[Willem]

Hi all

Started the hobby a week ago. Very excited about what's out there. So many sites to hunt.

Good hunting

Wouks

[Paul van Heerden]

Welcome to the forum. You will enjoy your Safari

[JC]

Welcome


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[Danny]

WELCOM


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[Kirk Schafer]

Hi Wouks, Good hunting!

[Relic Hunter]

Welcome

[James Kraft]

Welcome Wouks

Good to see another Pretorian around here. Some good hunting sites around but as you know, a lot of trash lying in wait. Keep coil to the soil mate.

[Neville Jones (ALF)]

Hi Wouks
Welcome to the forum. Looking forward to your finds.
Enjoy

[Peter Callahan]

Welcome to the forum

[Willem]

Thanks for the welcoming guys. I went out on Saturday to a reserve here in Pretoria. Only spent 2 hours hunting as a result of trash in the park. Bottle caps and pull tabs. Now I know what fellow detectorists meant when they mentioned trash. Problem is that many of the signals picked up as trash can not be ignored, as they are the same as potential coins. Still trying to find a way to skip the trash and dig only for coins etc. Any suggestions?? Learned a lot from my Safari though. Great machine. Got an old 10 cent coin (1974) through all the trash as well as some old rifle casings of which one dates back to 1895-1899. Looking forward to my next hunt.

Great forum
Cheers

[Paul van Heerden]

Unfortunately you are going to be digging a lot of trash, even those that sound like coins. You get a lot of bottle tops that sound like coins. They are very annoying when you think you have something cool

[Neville Jones (ALF)]

Hi Wouks
The best is to get some excamples like beer bottle tops and pullrings and see what they do on your reader. I use the Garret 250 and I have never seen the minelab but I am sure it should have the same kind of readings. I hunted a place once where there must have been a party and dug up a lot of these beer bottle tops. On the Garret it normally runs from silver to iron continuously. These days I try to ignore those. The best is to start out in the parks so you can get the feeling, the more you pratice the better. I am no expert but that was the way I learned to do the digging-thing.

[Paul van Heerden]

The problem I get with my 250 is when you have one of those old metal coke, fanta etc bottle caps. They sound just like coins. Beer bottle tops you can distinguish, but those other ones sound just like coins. All the metal screw caps you find on booze bottle sound like coins

[Willem]

Thanks for the feedback guys. Yeah, those old bottle caps do sound the same as coins. I'll certainly learn my detector as I go out into the field. Thinking of hunting in the mountains where the trash density is low. Probably wait until winter after the fires. Vegetation is very thick currently.

[Neville Jones (ALF)]

There is no better place to detect as a place where there has been no people for a while or very long ago. I have a spot near Coligny where it seems people stayed long ago. All that is left is old african kraals. It is so nice because if you get a signal you know you are not gonna get any trash but maybe a bit of history. I found old and newer bullets casings. I also got spear points and a whole lot of other items. I just love it. Check out my youtube video I made of my first hunt there http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0MVGG-il5o