Max houser
Full Member
we seem to have alot of first timers...Newbies...when i first started I listened to everyone...take it all in.
everyone gets frustrated learning their detector... myself included. as far as detectors go... you can use a $50 detector or a $2500 detector, If you are not over a target you will not find one.
do not detect where people have not been... yes you can detect the middle of the woods and find a keeper, but the odds are against you. On the other hand finding lots of "trash" pull tabs, bottle caps, and such means your in the right place.
do your research... go to where people once were. gathering places were very common from way back when till we all became socailly distant.
I have watched people with a $50 Wally world detector pull silver out of the ground... study and learn your detector. I found multiple Gold rings with my Ace 250, and since 2010 when I got my first E-trac I have not... the ace is more of dig every signal type of machine, while the Minelab detectors let us discriminate and "cherry pick"...I know I have missed out on so much over the years by ignoring some and digging others... to get gold , you have to dig trash... some of us have forgotten that part, or are just too old and tired to dig every signal.... take this as what it is... truthful knowledge.
everyone gets frustrated learning their detector... myself included. as far as detectors go... you can use a $50 detector or a $2500 detector, If you are not over a target you will not find one.
do not detect where people have not been... yes you can detect the middle of the woods and find a keeper, but the odds are against you. On the other hand finding lots of "trash" pull tabs, bottle caps, and such means your in the right place.
do your research... go to where people once were. gathering places were very common from way back when till we all became socailly distant.
I have watched people with a $50 Wally world detector pull silver out of the ground... study and learn your detector. I found multiple Gold rings with my Ace 250, and since 2010 when I got my first E-trac I have not... the ace is more of dig every signal type of machine, while the Minelab detectors let us discriminate and "cherry pick"...I know I have missed out on so much over the years by ignoring some and digging others... to get gold , you have to dig trash... some of us have forgotten that part, or are just too old and tired to dig every signal.... take this as what it is... truthful knowledge.