Advice You'd Give Yourself

[Mzjavert]

You go back in time to when you first decided to get a metal detector. What advice, specific to you, would you give yourself.

A) Visit that tiny MDing shop in town and buy a Tesoro.

B) Don't wear rings while metal detecting. (Yes, I really did loose a ring while metal detecting.)

C) You will love detecting tot lots.

 

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[releventchair]

Don't fight it ,learn it.

 

[Digzit2]

Dont go detecting after work wearing steel toed boots. True story.

 

[ChampFerguson/TN]

Lets only go back to my first decent machine and put the Radio Shack thing out of our minds.....

Trust Your Machine. Theres a reason its doing that and it YOUR job to figure out why.

 

[dsdigger]

Stick with it and don't get frustrated with nothing but trash and clad for the first bit until you learn to research, research and figure out where you need to hunt. And accept that humans are basically lazy and dirty and never threw away old pull tabs (guess now their antiques?) and you will find them and have to toss them unless you want to find them again. Remember form your job, learning curve, learning curve, works with MDing too!

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Nowadays everyone is so interested in target ID. That's fine, kinda gives you an idea of what to expect.

But train yourself to the sounds the machine makes. You may only choose a two tone detector, but those tones tell you stories. And sometimes targets project themselves out - like with a coin tilted in the sod. Like in water hunting, I scoop everything, and I get coins out with basically two signals where they kinda "Echo" because they were at an angle. The same happens with dirt digging.

You're looking for a solid (not ragged) signal in two directions.

 

[RustyGold]

I would tell myself "Don't be in such a hurry to get to your detecting area (beach) that you forget your scoop!" Lol!

 

[DeepseekerADS]

I would tell myself "Don't be in such a hurry to get to your detecting area (beach) that you forget your scoop!" Lol!

Oh yes, I've forgotten mine twice so far this year.

 

[chub]

I would tell myself to buy the best that you can afford. Started with a F5 but really should have spent a little more on something better....or a little less on something better
"quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten"

Think realistically about what you are hoping to find.

Take into account what the travel will cost you.

Factor in a pin pointer... a GOOD pinpointer.

Chub

 

[AlienLifeForm]

Invest in bug spray.

 

[boogeyman]

Dont go detecting after work wearing steel toed boots. True story.

THANK YOU!!!! Thought I was the only one! Bet you didn't do it twice! Second time I ended up detecting in stocking feet.

 

[boogeyman]

Starting out (1960s) Don't fill grandpas pickup with leaverites (hotrocks)! No matter how hard you wish you didn't hit the motherload and you won't be flush with candybars for the rest of your life.

 

[Pepper06]

I would tell myself to go back 20 years and buy a metal detector instead of waiting until 2 years ago to buy one

 

[Kurios1]

Don't get a machine that's too complicated to operate. I started with a Whites DFX 300 and for one the huge coil was NOT a good idea for beginners or just all around hunting. I got a set of smaller coils but, the machine was technically above my level of understanding as a newbie. I eventually learned it enough to find some really decent stuff with it but, it's still to complex for my liking. I haven't used it in over five years I reckon.

 

[Terry Soloman]

First, find a reliable man/woman to carry the sun/rain umbrella, warm/cold towels, folding chair, small table, and beverages. Second, better weed. Much better weed.

 

[digger27]

SLOW DOWN!!!
For a long time I swung way too fast with several different detectors and still did pretty good then one day at a site I had thought I drained completely I tried going way slower and it came alive again...it was almost like I was never there before.
This was life changing, after that using much lower swing speeds my good finds volumes increased exponentially and continues to this day.
It was difficult to change and I still need to watch myself, much easier to learn good habits from the beginning than to try to relearn them later on.

 

[chub]

First, find a reliable man/woman to carry the sun/rain umbrella, warm/cold towels, folding chair, small table, and beverages. Second, better weed. Much better weed.

Seems like you forgot the munchies? All that good weed....lets face it you cant eat a hot towel.

On another note this sounds like prep for a hippy giving birth?

chub

 

[Mackaydon]

After you have read the instruction book--read it again.
Don.....

 

[ARC]

I give myself advice all the time...

Too bad my self doesn't always listen. :P

 

[Slingshot]

I should have gotten the small coil for the Fisher M-Scope BFO unit back in 1964, the big coil, which I think was around 14", would barley pick up a dime because of it's size. I still found a lot of CW relics, but had a long learning curve before I learned to find coins.