Metal Detecting Equipment - Need to Have vs Nice to Have? 

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Well presented. Excellent content.. Thank you for touching on the permissions and professional atty needed. Its very important that we enhance our public image by being friendly and courteous to our contacts so that we are perceived as being responsible and caring of our environment. Cheers from Michael. Australia.

All you really need is a detector, a digging tool, and a decent pinpointer. Best not to skimp on those three things because quality matters! Nice to have, dig pouch with a holster for your pinpointer, so you have a way to keep your finds and haul away your trash. And gloves… don’t forget gloves! Great video - thanks for sharing!

you forgot one thing in your must have kit, that would be bug spray where I live mosquitoes, flies and bee's are kinda pain. Great documentary on these items.

short shovel, dirt knife, brass probe 18", hand held pointer, and of course, the metal detector...and a bag or bucket. I have a bucket with a seat-lid...I'm old you know.

Thank you for sharing this information.really enjoyed your video.

Excellent video, you my friend have all your ducks in a row quacking load and clear.

I loved this video very well said on everything can’t thank you enough for this love to see more videos like this

All good stuff. I just recently started using the handy wipes idea for cleaning hands out in the field and keeping my detector tidy. Thanks for sharing. 😎⚒👍🎧

As a new person starting out, I was a bit disappointed that you skipped over the most important tool- the metal detector itself. Some have meters, some don't, some have displays etc. What is nice vs need to have on the detector itself?

I’ve only been detecting a few months. Families been asking what I want for Christmas 🎄. This helps a lot. I need a hand spade, larger shovel & finds bag. These are great suggestions. I just picked up a lightly used Simplex + for $150. Hoping to try it before the ground freezes. New subscriber. Thanks.

This was very helpful, thanks!

You have excellent information for those just starting out. I'm still deciding on a shovel as I haven't been to dig in fields yet. I'm still only digging in parks and city owned properties.

Thanks for the knowledge..

Great info! Thanks a mill and good luck detecting! 🙂

I use a backpack and keep tp in there along with charging cords, extra headphones, and so forth. Then when done, all my diggers and finds bags fit in to keep everything organized

A detector a shovel gloves pinpointer and a bag for your finds 👍

New here, i appreciate your effort to show us these articles. I'm personally taking note of few items i will need. Thanks again.

Very informative! There is a lot of equipment!

Really like how you included prices! Very helpful.

GREAT VIDEO

Well done on the finds enjoyed the video

Nice video..Love talking about metal detecting equipment and accessories. HH - Jordy

Good vid. The only thing I would add is Duct tape / cable-zip ties / 1st aid kit

Great vid! I am just going to start hunting and your info was a big help. I also rockhound so a de tector will be a great add-on. Thanks. BTW I subbed ya.

Nice set up of great goodies to have for a hunt! The bugs here are killer! I have a small bugga spray in my bad too!

metal detectors peaked around 2000-2005 era, and everything sold now is just a rehash of old Whites designs, with bells and whistles added. If you want a rock solid, reliable detector, get a Whites 5900 Pro SL, it's fully adjustable with knobs for signal strength from the coil, ground balance, discrimination, hot rocks rejection, and it can be cranked up like an old 1970s Pioneer stereo, and puts a lot of power into the ground. in good soil with a 15" coil it'll go as deep as any, or further.

Awesome! Enjoyed it! -GNG

This was very informative. I really enjoyed it. I hate me knee pads, but yours look more comfortable. I'm going to be looking into getting a new pair.

Thank you for this awesome video, I found it very helpful!! I'm a newbie (my Simplex arrives this afternoon) and I'm looking to buy things I need online but since I'm very tiny & not very strong, I'm trying to purchase the smallest, lightest tools I can find (without compromising quality & integrity)... the hori-hori knife seems like it might be better for me than the big, heavier Garrett or Lesche. I look forward to watching more of your helpful videos!!

This is great info to havethank you, good job,very helpful, great ideas on the patches God bless you from MIchigan, mike Keep up the good videos and have more Wonderful hunts, very exciting, im new at this And i like it a LOT...

Hello hunter. Greeting from Albania

Great video! Good info! I subscribed to your channel! Happy hunting!

Dont seem to be available in the UK but I do like the look of the OmegaMill finds bag,my Minelabs bag is very average with a pretty skinny belt.

I like a plastic scoop at the beach so I can take my pinpointer to it

I'm so new to metal detecting that I don't even have a metal detector yet.

Good video on equipment and good tips , your equipment looks in good shape maybe you should do a video on care and cleaning your equipment !

Good video

I metal detect with all that stuff!!! I just hire a caddy to follow me around and carry all my junk!!!😝😝😝

Great video. I love talking gear and equipmemt !!!

Enjoyed your video! Especially the cheat sheet ideas. I have an ace 400 and I can’t for the life of me find a vdi chart. Any idea?

Great Stuff. I'd to get a copy of your Equinox " VDI " numbers sheet ..

Very good video and very useful for somebody starting out. A few of suggestions/observations...I have never found any strap-on knee pads that I can tolerate for more than a few minutes. I much prefer builders/construction trousers with the cordura pockets at the knee that take the foam knee pads. In summer if I wish to wear shorts, I carry a foam garden kneeler pad instead. With regards digging tools, I am convinced that the teeth are a waste of time and just get caught up on stuff..in the confines of a hole, when trying to cut a root, you really can't get a good sawing motion going anyway. If you dig in or around woods, a pair of gardeners hand pruners work far better to cut through roots..I have also seen a person carrying one of those "survival saw chains". Once they hit a really thick root, they cleared a space around it, fed the chain around it, and cut through it in short order.. Finally, the quality of the hori hori knives vary tremendously and many do not have full tang handles meaning they are not as strong as they perhaps look, so no levering. Also many are wickedly sharp ( especially the serrated edge) so I would recommend carrying a small first aid in case of accidents if you use one of these..

Great video Could you please tell me what kind of boots you have at 16:48 im looking for boots like that

I just started detecting. I so far brought a minlab vanquish 340, a g.p pointer ($20 Amazon brand it works alright, a $10 harbor freight shovel and I use my small backpack for finds. I don't have loads of disposable cash and everything I listed make that x2 because my wife goes with me. So Ive spent around $600 so far which to us as a young couple that's about our months rent. I wish they made the sand scoops a bit cheaper because $100+ on one (also have to get 2) is just another setback. We had garden spades that bent in half our first 10 min out. Anyways it's definitely an expensive hobby to get into and get yourself all the right stuff. So far we have had the detectors about a week almost. I've found around $0.50 so far 😂

Great video, I’m just starting out,the cloth that your wife made, do you sell those?

I have a question if you can answer it I’m a long time detector do the Chinese pinpointers work at all ? I need to go the cheap route they are to expensive today

Could you tell me exactly what that cloth is you use as the ground cloth

A question on the cheat sheet... do the numbers differ with different manufacturers? I am getting the Simplex and would like to know what all of the numbers represent - I see that Simplex has a list of numbers and their respective items in their manual (online), but they are very specific items (Silver Roosevelt Dime, Washington Silver Quarter, etc). Is there a listing of what all the numbers represent - or perhaps like on your Minelab card, something that has more basic, general items such as pull-tabs or aluminum crew caps for the Simplex? THANKS!

I've got both the simplex and the nox 800 prefer the nox 800 cause the multi frequency combined that with a full Detect Ed carbon fiber shaft and the detect Ed alloy arm cuff, since it makes the whole machine lighter and stronger, plus minelab arm cuff suck and break way to easy, I use the detect Ed finds 2.0 bag too , cause it's basically land and sea , the pulse dive induction pinpointer is the way to go too , if you accidentally leave it behind it will start beeping to let you know that you left it, and it's good to 10 feet and completely waterproof , has a built in light and 10 sensitivity settings and it rechargeable , for my shovel I use a Anaconda nx5 t handle shovel and as for the hand digger I'm using the lesche digger, it's just a bruit lol . I would highly recommend that every one using the nox 800 though to order one of those coil stabilizers that goes over the ears on the coil , minelab missed the mark build the coil ears , Nokta at least makes there's heavy duty

I love the pulse induction pointer EXCEPT they interfere way to much with the detector. Not worth the trouble in my opinion...

Could anybody advise me on a cheap waterproof detector as a starter

Where can I get a digging cloth

It's 2022 now and that black ada gladius is expensive; $87 + $43 shipping, maybe it's discontinued?

How do I get Nokta Simplex+ tone cheat cards like that? Just until I get to know the tones.

How do we get a history digger decal?

Where can i get that digging cloth or two

I sent you an email to get the v d I cheat sheet:) Im going to laminate it as well!:) awesome idea!

I’m new and liked the video

How can I get one of your stickers? I collect.

Watched your equipment video (detecting!! 🙂), thanks for sending over. Really good. I've gone for the Root Slayer, excellent spades. I've landed on the Garrett AT PRO being the quickest in the field but really like the MI-4. I also use a harness, makes all day swinging much less stress on the elbows and a really useful item here in the raining UK is thigh waders. You use them, fold them and all the mud up and throw them in the back of the car. Clean and easy! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LoARQNbp2ow.html

Just dip your clothes in water and permethrin and let them air dry.

An important item to have is a carrot

Turn the FN MUSIC down!

You sound like Bill Gates lol

Geeked out to a whole new level with those hats and cards. Maybe a detector badge is in your future?🫣