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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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« Reply #50 on: April 14, 2009, 10:36:01 am »
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Someone wrote one time that if you put a small magnet at the bottom of a sand beach scoop, it will keep the small coins and rings from slipping through.

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« Reply #51 on: April 14, 2009, 11:36:10 am »
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No Discrimination finds the Gold.

Just sit down and look the place over.

Look for things that should not be there out in the boonies!



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« Reply #52 on: April 18, 2009, 06:03:54 am »
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Check out all iffy signals  Mad Mad
by taking a couple of inches off the target area   Idea Idea
and scan again for a better signal.   Detecting

Well worth trying and can give up something nice.  Wise
Now that's hunting!  Rider Rider Rider Rider Rider

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« Reply #53 on: April 18, 2009, 10:35:32 am »
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I am very impressed how far this topic has gone  ,,,,Loads of great advice  Great

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« Reply #54 on: April 18, 2009, 11:38:41 am »
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A few more:

Mark out the area you want to search with some plastic pegs and string.
That way you'll cover everything.

Pay attention to how you swing the coil.
Make sure it's close and parallel to the ground.
(If you swing it like a pendulum at the end of each sweep the coil will be maybe 6 inches above the ground - that's a lot of ground you've missed!)

Don't skimp on batteries - Cheap ones might not supply enough current which will make your detector unstable.

Go back to the site you searched on another day after it's rained for a time.
The moisture makes the ground more permeable - you may pick up deeper targets.




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« Reply #55 on: April 27, 2009, 10:15:46 am »
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I like the gloves and rescanning holes  Smiley

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« Reply #56 on: June 15, 2009, 02:29:40 pm »
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I don't know why, but I never thought that I might get cut; thanks for the warning.

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« Reply #57 on: June 15, 2009, 02:37:01 pm »
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This is good to know as well. I tend to go about 40,000 miles per hour most of the time: it's an ADHD/ IT thing I guess. Maybe this will be a good thing for me.


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« Reply #58 on: June 15, 2009, 02:39:38 pm »
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Quote:Posted by oRo
Books by Karl von Mueller. (Dean Miller)
 
Treasure Hunters Manual #6
Treasure Hunters Manual #7

Some regard them as the best books on the subject ever put in print.



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Thanks for the reading material suggestions.

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« Reply #59 on: June 15, 2009, 02:45:29 pm »
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Quote:Posted by Bud
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.

Bud


As a genealogist I should have thought of that, Bud. Great tip; thanks!

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