Welcome Aboard Pj! You didn't list your state (or country) in your profile. So, you might consider jumping over to Sub-Forums: Select Your Area.... and selecting location information (i.e., clubs, hunts, finds, legends, maps, etc.) directly related to your state (or country). You might also consider adding your state (or country) to your displayed profile (SETTINGS -> EDIT PROFILE) so if you ask a question, etc. - people may have more success helping you (your location may help etc.)...
PJ, Welcome to the Tnet Forum from Georgia. Glad to have you here. So jump in, Git' your knees and hands dirty and find some treasure. By the way, what sort of hunting are you into?
MineLab E-Trac, MineLab Safari, MineLab Explorer XS,
White's 5000 D, White's 6DB, White's 5000 D GEB
Sunray X-1 for the ML's, Garrett PP for the White's and a Backhoe
Welcome from California. Go to the forum for your local area and hook up with a local club. They will teach you everything you need to know. May cost you a beer or?
Try as everybody knows is to read all you can about detecting, and ways to detect- then have a fairly good detector and then bury money(coins) wife's wedding in plastic bag and see what it reads on you detector. Will teach you tones of metal at different depths write down what you find, have fun learning. Takes time like everything else you learn to do, no fast way to learn, spend a lot of time and you will be rewarded. HAPPY HUNTING