Metal Detector for bottle hunting

[Ashley0828]

I was just wondering if anyone could suggest or recommend a good metal detector that would help in my hunt for old bottles. I know you get what you pay for but I don't have alot of money to spend on one, so decent inexpensive one. Thanks alot in advance.
Ashley

 

[Phil in North Jersey]

Bottles cant be detected by md's

 

[Ted bottle guy]

You can use metal detector to find the dump's to find the bottle's that's how i do it!!!

 

[mattockman]

Actually Ashley all you need is any metal detector that fits your budget.....all it has to do is find patches of multi targets in the ground.....and you may be standing on the dump.....you don't need a great detector for that....I used a radio shack 2000 before and it would find dumps around old farms and cellar holes.....but what you do need is a better idea of where to look for the dumps...and the detector will confirm it....so try along rock walls at property ends or look for ditches or gullys, openings in the rock walls....the corners where 2 rock walls meet in the back yards.....if you see a patch of pickys in the middle of a field...investigate it...they use to plant these over old dumps so no one would bother the dump. search both sides of the rock walls also....and I have found more times than ever that the older dumps to be closer to the house....I found it strange they dumped so close but I guess they did....always start by guessing where the kitchen was at a cellar hole and look out the back window.....and if the land slopes down, head that way and search. If the land starts going back up a hill........ stop....the wagon was usually too full to pull up hill......so I would suggest buying a bounty hunter or radio shack and get out there and find some bottles....

 

[TuckyTector(InezKY)]

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[John(H)]

I use an old Garrett Sidewinder BFO with no discrimination! I use it with either the 12 inch or the 12 by 24 inch coil! Since you are looking for a large and wide object, the detector's coil can be held up off the ground like a foot or more! Once a likely bottle dump response is found you can either dig it out or probe it 1st with a bottle probe! I found that the old BFO's are highly responsive to old iron and serves this purpose well! Also BFO's should be very affordable right now, since many consider these to be obsolete!.....................HAPPY HUNTING........................Joe

 

[BarberBill]

This is how I got started detecting. First was looking for dumps for bottles. Then got hooked on the detectng itself. I started with a Tesoro Compadre. Worked fine.
Bill