There’s a new video game being released soon called Halo 3, and there are commercials for it ever 15 minutes. The game has nothing to do with this post except that the commercials made me think about the halo effect and metal detecting.
If you’re new to metal detecting, you may have buried a few coins to test how deep your metal detector would work, and you may have been disappointed. The reason new coins are so difficult to detect is because of the absence of the, “halo effect.” The most basic definition of the halo effect is that the coins become electrically more associated with surrounding earth materials and the molecules of the metal begin to “leak” into the surrounding soil.
Are you an avid metal detector enthusiast? Do you have friends that are also interested in metal detecting or treasure hunting? Why not start a club?
Here are 7 very easy steps to starting your very own metal detecting club:
Talk to Your Friends Try to get everyone you know that enjoys treasure hunting onto the same page. Get them excited about the idea of starting the club, and delegate small tasks to those that want to help.
Start Spreading the News You’ve got your friends behind you, but now it’s time to get more members. The internet is a great place to start. Many sites will allow you to post classified-type advertisements or announcements online for free. The largest site for this is Craigslist. Make sure you find the craigslist for your area, and add your announcement that you’re forming a club. You should also visit metal detector forums to announce your group. These are very simple, free ways to find members.
Announce in Newspapers, Radio, and Television There’s a good chance step #2 will have provided you with plenty of members for your group, but if came up short, try putting an ad in the newspaper, or going to your local radio and television stations and asking if they can mention your group. These might run you a few dollars, but are an effective way of growing your group.
Get Organized Now that you have your members, you need to get the group organized. This is where you come up with a name, establish goals, and figure out a voting system. Decide how structured you want the group to be, and if you are really serious, make a set of bylaws, or objectives for the group. Decide a meeting schedule and post it. Try to get a list of all your members with email address so you can send them a calendar or any group related news or events.
Find a Place to Meet So you’ve made your meeting schedule, but now you need a place to meet. This could be a restaurant, a member’s house, a club house, community center, or even a church. It doesn’t matter where you meet, but it should be consistent so the members aren’t overwhelmed.
Take Me to Your Leader This might be the most challenging part of starting your club. You need to select the leaders for the group. Decide if you just want to appoint members, or if you want the members to vote on it. Keep in mind, you’re starting a new group, so it might be difficult to have a vote this early in the game. You should have already decided if and when new leaders will be chosen, so you might select the original leaders, but have a vote a year later for new leaders. It’s always a good idea to find someone to take minutes from the meeting and email them to the members. Another idea would be to make a website for your group, and post them on the site.
Have Some Fun
With all the boring stuff out of the way, it’s time to do what you started the club for in the first place - get out and hold a group activity. You’ll want to do this very soon after forming the club. Try to get everyone involved, and make it fun. The more fun your members have, the more interested they’ll be in staying members, and possibly bringing new members to the club. If any members bring cameras along, you can start a flickr group to share the photos, or you can join Treasure Hunting’s Flickr Group, and just upload the pictures there for everyone to see.
We’d be more than happy to announce your club on our site, so if you have a group and need new members, or if you are trying to start a club and want us to help spread the word, let us know by emailing us, or posting it in the comments section.
Here are a few links that you might enjoy over the weekend. If you have seen an interesting story, or something interesting happens to you over the weekend, we’d love to hear about it!
Live in La Crosse, WI and looking for something to do tomorrow? The La Crosse Area Sports Commission is holding a geocaching event and seminar to excite people about this new hobby. If you’re unfamiliar with geocaching, it involves GPS users exploring wilderness and urban areas in search of hidden caches, with location coordinates listed on a Web site or provided by the person who placed the cache. In other words, people place a cache, which is usually a water-safe box, in a hidden location with a logbook, a pen, and usually some item left behind. Once you find the item, you write your name and date in the logbook, take the item, and put an item of your own in the cache for the next person to find. It might seem easy, but many times, the caches are located underwater, or buried - which is where metal detectors come in.
A recent review of the Fisher F-75 metal detector on metaldetectorreviews.net says it’s one of the best, and the sites’ readers give it a rating of 3.5 stars (out of 5).
Specs:
Mechanical: S-rod with electronics housing mounted on handgrip, 3-piece breakdown, batteries under elbow, 2-way armrest adjustment forward/backward & around forearm.
Basic Sensitivity:6 x 109 root Hertz (detectivity)
Lag Coefficient:78 milliseconds
Reactive Overload:Approximately 10,000 micro-cgs units (volume susceptibility) 40,000 micro-cgs units with sensitivity
Resistive Overload:Approximately 1,200 micro-cgs units (volume susceptibility) 4,800 micro-cgs units with sensitivity
Ground Balancing Range::From ferrite to salt, inclusive
Discrimination Ground Suppression:Combination of second and third order methods allowing the F75 to opperate smoothly on different types of soil.
ID Ground Suppression:Third order
Battery Life:Typically 30 hours with high quality alkalines, somewhat less with rechargeables.
Operating Temp Range:4 to +122 degrees F (-20 to +50 degrees C)
Operating Humidity Range:0-90% non-condensing
We haven’t had a chance to play with this detector yet, so we can’t give an opinion, but with reviewers saying things like, “This machine has it all,” “F75, not your father’s detector,” and, “Deepest Detector out There,” we’re guessing it’s pretty good.
You can buy the Fisher F-75 at Kellyco Metal Detector Super Store for $934.15. If you do buy one, or already have one, let us know how you like it in the comments section.
If you’re not familiar with the website Flickr, it’s an amazing photo sharing site with a large fan base. We have started a new group specifically for TreasureHunting.com - Metal Detecting Finds. If you have pictures of anything you’ve ever found while metal detecting, add them to the group.
If we see anything interesting show up in the flickr group, we’ll feature it on this site, and give credit to the person that found it.
Here are a few books that we thought you might be interested in. Yes, reading takes away from your time metal detecting, but you might find a few tips that will help you on your next outing.
Buried Treasures You Can Find: Over 7500 Locations in All 50 States From Customer Review
This book is great. It has many great places to look for treasure in every state. The author has done years of research to find many old ghost towns, buried treasure stories, and many other places. It gives tips on metal detecting, but seems to have been paid by Garrett Metal Detectors to advertise and show their detectors in this book. It also informs you how to find good places to look. This book is a masterpiece and very interesting even if you are not going out to look for lost treasures of yesterday.
Treasure Hunting With Metal Detectors Product Description
Metal detecting has opened a whole new vista for the treasure hunter. With these tools a treasure hunter can find what the old hunters had missed and could not find. Various methods of recovery are covered in Gerry Edwards book including the cleaning and preserving of your valuable finds. In depth research on how to use a metal detector in the recovery of treasure are covered in this book. Tried and true methods of the author are revealed with his results as a testament on how to recover what the old timers missed.
If you’ve read these books already, we’d love to hear what you think of them, or if you know of a book that should have been included, tell us about it in the comments.
On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. The aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.
We will be participating in this event. Metal detector enthusiast as a group seem to be very aware of environmental concerns, so this should be a fun event. If you have any ideas for a story, please let us know in the comments.
Here’s a video from the Organization that started it all:
Over 280 metal detector enthusiasts visited Englefield Estate on Sunday, September 9th, in hopes of finding rare treasures, and also to raise money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association, in memory of a local detector, George Pearce, who died from the disease in 2005.
Among the items found was an Iron Age gold quarter stater, engraved with the image of a rearing horse, coming from the Atrebates tribe that was spread across south east England.
Another find was a bronze statuette of Neptune, but the event’s organizers are skeptical about the Roman authenticity. Wessex Metal Detecting Association chairman Jim Bradshaw said,
“I’m not too happy with the provenance of the statue. To start with, it hasn’t been in the soil for long – it’s far too clean. Also, it has traces of paint, which would indicate that it’s a recent loss.”
Sounds like it was a great day, and a successful rally for the charity. Apparently, the site has been occupied for over 2000 years, so you know it’s filled with tons of relics just waiting to be found.
Have you been to Englefield Estate? If you have, let us know in the comments. Sounds like an amazing place.
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There’s a new video game being released soon called Halo 3, and there are commercials for it ever 15 minutes. The game has nothing to do with this post except that the commercials made me think about the halo effect and metal detecting. 
Are you an avid metal detector enthusiast? Do you have friends that are also interested in metal detecting or treasure hunting? Why not start a club?
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If you’re not familiar with the website Flickr, it’s an amazing photo sharing site with a large fan base. We have started a new group specifically for 
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