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Advanced Detecting - How to improve your techniques and finds rate!  

Contributing many articles to one of the hobby's magazines, the authors straightforward styling of producing 'field tests' for several metal detectors has now been deployed to advise the treasure hunter on how to get the very best from this fascinating hobby.

Mineralization and understanding signals are just a couple of the intriguing and often misunderstood discussed. There are fourteen fully illustrated chapters each one providing the reader with many hints and tips. Aimed at those genuinely interested in improving and understanding the more advanced principles of metal detecting.

Contents:

Understanding your detector; Mineralization and ground effect; Meters or audio; Discrimination and the conductivity of metals; The functions of sensitivity and 'all metal'; Mindset, experience, confidence and concentration;Starting from scratch on a new field;Time-out, but not to smell the flowers; Sweep, stem and pace lengths; Signals;The best and worst times to detect and different surfaces; Identifying pottery; Recovery and response speed; Bits and pieces.

Format: Paperback; 250mm x 190mm Over 100 pages; illustrations throughout the text.