Hello, friends! A couple of months ago a friend visited me and said: “I watched a video from a detectorist here, and a cool backpack was advertised.” In general, we are very interested to see what kind of backpack this and I bought it. My friend took one backpack in camouflage, and I myself took one in mono-color, so as not to stand out in the crowd too much if...
For a long time, I have been wanting to write about this shovel, but I have waited for the shovel to break. But it has not broken down for a full season, and it is still going well! Because after a whole year, nothing has yet happened to the shovel. But let’s take care of everything in order! I watched one video on Youtube, and there was this one British...
Hello, friends! I love tactical equipment and, I tell you, it’s not out of nothing! In addition, I use a lot of such tactical equipment for detecting, so what are the advantages of the tactical equipment I have? The main reasons are: Convenience. In tactical equipment, the maximum of convenience is observed at long transitions in the most unfavorable environments. Practicality. With constant movement and being away from comfortable habitats,...
What will happen if two detectorists with the Ace 250 with a Nel Tornado coil go out in the field? Do you think they will find a treasure? The chance is not big, but it is higher than winning the lottery (think about the benefits of detecting!). This time a miracle happened, but how? It’s simple – two friends from Ukraine went detecting to the usual field and were not...
“Buttons from Gulliver’s pants” – this is the name that unexperienced detectorists sometimes call these finds, but of course they are wrong. Before you on this picture you can see a brass decoration buckle from a horse harness, or as we diggers like to call them, “horse buckles”. Such decorations were an invariable attribute from every farmer in the distant and not very distant past, and these days it is a...
Hello friends! I haven’t written about optics for a long time now. I will return again to this favorite topic. At the moment, we are talking about the next German product made by Steiner, offering us very high-quality optics at a quite friendly price. The Steins produce not only binoculars, but also monoculars, telescopic sights, collimator sights with a red dot and just prisms, in general, the choice is great....
Most of the coins, relics, and other things we find with our detectors are often in a very poor state of preservation. Sometimes it even is impossible to for example identify coins and the year of issue. The degree of preservation of the find often depends on the conditions in which it was found. For example, coins and buttons found in the sand, as rule, are well-preserved, and items found...
I will continue the subject of the “identifying finds from the Wehrmacht”. In the previous part we wrote about the mess kits of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, about what types there was and how to determine them here: Wehrmacht Kochgeschirr. If you have not seen or read that article yet- I recommend it. Now I would like to tell more about the belt buckle of the Wehrmacht, and...
A standard German mess kit, or “Kochgeschirr” as the Germans call it, consisted of two halves; the bottom or the “mess kit”, closed with a lid on top, which could be used as a pan. They were originally made of aluminium. The height of the Kochgeschirr is approximately 14 cm and it can hold about 1.7 liters. It is shaped kind of like a kidney when viewed from above. The...
Flipping through some forums about detecting, I came across one very interesting question. Its essence is that the Fisher F44 because of its power in 2 AA batteries, does not preform as well with a large coil as other detectors. Because of this I have 2 questions: How does a metal detector with a large coil lose in depth of detection when the charge in the batteries decreases? Did the engineers...
