Ezkilll
Jr. Member
I am brand new to this, so last week I went to Lake Wilderness Park in Maple Valley for my first try at detecting. It has been very dry for the last month so the ground here is very hard. I thought I would try the sandy beach area at the swimming area of the lake.
I got several hits indicating from 2-6" deep. I decided to dig everything so that I could learn. The first thing I learned is that metal detecting is more about digging than swinging. I found several nails in the sand. One target was a nail still in a board that looked like some kind of buried structure.
I hit a deeper target and learned that the beach sand was only 2-4 think on top of hard pan. I found two nickles, the oldest a 1970. The final item I dug turned out to be a foil wrapper from a Recces cup!
All in all a fruitful learning experience.
EzKilll
PS - I ran into a Maple Valley councilman at the farmers market and asked him if there were any restrictions on Metal Detecting. He indicated that to the best of his knowledge there were none.
I got several hits indicating from 2-6" deep. I decided to dig everything so that I could learn. The first thing I learned is that metal detecting is more about digging than swinging. I found several nails in the sand. One target was a nail still in a board that looked like some kind of buried structure.
I hit a deeper target and learned that the beach sand was only 2-4 think on top of hard pan. I found two nickles, the oldest a 1970. The final item I dug turned out to be a foil wrapper from a Recces cup!
All in all a fruitful learning experience.
EzKilll
PS - I ran into a Maple Valley councilman at the farmers market and asked him if there were any restrictions on Metal Detecting. He indicated that to the best of his knowledge there were none.