James57
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- Jan 15, 2006
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- Minelab Etrac, Detectorpro Headhunter PI
This is a newbie thing but last summer I was fairly new to metal detecting and I was camping with my family. My daughter and I were MDing around the area, in the hills above the camp site and along the river bank. A lady in the campsite across the road asked me if I could help locate her lost earring. She was hanging towels on a line to dry and the clothes line flicked her gold earring off into the hillside by the campsite. "Sure, no problem!" I explained the discrimination in the metal detector and some of the features and what a great machine it was. I probably came across like I knew what I was talking about. My daughter and I went over and started to search the hillside. Both metal detectors beeped like crazy. I looked at the ground and I could see that whoever cleans the campsite has been shovelling the ashes from the firepit onto the hillside. This included thousands of bits of melted aluminum cans all over the place. Now that I have a few more months under my belt, I can think of some things that I could have tried but it still would have been tough or impossible with all that aluminum. If I had only checked her other earring, maybe I could have discriminated out everything but that...? Anyway, I was clueless as to what to do next. I tried some settings, put it into gold prospecting mode etc. but it just made more noise. I explained about the problem with aluminum and how it is tough to find anything in an area like that. She looked kind of skeptical. It wouldn't have been so bad if I'd kept my big mouth shut when I first went over there. Oh well, live and learn!