Metal detecting terms

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#### me = snake, pull tab, forgotten your pin pointer,flat batteries, finding parking ticket on car, beach sanded up, havent switched on detector, forgot you had steel toe caps on, digging a car bonnet, finding any nugget over 1 gram, finding out you have no change for the parking meter, finding out someone in your area has left their gpx in auto tune, getting to your secret spot and there are five other blokes there

So as you see this is really the only term you need


Or you can try these

clad - any US coin that is "sandwiched" with alloys of different metals.
merc - mercury dime
rosie - silver roosevelt dime
wheatie - wheat back cent
injun - indian head cent
IH - indian head cent
Walker - Walking Liberty Half Dollar
cartwheel - silver dollar
mint mark - a special mark placed on coins to let you know where or who made it.

coinshooters - detectorist who look mainly for coins
beach hunters - detectorists who mainly hunt beaches
relic hunters - detectorists who hunt mainly woods

probe - A tool to pinpoint the target while still in ground
the machine - your detector
digger - the tool used to dig your targets
topsoil - first 4 inches of ground

hipmount - mounting the control box of your detector with a belt on your waist
display - the target identification on your detector
ground balance - adjusting the detector to the mineralization in the soil
disc - ability of your detector to reject unwanted metal
tweak it - adjusting the detector
whispers - low, barely audible tones
beep beep - the sound certain detectors make.

dig it - just dig it up
find - something you found
finds - the good stuff you found
multi-targs - an area with a lot of targets
keepers - the targets that you keep whether good or bad
cache - a large amount of coins or jewelry buried together in a container
nice haul - a comment on your great finds
thingy - something you find and don't know what it is
sand stuff - normal trash you find in the sand
globola - a black corroded glob
black gunk - in the water where the sand don't move
snippers and snappers - small items you find

hunting - grabbing your detector and going!
newbie - someone new at the hobby
loner - a detectorist that doesn't belong to a club
seeded hunt - a hunt where the the finds have been scattered or planted

dry sand - The sand people lay there blankets and lawn chairs
wet sand - The high tide line to the low tide line, at low tide
blanket line - first 10 ft in the dry sand, from the high tide line
gridding the beach - detecting using a pattern as you walk along, most common is "straight" or "circular"
hot rock - a black volcanic rock, meteorite, or a rock that gives a off a metallic signal
erosion - a part of the beach that will strip right down to bedrock.
black sand - iron particles that are so small they look like sand

coil - the round thing at the end of your detector
WOT coil - a 15 inch coil made by Coil Tech, for Minelab detectors
hard wired - a modification or quick fix to your detector
swingin' coil time - the amount of time you spent detecting
pulse or PI - a waterproof detector that locates all metal targets
VLF - auto discriminates against iron
Target ID - a meter or display that shows you what your target might be.
Tone ID - different sounds identifying different target's sounds

Canslaw= shards, shreds, particulate, remains of, low cost metal containers encapsulating beverages, and various food items. These containers have been reduced to this state by lawnmowers, and other various cutting / grinding / shredding equipment.
Nitro=A very nice looking piece of jewelry that turn out to be fake. When first pulled off the ground it makes your heart beat so fast that you reach for the little bottle with the nitroglycerine tablets
Old timer=Aussie treasure digger :D
rubar=rusted beyond all recognition
Pre dec=pre decimal coin
Nugget=lump of gold or IT consultant
 

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