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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jimmiejam, post: 48706, member: 1147&quot;]<b>Detectors....</b></p><p><br /></p><p>..Silverdollar Man is right.&nbsp; Its all in the sound.&nbsp;&nbsp; The commerical lies.&nbsp; You really never know until ya dig.&nbsp;&nbsp; BUT it can give you a very accurate idea of what your diggin and the more you use a detector and learn what it is telling you, you can 8 out of 10 times tell what a coin sounds like.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Any top of the line model you won&#039;t go wrong with.&nbsp;&nbsp; Whites have great detectors.&nbsp;&nbsp; I used a whites QXT for my first detector.&nbsp;&nbsp; Found a lot of great old coins with it.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t good on Indian heads though.&nbsp; Gave a broke signal on them.&nbsp;&nbsp; For the last 4 years I have been using a Minelab Explorer.&nbsp; A great detector.&nbsp; I have found over 300 Indian heads with it over those 4 years.&nbsp; Not to mention all the other cool coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; My suggestion is to buy a mid range detector, $4oo range.&nbsp;&nbsp; Get to know how to use it and then if you still love detecting buy up to a top of the line model.&nbsp; &nbsp; I would lean towards a Whites.&nbsp; Make sure it has a depth meter.&nbsp; Tells you how deep the coin is.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; A hand held pinpointer is a must as well.&nbsp; They also are made where you can connect the pinpointer right onto your detector.&nbsp;&nbsp; The pinpointer helps you find the coin in the hole or in your dirt pile miuch quicker.&nbsp;&nbsp; Its like a mini-detector but only detects metal to a couple inches.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; MOST OF ALL.&nbsp;&nbsp; Remember this.........Location, Location, Location.&nbsp;&nbsp; Just like in real estate the key to successful detecting is all in the location you go to detect.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; When I first started out I got so frustrated and thought people were lying about all the old coins they were finding and posting on the Metal detecting forum I went to.&nbsp; &nbsp; I then got a e-mail from someone telling me to get outta the parks and go to old home sites.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I soon found my first old coin which was a 1935 mercury dime.&nbsp;&nbsp; I was hooked right there.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Don&#039;t get me wrong parks still hold old coins and I still go to them when I don&#039;t have a home site or old church lot or old one room school house site to go to.&nbsp;&nbsp; But old home sites are much funner.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can almost always find at least one old coin at them and a lot of times much more than one.&nbsp;&nbsp; Example, in 2003 at one cool old home site after 4 return visits I nabbed 18 Indian head pennies outta that one yard.&nbsp;&nbsp; Thats my record for one site on Indian head pennies.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Enough rambling.&nbsp; As you can tell I love this hobby.&nbsp; Its a blast to find old stuff in the dirt that has been laying there for over 100 years until we come along and dig it up an wonder who may have held this coin last.&nbsp;&nbsp; Fun stuff.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; All the odd ball finds are a blast as well,&nbsp; Watch fobs, civil war tokens, tokens, rings, pins, you name it.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; ITS A BLAST !!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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