Tip #5

When you want permission to hunt on someone’s property, always remember to be nice to the land owner, even if they don’t allow you to hunt on their land. This is just common courtesy. Keep your head, and they might even allow you to hunt some other time!

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Tip #4

It is a good idea to take any junk pieces that you dig up and throw them in a trash can, instead of putting them back where you found them. You will make a cleaner treasure hunting environment, and you will be doing a service to the community!

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Tip #3

When you dig for a target you have located, it’s a good idea to lay a small ground cloth on the edge of your hole. This way you can pile the dirt on it and then cleanly refill the hole when you are through digging (this is especially helpful when you are digging in a lawn or park, this way you won’t wear out your welcome!). Check out my site for more ideas about metal detecting!

Tip #2

When you locate a target with your metal detector, try to “pinpoint” it before digging. To pinpoint a target, sweep your search coil over the target in one direction, then sweep perpendicular to the first line to form an imaginary “X” directly over the target. This will help you to dig more accurately.

Tip #1

When you are out on the “treasure field” sweeping your metal detector back and forth, remember this tip: Keep your detector’s search coil parallel to the ground for the full length of your swing. If you swing it suddenly further from the ground at the end of your swing, it could create a false signal.

Three Reasons Why You Should Try It Out!

Are you looking for a new hobby that allows you to get outdoors and move around, something that is rewarding and challenging? Try relic metal detecting!

Why metal detecting? Here are three reasons…

• Metal detecting gets you outdoors in the fresh air moving around and exercising. This is one of the great benefits to metal detecting as a hobby, it provides a source of exercise that you can fit to your own needs. If you rather an easy strolling exercise pace, go to a local park and leisurely search around park benches, under trees, and around playground equipment. If you want an adventure to challenge your fitness and strength, a hiking/treasure hunting trip to old gold mining towns in the western mountains will surely live up to your expectations, and then some! You say, “why not just stroll or hike?” That leads to the second reason…

• You get the benefit of exercise, and the possibility of finding valuable relics. Not only is this hobby a great source of exercise, it is also a chance to find some really neat stuff, and it doesn’t have to be coins. If you are relic metal detecting your finds can include all sorts of things other than coins… An old wagon wheel hub, eating utensils, a pot (the ones that are filled with coins are great!), knife blades, plow tips, axe heads, and old steel traps…

• Metal detecting is also a fairly inexpensive hobby to get into. A quality starter metal detector today will cost you around two-hundred dollars as a ball-park sum, although quality machines can be bought for less than this.

So now you know three reasons why you should consider picking up relic metal detecting as your new hobby. You get exercise; find treasure, and all at an inexpensive start-up cost! Give it a try sometime, there’s a good chance that you’ll be hooked!