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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 1606129, member: 38849&quot;]A few more thoughts.&nbsp; Hide your name, address, phone, and email inside the box where it will be very difficult to find.&nbsp; Record the serial number(s).&nbsp; Carry a first-aid kit out in the boonies.&nbsp; In parks, etc., carry a ketchup squirt bottle full of flour to mark where you have been.&nbsp; Carry a few worn-out wheat cents and a worn-out Barber quarter to &quot;surrender&quot; to an irate landowner.&nbsp; Be careful in pastures, you never know what&#039;s on the back side of the hill.</p><p><br /></p><p>Where people gathered overnight, like camp meetings and horse races, that&#039;s where you want to be, although most have already been thoroughly searched.&nbsp; Some states and cities have LAWS against metal-detecting; find out.&nbsp; Your cellphone may not work while the detector&#039;s on.&nbsp; Don&#039;t keep hunting if a storm comes up, that metal box and tube make a dandy lightning rod.&nbsp; Don&#039;t wear shorts.&nbsp; Don&#039;t wear sandals.&nbsp; Take a dog with you, if possible, one that won&#039;t run away and that stays near you; when you get a signal, give the dog a treat.&nbsp; Stay away from bushy creek banks - prime snake territory, all over the country; don&#039;t T-H at all during prime-time snake mating season - some are highly territorial and WILL go after you.&nbsp; Don&#039;t let kids &quot;try out&quot; your machine &quot;just for fun.&quot;&nbsp; Carry a high-volume bicycle air horn on your belt.&nbsp; If you have a waterproof coil, and you see nice shallows, search upstream from the gravel deposits (but water over 6 inches deep is a nuisance).&nbsp; Your detector probably won&#039;t find gold nuggets, the coil&#039;s too big.&nbsp; Need a 2-inch coil for that, and I personally think it&#039;s a waste of time, maybe not in California and Oregon.&nbsp; I&#039;ll think of more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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