There has been a love/hate relationship between the treasure hunter and doing the research necessary to locate new areas to hunt. When one field plays out some folks find themselves returning again and again trying to locate just a little leftover from their earlier finds. Many of us tend to dread research and some […]
This article is intended to enlighten you as well as teach you about research. Of course it is colored by the authors experience’s and observations. Keep that in mind but don’t jump to conclusions and draw opinions before you have read the entire article. We used to hear the phrase “you are what you […]
Thats a funny name for an article, I know, but in this case it applies to a great many hunters. The problem is that we think that we only want to go out and swing that coil and keep putting off any new research time. That always ends up in a big slump. Sound […]
More false information has clouded the issue of detection depth than any other topic since the first beeper and there are some good reasons why. The depth that a detector will find a metal object will change drastically due to the differences in soil moisture and type. Benchmark field tests are just not possible because of […]
When can you get to the parks or beaches in the summertime when people aren’t everywhere? When it rains! This has been an interesting discovery for me when one day I was not to be put off any longer and I grabbed something to shed the rain and put the environmental cover on my detector […]
Tales from the piney woods east of Houston are spiced with stories of buried gold. In 1934 the United States went off of the gold standard, that is before 1934 it was common to reach down in your pocket and find five, ten, and twenty dollar gold pieces (worth face value!) so it was common […]
When we first get our detector we want to start by finding something interesting and valuable but depending on our State and county we have vastly different options than others do. There is treasure everywhere we live but so different that it cannot be compared to other areas. One is probably not much better than […]
DETECTORIST TIPS SITE IDENTIFICATION The first thing that I do when I evaluate a new relic site is set to all metal and walk a pattern over the field noting where iron objects are located such as nails or trash dumps. When I have determined that the site has promise then I set the detector […]
Before you toss that strange black rock over your shoulder consider that some meteorites are worth a lot of money. This country is scattered with meteorites and you can stumble on them almost anywhere. I used to talk to a wise elderly blacksmith who told me stories about some Central Texas ones that he had […]
How many times has your target ID indicated either dime or quarter only to turn out to be another one of those disgusting matchbox toy cars? The first time that happened to me I looked at it for a little and started to toss it over my shoulder when I remembered that the guys at […]
