Metal Detecting For Fun & Profit
You may notice someone in a park or on the beach with a metal detector, combing the ground backwards and forwards, what goes through your mind? Do you mutter to yourself, “There goes another metal detecting loser?”.
Do you imagine her spending hours digging up pennies and old soda cans? Perhaps you were with friends and the site of this particular person was great for a big laugh from all of you.
If this is a description of you, it is simply a matter of time prior to your first metal detector. Talk to almost any metal detecting hobbyist and they’ll explain how is how they started out. First they made fun of people, and then they started having questions.
Do those things really work well? How sensitive are they? How deep can they detect metal? Do they ever find anything? Even if its just change, the amount of money have they collected? Has it paid itself off yet? Did they find any jewelry? Was it expensive jewelry? (find more on this forum). On the beach, where work best results; in or from the water?
Once you learn anyone who has a metal detector you really should ask her to show you the way it operates. Go out exploring only a few hours, one day. In all probability you’ll be hooked from that time, forward. Do not ask your friend to loan her unit to you. Wars have been fought over much less than that.
Any where that people walk over, or frequent is a prime target (check out this US directory for more resources). Even land that people used to gather but has stopped being used, is worth your while. Beaches and parks, including the playing fields are all prime targets. Camping areas are very good, particularly the more active ones like girl and boy scout camps. Sites where they hold county fairs ought to always be checked out.
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