METAL DETECTORS

Prospecting is an enjoyable and rewarding hobby. Hobby On has quality metal detectors and accessories for any price point.

There are some major types of hobbyist activities involving metal detectors: Coin shooting, General metal, Beach combing, and Prospecting. Coin shooting is looking for coins after an event involving many people, like a baseball game, or simply looking for any old coins. Serious coin shooters will spend hours, days and months doing historical research to locate long lost sites that have the potential to give up historical and collectible coins. Prospecting is looking for valuable metals like gold and silver in their natural forms, such as nuggets or flakes. General metal detecting is very similar to coin shooting except that the metal detectorist is after any type of historical artifact. Beach combing is hunting for lost coins or jewelry on a beach. There are two main techniques for beach hunting. The first one is called "gridding", which is when you search in a pattern. The next technique is called "Random searching". Random searching is when you walk around the beach in no particular pattern, hoping to cover more ground.