>>1270853>Do I need to invest in a machine that's $500+ ?wouldn't it be nice if you could just pay more money and get better results?
it doesn't work that way though. you have to research where you're detecting. You have to go out and practice using your machine by doing it. Even then you have to dig tons of trash to get even a little bit of treasure.
you're looking in the wrong places, you've got the wrong machine, you're using it wrong, or you're not out enough. Most likely all of those things.
I went out the other day (to a place where I know treasure has been found and I have found lots of stuff in the past). I took my machine (which I have been using every warm day for the last 30 years), and swung it over a spot (I have gone over hundreds of times before) that I know has already been detected thousands of times. I got a faint (deep) tone, good but so weak other detectors would discriminate it out. I decided to dig it (because I dig everything, even trash). It was over a foot deep (well below what most detectorists can find). I dug up an old saloon token, about the 30th I've found there.
I succeed because I know my machine, I know where to detect, and I do it all the time. The price of the machine doesn't matter, my detector costs $50.
