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My cousin swore his metal detector was junk after one beach trip, but I found a 1920s silver dollar in my backyard with it.
He said it only picked up bottle caps, but I dug a solid signal near an old oak tree and pulled out a coin from 1923. Anyone else have gear that someone else gave up on that actually worked great for them?
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phoenix_lewis26d ago
That's a great find. A lot of detectors get a bad rap from user error, not the machine itself. My buddy's old machine was called trash because it beeped constantly, but he was swinging it way too fast over wet sand. Did your cousin have the settings all wrong, like the sensitivity cranked too high for a trashy area?
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laura84126d ago
Wait, your buddy swung it fast over wet sand? That's like metal detecting 101, no wonder it beeped nonstop lol.
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ross.tara26d ago
Exactly. You see it all the time. People buy a decent machine, run it on factory settings in a nail-filled park, then blame the beeps. My cousin did that. Had the discrimination set to ignore iron but left sensitivity at max near an old fence. Sounded like a robot having a fit. Took him a year to learn that lower sensitivity and a slow sweep would actually find the good stuff under the trash.
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