"Hunting" for shiny pokemon???

[Meowth! That's right!]

I always thought shiny Pokemon were really rare like a 1 in 8000 chance or something... and that which pokemon are shiny and where are determined by the hexadecimal values in your trainers name or something like that...

Then I see these people on the forums with like SEVERAL shiny pokemon and another several that they are "hunting" for. How do they do this? How do they get so many shiny Pokemon?

 

[Fizz]

They're just really lucky and/or have the patience to search for hours to find them. They're not really "hunting" them; more like engaging in wild battles, hatching eggs, and soft resetting till they find 'em.

 

[Koriinku]

A bucket load of patience is needed.
In my first 48+ hours of Emerald, only one shiny have I met, and it missed.

 

[JONNO.FRESH]

Yea it takes alot of Patience to get so many shinies

 

[FreedomX10A]

patience is the key to every thing...plus luck...i never met a shiny in all times i been playing pokemon...except of cource Red Gyrados

 

[Gilgamesh]

patience is the key to every thing...plus luck...i never met a shiny in all times i been playing pokemon...except of cource Red Gyrados

Same here... after playing the games for hundreds of hours, I still haven't seen a single shiny.

 

[Zubeon]

I've encountered two after playing hundreds and hundreds of hours (silver, sapphire, firered, colosseum) and one of them I didn't even realise was shiny until after I had it.

 

[Koriinku]

You must be lucky enough to get a couple of shinies.

 

[Virtual Headache]

There are already help threads about shiny Pokémon, for example here:
http://www.serebiiforums.com/showthread.php?t=135313
http://www.serebiiforums.com/showthread.php?t=12571