You know when it comes to metal detecting and really becoming good at finding what your after you have to really pay attention to what your doing and become well versed. With that being said you also have to become very flexible and open to new ideas and techniques.

In my first take of Metal Detecting For Coins I covered some really helpful tips for common and some uncommon coin hunting situations. In this take of Metal Detecting For Coins I am going to cover some more advanced tips. I will give in depth information as to where and how to find good coin hunting sites, as well as what to look for in a site and suggestions on hunting your metal detecting site.

So if coins are a coin hunter at heart follow along as I cover some of the information that has kept me on coin for the past decade or so!

Your Metal Detector

With any kind of metal detecting your metal detector is everything. The higher the quality the better. Though always keep in mind you work with what is at hand. You don’t have to have the best metal detector, just the best that is available to you at any given time of your metal detecting career! If it is a $200 Walmart special, so be it. The important thing is that you have the best you can possible get your hands on!

You need to learn your metal detector inside and out, which will only come from lots of metal detecting with it. Though some of the things you should be paying special attention to are as follows.

I don’t care what metal detector you own, whether it has a fancy display or not. The most important aspect of your metal detector you should be paying attention to is how it reacts audibly to different targets at different depths in different situations! Make mental notes, or better yet make written notes of how your metal detector reacted audibly to a mine found at 7 inches and one found at 3 inches and so fourth.

In all the years I have been coin shooting and metal detecting rarely has any coin reacted in textbook fashion. All those clear textbook coin signals usually turn out to be clad, or some other non-desirable find. Chirps, blurps and chatter are more typical of older, more collectable coins.

For those of you with digital target displays, ignore them for now, or at the very least ignore them until you yourself can with certainty and without doubt know what your metal detector has found through only the sound it makes. There will always be iffy signals and ones your not sure about no matter how good you get at listening to your metal detector. Those should always be dug regardless!

Once your that good at listening, then by all means start relating the sounds you already know to what your target ID is displaying. The combination of sound, a digital display and someone well versed at using them together is a deadly coin hunting combination.

Whatever you do don’t get discouraged! It takes years of practice to become the type of hobbyist who seems to be able to pull silver and even gold coins out of thin air! Though within a few weeks to months of really paying attention to your metal detectors voice and relating your finds to different depths, soil conditions and metal detecting sites you will start to see a huge difference. The quality and number of the coins you find will begin to improve greatly. If by chance it doesn’t I can only guess that you are metal detecting sites without potential, or you are setting and adjusting your metal totally wrong. I will cover important global metal detector settings a little bit here, so if your coin hunting efforts are not working out for you read on and also check out these metal detector guides, many of which I wrote for the original DetectorX website.

Sites For Metal Detecting Coins

I am trying to lay this article, huge collection of coin metal detecting tips out in as much of a sequential manner as possible. I believe there are certain things hobbyists need to accomplish in order, so that certain aspects of your coin shooting skills and progression advance smoothly and seamlessly. Though it is only common sense that there are things that just happen and happen out order, or even unexpectedly so please bear with me and try to follow along and make sense of all this wonderful coin hunting information.

Related to what I just said I believe and constantly practice the following pertaining to coin shooting sites and how and why I metal detect any given site at any given time. In the beginning I would not be concerned with finding the most historic, most plentiful metal detecting sites out there. There are just to many things that can and will go wrong for you. Let me explain, my point of view and the methods I follow to advance and remain successful at metal detecting coins and any other metal relics!

The idea spot for beginers and even seasoned pros to go and learn a new metal detector (refer to the first section of this article) or really sharpen their skill with an existing metal detector are the more common metal detecting sites that will have a big mix of old and new coins at different depths. Find a site like this, a site that has been hit by thousands of other metal detectors, hundreds of thousands of times and you have found the perfect site to become an unstoppable coin hunting machine who will be able to rise above 90% of the competition at any site that holds historic coins!

These sites will make you work for the coins you do find, while making allot of adjustments along the way, but most importantly they really make you listen to your metal detector and also make you dig! I personally have been metal detecting for well over a decade. At the beginning of every new season and when I purchase new metal detectors will go to one of a few sites I know of just like this. My spring boot camp sort of say lasts for a few weeks to about a month each spring when the snow and ice begins to thaw. I coin shoot these areas exclusively before I begin to hit more productive more promising metal detecting sites. I have been following this routine for about 6 years now and I can’t even begin to stress to you how much of a difference it makes toward the rest of my coin hunting ventures. In fact I did not start to become really, really good at metal detecting for coins until I started making this practice routine. Its not easy and may say sound odd to some, but it works and works extremely well!

As you are probably starting to see, becoming really good at coin shooting is no accident and most definitely not luck! In fact finding historic coins with a metal detector regularly has nothing to do with luck and everything to do with skill, practice and determination!

At the 1200+ word count I am starting to realize I will have to continue this guide of coin hunting tips, trick and know how in yet another part.

Realize I am sharing with you my experiences and practice, everything I am writing here has helped me and continues to help me find long lost historic coins consistently. I hope you find this knowledge as helpful and as bountiful as it has been to me over the years. Good luck and happy coin shooting. Check back soon for the third continuation of Metal Detecting Coins

Before I let you go I would like to take a second to recognize another very established hobbyists who dedicates allot of time to maintaining a great metal detecting website. He also shares allot of really helpful tips and information, check out Metal Detecting Worlds tips here.

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