Merlin cadogan
New member
I have recently bought a Minelab explorer SE. But since then the tidal times have been wrong for ideal searching. Despite this my son and I found a silver six pence from 1813 on our first search which amazed me!
Today the weather was terrible, and very windy. We had decided to go metal detecting further out towards the low tide line.
We braved the elements and I began searching. After a few minutes a solid flutey signal. I looked on the screen, and it was more than halfway down on the depth bar. The crosshairs were towards the top right of the screen. My boy started jumping about because the signal sounded so sweet! I began digging with my full metal jacket sand scoop. The sand was hard packed and hard digging. We got down about 8-10 inches, and there was a flash of Gold! I lowered the scoop and my son crowded over, he reached in and pulled out....a bullet case!
He thought it was the best find ever!
We braved the wind and then the rain for another 15 minutes and the explorer SE managed to pick up 3 more bullet cases, it was time to seek shelter so we called it a day.
On the way to the beach my son had been saying that he thought we would find bullets if we searched further down the beach. He was super happy as we found 4 bullets and proved his theory right! It was good to see my son prove himself right, and to see the boost in self confidence that it gave him .
I love metal detecting!
it is great on so many levels!!
When we got home my new explorer SE was also looking a bit smug in the corner, as it had managed to locate these 4 bullet cases that were all very deep, In a short 15 minute search, very impressive!
I think i will need to buy a pointer locator tool, to help me locate the target better, can anyone advise me on which one would be best for on the beach and in the sea use.
Many thanks, and good luck,
Merlin
Today the weather was terrible, and very windy. We had decided to go metal detecting further out towards the low tide line.
We braved the elements and I began searching. After a few minutes a solid flutey signal. I looked on the screen, and it was more than halfway down on the depth bar. The crosshairs were towards the top right of the screen. My boy started jumping about because the signal sounded so sweet! I began digging with my full metal jacket sand scoop. The sand was hard packed and hard digging. We got down about 8-10 inches, and there was a flash of Gold! I lowered the scoop and my son crowded over, he reached in and pulled out....a bullet case!
He thought it was the best find ever!
We braved the wind and then the rain for another 15 minutes and the explorer SE managed to pick up 3 more bullet cases, it was time to seek shelter so we called it a day.
On the way to the beach my son had been saying that he thought we would find bullets if we searched further down the beach. He was super happy as we found 4 bullets and proved his theory right! It was good to see my son prove himself right, and to see the boost in self confidence that it gave him .
I love metal detecting!
it is great on so many levels!!
When we got home my new explorer SE was also looking a bit smug in the corner, as it had managed to locate these 4 bullet cases that were all very deep, In a short 15 minute search, very impressive!
I think i will need to buy a pointer locator tool, to help me locate the target better, can anyone advise me on which one would be best for on the beach and in the sea use.
Many thanks, and good luck,
Merlin