If you want to find what you are searching for with a metal detector you have to find where the stuff you are searching for is buried, period!
I guarantee it is not where everyone else is searching all the time, if it was it has already been detected and long gone.
So why do so many people metal detecting keep going to the same sites and think they are going to find something?
If you don't step outside the box and search new areas you are not going to detect and recover anything for a long time.
I have recovered some pretty amazing finds this year, all of them in places you could say were just over there in areas most searchers would probably consider not worth searching.
There is a damn good reason treasure hunting is called treasure hunting not treasure finding.
You have to go find what you are searching for, believe me there are plenty of cool finds waiting for you if you take the time to go search for them.
Instead of checking out metal detecting forums to see what others have found or beach report bloggers moaning about sanded-in conditions, get out there and recover stuff outside other searchers boxes.
The most productive sites you will ever find are the places other searchers don't bother to search, like me you may be surprised to see what you can recover in the most unexpected places.
Knowing you are at a potentially productive site is pretty easy, you find stuff there!
I use the same site selection analogy as I do for having metal detecting partners.
Take a metal detecting buddy to a site and your chances of finding something is down to 50%, take a third person and you are down to just over a 33% share of the finds at a site.
Now imagine what your finds success ratio is going to be if you only search the same area everyone else heads to?
Avoid the hammered sites and being part of the metal detecting crowd, try "Over there" and you may be surprised how much success is possible.
Put the hunt back in treasure hunt instead of trying to get lucky in the same old places.
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