Looking for book reccomendation

[Bell-Two]

Excuse me if this is a bit off topic I am looking for suggestions for a book or books on metal detecting. I have Andy's two books already. I am looking for something more than the beginners type books, something that may show some of the personal adventure type things of metal detecting. Most of the "tips" type books are so generic that you can't tell one from the other. I do use the E-Trac.

 

[Erik in NJ]

Diary of a Low-Country Digger is quite good if you want to read about this guys various hunts. There's a banner for it on the Relic Forum. I enjoyed it.

 

[UtahRich]

Not off topic at all.

What type(s) of hunting do you like to do?

There are quite a few 'speciality' books out there on gold nugget hunting, beach hunting, cache hunting, metal detecting in urban environments and so forth. Most of these book do follow a 'how to' train of thought in them and walk you through the thought processes of the writer. I have read a lot of them over the years and found most of them useful.

As a side note, as a long time explorer user, I have found Andy Sabisch's book, The Minelab Explorer & E-trac Handbook, much more than a kindergartner's guide to point and shoot metal detecting. While it certainly covers the basics, there is A LOT more there that is certainly for the ADVANCED user.

Once you get to a certain point in ability with your detector, much of your expertise comes through in the field hunting and comparing notes with other like hunters.



Rich -

 

[DirtFlipper]

You might consider "The Urban Treasure Hunter" or "Finding Sand Creek". Neither are directly metal detecting how-tos, but both are related to it, and each is little 'different'. As far as personal adventure type stuff, RAM books (from Garrett) has several in that vein.

 

[dasho]

Anything by Karl von Mueller...old stuff, but guaranteed to satisfy...

& maybe H. Glenn Carson...

great reading to get your treasure hunting juices flowing!

 

[dasho]

& as far as Minelab stories, experiences, user advice, & Bryce's quality field tests, there's tons of great reading right on this forum!

 

[Erik in NJ]

Let us know which books you get. It would be nice if they had a page on this site that was a comprehensive list of detecting / treasure hunting books.

 

[Bell-Two]

& as far as Minelab stories, experiences, user advice, & Bryce's quality field tests, there's tons of great reading right on this forum!

I do read many of those articles but it would be nice to have something like them collected in a book format. I do collect and collate different articles from a multitude of sources on the many different forums on specific themes, such as Bryce's coil reviews. Another is on techniques and settings for my machine. I also collate and particularly enjoy those posts that "tell a story". Bryce could write a book about his years of metal detecting that would be of immense interest, from his beggining steps until the current time. I know I would BUY it and would assume many others would as well.
There is a niche out there for publications that currently is not being filled, in my opinion. I once queried a large bookstore in my area why in there games section they overwhelmingly carried so many begginers books on Chess, I was a master level competitive chess player so my interest was in more advanced books. The response was "Well those are about the only ones we sell" I replied "That is because those are the only ones you carry!" The store manager asked me to suggest some books and I did and they could not keep them on the shelves! They had to increase size of section to accomodate them. The manager changed, the new manager went back to the "old" method of ordering books and their sales fell off. The point of this is there is a "large market" for more advanced books that ENTERTAIN as well as educate the metal detecting maven such as the many that post and read this and other forums. I read and enjoyed the two Sabisch books "E-Trac & Explorer" and the "Treasure Hunters Manual" because they wove instruction in with entertaining writing. Such books even if they are not specifically about the detector I use would still be of interest to me and many others.

 

[dmitchstevens]

The Minelab by Andy Sabisch

 

[Erik in NJ]

Check out "Martin's Hundred" by Ivor Noel Hume ..... great book!!