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Roll Hunting Zen - What's In The Background?

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 Posted 08/07/2013  2:50 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Owassokie to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I usually pick up my boxes during lunch. I can't help but open them right then to see if my next monster box is waiting on me. I usually open 11 rolls in each box for a quick edge search. As soon as I get off work, I rush home, play with the kids for a bit, then hustle upstairs to my former man cave (family area now). I put a little table to the right of my rocker/recliner and stack my boxes on it. I grab a canvas bag and the remote control. I turn on the TV to listen to the daily college football shows on my DVR. Then I'm ready to begin.

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 Posted 08/07/2013  6:11 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add baysinger626 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I am always on the couch, with a discard bag on my lap to make things faster, and a coffee table in front of me to stack copper or keepers. The TV is on and usually either Family guy, Its always sunny in Philadelphia, or Top Gear is playing.
The CRH'ing goes quicker if its not a new or particularly exciting episode.
Occasionally I open half dollar rolls in my car a lunch.
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 Posted 08/07/2013  7:55 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CoinCbass to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I have an extra bedroom downstairs in the back corner of the house. I have coffee table and lights. No stimuli. I try to do it before work or the family wakes up. Somewhere around 4-5 until 6 or 6:30. Occasionally I stay up past midnight.
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 Posted 08/07/2013  9:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add baysinger626 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I forgot to mention that I have one of those forehead mounted flashlights that miners use.
Apparently I am pretty funny looking when I search through coins wearing this, because I get a lot of laughs.
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 Posted 08/08/2013  12:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add skyshark124 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I use one of those head-mounted lights when I metal detect at night. I also get funny looks, but it's a different environment from CRHing.
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 Posted 08/09/2013  12:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add baysinger626 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
They just make everything way easier.
I love mine.
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 Posted 08/09/2013  1:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CJ Cents to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I find this very interesting to read what everyone does while hunting. Great topic
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 Posted 08/09/2013  6:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add GoldenChest to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Im usually on the couch. I have a coffee table that has various amounts of plastic containers on it, depending on what I'm searching. They are all labeled. I have a end table to the side with my CRH tools. A large 10x magnifier. A 60x lighted loupe for closer examination. A scale and a coin counter. I play the radio to suit my mood and keep the door shut to avoid distractions. Lately I've had mynew puppy in there with me. He just sits there and watches. If I drop a coin though, he snags it up and brings it to me. Pretty sweet, especially when the coin rolls 10+ft away. Its definetlt better than my cat, who would play with them and bat them under the bed or such. J swear be has a stash of my coins somewhere. Hopefully though, I don't drop a valueable one as I'm not sure how dog drool would after the value.
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 Posted 08/09/2013  6:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Afterimage to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I've never bought boxes of coin from the bank. I hunt rolls at my work. I take about 15 minutes and go through the dimes and quarters looking for silver. So far, it has been very lucrative.

Today, I found a 1887 Seated Liberty dime! Pics are in the dime thread. Old coins like this one an extremely rare event but it does happen.

More that likely I am blasting classic rock music in the background.
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 Posted 08/09/2013  11:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Isos to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'll have to join the ranks of people using headlamps while CRHing. I wear one of those while running with friends at night. Nothing looks funnier than a dozen guys sprinting past with flashlights bobbing up and down on their heads.
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 Posted 08/14/2013  6:56 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CoinDan98 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
My strategy is simple:
No music or TV, I'd never get anything done that way.
sit at a desk in my room, usually in the late morning early afternoon once I get home from cross country practice.
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