This Teknetics Forum is a great place to hang out and learn about all of their models and how to work them to our benefit for the types of detecting we do. That's good.
The greatest number of metal detecting hobbyists fall into the range of 'average' or 'typical' or 'traditional' coin hunters, so this Teknetics Forum will certainly help them because most coin hunting is done using the motion Discriminate mode and folks here are helpful. That is good.
Certainly a fair share of the very avid detectorists who spend ample time in non-urban environments seeking left-overs from old military battles or ghosted town sites or other such sites are considered devoted relic hunters. Most tend to use very low Discriminate settings, and often do not pay as much attention to their visual Target ID, but they post their finds and stories about their settings and success. That is good.
There is one thing we seldom hear discussed much on forums like this, and another topic that seems to be over-touted, in my opinion. We don't hear too much talk about searching in the All Metal mode, which is something associated with gold nugget hunters, but also a great method to search for many serious detectorists. Usually relic hunters, but occasionally coin hunters, can use this method of search. That's not a frequent subject on the forum. There is one thing that seems to pop up all too often, either in great claims or a topic of discussion, and that is depth. Depth, depth depth!
Sure, there are times when I would like to get a little better depth at some sites, but all too often the cries for 'more depth' seem to come from people who are looking for good targets located under shallower and undesired trash. The target masking calls for the trash to be removed from the site to better expose desired targets because trying to get 'depth' under typical junk like nails or bottle caps or screw caps is not going to happen. Also, too many situations are where there just aren't likely to be any deeper coins at a site. They are cleans of shallow rubbish, and most coins have already been found at very popular detected site. Let
The greatest number of metal detecting hobbyists fall into the range of 'average' or 'typical' or 'traditional' coin hunters, so this Teknetics Forum will certainly help them because most coin hunting is done using the motion Discriminate mode and folks here are helpful. That is good.
Certainly a fair share of the very avid detectorists who spend ample time in non-urban environments seeking left-overs from old military battles or ghosted town sites or other such sites are considered devoted relic hunters. Most tend to use very low Discriminate settings, and often do not pay as much attention to their visual Target ID, but they post their finds and stories about their settings and success. That is good.
There is one thing we seldom hear discussed much on forums like this, and another topic that seems to be over-touted, in my opinion. We don't hear too much talk about searching in the All Metal mode, which is something associated with gold nugget hunters, but also a great method to search for many serious detectorists. Usually relic hunters, but occasionally coin hunters, can use this method of search. That's not a frequent subject on the forum. There is one thing that seems to pop up all too often, either in great claims or a topic of discussion, and that is depth. Depth, depth depth!
Sure, there are times when I would like to get a little better depth at some sites, but all too often the cries for 'more depth' seem to come from people who are looking for good targets located under shallower and undesired trash. The target masking calls for the trash to be removed from the site to better expose desired targets because trying to get 'depth' under typical junk like nails or bottle caps or screw caps is not going to happen. Also, too many situations are where there just aren't likely to be any deeper coins at a site. They are cleans of shallow rubbish, and most coins have already been found at very popular detected site. Let
