Metal Detecting: The Complete Buyer's Guide for Every Skill Level

This book walks you through the essentials of equipment, search technique, laws and permissions, target recovery, site selection, and the habits that lead to better finds over time.
Whether your goal is to recover coins, jewelry, relics, or pieces of local history, this guide is designed to shorten the learning curve and help you hunt with more confidence, better judgment, and greater success.
Metal detecting for beginners is a practical field guide for new detectorists who want to start the right way, avoid costly mistakes, and build real skill in the field.

Here’s what this book will teach you:
•How metal detectors work and the history of their use
•Eight must-have metal detecting tools with uses and descriptions of each one
•Great places to go treasure hunting, from apparent to no-so-obvious ones
•How to gear up and prepare yourself for this adventure
•Legal and ethical codes of metal detecting
•How to find objects on the beach with a list of countries whose law allows it
•The best metal detectors for every budget
•How to search for metal underwater and what equipment you’d need
The heartland holds the stories of westward expansion, native american nations, frontier homesteads, and the agricultural communities that fed a growing nation. This comprehensive regional guide covers laws and permits across all states in the region, the best locations by state and terrain type, soil condition techniques, and the remarkable variety of historical artifacts waiting beneath farmlands, river valleys, and historic town sites.