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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lawdogct, post: 44005, member: 1476&quot;]If you&#039;ve never detected before, a few &quot;rules&quot; and hints.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.&nbsp; You&#039;ve got the permission from your uncle, but its the #1 rule to detecting so I&#039;ll post it anyway, always, always ask permission to &quot;hunt&quot; someones land.</p><p>2.&nbsp; 2nd rule is to always leave it like you found it, fill your digs back in.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for hints</p><p><br /></p><p>don&#039;t dig down right on top of a &quot;hit&quot;, dig down around the hit.&nbsp; Nothing would ruin your day more than finding a sweet rare old coin, and then find that you had gouged/scratched it while digging it out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Find the biggest oldest tree you can, even if its just a stump and detect around the base.&nbsp; Even ask your uncle where an old stump may have been pulled from.&nbsp; People have always liked sitting at the base of a tree to take a snooze or get out of the sun....and inadvertantly feed the tree a coin or two <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ask if your uncle has any old photos of the property, or even check with the Town Hall of the town he lives in.&nbsp; You may find out there was a building here or there that are long gone.&nbsp; Learning about the properties history can give you some great hints of where to start hunting.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Old fields where crops that were hand gathered (like strawberries, asparagras, etc.) are good spots.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope that gets you off to a good start.&nbsp; Oh, one last warning....metal detecting is as additing as coin collecting.....especially when your hunting coins LOL[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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