Honestly, I was about to give up on a dig site in rural Montana until I tried a simple metal detector trick with a 2-foot grid pattern

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Found that method way too slow for my taste. It feels like you're just crawling over the same ground. I get much better results by listening to the machine and scanning the areas that give the right signals first. A tight grid locks you into a pattern and you miss the bigger picture of where things might have actually settled.

ray2151mo ago

Ever try a grid, @matthew897?

the_jessica28d ago

I always ended up somewhere between those two methods. A loose grid gives you a baseline to work from, but you have to be willing to break it when your gut or the machine tells you to. Sticking to it too hard makes you miss the obvious spots.

max_patel11mo ago

Yeah, I get that. Reminds me of when I was a kid looking for arrowheads in this one field. My dad was all about walking in straight lines, but I'd just wander to the spots that felt right, like where the ground dipped near the big oak. Found way more that way, just going on a hunch. You ever have a spot like that, where you just know to look?