I start most electronic prospecting seminars with a few simple questions, how many of you have found gold, how many of you continually find gold and how many of you truly trust your metal detector?
The answers to these questions offer an incredible insight to how people hunt and their thought process.
The folks that have found a little gold will generally say they do not trust their metal detector completely but the folks that find gold on a regular basis trust their machines completely.
And herein lays one of the most important elements to becoming a success with a metal detector. You have to trust that the metal detector is doing its job all the time. After all it is an electronic component that does exactly what it is told to do. And it does something that we cannot do which is see 1 billionth of a cm under the ground. You must learn to listen to your metal detector; it will tell you everything it sees below the surface and it will always ask you for help when it is not doing its job perfectly.
Learning to listen beyond the threshold is key. After you have turned your metal detector on, noise canceled, ground balanced and set your final hunting threshold, listen to the other sounds you hear in the back ground the sounds that you hear that sound like they might be coming from behind you. Those are the sounds of sensitivity and ground balance. It is your metal detector letting you know that everything is alright or that it would like for you to adjust a couple of settings to allow it to do its job better.
From here just trust your metal detector to do its job and that you do yours. When it does its job properly it only ask that you do two things, keep it doing its best and dig the targets it tells you to dig.
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