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YOUR SINGLE MOST USEFUL TIP (PLZ SHARE)

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Heres a question I thought might spark some debate and maybe open a few eyes. Im sure everyones answer will be different but, what is in your own opinion the best piece of advice or best tip you have learned or heard over the years about being a succesful MD'er??? For me it's the mantra I say to myself when Im digging junk. " Where there is trash, there is treasure"......sometimes it is this simple statement that keeps me going on my line and finally into treasure rather than veering off.
 
wear headphones and go slow-its not a race-dig everything . hard to pick just one when trying to teach someone the basics of learning the trade
 
" THINK GOLD " when i go out hunting i start the day thinking i"m going to find gold ( or what ever target i"m looking for ) as i tend to dig targets i"d usually leave in the ground/sand.
have ya ever seen people saying there in a " no gold slump " you tend to get a bit dispirited & only dig the good sounding signals leaving the bad ones which are usually the deep ones so your missing likely gold. also dig the big signals most often there junk but every now & then there a good target last month i was hunting chest deep only getting the odd target when i get a wide cr@ppy signal i decided to dig it as there was not much about the first two scoops yielded nothing when i brought the third scoop up i saw a gold colored chain at first i thought i was junk so i pull it out of the scoop next thing i see was a wedding band with the chain going though it the chain was 9k gold & the ring was 18k all up it was 21 grams :biggrin:.
i could tell ya a pile more but you"d get sick of reading :laugh:
lazyaussie
 
Read Clive Clynick's book ... "Water Hunting: Secrets of the Pros" cover to cover ... three times.

Willee
 
No matter how good or bad your detector is or how good or bad you are at using it, it will never find treasure if it's left in the closet!!

Gotta git out there friends!!

CJ
 
Those are all good tips. I always like to see what everyone carries around with them in the back of their heads. So much of what we do is internal. Walking around thingking and listening. :)
 
This may not be the single most useful tip but I think it's a good one. If you think you have lost your target go back to the hole and dig out a couple of big scoops of sand. Several times I've had a small gold item fall deeper down into the hole too far for my machine to detect. Some small gold jewelery has to be very close to the coil to produce a signal. Another technique I use to locate a lost target is to spread out the dug sand very thinly and then run the coil over it again. A gold chain may have to be nearly touching the coil to sound off.
 
I dropped my boy off at the MEPS station a few days ago as he is off to fight for are country (Army 82nd Airborn) i needed some time to think and went metal detecting, i didn't find no gold that day but as i looked around i did find that the best treasure in life is our freedom. Thanks to all of you who served.
 
I think the quote by Ben Franklin (I've seen it on this forum) pertains here and in almost any other endeavor one might undertake:

[size=large]"The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get"[/size]
 
Overlap you swing at least 50% to get the deep targets others miss,and when you hit a hot spot go over it at a diff. angle after the first time
 
works 100%
 
When I hunt in the water I watch every thing that swims in the water because what swims could bite.I've been chased out the water 3 times because of SHARKS. So watch what's around and be safe.
 
Read all of VB Max's posts.

Steve
 
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