Beginners Guide to metal detecting - Basic Mistakes (3) 

"You think you've found something, but you haven't! You've found ye self!" hahahah

I'm late to the party....but so glad I found you! Made me feel so much better about myself as a newbie. Can't wait to catch up on more of your videos!!

It's really nice to watch down to earth people giving advice and encouragement. You are entertaining to watch good on ya lass.

OK I CONFESS........ 35 years of detecting, OMG what have I missed? Way back when, I was for coin and ring size targets, Discrimination set up high, dig NO large targets. I'M STILL, being stupid. Yet where I live now is U.S. Civil War area (1860-1865) I could be missing belt buckles, artillery shells, large relic's. Bad habits are hard to break, your video's help in developing good habits for better success. Thanks

that ring bit was genius!

Thanks for the video and all your advice , I'm getting a Garrett Detector (as after your great review it looks so easy to use) and I'm looking forward going out and having some fun finding alsorts of things. Permission to detect is important I know and a few people to ask who own land but I will have a good practice at home first and remember to remove my ring! I'm really intrested in the local history of where I live and it will be fantastic to have my own collection of coins and belt buckles and thimbles just to think I'm a part of the story, It would be nice to find rare things but I pick up so much litter when dog walking (as I don't like to see where I live looking a mess) that a few hundred bottle caps before my first coin wouldn't matter to much. Thanks again and look forward to another great video.

Best detectorists on u tube. Down to earth,fun and honest couple and so enthusiastic about their hobby. Brilliant

45 years ago i got a detector and didnt know a thing. One of the first things i did was take a gold ring and buried and then listened to the tone the detector made when passed over it. Then when i went to tbe beach i heard the same tone and started digging. I dug and dug and dug and finally reached what made the tone....a steel radial tire! Only used the detector a few more times because my husband stopped wanting to go to tbe beach. (Anytime i found fun stuff to do he usually wanted to stop doing it. Odd man. He is my ex husband now)

Great video! Thanks for the information! Just learning about detectors!

Great attitude!! Thanks for being so positive and helpful :)

This was the best! You have a real talent to instruct this field. I enjoy your show.

this is the funniest, the most educational video I have ever seen. thanks...

OMG That is EXACTLY the sound I made when I found my first old coin from the 1800s! Love your videos!!!!

I have been detecting for 8 months, and did all the same things. Persistance, watching youtube, asking advice on forums, or facebook. Also looking for a detecting mate/buddy can be a tremendous help, and doubles the fun. I am on my 4th detector now.....addictive hobby :-)

Good video again, useful to someone trying to get into it like me.

You are my new favorite person! Your personality is golden!

"I's detectin me own ring"😆haha i love ur accent.

Great video Dawn. Just started detecting myself and I have got the bug. Your video just confirms I'm doing the right stuff. Cheers!

Thank you for this video. I am beginning and have gotten so discouraged. I appreciate you putting this out there. I just thought it was me. Ty so much.

Well done Dawn, great advice!! Nice....

Interesting video thanks Digger Dawn 👌👍

Hello..am new to this channel..love your down to earth approach (literally!) I laughed out loud when you were detecting ur ring! Brilliant!!❤

What you said about detecting yourself reminded me of Bernard Manning's old joke about the Irish fella who took up metal detecting. He dug halfway to Australia before realising he had steel toe caps on his boots

Found over 30 coins in the church yesterday plus 2 keys lock..today i am sore ...my legs of all things...here in NZ..love ya work...

"I'm detecting me own ring!!!"....love it!!

Detecting yourself: I have a few metal pins in my chest holding my ribs together lol.

I wish I could have watched this last January! I hope you don't leave those boxes where someone can take off with them anywhere! Great digs Dawn!

It’s great to get help from Beautiful young ladies. I just started watching some metal detecting videos, so this is all new to me so it’s great to see helpful posts. Thanks for sharing

Really good information here. Thank you Dawn.

I'm 37 from the US and I'm fairly well traveled, but I've never heard an English accent quite like yours!

Hey I the first time I went with my steel toe work boots on that's Dawn just received my At max thanks for the tips and laughs

An extremely well made video that points out basic 'errors' and so very many thanks to you DD :0)

Thank you Dawn. I love any advise detecting. 👍👍👍👍🙏

The regulations are so strict here in Sweden. You are allowed to OWN a detector, but you need permission from the local authorities to detect. You have to apply for permission and you can only apply for a specified area, and the area can not be near earlier archeological finds (and those places are scattered everywhere!!!!). And you also have to have a good reason to detect in the area, and the permission of the land owner. So... you aren't even allowed to detect in your own backyard without permission :-/ I really would like to get a metal detector and detect on my great grandmothers land, but I don't know if it is worth the hassle going through all the bureaucracy...

Nice metal detecting Dawn

What a nice video, and fun and educational to watch.

Great for a beginner 👏👏👏👍👍👍

Dawn, we have all been to this ring rodeo..haha. So true, I've been detecting 24 years and I are this rookie mistake only two years ago with my pin pointer. I'm just glad no one was around to see this fiasco..haha. Another rookie mistake I made was two years ago at a rally in Toronto, Canada. Tim and George from Diggers were there. George was detecting near me and I got a nice signal. He came over and watched me as I retrieved a coin. My mistake was I didn't check my hole before filling it in. I was nervous enough having one of the worlds most popular detectorists watching me. As I went to walk away George swept his detector over my hole and it beeped. I was a little embarrassed when he told me to check it one more time. I opened up the hole again and scanned with the pin pointer and there was another coin...bugger all. He bugged for the rest of the day...haha. Needless to say I have never made that mistake again.

Thank you for this

Nice one, Dawn, and, yes, had to laugh as I've done most of the mistakes you put in the videos. All the best, GL&HH, Ian.

You are awesome! What a cool hobby, I can't wait to jump into it. You have some great useful beginer advice, I can't wait to start exploring the Northern California Gold Rush area. Keep up the great work and cool videos!

awwww bless you.you have us rolling around in stitches here..great advice and laughs.keep it up.. all the best :)

Very informative, thanks

Good bitz of advice & thanks.

This was fun to watch, just got my first detector and can't wait to learn. Subscribed!

1:34, this was amazing.

Excellent vid, educational and humourous. Make more!

Great Video. I started detecting about the same time that You two began posting videos and I have learned at about the exact same pace. It was fun to see in your early videos the excitement to find anything old that was not rubbish and I could and still do related to your excitement. Thanks for the videos.

loved this - I appreciate you taking the time to share - thanks from Canada

Detecting One's Self....got to spread the word on that one. Your info on this vid is great. It helps beginners like me help other beginners. Thanx Much !

Have a great day 👍👍👍👍🙏

Nice Rockery

Nice one Dawn, as you say we all have and still do all of these mistakes. I've never detected with steel toecaps but wear a ring on every occasion. Even after many years of detecting we'll still be fooled into digging some iron, coke cans and pull rings. I know i have for years LOL. All the best HH Tony

enjoy your vids dawn keep it up 🤩

Love the tray idea will buy some 👍👍👍👍

OMG! "I'm detecting me own rings!" LOL!!! Thank you for the laugh! That was great! Been there and done that. ;-)

good video dawn

Thank you Dawn for that great advice. Kind regards Patrick

I remember watching you when I first got my Detector!

cheers dawn great mix of fun and enthusiasm as well as being informative. comedy gold. or silver. not iron or foil anyway.

thanks Dawn , lovely garden by the way x

Loved your video....it gave me a good laugh. I like the way you explain things. Its all good advice, you were helpful. thank you

Thank for the info

You are great, love all your videos , keep them coming

thanks for this video. I wish I had watched it three weeks ago when I got my first metal detector because it took me three hours to realize all the beeping from the start was due to my steel toed boots.

Great advice, thanks!

My first Metal detecting trip I found one 50 cents piece (Australian) one bottle top and ring pull. I still have them.

Brilliant, thanks Dawn! ❤️

Another beltin vid thanks dawn n twig

Thanks Dawn,i do what you said,very heloful

Another great video love the content

Good video Dawn. Good advice as well. it does take time to learn your machine and then after you learn it you dig up more pull tabs. But the balance leans more towards the good finds. it is just you still should dig the ify signals thanks and Cheers

Love your videos. I Look forward to watching them.

Truly enjoyed your channel and subscribed 🌹

Thanks Dawn

great job. thank you

Just started a month ago . Saving up for a mini Garett reader.

Hi hello Dawn nice digging 👍👌

I like in Number 2 how she said be happy with everything you find...Great way to be..so what if you find trash....its still fun to hunt even if its a glue can from 1960s lol

Great video, thanks.

Great advice you could as a beginner recommend joining a club lots of useful information gained from members over many years and msvhines

Great video Dawn! When I started detecting this Spring I had one of these mistake experiences. I found a nice target and pinpointed it. Dug my hole and settled in for the search. My Garrett carrot told me my target was closer so I widened my hole only to get the same results. Once again I dig and get the same thing. Puzzled,I start to wonder if I'm onto some sort of rare and elusive silver worm? The light finally came on and I remembered I have had both knees replaced!

Great fun videos. Love what your doing so keep it up xx

nice and useful video Dawn, x

Hi Dawn, great vid, thanks... I find I keep forgetting to takr my radio controlled wrist watch off when pinpointing.... Grrrr.... Cya Dawn

Ya can't beat detecting your own ring. But number 2 should be your detecting your own spade.❤️✌️🍰🥳🍷🎂😘😘🍒👍

Dawn, at time frame 7:39, that looks like it might be the top of an old straight stick walking cane. If you find out one day I would love to know if I was right. My first summer of detecting and your right, many trips out and not finding anything good yet, but I won't give up! Something I've been doing, don't know if I'm wasting my time doing it but I'm keeping my finds separated by tags from each location searched along with a rough drawn map showing where on that location each item was found. My thought is, as I learn more, one day a light bulb might go off in my head and it will make more sense to me then it does now. May be these finds are clues as to what else may be there and help guide me to go back to some of these spots and where to continue searching when I do go back, make sense? One thing for sure, it keeps me thinking about these spots I've been to and urges me to continue. Anyways, thanks for the tips and good hunting! Cheers!

Love your videos

your right on all counts ive tried detecting in toe caps (big mistake) ...went out the other night and found 4 cans and about 5 ring pulls and that was it and ive been detecting about 3 years now so it shows (that i am still rubbish at finding coins) lol

Love your accent. Great info on detecting. Thanks

Dawn, your brilliant cheers

Excellent vid! :) Gives me hope for when I get mine.

Awesome tips

You found a ring on your own finger good job didnt think you would need a metal detector.

great job again dawn :)

Good job I Enjoyed it

This can save some headache for the beginners ~>

I'm always a fan...jam...

Hey Dawn, you have got a way of putting things over that allows your northern humour to really shine through.Having just watched this video you have really brightened my morning up. Just out of interest roughly what area are you in, we are near Rochdale.

Could you also explain on how to get permission where to dig and contracts with land owners and what you can keep and what you can’t