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Dropped $75 on a "certified" metal detector to hunt a Civil War campsite near my town, and it only beeped on bottle caps
Two hours of swinging that thing over a field in Tennessee that a local farmer swore had buckle plates and minie balls turned up nothing but pull tabs, so now I want to know what detector or method actually works for relic hunting without breaking $300.
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the_derek11d ago
$75 on a "certified" detector sounds like the guy who sold it certified it as a bottle cap magnet. I once dug 14 holes in my own backyard chasing a signal that turned out to be a buried horseshoe, which at least was iron, so I felt slightly less dumb. For real relic hunting you want something with ground balance and decent depth, and the honest truth is the used market is your friend: a used Garrett Ace 250 or Fisher F2 runs $100 to $150 and will actually hit brass. Skip the coins modes though, they love to sniff out foil, and hunt after a good rain when the ground is soft.
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