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Can You Take A Metal Detector On An Airplane?

Can you take a metal detector on an airplane? The answer is yes. In fact, the TSA recommends that a metal detector be transported as checked baggage and not carry on luggage. However you can check...

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Best Places to Find Silver Coins

For those of us who seek lost silver coins that predate 1964, our quest never grows old and we never get tired of searching. Most of us who metal detect remember finding our first silver coin. The...

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10 Metal Detecting Myths Debunked.

In my many years of metal detecting it still amazes me to hear some of the assumptions or expectations new detectorists have when they get started so I'm going to debunk 10 metal detecting myths that...

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XP Deus Beach Settings – Which Program is The Best?

What XP Deus program am I using this summer? Sometime between June and August, I almost always head to the beach and I always take a detector with me. However, over the last couple of years I've been...

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Metal Detecting For Beginners

Updated November 2019 Metal Detecting for Beginners was written for those of you who are thinking about getting into metal detecting or for those of you who recently started metal detecting and...

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July Digger of The Month

Metal Detecting Maryland and Mental Metal Detecting would like to congratulate the July 2019 Digger of The Month. Keith Sylvester During the month of July Keith found something...

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Here is a little about me. I started this hobby back in the early 90's. My first detector was a Whites 5900 DI. I found enough clad the first summer (around $400) to pay it off. Then I stopped detecting... Fortunately, I didn't give it up for good. Here I am 20+ years later and I've rediscovered the joy of metal detecting.

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