Number one thing reqired for MDing, Faith.

[CC_IN_CA]

Sometimes its hard to keep the faith.
Seems once you lose faith objects are at a location, you can't find anything.
When you have faith targets are there, objects seem to pop out of the ground.
Its a peculiar thing.

 

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[Deft Tones]

I disagree.

Batteries are the number one thing required for MDing... or maybe a metal detector to put them into.

 

[oldsilver]

Faith... careful where you place yours...

 

[Loco-Digger]

It's all about the universal law of attraction. If you go out thinking you won't find a keeper, guess what... you won't. You need to be positive when you hunt, just know there is a keeper their. If you are not finding anything in an area, just go on auto-pilot, go in the direction your gut is saying.

What coin or coins do you really want to find? Just know it will happen soon, believe in it. Last year I had a Spanish silver, Chinese cash coin, Barber half, crotal bell, SLQ, Walker, Morgan on my mind and a class ring. All year I was thinking today's the day. Throughout the year I dug all of them early in the season except the Morgan and class ring. Guess how I finished out the season.... On the afternoon of December 24th I dug both a Morgan and a class ring.

Keep the faith and know deep down in your heart that it's gonna happen.

Good Luck

If you get a chance watch "The Secret". I watched it on Netflix a couple years ago.

 

[ChampFerguson/TN]

Faith in yourself and your abilities.
How many have made a nice eyeball find..........?

 

[FreeBirdTim]

I prefer to call it hope, not faith. I lost my faith in this world a long time ago, but I still cling to hope. I hope to find a larger copper or a silver coin today. Hope springs eternal in the mind of a metal detectorist...

 

[Relicific]

I agree,without faith your wasting your time.

 

[HighVDI]

It's all about the universal law of attraction. If you go out thinking you won't find a keeper, guess what... you won't. You need to be positive when you hunt, just know there is a keeper their. If you are not finding anything in an area, just go on auto-pilot, go in the direction your gut is saying.

What coin or coins do you really want to find? Just know it will happen soon, believe in it. Last year I had a Spanish silver, Chinese cash coin, Barber half, crotal bell, SLQ, Walker, Morgan on my mind and a class ring. All year I was thinking today's the day. Throughout the year I dug all of them early in the season except the Morgan and class ring. Guess how I finished out the season.... On the afternoon of December 24th I dug both a Morgan and a class ring.

Keep the faith and know deep down in your heart that it's gonna happen.

Good Luck

If you get a chance watch "The Secret". I watched it on Netflix a couple years ago.

Well said! I walked towards my car today at the end of my hunt with one silver dime and I wanted one more before it was over. I picked a path to lower the coil for the 40 yard walk and 6 feet later I got a merc. Made my day. Strange how it works sometimes. There is definitely a real thing of being "in the zone" while hunting. I need to have full concentration on my signals.

 

[foiler]

I put my faith in research

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Is it faith, hope, or tenacity? The tendency is to look until you find something - and there it is right in the last place you looked.

 

[TooManyHobbies]

I agree,without faith your wasting your time.

Without the time, you're wasting your faith.

 

[d2]

Faith that I would someday find a Civil War belt plate made me start out digging a plug the size of a one pound coffee can regardless of the signal size. A few years ago I was digging one zinc jar lid after another going down a hill to a creek and spring. I dug the umpteenth zinc jar lid took two steps got another zinc jar lid signal made my obligatory plug cut with my shovel and popped out the US belt plate. I had faith it would happen just didn't know when. I still cut big plugs with the Lesche shovel cause the next plate will have CS on it...d2

 

[Loco-Digger]

Faith that I would someday find a Civil War belt plate made me start out digging a plug the size of a one pound coffee can regardless of the signal size. A few years ago I was digging one zinc jar lid after another going down a hill to a creek and spring. I dug the umpteenth zinc jar lid took two steps got another zinc jar lid signal made my obligatory plug cut with my shovel and popped out the US belt plate. I had faith it would happen just didn't know when. I still cut big plugs with the Lesche shovel cause the next plate will have CS on it...d2 View attachment 1431420

Now own it, feel it in your hands.

 

[cammobunker]

Disagree. Patience and persistence, backed up by research. With those, the finds come.

 

[coinman123]

Faith I would find a large copper, my dream for a year. Guess what? I found one from 1723, beating my second oldest coin from 1904.