1st finds

[Rawb]

The 1st pic is from my 1st time out a few days ago and the second one is from today. All taken from what's supposed to be a grassy strip in the middle of an old style driveway. Is this how everyone starts out?

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uh... their civil war nails, ya that's it! confederate nails ya that's the the ticket

 

[jeffatnip]

Yes that is how everybody starts out, but you'd better crank up the discrimination on your detector and eliminate the iron junk.

 

[roceda]

But keep reading the forum and you will get a wealth of tips and tricks that will help you get the goodies. The folks here are the "best"

 

[bubblehead]

Hey Rawb...Not only do most of us start out like that....we continue to sharpen the ability to pick out the junk amongst all the coins and diamond rings out there..... But really....the more you use your machine, the more you will learn how it reacts to specific items. Stick with it and you'll do fine..........

Tom

 

[awhitster]

Lucky you, civil war relics right from the start. It's a metal detector and your finding metal. That's a start. The good stuff will come.

 

[silvernail]

Follow that driveway to where the cars stopped and people got in and out, pulled keys out of their pockets, etc. There's a couple of coins over there. Probably another one or two along the sidewalk to the house and also under the clothesline.

 

[jongalt]

Well it looks like you got a detecting focus on older coins or relics. If thats the case, Then you will find alot of old nails and old bottlecaps. You have to dig everything to figure it out. Theres a learning curve, you have to learn how a target hits. I would go to a nearby grassy park at first. Dig everything until you figure it out. Going to some old spot out in the woods is tough for a first hunt. You should learn your machine in a grassy park or a schoolyard at first. I would say after about 60 hours or 30 hunts you should be ready to succeed finding older coins or coins and relics in wooded old areas. Do somewhere easy first. Ask yourself this What im a looking for? then you can focus on that. Research, technique, machine settings for different areas, learning to mask out junk, youll learn all of that and more through trial and error. Youll learn alot on this forum.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah bark chip playgrounds are the best places to learn your machine.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah everybody forgets, the key word in metal detector is "METAL". They aren't called coin or money detectors.

Bill