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Message:: [QUOTE="ikandiggit, post: 1081262, member: 16269"]Having been a "detectorist" for a few decades, I would recommend that you buy a quality machine (White's, Garrett, Fisher are all good). Cheap machines mean nothing but frustration and a waste of time. Then spend a lot of time learning the signals your machine produces and what the finds are for those signals. Once you master it, you'll find a lot more "good" finds and less junk. In a park where I've never detected before, I'll eliminate everything except copper and silver just to see what potential is there. Another tip once you become one with your machine, is to reduce the discrimination level. The discriminator eliminates a lot of the junk items, but because gold is an alloy, gold is also rejected. If you go wide open, you'll dig more junk but you'll also find gold. This works well in parks where people lose jewelry.[/QUOTE]