Metal Detecting Tips, Ghost Town Adventure, and More
November 1st 2006 15:12
I am treating myself, here at Orble.com, allowing more of me to show than just the professional Treasure Hunting writer, and I think thats a good thing. Today I want to preface the Treasure Hunting information with a couple of jokes I like a lot, and though they are adult jokes, I don't think very-young kids will really understand them. I hope.
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Two blondes are cruising down the street in a late model SUV. A policeman pulls them over, and as he is walking up to the car he is unzipping
his trousers! The blonde driver sees this in the sideview mirror and says:
"Oh no, not the breathalyzer test again!"
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What were the first words Adam said to Eve?
Stand back! I don't know how big this thing gets!
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Some Metal Detecting Tricks
When attempting to get the deepest targets at a good site, go very very slowly, and be very methodical in your movement of the coil forward. Make sure there is only an inch or so of forward movement with each swing. This is the best and most productive metal detecting trick I know of. I mean it.
If you are getting a good signal from your Motion-discriminator in an area chock full o' nails or bottlecaps, which are notorious for leading the metal detectorist astray, and even into insanity, with false signals, then check the target signal at 180 degrees off the original swing. This means make a square X over the target. Most times the signal will break up if it is a nail, when you go over it at 180 degrees off the original swing. For bottle caps the only trick I know is to burn the coil across the target FAST. If it is a bottle cap it will usually break up the signal when you burn the coil across it fast, whereas it is nearly impossible to make a bona-fide Good signal break up.
Burning the coil FAST across a target in motion-discriminate-mode will many times give you greater depth as well, and also may allow you to discern a good target that is near a piece of iron trying to mask it. At some clean sites like fort sites in Florida, where all the targets are worthy, the very deepest signals will many times just cause a very indistinct wavering of the detectors tone, like an electronic butterfly flapping its wings in your earphones. My, thats almost poetic, innit it? Sometimes I surprise even myself...
But whatever...for these minuscule signals, a fast burn of the coil across the target may get you a signal clear enough to warrant digging. Don't damage the detector doing this though, and also be careful to keep the coil as close to the ground as possible, and at a uniform distance from the ground.
I use my transmitter receiver (TR) discriminator mode a lot, even in highly mineralized areas, because it is unparalleled in its ability to key on round sounds (see earlier post explaining the Round Sound). I was given permission to hunt a trashy lot in Largo Florida once, back before the mind control state of jeb-antennae-bush, where three real old houses had been bulldozed. The city official giving me permission said -- sure go ahead -- and they had me sign an insurance waiver which I was more than happy to do (Sign Everything ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THOUGH!). This city official also advised me pickings would be very slim, as it had been hit hard by another detectorist for some weeks before me.
I went slowly and methodically with my TR circuit almost exclusively, and found over 750 coins before 1960! Many deep silver dimes, one silver watch, and a lot of the regular stuff you always get like costume jewelry (Victorian!), keys, toys, and I even found a commemorative Sterling Silver Medal of the Sherwin Williams company dated 1923, as big as a silver dollar! I found a plethora of wheat cents, all the way back to 1909, and Indian Head cents and barber dimes too! The detectorist before me not only missed all that but I do not think he dug one nickel, because I found so many Indian Head/Buffalo Nickels I got sick of them.
Not.
But I sure did found many of the things, from Almost Uncirculated, to nearly worn flat, and everything in between. Most of the signals were tiny little blips, but I had set the discrim so that ANY signal was diggable, and I wasted very little time trying to figure should I dig or not. Yes, a good memory to keep forever, and I sure did find a bunch of cool stuff too.
These few tricks will help you find a lot more fast, if you use them. Be careful, have fun, and as always, Good Luck. Check out the link below for picture story about a trip I made to hunt a nearby Ghost Town.
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Visits With Ghosts
http://www.luxefaire.com/091606/index.html
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Two blondes are cruising down the street in a late model SUV. A policeman pulls them over, and as he is walking up to the car he is unzipping
his trousers! The blonde driver sees this in the sideview mirror and says:
------------------
What were the first words Adam said to Eve?
Stand back! I don't know how big this thing gets!
------------------
Some Metal Detecting Tricks
When attempting to get the deepest targets at a good site, go very very slowly, and be very methodical in your movement of the coil forward. Make sure there is only an inch or so of forward movement with each swing. This is the best and most productive metal detecting trick I know of. I mean it.
If you are getting a good signal from your Motion-discriminator in an area chock full o' nails or bottlecaps, which are notorious for leading the metal detectorist astray, and even into insanity, with false signals, then check the target signal at 180 degrees off the original swing. This means make a square X over the target. Most times the signal will break up if it is a nail, when you go over it at 180 degrees off the original swing. For bottle caps the only trick I know is to burn the coil across the target FAST. If it is a bottle cap it will usually break up the signal when you burn the coil across it fast, whereas it is nearly impossible to make a bona-fide Good signal break up.
Burning the coil FAST across a target in motion-discriminate-mode will many times give you greater depth as well, and also may allow you to discern a good target that is near a piece of iron trying to mask it. At some clean sites like fort sites in Florida, where all the targets are worthy, the very deepest signals will many times just cause a very indistinct wavering of the detectors tone, like an electronic butterfly flapping its wings in your earphones. My, thats almost poetic, innit it? Sometimes I surprise even myself...
But whatever...for these minuscule signals, a fast burn of the coil across the target may get you a signal clear enough to warrant digging. Don't damage the detector doing this though, and also be careful to keep the coil as close to the ground as possible, and at a uniform distance from the ground.
I use my transmitter receiver (TR) discriminator mode a lot, even in highly mineralized areas, because it is unparalleled in its ability to key on round sounds (see earlier post explaining the Round Sound). I was given permission to hunt a trashy lot in Largo Florida once, back before the mind control state of jeb-antennae-bush, where three real old houses had been bulldozed. The city official giving me permission said -- sure go ahead -- and they had me sign an insurance waiver which I was more than happy to do (Sign Everything ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THOUGH!). This city official also advised me pickings would be very slim, as it had been hit hard by another detectorist for some weeks before me.
I went slowly and methodically with my TR circuit almost exclusively, and found over 750 coins before 1960! Many deep silver dimes, one silver watch, and a lot of the regular stuff you always get like costume jewelry (Victorian!), keys, toys, and I even found a commemorative Sterling Silver Medal of the Sherwin Williams company dated 1923, as big as a silver dollar! I found a plethora of wheat cents, all the way back to 1909, and Indian Head cents and barber dimes too! The detectorist before me not only missed all that but I do not think he dug one nickel, because I found so many Indian Head/Buffalo Nickels I got sick of them.
Not.
But I sure did found many of the things, from Almost Uncirculated, to nearly worn flat, and everything in between. Most of the signals were tiny little blips, but I had set the discrim so that ANY signal was diggable, and I wasted very little time trying to figure should I dig or not. Yes, a good memory to keep forever, and I sure did find a bunch of cool stuff too.
These few tricks will help you find a lot more fast, if you use them. Be careful, have fun, and as always, Good Luck. Check out the link below for picture story about a trip I made to hunt a nearby Ghost Town.
---------------------------
Visits With Ghosts
http://www.luxefaire.com/091606/index.html
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