When I go to the beach I like to bring a roll of pennies from the bank so that I can randomly bury them 4-8 inches down. I hope that it keeps distracting and annoying the metal detecting dudes
>>2835221That's not how metal detecting works but keep wasting your effort I guess.
>>2835221>When I go to the beachso never?
No one even digs clad pennies anymore, dumb ass, lol
>>2835221You are a bad person.
>>2835230This guy doeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuGNIxGIzJ0
>>2835221Metal detector guy here. I don't care what I'm finding so long as I'm finding something. I sometimes scatter pennies myself just to test my skills and machine.
>>2835224It’s not?
>>2835221Do you stick them up your ass first?
>>2835221We have a thread specidically about littering. Littering general if you want. Why not go there?
>>2835241I have similarly been excited to find something other than shredded foil and bottle caps. Also, I don't hit beaches
>>2838308I'm a thousand miles from the nearest beach, so I'm the same. Where do you like to detect? I detect old mining camps but I still mostly find foil and bottle caps. Sometimes pull tabs and beer cans.
>>2838353I'm in the Midwest, most of my success has been on land that used to be farms near where I think the houses used to be. Silver spoon, 1833 large cent, mason jar lids, brass oil lamp burners, horseshoes. I've found some websites with historic maps that can be matched to modern roads that I use to find old farm locations. I'm envious of people who were doing it 70 years ago when every farm field wasn't a housing development
>mutts find ancient relic>it's a jam jar lid from 1883lol
>>2838382You mean arrowheads and hide scrapers that are older than every country in existence?
>>2838381>Silver spoon, 1833 large cent, mason jar lids, brass oil lamp burners, horseshoesNice. I've found all of those except the large cent. I'd love to find one of those. Places I detect are newer. 1860-1917I find lots of pocket watch parts and bullet shells. Sometimes some coins or tokens. A lot of old iron cans and plated silverware and metal trash from the 1800'sI've been detecting for almost 40 years. Not much has changed in my area except way more people are detecting now, and cops are being a lot stricter about enforcing trespass laws. A lot of public places that used to allow detecting don't anymore.
>>2838382On the plus side we're allowed to keep what we find.
>>28383821883 would be relatively impressive. Because american law has anything historical after 50 years, most of the historical artifacts to be found nowadays is trash from people in the 50s and 60s
>>2838554>american lawonly matters on federal lands. You can't really detect federal lands anyways. I mean you can, but you can't detect anywhere where you might find something older than 100 years, and that's pretty much everywhere.I detect on county land and private property. I find stuff from the 1800's all day long. I've got literal buckets full of 1800's metal junk.
>>2835221Anyone here ever magnet fish? Find anything interesting?
>>2838587I had a friend that did it in a city river, and the most interesting thing (in my opinion) was he found a lot of phones. Like, a lot.
>>2838587no but it sounds cool
>>2838587Treasure isn't magnetic.
