/mdg/ - Metal Detector General
Any one Experiences? Sweetest loot you reaped?
How do i get into this hobby? Best prize/quality ratio detectors? What can i expect to find in central europe ?
>>768293
I hate you beeping ass faggots.
I am trying to devise a plan to make you guys touch poo
I have 4 (or five? don't even know) metal detectors
I've found tons of gold and roman stuff
>>768439
>I've found tons of gold
No anon, no you haven't.
>>768613
k
>>768643
You should have modelled them on your middle finger anon, LoL
>>768643
Those soft hands!
ARe you a grill?
pls be in london
>>768293
I have both Garrett and White's brand detectors and recommend them. stay away from the cheepo brands you see in the department stores and ebay.
>>768293
I once found a medical implant...
>>768920
>Garret
ew
I have a minelab sovereign gt, it's old but very good. I live in Australia so there isn't really any old relics. Best find would either be a 1914 silver coin or a gold ring. Haven't done it in a while because I'm sick of bottlecaps and junk metal :/
>>768643
Put your mom's jewelry box away anon, playtime is over
>>769111
k
>>769116
Where do you live anon? Beverly hills?
>>768294
You sound like an autist- other people use the woods too, either get used to it or go further out.
Did some metal detecting in Poland once, found a bunch of gold teeth
>>769813
I'm in yurop
>>769108
>gold ring
Am i brainfarting? i thought gold cannot be detected?
>>771974
Huh?
>>771974
Gold can not be picked up with a magnet, but nonferrous metals can be detected.
>>772210
>mfw magnets
>>772871
>Most gold jewelry is only plated.
true
>The detector senses the metal underneath
false
>>772871
>Most gold jewelry is only plated
you must live in a third or fourth world country then
>>773304
on the contrary, plated gold is found where the middle class lives: the pleb countries, aka first world
>>775512
I have heard a jew can tell the difference at 50 yards.
Is this true?
>>775604
back to your board /pol/bastard
>>775615
He didn't say anything political. He just made an edgy joke which is one of the oldest traditions of this website.
>>771974
Metal detectors can detect gold just fine, some detectors are designed specifically for gold
>>775622
>antisemitism
>not political
>>775912
dont be such a fag
>>776340
again I must invite you to go back to your board
>>775512
in the US it's only found on extremely poor people.
if you can't afford solid 14k you might be in the wrong country.
>>776480
This is 4chan you idiot not some boy scout forum.
No one is toning it down for your sensitive little feelings
>>776991
>if you can't afford solid 14k you might be in the wrong country.
you cannot afford it each month, perhaps twice a year at best.
>>777034
still, 4chan has rules
http://www.4chan.org/rules
you should read them
>pic related
>>777274
Those rules have been largely ignored since the very beginning.
It's better this way, this is by moots own admission
>>777452
>booo hoooo since no one follows the rules I can do it booo
childish as fuck
>It's better this way, this is by moots own admission
source
>>777105
>you cannot afford it each month, perhaps twice a year at best
what are you talking about?
like most middle class in the US I own a house that's worth a couple hundred ounces of gold. And I have enough credit to buy about 30 lbs of pure gold if I for some insane reason wanted to.
We hand out credit in the US like it's candy. Even to poor people.
>>777452
>moots
no longer relevant. It's hiroshimoot now.
>>777468
You seem very concerned with rules.
watch moots ted talk
>>777777
>>777281
It'd be kind of cool to find a gun, even if it probably didn't work anymore
>>778909
they're pretty rare. People take care of them and pass them down so they didn't get lost or tossed very often.
Thinking of getting a cheap $60 metal detector to use on the exposed sand banks at low tide when I'm out fishing
Don't really want to spend heaps on something, just want to have a go finding jewelry/rings on beaches and exposed sandbanks while cruising up and down the river with my lures in the water
Will a cheap $60 one do? Any tips for using it when there will be half an inch of water above it? Thanks guys
>>768293
Can anyone recommend a decent detector around 250 - 300 euro?
Im mainly interested in ww2 relics.
Has any of you ever found an unexploded bomb or mine? What do you do with them, and how likely is it to blow up when you dig into one of those while detecting?
>>778909
I found a police revolver from the '30s in a mummified boot buried under a mound of rocks on our property. The wooden handle was completely gone and it had rusted into a solid chunk but my buddy and I managed to get the hammer moving with some wd40. Unfortunately my dad caught wind and gave it to the police who confiscated it, we were 12/13~ at the time.
>>780395
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKEuBDX-taw
>>778909
Not post-murder weapons
I have
Minelab Excalibur 1000
Minelab Excalibur 2
White's 6000 pro
Garret Ace 250
Minelab Sovereign GT (never used yet)
>>768293
>be me, 14 years old
>want to buy a detector, save up and get the best one I can afford
>$49 Radio Shack special
>detect all over the place, get pretty good with it
>by the time I'm 20 it's paid for itself several times over
>decide to upgrade to a used Whites Coinmaster
>suddenly can't find anything
>a couple years of nothing and I decide to buy a fancy new computerized detector
>Bounty Hunter Pioneer 505
>still can't find shit, not one coin in 5 years
>just for fun take out the old Radio Shack and go back to some places I hit with the newer detectors
>suddenly finding coins and tokens all over!
>use the thing til it falls apart
>go on ebay and buy another one for $19
today
>all my buddies have garrets and minelabs and bounty hunters
>I follow them around all day and find all the coins and tokens they missed with their expensive detectors
>work places that have literally been detected thousands of times before
>found about $15,000 worth of coins and tokens in the last three years.
>pic related, the beast that skunks all the rest
gear fags be warned. That computer that filters out trash and tells you how deep your "coin" is supposed to be is also rejecting 90%+ of the coins and jewelry you're after.
sure, I dig far more trash than the guys with expensive detectors. I also dig far more treasure.
>>780830
and a small sampling of some of the loot I've dug with that ugly old Radio Shack kid's toy.
I used to avoid places I'd see other people detecting all the time. I was sure they were played out- nothing to find. Now I go where everyone else goes and just dig up all the stuff they missed. They love that.
>>780830
i want one :c
>>780853
they come up on ebay pretty regular.
like I said I got my last one for $19, but I've seen them sell for anything from $9-$80. Kinda funny since they never cost more than $50 new.
>>780853
it has to be that exact model though.
radio shack was always fucking with the circuits, and the ones that came after look a bit like that but don't work nearly as well.
>>780366
bump - any advice guys?
>>780869
$60 won't buy you much.
I'd probably get on ebay and see what I could find used in that price range.
>>780869
also most detectors have waterproof coils, so using it in a few inches of water is just like using it on land.
wave it back and forth, dig where it beeps.
Dug up an old saddle today.
Was hunting an old Colorado ghost town. This was in a trash pile.
Also got a silver plated pen from the 1800's and a bullet keychain with an old Henry rifle shell on it. The bullet had been replaced with plastic. I didn't know people in the 1800's even had plastic until I started digging through their trash.
>>781015
one day you will die of Tetanus
>>781016
Hopefully!
I stand in open fields for hours at a time, lightning is quite a bit more likely to get me.
I do engage in a few more dangerous /out/ pursuits as well though. I'll probably drown in the ocean one day. I've come close several times.
>>780830
your friends are retarded and they just can't use their detectors
>>781084
I've considered the possibility.
but I see people detecting my spots every time I go there. People I don't know. Hundreds of them over the years. The exact same places I find stuff.
I'd have to pretend they're ALL retarded. Or that those spots have an amazing wealth of coins that are renewed each year.
I suspect it mostly comes down to equipment. That and the amount of time I spend detecting.
>>781085
>>781087
where from?
>>781090
Italy :^)
>>781091
absolutely gorgeous.
>>781092
next level shit >:^)
>>780830
Never been interested in metal detecting until now, figured if I wanted anything good I'd have to shell out a few hundred bucks, if I can spend 20-50$ and get a decent detector I'll do it.
Looked on Ebay and found a bunch of similar looking ones but don't know which is which. What's the exact model?
>>782339
Micronta/Radioshack 4003
>>782449
Thanks!
>>782449
nailed it.
they're also sometimes listed as 53-3003 because that's what's stamped on the back of the thing.
Not sure why Micronta used one number on the box and a different number on the detector body.
>>782449
>>782597
Anons, if I buy this you promise I won't be disappointed? I'm a n00b but have wanted one for years. My nephew just got one and it would be breddy neat to go detecting with him. I just don't want to buy an old POS that doesn't work. He's got a new one that my sister bought him but I want one that looks like an old obsolete POS but really works. I can't afford anything new/good right now anyway.
>>782611
>Anons, if I buy this you promise I won't be disappointed?
no, I absolutely don't promise it.
this is a 1986 detector that was a kids toy when it was made. People see you using it will laugh at you and point. It takes practice to figure out how to use it. A lot of practice.
You may very well be disappointed.
But after 30 years of detecting it's my favorite detector by far. I've personally found more stuff with it than all my other detectors combined.
>>782624
Hmm. Well I'm thinking about picking one up. If I do you wouldn't mind maybe helping me out a little in future detecting threads would you? I'll read all th structions and whatnot of course but your experience and extertise in dialing-in this old beastie is probably more helpful than anything
>>782628
yes, I'd be happy to help.
for now, save that pic of the two detectors I have up there.
notice the dials on both are set about the same. That's where I set them. I don't change them. That setting works, I don't fuck with it unless I have to..
>>782624
sagebrush but no pinon trees.
Looks like a 14er in the background...
Northern Colorado?
>>782632
done. thanks friend!
>>782633
Leadville area.
good eye.
>>782687
no, but I've found a gold coin and a handful of antique gold rings.
gold is pretty rare where I detect, but those old saloon tokens I find are worth as much as gold. A few hundred bucks each for most of them.
Use metal detector for my job, hope I never find anything. You couldn't pay me to use one recreationally. Just thinking about I can subconsciously hear th- EEEEEEEEEEHHHHHWEWEEEEWEEEEEWEWEEHHHHHWEWEEWEEWEEEEEHHH
>>783064
That's why I'd never do it for work.
I'd hate to ruin my favorite hobby.
I'm pretty good at finding buried manhole covers and tracing utility lines though. Oh, and finding car keys dropped in the mud or jewelry lost in the snow. It'd suck to HAVE to use one every day.
>>769850
I see what you did there.
Whats a good detector I can get for under 300$?
>>783404
it depends what you want to do..
>>780627
seen it, and though this one might not have gone off i do wonder how dangerous the excavation of unexploded ordonance is... farmarmers get blown up by old ww2 stuff occasionally after all.
Im planning on making myself metal detector this summer.
Got schematics and all that, just waiting for summer break.
