Best-Kept Secrets To Finding Treasure - #8
Published by Larry on Tagged Instuctional, Metal Detector Training, Site Areas
маси и столовеJoin A Treasure Hunting Club: There are some real advantages to belonging to one or more treasure hunting clubs. A wealth of information on treasure sites and how to better hunt are foremost reason for joining. Not only will you gain experience and advice, but the club experience is fun. Hunts and friendly competitions as well as camaraderie enhance the experience. To find out about clubs in your area, contact the Federation of Metal Detector Clubs (FMDAC) at www.fmdac.com.
Best-Kept Secrets To Finding Treasure - #7
Published by Larry on Tagged Coin shooting, Instuctional, Metal Detecting Tips, Metal Detector Training, Uncategorized
Masking Does Work! I have found over 153,000 coins and over 2,000 gold and silver jewelry pieces with 85% of these finds found within a three mile area. I have had friends and former students tell me that I have cleaned Tarpon Springs, FL of good finds. There are ”NO” hunted-out metal detecting sites! In 40 years of hunting coins, relics and jewelry with metal detectors, I have continued to find valuable items on sites that I have hunted dozens of times. But, I am totally convinced that no area will be completed hunted and all good targets removed with the present limited capabilities of metal detectors. The major obstacle or dilemma in hunting-out a site is masking.
Masking is not a new concept in the metal detecting field, but probably one of the least known or least understood topics in the hobby. I discovered masking early in the 1970’s when discriminate was added to detectors and I built my first test garden to practice on the varying signal types introduced through the medium of discrimination. Using high discrimination to get rid of those pesky pop tops and pull tabs, caused me to notice that some signals were mere blips but turned out to be good finds. By placing good targets next to junk targets, I noticed that standard and larger coils produced unusual signals or none at all, and I was missing the good targets. I took out my Fisher 441 all metal unit and could get readings on most of the good targets that were being masked by the tabs, pencil erasers, gum wrappers and buck shot that I had in my test garden. I decided to test out masking by going to a favorite site that always produced a few old keepers. The Fisher 441 was a great all metal detector with exceptional depth for the time period. I marked-off an area and hunted it using three different patterns and found piles of junk items and about 40 coins. I cleaned that area so well, that I called it my hunted out site. I did not go back there again for nearly 15 years, believing I got all the goodies that had been lost there. I so cleaned it out that none of my top line detectors received signals of any kind. I thought that I had licked the masking problem. I was recommending to all of our club members to use little or no discrimination and/or utilize a smaller coil to get around the masking.
During the mid 80’s, I discovered the second type of masking. This menace is known as “silent” masking. Silent masking works this way. Bury a good target such as a silver dime, at three to eight inches deep. Use both all medal mode and discrimination to confirm the signal. Now take a very small staple or lead or steel buckshot and bury it on top of the dime at about one inch deep. This item will mask the dime in discrimination mode and even moving the item as much as four inches from center of the dime, will produce masking or cause the dime to read as a pull tab. Then, bury the staple or buck shot to three inches deep over the dime and something amazing happens. There will be complete silence and even changing to all metal mode will give only a chatter sound like ground minerals. What is taking place here is called inductive coupling. The eletromagnetic energy from the coil hits the small junk item producing an electromagntic halo around it. The signal strength is greatly reduced and in all probability will not reach the dime. Even if it does the signal will fail on the return path when it hits the halo again.
How I Got Started - Grant Aldrich
Published by Larry on Tagged Inspirational, Record KeepingHey Larry, sorry i didn’t get back to you but I hardly ever check this email. I was about 5 years old and was digging in my grandmothers yard with a spoon.
I found a coin spill and my father told me to just keep digging until I had got them all.
After finding about 7 old coins (dime, nickles and pennies) dating from 1891 to 1937 that was all it took for me to keep going. I was hooked. I lost the coins back in the early 80’s during a divorce. I really enjoyed reading the blog site, thanks.
Thanks Again
Grant
Best-Kept Secrets To Finding Treasure - #6
Published by Larry on Tagged Coin shooting, Record KeepingThere are more coins lost than in circulation today! Throughout history there are more coins lost than in circulation. Imagine the possibilities as a treasure finder. If someone would have told me in 1969 that I could find 153,000 coins with metal detectors, I would have laughed out loud. I am a believer in the law of attraction, but my first year’s finds was only 1,283 coins with my trusty Metaford BFO unit. Statisical estimates for coins lost just in America during the first fifty years of the 20th century range from one hundred million to more than one hundred fifty million. What excites me is that a single coin found, could be valuable enough to pay for a lifetime of treasure equipment, and it is common to find several dollars worth of change in a single day. I have had several days where I have found more than 200 coins. My best day was 244. My best month was 2300 and my best year’s total was 8,231. Many have superseded these totals. One prominent lady in the hobby, who was a full time treasure finder, dug more than a million coins in her career. I hear the chatter of individuals saying that all the good stuff has been found and that all the good spots have been cleaned out. Pay close attention to secret number seven as we debunk this kind of talk.