First Day Out In Minnesota

[Ryan1979]

I got out for my first try in the Minnesota Metro Area. Also my first day out metal detecting ever. I tried in the woods behind my apartment building. Most of the ground was too frozen to dig, but the hillsides facing the sun were 'defrosted' to about 4 inches. I'm still learning to use the MD, but I found a magnet (cabinet type), 2 bottle caps, and some small piece of rusty metal that I couldn't identify. It was too frozen to dig much, but my 3 year old daughter thought it was the coolest thing ever being able to dig around in the dirt and fine 'treasure'. I got a lot of good signals, but many of these spots were covered with an inch of ice and snow, so no go on that. I'm going to try again tonight when I get home from work. I can see how this could be a lot of fun.

 

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[KenPa]

Sounds like you will be back there when the ground thaws. Good luck.
Make sure you save your daughters first treasure. I'm sure she'll be excited.

 

[Pulltab Parson]

Go get em Ryan!!

When the ground thaws, your going to be a detecting monster!!!

Happy Hunting (HH)

 

[Hoosier Kingfisher]

Welcome Ryan and good luck,Ron

 

[jeffinflint]

It's funny

When I first started in the hobby, I did about the same thing as you. I couldn’t wait until Spring, and I still can’t. Anyways, I remember the first time I hit the local parks. I came home with a pocket totally full of coins, some new, some old, some silver, and a ring. I was hooked for life. After years of hunting and finding bags and bags of coins and a few rings here and there, things have come full-circle. Now, I am now into going out looking for the more valuable stuff, rather than bulk amounts of coins, that are generally worth only face value. I find myself going to the more isolated areas, like woods and fields ect. But, not just random shot-in-the-dark places. I do some research and look for historical places, such as places where there might have been and old school, fairground, homestead, trading route and place like that. I may not find bulk amounts of cladish coins, but when I do find something it is generally much more valuable. It does take patience, and if you have your children with you, they would probably have more fun hitting the parks. Now, beaches and swimming holes, that’s another story. It’s all about the jewelry there, especially if you are willing to get in the water, and it is fun. Most jewelry I have found has been in the water less than knee deep. One tip I can give you for hunting beaches is, and some may disagree, is to go with very low discrimination and high gain/sensitivity and dig everything that you can determine is non-ferrous and small in size. You will learn how to do this very quickly. The reason for the low discrimination and high gain/sensitivity is because items tend to sink a little deeper in sand, especially lose sand under water, so you need the max depth. This is not a problem because it is much easier to go down six or more inches in sand than soil.

Welcome to the best hobby in the word,

 

[silverswede]

OOFTA, ya she's purdy darn tough out there until you get a good taw. Welcome aboard. It'll get even funner.

 

[CaptainMorgan]

Hey Ryan,
I made it out for a little bit today. Bent my spade and pulled a lot of junk up. I'm far from discouraged and look at the last three unsucessful hunts as all good practice time. At least I'm pulling metal instaed of false alarms like my first time out.
Jim