Metal Detecting The Beach

Excellent overview for someone new to beach hunting. Personally as someone with a couple years experience I found little new information. One point of disagreement with the author is his recommendation to be secretive about your finds with fellow beach goers lest they claim something as theirs. If you like to interact with people, as I do, part of the fun is being friendly and showing your finds if someone approaches, not hurriedly hiding them. The day before last Christmas I was hunting the North Carolina Outer Banks near several families with kids who I was later told was church group on a holiday trip. A little girl about 5 took a particular interest and rather than distance myself, I let her see what my scoop held. I stuck the odd penny or bottle cap in my pants pocket and after a bit she insisted that I take a pretty shell she had found and put it in my pocket also. Almost immediately afterward a small child's gold ring with a gold heart in the center appeared in my scoop. I told the little one to wash the sand off her fingers and it fit perfectly. The look on her face when I told her the ring was hers made my vacation. The Lord rewarded my generosity the next day, Christmas, with a large silver ring. These are the only rings I have found beach hunting.

this is a pretty good book, a short read, I completed it in about an hour or so... but it does tell the basics and a lot of useful info on metal detecting, and the areas of the beach, types of detectors, when/where/how to find the best places to look, the extra stuff that you need to get started, ectit also includes a lot of good pictures, so that you can tell the part of the beach that and what else the author is speaking of, which I really appreciated.it also included many personal stories as well, which was nice to read, and nice to hear about some of the stuff that the author has found ect...I recommend this book to anybody that wants to learn about metal detecting, it was the first book I read on the subject, and found it to be very informative....

Always be safe when treasure hunting, as our author here mentions several times. Rip tides are a huge killer, and no treasure is worth dying for.Aside from safety tips, good search techniques, tactics, when to hunt, using tides to your advantage are in this book. It is a great book to refresh by re-reading each time the season turns to treasure hunting!

I am a beginner just learning to use my metal detector. After reading this book I went out to try a spot I knew an old house use to be. I found my first Indian head penny. I had used my metal detector for about a month and had found nothing. I was ready to give up and then I read this book. It gave me ideas and a new desire. I am now hunting more and I love it.

I thoroughly enjoyed Mark's writing style as he tells of his methods and shares his expert knowledge in metal detecting at the beach. If you've never been out detecting (or haven't had any success) then I'd strongly encourage you to get this book. I'm amazed at how Mark shares is secrets and methods so openly. Not many of those who really know this craft would share so freely. This book is a real gem. Seriously, learning from this book you can quickly cut months or years from your learning curve and start finding those valuable treasurers. I figure one small find will pay for this book many, many times over and will probably pay for all my equipment pretty quickly, too! Get it - you'll enjoy it.

If you're an absolute beginner at detecting this would be useful. Not much for guys who have been doing it a while. Mostly just stories about finds. Not a bad read for stories, well written ones. Stories are not why I bought this book. I wanted some deep knowledge, some of those top secret, find it nowhere else tricks. This book didn't really deliver in that front, it's more like general guidelines. Because it was well written and a fun read, it scores higher than my initial thoughts would allow.

I liked the story but parts of it seemed to be taking parts of other books and trying to fit them into this story. The author should go back and correct the huge number of typographical errors so the story is easier to follow, and start using an editing program or editor.

Lots of good info for beginners, But repeats some items too long/oftenPlus I believe some of this info MAY already be out there, & a lot of times its available on many Metal Detecting Internet/Blog's/Sites etc!! For me the book did Not GET Near Enough TO Detailed locations information for instance, at least for me anyway, So it was Not!! at all what I was "Expecting" I thought there would be way more MD info, or more locations Given Out or Revealed.Like I said, not bad, But in my humble opinion!! This Book is directed at truebeginners' & romanantizes a little, therefore it sometimes forgets just how difficult & hard it really is, to correctly work any Beach & Metal Detecting really takes Lots & Lots of Time & Deadacation & it most always Requires tons of walking & hard work from everyone!!! Even Really Seasoned VETS!! to make it pay off or even worth your while, For all of your Time & Effort You might put in. PEROID.

This is a sort of interesting read with some pointers on where to search on a beach but I got the impression I was reading someones blog rather than a book dedicated to searching the beach. It is more a series of anecdotes strung together with the beach info in between. Nothing here you cannot easily find online. I bought the Kindle version for £2.99 so can't complain too much. Is it worth it? If you are completely new to metal detecting and therefore beach detecting in particular I would say yes. If on the other hand you are a seasoned detectorist turning your attention to the beach, probably not.

This book would serve as a useful guide for somebody starting out detecting on the beach, but that's about all. It's 108 pages long but this is mainly due to it having large type, large blank areas on several pages & many full page photos, all in low quality black & white. With more efficient use of space the book could easily be condensed down to about 60 pages maximum, so bear that in mind. There is some useful information here but nowhere near enough to warrant it being an essential read. As it's been written by an American detectorist, the content uses US terminology & wording, although this isn't a major problem.In summary, consider it more as just a notebook guide to beach detecting & buy it on that basis if you want to.

Based on experiences in US (mainly Florida) where beaches unlike UK. Offers a few interesting observations

We r just starting out and i bought 3 kindle ebooks on metal detecting, all 3 have been great but this one definitely helped me make my mind up ..... I will be metal detecting on the beach but my boyfriend Rab, says he wants to detect on land.I liked the diagrams and explanations - v easy to understand.I will highly recommend this book to anyone just starting out.

Plenty of good information, and tips .Book is a must for newbies like me .Next thing is deciding on which detector to buy