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Test Gardens

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Tony66

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I've heard a lot about "test gardens", especially from the more experienced MD'ers. I've also read a little on how to make one but they seem to be little more than throw some coins on the ground and then go find them. I've learned so much from just popping in and reading the forum (even the older pages) that it just hit me that this would be the place to find out what's the best way to make a test garden. From what I've read so far this seems to be a really great way to get learn your machine and learn to pinpoint, and that's something I really need to learn with my QD II.
 
hey tony,
just take a penny, nickel, dime, and a quarter and bury them about 1 inch in the ground and take your detector out and listen for all the different beeps a great way to start. thats what i did and it works, i"m new too for about 3 months now and found alot of coins already.
 
hi tony, you can also bury the coins at different depths. if you have a silver dime or quarter, a pulltab, an old iron nail, a gold ring, etc. bury them too. listen closely on how the qd2 changes beeps with the different metals. silver comes in high, and gold is usually low on the scale. good luck, and hh,
 
Hi Tony, I made my test garden about 7 years ago and really learned a lot using it. I've got several quarters, dimes, pennys and nickles buried at different depths from 2" to 8 1/2 inches so I can judge the usable depth of my detectors. I also buried a coin on a 45 degree angle - found it hard to pick up on most detectors. You can also see how much it throws your pinpoint off. I have a coin buried about 3/4" from a pulltab to check the detectors ability to separate the two-these were buried 3"deep. I took some of the trash I detected and buried it at different depths-all less than 4". I only had one detector that would signal on the 8 1/2" quarter and that was one of the high end ones that required much, much, adjusting to get it to do that so I sold it. Practically all my finds have been 5" or less so if you limit your depths to that it should be good. Best of luck to you. .
 
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