Trying not to get discouraged

[P47RCFlyer]

A friend and I went out today to an old homesite with permission. Hunted and hunted, nothing but junk. Went to the local park/baseball field, found nothing. Went to the bleachers at the local high school, found $.46.

Not sure what i'm doing wrong, LOL.

 

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[pong12211]

Keep at it.. I went through I din't know how many rolls of coins before I found my first silver one.. But the excitement was well worth the wait.. Good luck on that first great find i'm sure will come sooner or later..

 

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[63bkpkr]

P47RCFlyer,
If your handle says anything you should be used to going around in circles with the understanding that if you can bring it in with the wheels towards the ground then it is a good day. Never run out of gas when you are upside down. Like Everybody else, you will have good days and not so good days then with truly learning your machine you will sharply improve your odds.

About feeling sore after detecting - your body is telling you to exercise, I know it's a four letter word but do it. I am prone to overworking myself which, is why I've got shoulder surgery scheduled in February. Had I been keeping up with exercise and maybe a bit of iron pumping it is likely I would have skipped around injuring the shoulder. Have fun out there, do keep from hurting yourself as 6 to 8 weeks in a sling and then physical therapy is going to cancel my 2013 schedule for prospecting in the back country............63bkpkr

 

[Davers]

I many times must tell myself [don,t give up],remember in this hobby "PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE ".put in the time & you will find........Davers

 

[LuckyThirteen08]

Always remember this if you plan to stay in the hobby of metal detecting,Find the good stuff comes down to two things,Experience and being in an area where you can actually get your coil over the good stuff,The most experienced detectorist on earth can spend an entire day digging nothing but junk if he isnt getting his coil over top of the goods. Its easy to get discouraged but you arent alone when it comes to these kind of days.Best of luck on your next adventure.

HH John

 

[P47RCFlyer]

Thanks to all you guys. This is a super supportive site and i really appreciate it. I have to be honest, i am the type personality that i do tend to get discouraged if i'm not getting a bite. One reason i don't fish much, LOL.
I am gonna stay with this though. Since i have a hunting friend to go with it makes it much better to have someone to talk to and share finds with IMO. I'll keep hunting and posting everything i find. Glad i found this site and i consider it my new online home.

63bkpkr...............LOL, yes sir, i love WWII aircraft almost as much as life itself. Since i cannot afford the real thing i fly radio control ones and have for many years. Wife says i refuse to grow up. I tell her she is exactly right, growing up is not fun at all to me. I prefer to stay a kid as mush as i can.

 

[boris]

It's the site and it could be in your own back yard or the beach and park, baseball field? lover's lane, swimming hole, churchs or meeting grounds? I try to do all of these nearby when it is warmer.

 

[cti4sw]

The Tracker IV will find good stuff. Check out my Keepers Album (in my signature); most of it was found with my Tracker IV. I only got an AT Pro less than a month ago. On another note, it depends on what you're looking for and where you're looking. If you want money, go to schools, ballfields, and playgrounds. If you want jewelry, go to playgrounds, old community pools, and swimming holes. If you want relics, you have to research your local history. But I will say this about my old BH Tracker IV: it has never lied to me. If it beeps, there is something there, and you just have to find it.

GL & HH

 

[jimzz977]

I have been detecting about year now and found tons of trash and pull tabs . Finally found silver on a pull tab single, still looking for my first silver coin or wheat.

 

[P47RCFlyer]

Does the tracker IV detect bottles/glass? I can't get it to detect glass

 

[63bkpkr]

P47,
There is no detector alive that detects glass unless maybe it might read if the glass has a very high lead content though some detectors will sound off over hollow spots in the ground so a buried bottle would look like a hollow spot so you'd get a beep on some detectors.

63bkpkr...............LOL, yes sir, i love WWII aircraft almost as much as life itself. Since i cannot afford the real thing i fly radio control ones and have for many years. Wife says i refuse to grow up. I tell her she is exactly right, growing up is not fun at all to me. I prefer to stay a kid as mush as i can.

Do you run a rig with a four to six foot wing span? I watched several of those big babies fly and they are amazing and when handled by a savy RC Controller, oh my what they can do with them!! Fun, Fun, Fun! Why bother growing up as long as you can pull yourself back into the realm of being responsible/reliable when that is needed.

As far as finds with new equipment "it is common that the first day on the job things do not always go right" (from Quigley Down Under) and so it is also true of learning a new machine or for that matter picking up a machine one has not used for many years. With any of my three current machines the learning curves have been steep, guidance from others was required and after a while I learned the 6000 D to the point of having complete trust in what it told me. The GMT I am better with and the XLT I'm about to relearn(I'm starting all over again). In all cases my first targets were junk, then I found wheaties and square nails. I found my first silver coin a dime with the 6000, then a silver quarter and then my first gold ring. The silver was great but the gold ring broke me of being uncomfortable around "other citizens-people" while detecting. It was an awesome awakening to the fact that people loose every type of thing imaginable and it is out there to be found. Returning items to their owners is FUN! Having little children following you around can be FUN (case in point: I've been given permission to hunt the front yard of this single family home while the owners three children are playing in the front yard. They start asking questions then the little girl asks if she can have the next piece of trash I find. Answer, sure! Then her brothers claim rights as well. Tin Foil, bottle cap, nail, (little girls turn again) fired 45 ACP slug with rifling all in perfect shape and her brothers go ape! Older brother bottle cap, younger brother folding pocket knife(been there for awhile and he Must get his fathers permission) Dad said yes, kid comes bounding/yelling out of the house with pure delight all about him. That kinda stuff makes for a great day.) Back when I was using the 6000 or the XLT and I was/still using a brass probe so I had to be good with my pinpointing with the detector AS WELL AS properly marking the center point of the target. Finding a gold crown (gold tooth) in ground with small gravel stones in it was a nightmare with the brass probe!

Keep at it, you will eventually put your coil over your first great target! If you have the room and the weather is kind to you plant a test garden of various coins and typical trash targets and practice on them. Space each target at least 3' from the center of the next target so you do not get a signal on the outbound ends of your swing, makes if frustrating.

Okay little boy you can go play now..........63bkpkr

 

[Phanntom]

You're not doing anything wrong...if you're finding metal both you and your detector are functional. I spent 3hrs at South Ponto beach in Carlsbad, CA the other day...I had to keep throwing out coins just to make sure my detector was still working...it was the cleanest beach I've ever been on. Not a single pull-tab, bottle cap...the only thing I finally hit on was a piece of old fishing leader at about 5 inches. When you're so used to all the trash and you hit a beach that has virtually none you begin to wonder about either your detector or your own skills...but I just shake it off and head out again at the next low tide.

 

[picker1733]

Hey Flyer, I've only been at this for two week's. I have an old White's Classic SL II. No bell's and whistle's here, but it get's the job done. And like yourself, i'm no spring chicken and can relate with your back pain issue's. I definitely over did it yesterday. I was out for about five hour's and dug at least 50 target's and it was all trash! But i know i'm progressing and when i upgrade my machine, i'll start having some luck. So hang in there and stick with it!

 

[P47RCFlyer]

Great info guys. I can only assume that i'm just expecting too much first starting out. I'm gonna try and relax my high expectations this week and by this weekend i will have a more realistic approach to hunting. Seeing some of the treasures that have been found on thei site i somehow got it in my head that i could go out and find some of the same similar things and that is an unrealistic expectation on my part. Gonna relax and just enjoy being outside with a friend.

63bkpkr............... Yes, i fly a P-47 with a 5ft. wingspan. I also have a couple sport planes that are a little smaller when i just want to burn up the sky, LOL. My website in my signature contains all my hobbies thru the years to present, LOL. Give it a look when you have some time to waste.

 

[BuckleBoy]

The best thing you can do at this point is research, get permission for land, explore, have fun, and don't have high expectations. If you can do all those things, you will make incredible finds. It takes a while to get back in. It also takes a while if you move or change areas, because you must do all the research and make all the contacts over again. I found tons when I lived in Virginia years ago. Then I moved to KY and got busy, got out of the hobby for a while. When I started researching and hunting again it took several years to find my niche, and after I figured it out, I hunted hundreds of spots that no one had ever detected before, finding some fantastic things. When I moved down to Louisiana, I had to start over and it took me a full year to figure out where my niche was, do my research, meet owners, get permission, and spend many hunts exploring in order to find sites. Since then...well...you'll just have to look at my year end wrap up post later today to see how I've done.

Keep at it.


-Buck

 

[P47RCFlyer]

The best thing you can do at this point is research, get permission for land, explore, have fun, and don't have high expectations. If you can do all those things, you will make incredible finds. It takes a while to get back in. It also takes a while if you move or change areas, because you must do all the research and make all the contacts over again. I found tons when I lived in Virginia years ago. Then I moved to KY and got busy, got out of the hobby for a while. When I started researching and hunting again it took several years to find my niche, and after I figured it out, I hunted hundreds of spots that no one had ever detected before, finding some fantastic things. When I moved down to Louisiana, I had to start over and it took me a full year to figure out where my niche was, do my research, meet owners, get permission, and spend many hunts exploring in order to find sites. Since then...well...you'll just have to look at my year end wrap up post later today to see how I've done.

Keep at it.


-Buck

You have some AWESOME finds, thanks for sharing. I am hoping to find and keep all the relics & historic stuff. However, I would like to find some jewelry and sell for enough to fund a higher end MD in the future. So, i find myself having 2-3 different objectives with this hobby as time passes.

I am researching daily in search of civil war sites in my area but there doesn't seem to have been anything around my county. There are a few Civil war and WWII POW camps but those are all State Historic Landmarks and hunting would probably land me in jail, LOL.

 

[liftloop]

Up here your chance of finding native copper with silver on it is so great
that the old coins from man and his relics and the Indians "personal property" are a bonus when they been sniffed out of the over burden.
there's a lot here so you don't get discourage that easy.
if your detector can handle
volcanic basalt,sandstone
and neighboring slate and black sand and throw in salt
they salt the road in the winter up here
plus what was dragged down from Canada
why theist's roads up here are known to leave less inferior detectors spite-ring and sputa-tearing
dig-gin a hole lot of not-hen.

 

[BuckleBoy]

You have some AWESOME finds, thanks for sharing. I am hoping to find and keep all the relics & historic stuff. However, I would like to find some jewelry and sell for enough to fund a higher end MD in the future. So, i find myself having 2-3 different objectives with this hobby as time passes.

I am researching daily in search of civil war sites in my area but there doesn't seem to have been anything around my county. There are a few Civil war and WWII POW camps but those are all State Historic Landmarks and hunting would probably land me in jail, LOL.

Doesn't have to be civil war. Think bigger. Think Mexican War, Indian Wars, and any sort of miliary drill sites, places where troops passed through, or even period sites that were civilian will hold military relics. It's too easy to think it won't work when you hit a dead end like "there's no CW in my county." There are CW relics to find in just about every county in the east, south, and midwest. Keep up the work. It'll pay off.

-Buck

 

[P47RCFlyer]

Doesn't have to be civil war. Think bigger. Think Mexican War, Indian Wars, and any sort of miliary drill sites, places where troops passed through, or even period sites that were civilian will hold military relics. It's too easy to think it won't work when you hit a dead end like "there's no CW in my county." There are CW relics to find in just about every county in the east, south, and midwest. Keep up the work. It'll pay off.

-Buck

Good points. I will keep that in mind and start investigating other areas as well. Thanks,

 

[ctitech0019]

i have a bounty hunter quick draw 2 been at this for bout 5 months , got all the junk, got some buttons , good silver , but no gold , but my real story , is next to a sidewalk , the signal was bouncing between pull tab,nickle, penny and quarter , when it does this it is almost always canslaw, but it was cold and i said , hell i more dig , 8in down a 41, quarter , thank you very much ! so all i can say is most times , dig it all ! you will be awesomely surprised !

hh

 

[P47RCFlyer]

i have a bounty hunter quick draw 2 been at this for bout 5 months , got all the junk, got some buttons , good silver , but no gold , but my real story , is next to a sidewalk , the signal was bouncing between pull tab,nickle, penny and quarter , when it does this it is almost always canslaw, but it was cold and i said , hell i more dig , 8in down a 41, quarter , thank you very much ! so all i can say is most times , dig it all ! you will be awesomely surprised !

hh

After reading everyone's supportive posts and encouraging advice, i have pretty decided at this point i do need to do like you have suggested and just dig it all. I would sure hate to miss something good because of my inexperience.