Metal Detecting Wisdom That Has Never Worked For You

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I'd say that if it didn't work, it wasn't "detecting wisdom". As for advice that sucked, always grid and overlap your swings at the beach would be one of them. If the targets are few and far between, I don't overlap, unless I'm looking for a specific lost item. I want to keep "virgin" sand under my detector at all times. I don't want to waste time going over the same dead sand more than once. Hit a pocket of good targets, sure, grid, overlap, run crop circles around the targets...whatever it takes to cover that area completely. Another bit of nonsense (at least up to now) is a machine that will do it all. No such animal, regardless of what the manufacturers or others might say. As for the OP's list, except for the "all" in front of #1 and #3, they've worked pretty good for me! :laughing7:
 

"Dig those pull tabs if'n you want gold!"

10 years and thousands of tabs later, zilch.

For the next 10 years dig foil, I have found more gold there than in tabs.
Plus, you will clean up the environment...or go crazy.
 

"If you don't find something on the field in the first hours there's nothing to find"

On the first day I walked over a field and found no more than three normal buttons. But I didn't gave up and tried to explore every part of the field and when I found something interesting I explored the surrounding of this spot. After a few days I found some finger rings, an old and a silver Reichsmark coin, some military stuff and a beautiful cane handle. On the last day I even found a medieval silver coin.

Jacza
 

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