DVD Video for Coin and Relic Hunters

I received this video as a Christmas present.  It is great! Lots of good tips and technical explanations of different target responses.  Very helpful for us less-experienced hunters. I'm sure everyone would get something useful from this video. I also got the Suncoast Research & Recovery Club lecture DVDs (good buy, two lectures for 16 bucks). The information about sand movement and wave action is really interesting.  Tom Dankowski is one sharp guy!

Grant, how about this one called... Bucket & Boomers Prospecting Adventures-Randsburg Edition. Its a 6 hr ..3 disc set filmed in Hi-def, in the "Last Chance Canyon" area of Randsburg Ca, that covers prospecting gear, camping, detecting for gold, drywashing, crack-vac, and the spiral panning tub as well as a tour of the historic town of Randsburg, the Schmidt Tunnel and the Bickel Mining Camp. There's no need to take notes...no need to compare detector settings...its just pure entertainment, you just sit back and enjoy the show, there's plenty of comedy as well as serious prospecting going on, and the reviews on this one so far..... may well have this video placed as the best prospecting entertainment video ever produced!! And coming in at six hours, with that kind of variety, you just cant miss with this one.

When it comes to metal detectors, it is impossible to do a double blind test. As he points out, everything, right down to the environmental issues (humidity, temperature, ground conductivity, and about a dozen others), need to be normalized. The truth is, they can't be!

For example, soil conductivity changes. Over a large statistical area, the variances are rather small. However, over a small statistical area, the variances can be rather large. If you're astute in interpreting the signals given off by detectors which automatically reset their ground balance as required, you'd already have a grasp on the issue.

Then there's the frequency issues everyone likes to talk about. The truth is, the aforementioned parameters all but mask any detectible variances (pun intended). As a result, the placebo effect (and brand loyalty) seemingly has the upper edge in any kind of comparison.

We could go on and on, but the real, and most important attribute, is the experience of the operator. The more you hunt, the better you get, and I don't think anyone can argue about that!

Alan, KØBG