Don't get me wrong. I learned that in the aftermath when the signals are scarce or even non-existent, this is when finds are compared, smokes are burned and stories are told while lazily swinging the coil not expecting to find anything. A cool down period if you will. I remember hooking up with Brian during this lazy cool down period and comparing notes and finds. OK ten feet.
Some people wait for the others to take off into the field and they hit the edges.
Brian had about the same result. We had also learned that if you spend more than 5 seconds on any one recovery you have lost valuable time on the rest of the field. All we had to do was stab the ground behind the slice and pry and the target would be sitting right in the gap. In some cases you don't see the slice but by pulling the grass the location would reveal itself. We were both confidant that on the next hunt we would do a lot better.