OK. You guys are tugging my ego with a straw man.
Why are my finds not relevant, IMO?
Not relevant because we all know site is key to finds, correct?
I do not have access to historic sites where I live. Either it never happened here, or it’s long been paved over and built upon with sky-scrapers. Even the rivers and streams no longer run the original course in most places. You can bet your
I would be pulling items with the best of you if I were on the correct sites. I’ve been detecting enough to know my primary machine very well.
Furthermore, there are many reasons individuals have for not showing off their finds and it isn’t because of lack thereof, correct?
There are many reasons one brand user may post their finds more often than another, like perhaps there are just more of them, correct?
Years of experience often mean nothing.
The real question is how many hours field time has someone racked-up with a particular model and also in total?
Then how many hours did you actually have your “head in the game”? Eh?
I think that is more telling of potential experience. Who knows what one has been doing all those 40 years; life gets in the way sometimes, correct?
I've done this full-time for years when tracked man hours are totaled annually. How many hours do you detect each year?
Because I started virgin with a V3i having never detected before, nobody to teach me, and no bad developed habits, and I hunt primarily public parks, my finds the first year were pretty lame looking back. I intended to be a coin-shooter until I got my first gold ring in the beginning of my second year. Then it was on!
To appease your ego, not my ego, here are the finds I bagged from the second year’s V3i use. I stopped bagging anything not a precious metal – silver, gold, platinum – after this season because I am lazy in that aspect of the hobby. My kids can sort through this dirty crap.
This is just a sample from the second season, actually, I’ve given away many of the larger silver coins and several jewelry items from this container. I remember I found about 4 gallons of clad that year. The stuffed bags of dirty coppers – about 40/60 IHP’s and wheats from one single “hunted out” park here in town.
In this photo I also have the jewelry finds from the second year. (oops..the watch is a v3i find from this year. My kids were playing with it and it’s found its way into the available container apparently) There are junk pieces that were interesting because of signal response mixed in there, but also antique jewelry, a few trade rings, gold w/diamonds, silver w/diamonds, and stuff I haven’t even researched. These are now just my test subjects. (who knows, even the baby sitter could have snagged something from it and I probably wouldn’t know it) This pile is all items valued at $250 or less and is available for anyone to handle that is a guest in my house. I’d be surprised if something wasn’t brought to school and lost, actually.
The really good finds are in the safe or have been sold off to fund my new Minelab Sovereign GT.
Nobody gets a peek at those, tough cookies! I’m not an idiot!
(do you even realize what you’re seeing in that H2H video Calabash? Should I narrate and blather my opinions? Let the machines speak.)
Now, what do I do with my current finds many seasons later? You would
cringe!
If it isn’t gold or it does not hold gems it’s not making it into the safe or my house (except for photo ops on occasion). It either goes into a stacked five gallon bucket in the garage, covers a picnic table in my back yard (my wife is wanting to kill me), or goes in the trash. I probably throw away, or have thrown away things that would make a relic hunter puke.
I treat non-key silver coins, old copper and nickel finds like clad. All coins (including non-key date silvers), and interesting lead, brass tokens, etc. –dumped into a bucket to be sorted probably never. All iron and unidentified interesting pieces dumped into another bucket to be sorted probably never. I clean items very rarely. I’m sure there are historic items in there somewhere as not every place I hunt is a park. And I am admititadly poor at relic identification. I do like to mix it up though so I can round out my skills and not be so one dimensional of a detectorist... I just want to master the game for
me.
You want me to go outside and take photos of that stuff too?
I’ll sort some of those things when I can’t hunt, but they add up faster than I can sort them.
Don’t like my style?
I don’t care. I’m being truthful. Perhaps you’d prefer I lie or be dishonest.
Put me on your worked-out sites and let me have a stab at cleaning it up ….
PLEASE!
I have a whole video of me digging nothing but iron – just me targeting iron only! Who watches that kind of dig? That’s me being a REAL relic hunter. Those are my study tapes. No need to waste bandwidth uploading it.
LMAO! Avoiding iron and thinking you’re a “real” relic hunter. That’s a non-ferrous relic hunter, really. Isn’t it?
I have V3i video (learning how to make videos) of me just strolling around a trashy suburban park calling the shots, then by chance, all but calling a ring at the edge of a trashy pavilion slab. What does it prove?
Means nothing to my ego, that’s why you haven’t seen it.
I’ve provided photos of a sample of what any guest has access to in my house. Is that enough?
Do I qualify as a metal detectorist now?
Can I be part of the club?
Elitist much?
Come on!
Unfortunately that's how I'm reading it also. An interesting method of teaching people about the Deus.
The solution is quiet simple: change frequency to a lower one. There is no sense to hunt for high conductors only with high frequency, low and mid frequencies should be preffered especially if ground tends to be mineralized. 
btw one those guys is gonna have his on t.v. show before long I guess he just needs a lesson about detectors from you guys and he will be set. You attacked rick 67 about his 40 experience ,HAVE SEEN WHAT HE FINDS? REALLY !
btw if your ever down this way I got some sites you can go dig iron on.
