I've been taking my 11-year-old son out relic hunting with me and he was having trouble finding his targets without my help today. I was wondering if anyone here has taught their son how to relic hunt and what kind of tips they might have on improving his retrieval technique.
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Helping a boy to improve his target retrieval speed
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ihuntrelics!
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A little of both. But, in all the cases yesteday he kept calling me over because he was having trouble getting a handle on the right place to dig and seem to be missing the target by enough of a margin as to have the target in the sidewall or even next to the hole. Now that I have had time to think about it, I'll have to have a session with him on using the detector's pinpoint to get a more exact starting point and go over some things on recovery in the woods. He has a Bounty Hunter pinpointer and knows how to use it. I have covered these things in the past, but he is a very can do this myself Dad, kind of kid, so its always the help, no help dance on just how much help to give him. I only posted on this because we're going to an organized hunt this spring and I want him to be a little more successful.
ihuntrelics!
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find a target free spot in your yard and take a big pc. of cardboard or something flat to lay in that clear spot in the yard. This will give you a nice area to lay various relics and other targets spaced out about 12 to 16 inches apart. Now have him scan these targets slowly one at a time and as he does this he can actually see the target as the coil goes across it teaching him to pinpoint more easily. He can also use this same method and raise his coil up to different heights and this will give him a better understanding of how targets get louder the closer the coil is to it and the higher you raise the coil the quieter it gives a response. Also this will give him an idea what the various targets will id at if he has a meter or id type machine or the tone it will produce to represent each type target he scans. I hope this will help him as I know first hand how it is trying to detect and having to run back and forth helping others having trouble detecting. This spring hunt wouldn't happen to be DIV 13 or 14 would it? I will be at both hunts myself.
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Roscue2
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, but when I started this hobby about 2 yrs ago I had the same sort of problem, except with pinpointing coins. I can't remember ever asking him for help during a hunt, but he would, and still does, tell me what he saw me doing wrong on the ride home. The reason I didn't ask him for help during the hunt was because I realized from the beginning that once you've been hunting with a certain machine for as long as he had (12+ yrs) you don't catch onto new detectors very quickly. I figured I would learn on my own faster than he would be able to teach me, so that's what I did. It worked out in the long run. Probably would have worked out quicker if I had had a pinpointer from the beginning. So yeah, I can understand how your son wants to learn it himself, but a little help doesn't hurt.
Just saying from my own experiences.
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Just saying from my own experiences.
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