Well, Steve I have never done it.....but had one guy visiting at one of our club outings where our president of the club planted a silver dollar and the dowser couldn't find it and was hidden in a not too large circle..but since it wasn't there for a long time maybe it needed an aura around it to be found! I don't know much about dowsing but have heard it works great on water and finding iron pipes in the ground! They were advertising dowsing and not metal-detectors, so didn't use one on the program but probably did when not on the video camera!
A story about my detecting in one of the large parks in the St. Louis, MO, area: I was metal detecting with my son, David, who had gone off someplace else, and while I was detecting, some Redwing blackbirds where attacking a couple of boys because they had baby birds in a nest in the tree where the boys were standing! I circled around the tree far enough to be safe and, as I was digging, a man came up and talked to me about finding stuff with a detector and as I finished digging the signal I found a really nice 3/4 inch wide 14 Karat ladies gold wedding band...fit all the way to my knuckle when I put it on...I was much skinnier then!

Well, I looked around to show the man what I had found and he was gone couldn't see him anywhere so maybe an angel helped me, I don't know but was strange. When my son came back we were in the car going to another place in the park and he removed the dirt and could see that the ring was 14-K.....Praise God for His blessings!
We then arrived to the other area, I wanted to hunt and at a picnic table was a man, who looked like a prospector out of the Old West. He was using a dowser and telling me how he used it, by placing in its center whatever he was looking for like a coin or a
piece of gold, I then told him about my find of a gold ring...don't think I had it with me but left it in the car,,,,This whole thing was so unusual (a true, true story) that I have often wondered if the man and the old prospector man were angels or just a coincidence on that day with my son! We both would have dreams about detecting (although he didn't do much detecting) that would turn out to be true, so who knows for in Hebrews it says, do not forget to entertain strangers for they could be angels! End of post!!
If I could still go MDing I would use my old friend, Whites Spectrum XLT detector and not a dowser! Just my thought! May God Bless! Amen!

Ma Betty