Elton's Post Below

[RLOH]

Elton, as always has brought up some great advice for any new detectorist. Three years ago a fellow approached me at one of the parks that I hunt routinely and wanted to "talk detecting". This guy had never owned a detector and wanted to buy one. Being that he had a disability and could not bend down the numerous times to dig targets while learning how to detect, I advised him to not buy an expensive detector. I thought that he would be incapable of hunting and would tire or lose interest in detecting. He bought a Garrett 250 at my advice and later a sniper coil. He quickly mastered the detector and fell in love with the hobby. When I put my old Explorer 11 up for sale last spring, I checked with him before listing it on the forums. I offered to let him make payments to me and I would help him with learning the detector. I am not at all being critical of any books that help people learn, but there is no better way to learn than having a person show you with a hands on lesson. My lessons for my buddy started with me finding a target with my SE and I would mark the target with my screwdriver probe. I had set his Ex11 up for him and I advised him to not stray from the settings. He was overwhelmed by the infromation that I was telling him, but when I could have him sweep over a good, known target, it just clicked for him. We dug many deep wheats and a couple of silver dimes and he got the chance to hear and see how different targets responded. Several of the coins came from 8 or so inches deep and had a rusty nail or screw within an inch or so. He got a chance to hear the Explorer null from two directions and sound off on the other two directions. This was priceless for his learning curve. What took me a couple of years to learn, he picked up on in four hunts. The last time I hunted with him, he actually told me that he had a wheat penny that had a piece of rusty iron next to it. I checked his signal and came up with the same conclusion. He was right on the money so to speak. I gave him a great deal on a super detector and I have no doubt that the EX 11 will be his only detector for the next four or five years. This fellow will master the detector and he will make finds that will pay for his investment. I wish I could have had somebody give me some lessons like this, but I learned from the helping people on the forums. Elton said it well, "master one detector at a time" before starting the quest for the perfect detector. R.L.

 

[Elton]

RLOH it's people of your caliber that's the shinning light to detecting..Not just the finds..You take it way beyond the recoveries Sir...

 

[big john]