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If your fairly new to hunting Here are some start-up tips that might help.

Dancer

Dancer

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1. Get yourself a thin standard screw driver. [Or small icepick] Once you have a coin pinpointed, feel around with the driver & locate the target. Knowing where it's at and how deep will save you a load of time. The big plus is not having to cut a large plug to find your target. Tramp the plug back down with maybe a leaf on top. You got to be stealfull in these parks or we'll all get the heave ho.

2. Your gonna dig some trash [we all do] Don't throw it back out there, your only going to dig it up again some time. Idea is to clean the area out to make finding the good stuff easer next time.

3. Your just getting started Keeping a log as to what & where you find Treasure is invaluable down the road. Sort of keeping track of your Hot & not so hot places to hunt.

4. Keep your eyes open for other things that have been discarted, left behind, Young people can be really careless. It's all Treasure.

5. The power of the Penny! Keep em all! Leave nothing! Save em in a can, when you get heavy, clean em up, roll em. Use em to help buy some equipment. Like battries, a good digger, a sandscoop, whatever.

6. Remember your Detector is just a tool. You are the Hunter! Dig yourself a Thousand Coins & your next thousand will come allot faster.

Thats all I got.
 
Thats powerful advice, and enough to get a guy started if they take heed of it!:clapping:
Mud
 
Dancer, Thanks for the tips but, I feel like a veteran all ready
I always leave the site I'm digging on the same or maybe better by
the fact that I am relieving the area of lots of trash. I tried the screw-
driver and I was not a very good popper. It would be nice to be able to pop
a coin out of the ground without digging a whole plug. I think I watched You
Tube for a couple of weeks prior to metal detecting because I had problems
with the first Garrett detector that was sent to me, The first detector had old
batteries shipped out with it that leaked all over the place. Garrett has a bad
policy of sending out items with batteries included but not separately packaged.
I dig a plug swing the hole to see if the item is still there then swing the plug.
If the item is in the plug the plug goes on a hand towel an I pinpoint the plug to
locate the treasure. If the item remains in the hole I pinpoint the hole to find out
where I have some additional digging to do. The dirt from the dig goes on the towel
because I don't put the plug on the towel unless it is pinpointed for the treasure. I do
like 3-6 though Thanks for the info
 
It will depend on the ground, but sometimes it's pretty hard to actually pop the coin
out of the ground in one pop.. I rarely do really.. The gumbo clay here gets a kung fu
grip on the coins, and unless it's super dry, you will usually have to pick it out of the dirt.
But using the probe still saves wear and tear on the turf. I rarely ever use the digger.
I find cutting plugs, even if real careful, usually kills the grass worse than just erupting it
with the probe, and smashing it back down when done. Doing that usually doesn't bother
grass much. I think maybe because you cut less roots..

I also round off and polish my screwdrivers so they don't gouge coins.
This is my usual probe. I keep a couple of old push rods as backups.
They also make fairly decent probes with the rounded ends.
But I decided to make one as I wanted a handle.
With the gumbo, I also am a heavy user of the pinpointer when digging one out of the
dirt. Often they are so caked with dirt, you can't hardly see them in front of your face.
The pinpointer saves loads of time. Couldn't live without one.
This thing I ground down on a grinding wheel, and then polished it up to be smooth.
probes.jpg
 
My ground is usually top soil from 2" to 8" deep. The driver really works well on the shallow coins, and I still usually feel them allot deeper. Thats when the sawtooth digger comes out. All in all tho I think the best Tool is when we find or Blunder into a Honey Hole.

Leave Nothing !
 
Yeah, I've seen it done, and I was always been in awe of those who can do it.
I might be able to do it with a circular coil but I don't think I could be close enough
with the double d coil.
 
I use a screwdriver more than the digger on shallow targets. It's better on the ground and faster, too.
 
All right you guys really have me interested in popping.
how does one no the difference between a rock and a coin
or other? Let me guess it's all in the feeling the coin just feels
different than the rock.
 
Yeah, once you get just a little time in on probing around with a screwdriver, you will tell the difference in everything...by dang, I think you will be able to tell the date of the coin in about a year or so! You will definitely notice the difference, even on pulltabs, glass. rocks, everything I tell you! Lots of times I dont even take the digger along, once you get good, you wont leave the house without a backup 'driver for sure! Heres how I go "popping"...hear ping, bend over and stab coin, if deeper than 2", drop to one knee,(left) grab screwdriver with both hands and ream,rip or otherwise wow out a hole just above the coin and no bigger than your finger so you can slide your finger down into the hole along side the screwdriver, then just tip the coin on edge, pinch between the screwdriver and your finger, and extract, as you are rising up, place target in pouch, step on hole area, and keep moving...took longer to type this than do it...should be 10-15 sec from the time you hit the coin with the coil to pouch on targets 4" or less. Surface targets or 1-2 inches, just stab and pop! It becomes so natural and fast, if somebody was watching you, they would think you were tyeing your shoe, or genuflecting!
Mud
 
stabbed & grabbed well over 200 coins the other day. Probing with a driver means not haveing to cut a manhole plug for every target. Now that saves time!
 
I've never tried a double D on my 250. Most said they were very fond of bottle caps, and being
I have the 9x12, didn't see much point in getting one. So have no idea how accurate they are
as far as pinpointing. With the concentric coils, I'm quite used to them, and can get pretty
accurate. Probably can stab the object with the probe half the time.
With the concentric coils, the side to side measuring when you get to the tone cut out point, is very
critical for accuracy. As you near the end, the side to side area shrinks, following the same
shape as the coil. Being as the concentric coils are most narrow front and back, the side to side
play near the end is quite sharp. You want to be perfectly in the middle if you want to stab coins.
Also, the depth will have an effect on how far the object is fore and aft of the cut out point.
The deeper objects will be slightly to the center, or back in most cases, due to the shape of
the coil pattern in the soil.
But like I say, no double D's here, so I don't have a clue how those like to pinpoint.. :(
BTW, my sniper coil is the only one that I pinpoint in the center of the coil. But I still go
side to side, and fore/aft to try to get centered as closely as possible. Being small, the process
is pretty fast.
 
NM5K, Yeah I'm thinking my wife probably wants to buy me that Ace 350 sniper coil for Christmas lol!
Maybe she wanted me to stop metal detecting, oh well I get confused with all that some times:cheekkiss:
I am seriously considering the siper coil because, there is a ton of surface finds in the park. The sniper coil
would speed up pinpointing and that way I'll be able to successfully practice the art of popping.
 
I am just getting started in this hobby...I really want to thank you experienced detectors for all the info and recommendations. It means a lot to those of us who are just getting started.
 
All good stuff Dancer Ive been at it
4 yrs this yr and still need reminders!!
but then agin Im Old!!!! :laugh:

id also add 1 more ALWAYS get
permission if your not sure you can
:detecting: a spot! better safe than
sorry!!!

Great tips

Think Spring

HH

Ron

Rangers Lead The Way :usaflag::usaa:
 
USE A BRASS PROBE!

Anything steel can harm coins, etc. ~ brass will not.

I got a three ft brass rod and four wooden file handles from Ace hardware.

I then cut the brass rod into four nine inch pieces, pounded one end into file handles, and had four probes about 8 inch long.

Rounded off the tips on a grinder, kept one and had three to give away as gifts.

As I've said before, I'm cheap!
 
I made some brass probes the same way, only I ground grooves in the rod where it went into the handle and epoxied them in.

John
 
Headed to Ace Hardware now to pick up a brass rod. BTW...I accidently discovered an interesting tool while golfing of all things. I now carry a couple of wooden golf tees with me. If I happen to find two targest close together I just shove a golf tee into the ground to mark the spot of one...then probe for the first target...double check with the detector and then probe under my golf tee (second target). My knees are old...as long as I am on the ground I want to take advantage of already being there.
 
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