How Often Do You Metal Detect?

Well I did some mdetecting last springtime. The townspeople followed me around and harrased me, I will do a beach maybe next spring. One thing I got last spring was this musketball. It was on the Ben Arnold Trail. If anyone would like to know where Arnold camped with his regiment. I can guide you.


I haven't looked at it for a while. It seems that the summers humidity is taking a toll on it. It used to be more pale in appearance.
It is .75 CAL

Maybe this will help curb your appetite. I also found a 57 30 06 case 20 ft from the ball.

Not often enough. I don't have one for now but when I do get one I plan on taking an old Morgan and bury it in the back yard at different depth so I can get used to the machine. Do the same with copper and see if there's any difference.

to the Community, Satchmo64!

I've had a detecter for 10 years and only used twice. I'm gonna go back to the small town I grew up in. I got a buddy there that said there are a lot of old abandoned house in town and out in the country. I'm hoping that a long time ago some silver fell out of their pockets when getting out of the their cars.

We are out every Sunday until the land gets scarce due to crops or lambing.

I'll sometimes go out several times in a week and then not for months. I like trying the local beaches after a storm, when the surface sand gets swept away and interesting things can get thrown up by the sea. Unfortunately in summer the beaches aren't as good as they used to be as fewer people bring money down with them, and the newer clad steel UK low value coins give a junk type signal on my detector. For places like farmland, parks, public footpaths etc., the last few summers have ben so hot that the earth is rock hard, even if you can get permission to hunt. I went all around the large garden of a derelict 1840s house recently and found absolutely nothing - either the past owners were very careful with their loose change, or another detectorist got there first!

I would love to metal detect but never have, don't own one kinda glad I would probaly never be home.