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What's the best detecting tips you ever received?

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So what have you found to be the best advice

Dig Everything / Never assume an area has been "hunted out / Work The Grid 14 (17.5%)

Repeatable" signals / Read the manual multiple times 1 (1.3%)

Re-scan your holes after removing a target 6 (7.5%)

Bring sample targets with you to your detecting site 0 (0%)

Learn your Machine, Do your research 5 (6.3%)

Sweep slowly / Turn your discrimination down and dig more targets if you want to find jewelry 8 (10%)

Why did I find what I found where I found it? 0 (0%)

Keep coming back to the thunting.com and remember:there are no dumb questions....Only those that need answers hh 2 (2.5%)

are all of the above 44 (55%)

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	Re: What's the best detecting tips you ever received? « Reply #40 on: February 23, 2009, 05:19:49 pm »

Knowing your detector is the most valuable of all. As the dectectors have got better there is no excuse for wasting time digging most common junk. This is time you could be finding something valuable.

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	Re: What's the best detecting tips you ever received? « Reply #41 on: February 23, 2009, 08:22:48 pm »

Hello Everyone !! Two of the most important tips that have not been mentioned yet !!!

1. What I use is a composite Digging Kit , which consists of non-metalic hand shovel and a soft Brass Pic-Probe . $19 Dollars
2. Canvas Drop cloth for keeping your neighbors yard Clean Grin

and faster target recovery if coin drops from dirt wad . Around $11 Dollars

This is not recommended for people who love to scratch coins Shocked

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	Re: What's the best detecting tips you ever received? « Reply #42 on: February 28, 2009, 11:22:42 am »

Ok, here is another one: do NOT use power PI where explosive devices are expected.

(just had to say something lol)

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	Re: What's the best detecting tips you ever received? « Reply #43 on: March 13, 2009, 03:32:55 pm »

It's not on the poll list and not in the three pages of posts, BUT....I don't even leave my house without RESEARCHING a site. Without this it is blind hunting.

Case in point; My nephew is rennovating an old house. I asked if I could detect his yard. He says "Sure, there ought to be something there. The place is a dinosaur, about a hundred years old".....I did research and through three generations of owners, found that the place was built in 1891 and the first owner died suddenly of a heart attack in 1915.

Now...this was at a time when people didn't trust banks AND this property was fifteen miles from the nearest bank anyway..... Guess what I will be keying in on.

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	Re: What's the best detecting tips you ever received? « Reply #44 on: March 14, 2009, 06:21:06 am »

Here's something no-one seems to have mentioned yet, always recheck your spoil heap once you've made your find, there's often more than one item in there.

I always lay my spoils on a plastic sheet, so I can move it to another spot I have on several occasions put the spoils on top of something else and its also easier to pour the dirt back in the hole leaving no mess.

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	Re: What's the best detecting tips you ever received? « Reply #45 on: March 14, 2009, 06:42:36 am »

A site is never hunted out.

That's what I retain from 25 years of detecting.

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	Re: What's the best detecting tips you ever received? « Reply #46 on: March 14, 2009, 08:31:40 am »

Look ware iam goin and not at the bai&(^^%$^* ! Crazy

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	Re: What's the best detecting tips you ever received? « Reply #47 on: March 23, 2009, 03:32:41 pm »

One tip no one has mentioned is take a good look around before you leave a hunting area. A lot of times there are trails leading into the Park or Playground that people have used for years that no one has bothered to search and can be full of coins and other goodies

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	Re: What's the best detecting tips you ever received? « Reply #48 on: March 24, 2009, 09:33:09 pm »

Hello , I hope this tip has not been mentioned before . If you buy the Best/New Metal Detector on the market , that is also the best you have ever owned. Go back to all your old "Good hunting Sites" , Chances are very good you will find more great stuff !!!

Great

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	Re: What's the best detecting tips you ever received? « Reply #49 on: March 25, 2009, 03:36:08 am »

Bring a Thermos of something hot ,Coffee,tea,etc
It warms the inside as well as you'r Hands in cold weather!

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