Post Your Trade Secrets Here, I got one.

[Ant]

I’ve found more than a few pieces of gold as well a silver which was hiding next to a metal pole, the type of poles found on playground. This is the way I check next to a metal poll.

• First I get the coil to respond to the pole.
• At this point I move the coil away until I can just still hear the metal pole interrupting the threshold.
• At this point I circle around the pole in this plane.
• When I hear a target in this pattern, I move the sand or chips away and then find the target.

I found my first 18k piece like that, right next to one of the poles, one that supports a slide. It was 10" down and gave a solid deep sound when I scrubbed the chips next to the pole with the coil. I have found rings and necklaces like that too but no where near that deep.

HH

 

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[whitesid]

mine is turn the sensitivity all the way up and discrimination off.

 

[EDDE]

i do the same thing in playgrounds
another thing i do in sites like platygrounds
is turn down the sens. also when im nearr metal support poles

 

[DugHoles]

I go with my super small coil when I get near steal poles....................I'm lazy.....................

GL & HH,

DugHoles

 

[Blackjack77]

I don't do any of the preceding---thanks!!

Lol
Good tips-- HH

 

[ericwt]

Use Flea Markets and Junk Shops to expand your relic leads. Here in the south there are tons of junk shops and swap meets just outside of small towns.

One day I found one that had civil war bullets and a cannon ball. Using my people skills I bought the bullets and then found out where they found them. It was on a lake on Private Property that a man charged people to fish on the lake.

By being nice and overpaying for a few bullets, I found the source for hundreds of bullets and relics. The owner was happy to take my money for my fishing for relics. Later he bought a detector and would hunt with me.

Always be friendly and ask questions at swap meets and junk shops about any neat relics you find.

This tip has made me thousands of dollars.

ericwt

 

[deepsix47]

Use Flea Markets and Junk Shops to expand your relic leads. Here in the south there are tons of junk shops and swap meets just outside of small towns.

One day I found one that had civil war bullets and a cannon ball. Using my people skills I bought the bullets and then found out where they found them. It was on a lake on Private Property that a man charged people to fish on the lake.

By being nice and overpaying for a few bullets, I found the source for hundreds of bullets and relics. The owner was happy to take my money for my fishing for relics. Later he bought a detector and would hunt with me.

Always be friendly and ask questions at swap meets and junk shops about any neat relics you find.

This tip has made me thousands of dollars.

ericwt

Great Post eric. I've used the same system for many years. Be nice, make a friend and you'll be amazed where it can lead.
Deepsix

 

[Postalrevnant]

No secrets here yet, but will post if I discover anything cool. Thank you for the great tips all

Postalrevnant

 

[dave-enc]

if you are in confined areas, sweep backwards, as you will pick up the signals you may have missed going forward, also shorten your sweep, and slow your sweep speed down this way your machine can pick up those signals that others miss because they will usually just sweep in and out.
Lastly, nobody gets it all, just because someone else has been at a site doenst mean there is nothing left. If you see ovious pattern in their steps, hunt in opposite direction. a find can only be made if the coil goes over it, lifting the coil too much at end of sweep can cause a good target not to be found
good luck
dave+bobbie

 

[garrettfan2]

got new headphones with new garrett in may. phones have looonnnggg cord. i was using the phones with the curly cord before. with new cord, i kept getting tangled in it when digging targets. nearly ripped the phones off my head more than once. made me mad. now i put the phones on and run the cord down the front of my shirt and plug in detector. problem solved. love the lighter phones in hot weather. HH and God bless everyone!! G2 in tx

 

[Michigan Badger]

My secret: Buy a super deep machine. Trust me, there is nothing out there more important than this. If you can't reach the stuff, what good are all those bells and whistles?

Badger

 

[Ocean7]

well I would say this:
when you find an area that has "good" finds or old keepers:
1) mark off the perimeter mentally in your mind <-------> E-W
2) then run a second pass 90 degrees to your normal sweeping direction^ N-S
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V
3) then run a Diagonal pass X crossways SW-NE etc
4) and see what you missed

always remember where you find really old stuff, they'll be more and
it will be deep!
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Think outside the box. You'll be surprised where this might lead you.
Good luck ! HH!

 

[Gypsy Heart]

TinPan sent me this idea and I have already tried it and it works great!
hi gypsy in lot of your trips there a lot of streams, lakes and ponds and i just remembered a way of finding bottles and relics in wet mud build ups on bends and banks and along water edge.the idea goes like this. first you need to get yourself a fibreglass cattle prod or one of those bike safety flag shafts.there both about 5 feet long.what you do id you prod one end in to the mud and if you hit a bottle the shaft gives a ding sound that travels up the shaft and its very destinct
sound.i got this idea of an old bottle hunter years a go but its no good to me as most of the waterway around here a dry most of the time.