Economy of motion is something I catch myself saying. I think the term of Economy of recovery is better. What I’m talking about is recover speed. Often when I go with friends to the field, I’ll keep one eye on my search coil and the other on them, so I can see if they found something. I love the feeling when a friend or I find something and we share that experience.

I often find myself getting a signal, bend or kneel down to recover the target. While I’m doing that I see my friend do the same. I quickly recover the target and replace the plug of earth and move on. I get another signal, dig that and so on. But I notice my friend is still in the same original hole that I saw him 5 targets back. It was almost a common ratio of 5:1. I could dig five targets to his one. This is a significant development. That means I’m finding 5 times the junk as him, as well as 5 times the keepers (potentially).

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