries!
For many more weekend warrior tips visit my website books page and invest in my "Hardcore beach hunting" or "Guide to searching heavily hunted beaches" books.
Available at www.garydrayton.com
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