gordygroover
New member
And as a beginner with a metal detector (October of last year) you can take my advice with a grain of salt as to its value..
When I got my 250 I headed to the tot-lots to build my hunting and pinpointing skills in an area that would be easy to not only recover targets but to repair the damage my digging would leave behind, A shuffle of my foot would replace the gravel or wood chips regardless as to how big of an excavation I did in target recovery.
When it was time to move on to grass covered property my search areas were the edges of parks and ballfields where I could dig and replace material in places where a shoddy repair would be least noticeable. And shoddy repairs there were too. My pinpointing skills were pitiful at that time and the size of my holes were massive by what is normal for me now. Learn to de-tune your machine!!!! Now that I have acquired the knowledge of de-tuning when I am on my knees recovering a target I give a silent prayer of thanks to whoever it was that discovered or engineered that target shrinking function. Yesterday I re-hit a spot I hunted when I first started m.d'ing and some of my digs were still evident. I rescanned a poorly repaired spot and recovered two quarters I was unable to find when I first started m.d'ing. I recovered the coins with a plug cut just big enough for my two fingers to fit inside the hole and retrieve the treasure.
Put some stuff back into the ground. I have buried a few objects next to my garage and marked the location of each item with a golf tee. Just like all ball-players need practice, (Heck, even Tiger Woods has teachers and swing coaches) your skills and knowledge of your machine can be improved by being able to spend a few minutes a day trying different settings and methods of finding and identifying targets.
I know these ideas may seem dumb to those of you that have been "swinging a coil" forever but sometimes us "newbies" just gotta exchange information and encouragement amongst ourselves.
When I got my 250 I headed to the tot-lots to build my hunting and pinpointing skills in an area that would be easy to not only recover targets but to repair the damage my digging would leave behind, A shuffle of my foot would replace the gravel or wood chips regardless as to how big of an excavation I did in target recovery.
When it was time to move on to grass covered property my search areas were the edges of parks and ballfields where I could dig and replace material in places where a shoddy repair would be least noticeable. And shoddy repairs there were too. My pinpointing skills were pitiful at that time and the size of my holes were massive by what is normal for me now. Learn to de-tune your machine!!!! Now that I have acquired the knowledge of de-tuning when I am on my knees recovering a target I give a silent prayer of thanks to whoever it was that discovered or engineered that target shrinking function. Yesterday I re-hit a spot I hunted when I first started m.d'ing and some of my digs were still evident. I rescanned a poorly repaired spot and recovered two quarters I was unable to find when I first started m.d'ing. I recovered the coins with a plug cut just big enough for my two fingers to fit inside the hole and retrieve the treasure.
Put some stuff back into the ground. I have buried a few objects next to my garage and marked the location of each item with a golf tee. Just like all ball-players need practice, (Heck, even Tiger Woods has teachers and swing coaches) your skills and knowledge of your machine can be improved by being able to spend a few minutes a day trying different settings and methods of finding and identifying targets.
I know these ideas may seem dumb to those of you that have been "swinging a coil" forever but sometimes us "newbies" just gotta exchange information and encouragement amongst ourselves.
