Metal Detecting

[foxtails 272]

how many people metal detect ? aswel as hunting/shooting ect ? has anyone found anything decent, and what detectors do you recomend ? ATB FT

[PeskyWabbits 464]

My neighbour does this and has found all sorts - Roman stuff, WW2 bombers etc.

Not sure what model he has but he says experience is more important than the detector spec.

 

He says you can get an idea from Google Map on the type of ground that holds secrets, undulations from generations ago.

 

It is very much an anorak hobby but a surprising number of people and they are usually in some kind of club.

[Rake aboot 4,929]

I do a little bit.

An interesting way to be out and about.

Rather be in a field with a detector than in front of the telly.

 

Only found some bits and bobs, nothing interesting really but it`s pretty cool.

[stevo79 569]

And old mate of mine sneaked in to saltwood castle at night. Found an old coin he went on a few websites to see if was worth anything which it was. got put in touch with this fella who was a collector. He told him on the phone and the bloke came round and gave him £2000 straight away. Makes me think it was worth a lot more.

Edited November 25, 2016 by stevo79

[Rake aboot 4,929]

It`s called night hawking

 

Bit like poaching, so is pretty ok with me then lol.

 

Why you would have a detector and not sneak about with it is beyond me !

[ArchieHood 3,692]

I once dug up a flint axe head, which was estimated at upto 6000 years old.

[The Seeker 3,048]

Just started, found nothing but bits and bobs, couple of old 2 pence peices, odd musket ball and a few buttons

 

love it!!!

 

Would like to visit an old battlefield with it

[forest of dean redneck 11,190]

Hear they are great fun on beaches in the evening after the grockles gone back.

[Hydropotesinermis 724]

I once dug up a flint axe head, which was estimated at upto 6000 years old.

With a metal detector?

[scottish lurcher 185]

Forget about metal detector ,it's a bull shit detector you need on here at times with some of the replies to the threads ??

[DIDO.1 20,864]

Garret ace 250. Cheap and will hold there own against more expensive detectors

[Nik_B 3,790]

I wasn't using a metal detector but when I was on hols in France I spent a few days mooching round the German bunkers near the gironde estuary near where the SAS Cockleshell Heroes canoed up the estuary to blow up a German ship. I found all sorts of stuff, loads of shrapnel, an old boot and part of a German uniform. I then found a full clip of 7.92×57mm Mauser cartridges for a Kr-98 rifle....that was pretty cool but then I thought there are probably plenty of old unexploded bombs and mines so maybe digging battlefields isn't such a great idea.

 

I once saw a video in Russia where a guy was relic hunting, he found something big and metal and was wacking it with his spade....when he dug it up it turned out to be an anti-tank mine lol

[j j m 6,481]

i done it years ago,found some decent stuff,nothing worth thousounds though

[stevo79 569]

Forget about metal detector ,it's a bull shit detector you need on here at times with some of the replies to the threads ??

You wanna get out more then you might have some of your own story's to tell.

[Chaff 3,414]

I got one it's a technics eurotec have had some good finds old lead tokens and a 1666 farthing and about £60 modern coins that I wash and throw in change machine at sainsburys when I get enough, reckon it will pay for itself if I can be bothered to get out and use it more, found lots of shoe buttons, horse brasses musket balls.

As said beats watching telly also you get to recce the land for rabbits

Atb