I've been involved in metal detecting since I was 16. I would like to share with you the historical relevance of the sites I visit along with the items I find. My goal isn’t to just show you someone metal detecting... though video, I take you with me on the hunt.
Content will be added as I have time to go detecting. Thank your for checking my channel out.
If need more specific than county I have better luck with townships than cities since a lot of modern cities that are pretty old weren’t around back then
Oh, I wouldn't really call that very crusty. When I say crusty, I think of much worse. The loss of relief is what I worry about with crusty coins. That coin is pretty decent.
I started watching because I'd just got a MX Sport and wanted to see how you did with it. I've been detecting 40+ years (All white's) Have 3 of them now, including the MXT all pro. I'm guilty of running wide open, everything set as high as I can get it. Sport gives me mixed signals, but I usually can sort it out. Just maybe the problem of the detector being confused may be the person running the machines fault. Maybe less is better. I'd like to do a side by side and see if I can reduce the detectors load by turning it down. That and get the danged 13 inch DD coil off and a nice 6 inch concentric coil on. On that account, I have found the smaller coils to be much more stable. With the MX Sport running 2 tone, One good, One not so good, How simple is that! Bringing me back too (Less may be better)
This is exactly what i did. I bought a harbor freight flat shovel, then cut the handle down, and took a grinder to it and that's what i did for 20 dollars
@sktech76 it's been fine, I use it all the time. With the little curve to it, I can pop out a coin near exact at about 6 inches easy. I have a Nokta Legend with small 6" coil and basically the coils almost pinpoints my targets easier. Much easier than the big 11x9 coil. These other shovels are too pricey for me
Square Nail I’m wanting to grow my channel and have thought one way could be to buy channels like yours that have a few thousand subscribers and try and consolidate. Please don’t take offense I have really enjoyed your channel over the years and I just thought it couldn’t hurt to ask. I’m getting ready to start a one year treasure cache hunt on locations all across the country. But I don’t do the legends or whatever. I source everything from old newspapers and my rule of thumb is if I Google the article’s specifics and something comes up it’s out! There are more than enough to be very picky. Should be fun and I’m hoping all the people that like these videos will really enjoy my concept.
Top notch! You did a superb job with this video from start to finish. Concise and complete, thorough explanations, you're a natural teacher. Patient and gifted! I bought my first brand new metal detector, White's Spectrum XLT, in the summer of 1997. The very next day and every day after, 5 days a week, for a couple of weeks, I drove an hour one way to the Historical Archives Building in downtown Montgomery, Alabama to research places to detect. I'd get there in the morning as the doors were being unlocked, first person in and was the last to leave in the afternoon at quittin' time. Each day I'd read through a stack of quarterly historical books pertaining to the county I lived in and a few surrounding. For hours and hours each day, I hand wrote notes on looseleaf paper in a three ring binder. And each day my fingers would cramp on the drive home. After reaching an inch thick goal of those handwritten notes I'd compiled, together with a stack of select photocopied pages of microfilmed newspapers, each copy costing a quarter, I figured this would be more places to search than I could cover in a lifetime. LMAO! I had a lot to learn! And so the next day I began detecting. Took many many years to near about locate all those places, but the part I still to this day laugh about is, yeah, that list was massive but I've since then searched the grounds of fifty times that number of sites. LOL! Thanks so very much for teaching this old dog a new trick!!! Plenty more new places to dig! That adrenaline rush is still intense between me and my XLT!
Yes his videos are great. Probably spending too much time for the return. There are only a handful who are sponsored by Garett. That’s why they are using 20 year old detectors. Single frequency.
Going to get me one of those, I use a root slayer. Good for the woods obviously. But I need me a good corn soy feild shovel. Btw miss you buddy hope all is well.
1:56 Just use an air compressor/gun. It makes taking on/off rubber grips much easier. It's an old trick that some bike shops use when changing rubber bar grips.
I have several detectors. I am also an archaeologist and I was wondering why you decided to retire the V3i. I am a maritime archaeologist so I know underwater detectors better. Does the mine lab really outshine the whites. I just got a whites V3i. It’s not that difficult to get along with. But I was mostly curious why you put yours to bed. Thank you
If you go to his video titled "Whites V3i versus Minelab Equinox Brick Road" it compares the signals from the v3i and the nox 800. There are multiple targets that the v3i didn't even see including an indian head cent. The v3i saw a rusted can as a great target and the 800 saw it as junk.
