How To Metal Detect Successfully

Useful Tips On Metal Detecting & Treasure Hunting

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11) Always keep a medicine container filled with cotton balls for storing many small valuable finds. Or use it as a coin container.

Medicine Container for Coin Finds

12) Always assume that the treasures you seek are there, and you are merely overlooking them. Observe, deduct, use your equipment less than your mind.

13) Disappearance of a good signal sometimes occurs during the target recovery. It can be caused by two factors: 1) a reaction between the "Halo Effect" and the discriminate function, and 2) inaccurate pinpointing.

14) If your metal detector does not have a rain cover, if caught in rain, use the sandwich plastic bag with zipper to protect the control box.

Rain Cover for Control Box

15) Introduce your friends to the hobby. They might give you interesting ideas or just help you dig! :)

Friends Are Helping Dig

16) Design and construct your own Test Garden to help you learn the capabilities of your detector.

17) Always fill in your hole after you dig a target. Holes are not only unsightly, but they can be dangerous to people or animals walking in the area. Before filling a hole, be sure to scan it again to make sure you have recovered everything in and around it.

Do Not Leave A Mess Like This Behind!

Unfilled Hole

18) Be a considerate and responsible treasure hunter, follow the treasure hunter's Code of Ethics. The God Of Metal Detecting is watching YOU!

He Is Watching You


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