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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;superc, post: 1836089, member: 44079&quot;]I am not terribly understanding why if you are old enough for a granddaughter you need someone to go with you when metal detecting.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Frankly when I wish to go, I just grab my detector, hop into a vehicle and go.&nbsp; The real requirement is the landowner&#039;s permission to enter, dig on and retrieve from his/her land and what is on it.&nbsp; This being both a French-Indian War and a Civil War battlefields area (outside of the Parks) there is a lot of local metal detector interest.&nbsp; Everything from Trade Musket fragments to live artillery rounds and lots of belt buckles and buttons is sometimes found.&nbsp; Supposedly buried, in an unknown place, gold from an ambushed Union Payroll convoy helps keep interest alive.&nbsp; Usually, if inclined to grant permission. the property owners claim a value portion of whatever is found with a written agreement to go along with that before entry to the land occurs.&nbsp; Some owners of the most intriguing places decline granting permission of course and do their own searching.</p><p><br /></p><p>The age of the house or field that is at a place now is much less important than what old land records and newspapers show used to be there.&nbsp; &nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Agreed that new developments often scour several feet off the earth with the bulldozer process, but often fields nearby remain untouched.</p><p><br /></p><p>Likewise I am not aware of any reason that would bar a metal detector from going as luggage on a plane as long, as the batteries were out.&nbsp; If an X-Ray scan of the device picks up something wrong, possibly the passenger wouldn&#039;t get to come either.&nbsp;&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t worry too much about the bells and whistles on a detector.&nbsp; I have looked side by side with folks having detectors in the 4 digit arena.&nbsp; We both got alerts on the same finds.&nbsp; My $100 detector just reads them different.&nbsp; Much more important than the bells and whistles is calibrating and testing your detector in the area you will be searching.&nbsp; Personally, I like doing the manual calibration then burying an old quarter and then a nail or a piece of old coat hanger (you wouldn&#039;t believe how many nails and coat hanger fragments I have dug up) and testing the detector.&nbsp; Different soils cause them to read differently.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding old coins and metal detecting, we get into corrosion issues with a lot of the coins.&nbsp; Summed up, many metals don&#039;t like being buried.&nbsp; Coin collectors don&#039;t like cleaned coins.&nbsp; So a problem exists regarding coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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