Making finds with a detector is more about your technique than it is about the detector or where you hunt.
Don't get me wrong in thinking that I think that big bucks detectors are not worth the money.
It's just that I have seen some spectacular finds being made with some very low end machines.
The mantra of "low and slow" is as important as is how you swing the coil.
When you see how different types of coils function you will understand a little more.
The very basic machines usually come equipped with concentric coils and they can sometimes be up graded to double D coils but it is not a necessity.
First you need to keep the coil as close to the ground as is possible at all times and the coil needs to be horizontal to the ground also.
As you can see if the coil is angled or you lift the coil up at either end of your swing you will get very little penetration into the ground with the signal.
I have also seen many people swinging their coils 3&4" above the ground and complaining that they never find anything. :crazy:
This is what the detection zone on a concentric coil looks like.
And if the coil is not horizontal to the ground this is what you end up with.
It is very important especially when using a concentric coil to overlap your swings.
This shows what is possibly missed when the swing is not overlapped. Just think of how much you are walking over if you have several feet between your swings. :crazy:
And you can see the improvement when the swing is overlapped by just 25%
Myself I use a DD coil and the pattern is much different.
And this is what 25% overlapping with the DD looks like.
This is a helpful site for those who want to do a little research and it is where I got the pics. http://www.metaldetectingworld.com/m...ch_coils.shtml
Finding great things with a detector is not difficult all you need to do is go where others have been before.
People are always loosing things and have for millennia.
There have been a lot of detectorists at almost any place withing a cities limits that you can think of but no one gets everything and one of my secrets is to go where others never think to go. When you are in a park setting go into the bushes and take those out of the way paths. The bushes have not always been there and the paths are there for a reason. Many people have walked there before and sometimes they loose things.
If you are a little more of an adventurist and like to search old home sites and ghost towns remember that the clearings were very small around the old places and for the most part the finds will be very close to the building sites. Don't forget the path between the house and the privy. :laugh: They usually had to make a mad dash or 2 in the night.
Now the machines I use are quite high end and capable of discriminating out a whole range of things that to many people are junk and they don't want to listen to the constant chatter of iron grunts. Myself I hunt wide open with no discrimination on because I like to listen to everything. I particularly like it when I get those strange warbles and chirps. So many of my good finds have been made chasing signals which others either never hear or ignore.
Take it easy and slow. Don't worry so much about what the detector is showing on the screen. I hunt by sound and only use the screen to the determine depth of the target.
Don't get me wrong in thinking that I think that big bucks detectors are not worth the money.
It's just that I have seen some spectacular finds being made with some very low end machines.
The mantra of "low and slow" is as important as is how you swing the coil.
When you see how different types of coils function you will understand a little more.
The very basic machines usually come equipped with concentric coils and they can sometimes be up graded to double D coils but it is not a necessity.
First you need to keep the coil as close to the ground as is possible at all times and the coil needs to be horizontal to the ground also.
As you can see if the coil is angled or you lift the coil up at either end of your swing you will get very little penetration into the ground with the signal.
I have also seen many people swinging their coils 3&4" above the ground and complaining that they never find anything. :crazy:
This is what the detection zone on a concentric coil looks like.
And if the coil is not horizontal to the ground this is what you end up with.
It is very important especially when using a concentric coil to overlap your swings.
This shows what is possibly missed when the swing is not overlapped. Just think of how much you are walking over if you have several feet between your swings. :crazy:
And you can see the improvement when the swing is overlapped by just 25%
Myself I use a DD coil and the pattern is much different.
And this is what 25% overlapping with the DD looks like.
This is a helpful site for those who want to do a little research and it is where I got the pics. http://www.metaldetectingworld.com/m...ch_coils.shtml
Finding great things with a detector is not difficult all you need to do is go where others have been before.
People are always loosing things and have for millennia.
There have been a lot of detectorists at almost any place withing a cities limits that you can think of but no one gets everything and one of my secrets is to go where others never think to go. When you are in a park setting go into the bushes and take those out of the way paths. The bushes have not always been there and the paths are there for a reason. Many people have walked there before and sometimes they loose things.
If you are a little more of an adventurist and like to search old home sites and ghost towns remember that the clearings were very small around the old places and for the most part the finds will be very close to the building sites. Don't forget the path between the house and the privy. :laugh: They usually had to make a mad dash or 2 in the night.
Now the machines I use are quite high end and capable of discriminating out a whole range of things that to many people are junk and they don't want to listen to the constant chatter of iron grunts. Myself I hunt wide open with no discrimination on because I like to listen to everything. I particularly like it when I get those strange warbles and chirps. So many of my good finds have been made chasing signals which others either never hear or ignore.
Take it easy and slow. Don't worry so much about what the detector is showing on the screen. I hunt by sound and only use the screen to the determine depth of the target.
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