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@@mikebonn8669 that would be incredible! I need to do some club visits for XP as well. Thanks Mike. Please email me at kazanjianm@gmail.com and perhaps in the fall we could make something work. I truly appreciate this.
@@MetalDetectingNYC, will you PLEASE get some "Sushi Unlocked" tshirts made and put on your website. My wife wants one, and it would sure get her out of my ass complaining that you don't have any.
Merrill, I found a copper spear head about 20 years ago while detecting in a wooded area just outside of Chicago. Gave it to the Museum of Science and Industry for their Native American display. The director told me it was from the Archaic Period, approximately around 3000 BCE. After some cleaning it was placed on display with other Native American artifacts in their collection. I love going there and seeing it on display, I felt it was the right thing to do. Keeping such a rare artifact in a private collection unseen would be a shame.
Merrill! I live in Colorado and I hunted down an old trail head and found a 1850 braided hair. Large scent was pretty shocked! Thanks for all of your educational videos. You’re number one I wouldn’t have found that coin without you.
Hey, Merrill, you certainly found your calling; you are a great teacher! Even though we've been detecting for over 20 yrs., using old maps and now the new LIDAR, your video was fascinating. Love how you showed the growth of the country as well as the way you made categories and added humor. A+!!!
Good tips Merrill. My friends think I waste too much time researching areas I want to hunt. But then they wonder why I’ve found such good finds. I must be really lucky I guess. lol A detector shop owner friend of mine went with me to an old State Fair site that had been abandoned for many years. Allot of the it had dirt streets when it first became a Fair Grounds. It was just being developed again when I got permission to hunt the site. I had found pockets full of silver coins before even telling my friend about the place. I was allowed to use whatever means necessary to dig up coins and such. My friend found what appeared to be a silver dollar under the asphalt roadway in front of the grandstands where horse racing took place. He worked for over an hour pecking at the asphalt with a screwdriver and hammer to retrieve his target. I went on and was doing well without having to need a pick. For all of his work he retrieved a very nice copper washer. He was so sure it was a coin. We laughed about it later but since he had to find out what it was. We knew there wasn’t aluminum cans back when the road was paved. It was just something you had to dig.😢 John
U R very right about that old places and trail roads U C I remodel homes new & old And been at many places with old houses churches and so on and love history U gave me more insights of where to look plus I'm into antique
Copper culture is fascinating for sure! We usually find 3 or 4 pieces a year. The first one I ever found was a celt/chisel. The first thing I wondered was who would make a chisel out of Copper. I googled Copper chisel. Then I realized how it ended up under the roots of a huge old growth tree. If you ever end up in Wisconsin I'll be happy to take you out to find one.
I just love the way you use common sense and research into the search for good and better places for metal detecting! Keeping an open mind and realizing how this country was developing as the population grew is key to good detecting areas, The learning curve never ends
Very good information. I live in a town that was a direct path on Wabash &Erie Canal. Indiana. My city replaced the road on the old canal bed. Wow! What a great summer I had! Large cent, silver coins, Indian head cents, heel plates, toe taps. Most were surface finds.
Awesome... I live in a later settled part of the states I've found 1852 prolly won't find much older here. Couple years ago I changed up my main method of site choosing. Rather then try to go places that no one has searched. I decided everyone was doing that and consequently these "unsearched" type of areas were very searched. So I started hitting places that people would say everyone searched or that area has been overly searched. I have done quite well detecting the places that others in the community would say everyone has allready detected.
Merrill, you hit my wheel house, History and metal detecting! History is the reason I started metal detecting. I live just off of the Old Boston Post Road and enjoy New England’s Colonial history. Thank you for another great tutorial. Love your channel too!
Hi Merrill, I detect Farms and Beaches here in the UK. The Farms produce most of the historic finds but like you say, an efficient swing is needed and the decent finds are few and far between. Maybe 2 percent are keepers after 6 hours or more swinging and digging for most. Often in the rain or over roughly cultivated ground. The ground can be frozen, muddy or dry and hard like concrete. Even if the field is not in crop the weeds or grass can make it difficult. Even getting there can be tricky with flooding on roads and muddy farm tracks to navigate and slippery soft waterlogged fields to park on. But whatever comes we turn out because detecting is great fun and good exercise!
Great video. I've been in Qns for 20 years (I lived in Bumblef**k Valley, ND until 2004) and I've managed to ride my bike to most of the BK/QNS locations you've visited. It never occurred to me to detect. I now see the city in a new ways. (As soon as you dropped the "Quick Review of What We've Learned," I knew you were a teacher. From one teacher to another, I love the channel.)
Glad i found your channel. Ive been binge watching your videos. I appreciate how well you explain things and get right to the point. Also enjoy your style of humor.
Excellent video Merrill and you couldn’t be more correct on the subject. The way towns/cities are laid out in our modern age is vastly different than during our early agrarian times in this country. Those meandering paths and stonewalls in the woods today were busy home/farm sites 200 yrs ago. 20 years of relic hunting has taught me the lessons that you pointed out in your video. Honestly a book could be written on the subject.
Man…just wanted to say this video is just what people new to the hobby need. Wanted to say thanks for the info and time it took to make and edit this video. I indeed liked and subscribed!
Good stuff Merrell. I use old maps as a matter of fact I drive around with the app open it shows where all the old places are and as far as random spots I almost always hit them anything with dirt is a spot for me 😎✌️🤟🖖
Just found your channel. Great info in this video, I just got my first detector. Nokta double score. It’s nuts that the kids nowadays can’t read a map. It’s not rocket science, but it is invaluable. Thanks 😊
Have fun my friend. I suggest you take a handful of potential targets a silver a copper a gold coin if u can access one. Also maybe a soda tab a bottle cap an old peice of tin. Lay the items out in your yard play with your detector. Get in tune with it know your machine. I do this every spring befor I start my hunting. When people ask me wich detectors are best I tell them it's more about knowing your detector then about wich detector you know.
@@mattmatt6572 I love this part of your comment…..knowing your detector, not which you know. Simple but true. It’s exciting, I’ve been digging up all kinda stuff around my own home, prior owner was a contractor. Not I can’t tell you how many nails and even some rebar which I didn’t expect. Right now I’m learning the tones, and how to properly create a hole and replace it with out leaving a crater. 😄 thanks for the feedback, don’t get much encouragement nowadays unless your half naked and singing rap lyrics….yikes 🤣
Hey Merrill, it was so awesome to meet you today. I’m super pumped for an exciting weekend! Hope you’re able to get out there too and don’t have to work too hard 🙃 My husband pulls up LiDAR maps all the time for our copper culture hunting. It’s amazing what you can see! It’s been so helpful. It’s really obvious where the shoreline was thousands of years ago with that map. We print them out before we go on our adventures.
I looked up, “How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm” because I wasn’t sure if it was WWI, or WWII. It was WWI. Before that, 80% were on farms with 20% in the cities. By WWII, that had flipped? The song actually made folks mad, because it was true, and many abandoned farms for easier, more exciting city lives, with weekends off and better paychecks. Thanks for a great video.
We found an old portion of Boston rd in Spencer Massachusetts that kept us busy for a year!! KGll’s came up like wheat cents, state coppers and militia buttons, it was a great time during the pandemic 😀
Great video, Merrill! Lots of good information delivered in an entertaining way. My buddy found a copper culture spearhead while detecting a street tearout in a Minnesota city. Pretty cool to imagine that artifact predating the 1800s town that settled over it and eventually grew into a bustling city.
Good stuff Merrill! I live in southern Ohio in a small community that was founded 1801, 2 years prior to Ohio statehood. It was laid out in 1797 when the first settlers started moving in. Part of the Virginia Military District alotted to veterans of the Revolution. It lays along the main east-west route from Cincinnati to points east. I've found draped bust silver and copper, reales, and other 1700s silvers/coppers. Location is everything. Thanks for the video!
Hey Merrill your right brother I'm into history and old archive and stuff but anywho I just started my detecting adventure I'm a newbie so I appreciate your "TUBE"and your more easy to make beginner's like me to understand the basics of getting started so MAHALO ❤... ALOHA VA'LE'OE HAWA'N ROCK,S/P. Philly
Awesome video Merrill. Here in Seattle , there used to be a ferry that went across Lake, Washington to Kirkland in the Early 1900s passengers would throw coins to the kids standing on the pylons
Merrill, thank you for some fantastic insight on determining locations with "find" potential. I am new to metal detecting - as a serious hobby - and about to begin the curve of learning all about the Minelab Equinox 900 that just got delivered. I hope I selected a good machine.
I've been fallow years video and already find 2 gold rings 1 silver and a lot of coins and many others non gold jewellers..thank you for sharing with us 😊
I would love to go Metal Detecting For Meteorites, on my bucket list also. Get video I have 4 sites I found that are great resource for maps of Pennsylvania. Keep up the good work. Have fun at Digstock. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for your video series on this important topic. In our first years me and my detecting buddies only detected in public parks and from time to time on some random farm permissions. The finds weren't bad, but since we put some more effort into our research the finds have definitley improved. Our favourite spots are old picnic areas, former road intersections, old taverns, solitary old trees and especially elevated spots in the landscape with either some strategic value or a very picturesce view. When we come back from detecting next weekend I have to show my friends your video. We'll have a drink every time you mention that nice valley in Dakota 😂
Hey Merrill, have you created a video for how to use LIDAR ? If so i couldn't find it. Do you offer a course on this? I REALLY enjoy your videos, and you are a very engaging teacher! Thanks for all you do man !
Hey big guy, thanks for this video. It reminded me that we have a very popular sledding site nearby. First hunt of the year for me yielded serval coins. I also had an iffy bouncing signal 58-96 with my Deus 2. I Wasn't going to dig it but the sound was strong and sharp did and it yielded a silver ring and another gold ring in the same hole. From your Connecticut neighbor, I wish you the best with your new endeavor. Deus picked the perfect motivating Teacher/Ambassador.
Hey Merrill I was was in Tennessee somewhere around Chattanooga where they have this Hill goes almost straight up... but anywho on my lunch break I've wondered into the back forest and notice a half barked tree and in it was musket Ball in it so I know it was a battle ground told the people who rented the house they said they're lots of old stuff back there ALOHA VA'LE'OE HAWA'N ROCK ❤
Thanks so much for this informative video Merrill! We all appreciate ya! Yes, I love watching Zach at Great Outdoors Detecting! And I love watching you too!
Hey Merrill it's HAWA'N ROCK again yeah about off the grid kinda thing by watching your videos I've been always known that historical places have old stuffs I remodel old houses and farms or where ever the job at when I'm at job site I always wondered what lies beneath that "ground"? ALOHA VA'LE'OE HAWA'N ROCK ❤
let me get this correct. The property that has been in the family since 1763 next to a RR depot, along the Wilderness Road coming out of Virginia in Kentucky on the Cumberland River. That would be a place to find great artifacts, and coins.
I live in THEE Heart of the gold country in California Merrill, Grass valley ,ca. Home of the Empire mine. North Star mine ,Idaho Maryland mine,etc.. the 3 yuba rivers north,middle,and south river, the 3 American Rivers, and hundreds more of them. If ever looking to research for gold? This is thee greatest place of all to do so. N.T. nor cal, ca.
The no till method (though bad for metal detectorists) is pretty solid for farmers looking to keep their land fertile without having to put much effort and money to invest in chemical fertilizers. However! if you notice huge fields of mustard or other cover crops, chances are they will till that back into the earth. I would suspect it's best to get permission and ask when they'll start tilling and to go detecting after they've finished putting all that organic matter back into the earth..
come on out to northern utah. i got plenty room and we can look for nuggets in northern nevada and southern idaho . look up lake bonneville and were it broke threw by my house. it had to have left tones of neat dirt and nuggets.
The farms no longer get tilled because they scientifically figured out that leaving the soil alone brings better mineralization. Nothing to do with fuel. I learned that this weekend with a buddy that has a family farm we detect.
Wrong! notill "farming" is for hippie's and gardeners not for farmers you cannot get proper aeration. Remember there is a difference between gardeners and farmers.. gardeners are mostly hobbyist.. farmers feed the world!
I find it hard to find a place in Des Moines, Iowa. Our rivers are a no go because they are owned by the Army Corps of Engineers. State Fairgrounds is state land. And older properties are in less than desired neighborhoods (dangerous to your health). And not a whole lot of history. I found the location of a Bonnie & Clyde shootout which was at an abandoned amusement park. I thought I was really onto something but my permission was denied because they breed prize bulls at that spot and I’m not a trained matador.. Dang it. I’m not quitting though. I love this hobby.
well i hope i get my mooving done this year and when my new place is fixed and done you are welcome to visit whenever you come to germany... may we can find some celtic stuff here in the woods ;D
one overlooked spot is old native american fur trading posts, they can be earlier than farms and are one of the only ways to find colonial coins in my area.
Hello. Enjoy your videos. I know its not your area; but was wondering if you could direct me on how to connect with a club in South Dakota. Thought you might know of a directory or something. Thank you in advance.
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Merrill, I'm in Arizona and detect for gold and belong to several clubs. Would be glad to take you out if you get out this way. Mike
@@mikebonn8669 that would be incredible! I need to do some club visits for XP as well. Thanks Mike. Please email me at kazanjianm@gmail.com and perhaps in the fall we could make something work. I truly appreciate this.
thanks bud
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@@MetalDetectingNYC, will you PLEASE get some "Sushi Unlocked" tshirts made and put on your website. My wife wants one, and it would sure get her out of my ass complaining that you don't have any.
Merrill, I found a copper spear head about 20 years ago while detecting in a wooded area just outside of Chicago. Gave it to the Museum of Science and Industry for their Native American display. The director told me it was from the Archaic Period, approximately around 3000 BCE. After some cleaning it was placed on display with other Native American artifacts in their collection. I love going there and seeing it on display, I felt it was the right thing to do. Keeping such a rare artifact in a private collection unseen would be a shame.
Ben that is INCREDIBLE! Copper Culture is the American equivalent to Roman!
Awesome thanks for donating the artifact ✌️👌
Too many museums just tag artifacts, log them in their book, and put them in a drawer. I don't give museums any thing anymore.
Wowzzza that’s super exciting, I’m happy you donated it, for history. What a cool find, happy hunting sir.
@@chuckburroughs6427 why, I sincerely want to know. I’m a newbie and don’t want any grief. Not if I can If I can avoid it right.
Merrill! I live in Colorado and I hunted down an old trail head and found a 1850 braided hair. Large scent was pretty shocked! Thanks for all of your educational videos. You’re number one I wouldn’t have found that coin without you.
Don’t mind the spelling errors. My phone is broken and I’m voice to texting.
Absolutely honored@@chrismathisen5435
Hey, Merrill, you certainly found your calling; you are a great teacher! Even though we've been detecting for over 20 yrs., using old maps and now the new LIDAR, your video was fascinating. Love how you showed the growth of the country as well as the way you made categories and added humor. A+!!!
Wow, thank you!
Good tips Merrill. My friends think I waste too much time researching areas I want to hunt. But then they wonder why I’ve found such good finds. I must be really lucky I guess. lol A detector shop owner friend of mine went with me to an old State Fair site that had been abandoned for many years. Allot of the it had dirt streets when it first became a Fair Grounds. It was just being developed again when I got permission to hunt the site. I had found pockets full of silver coins before even telling my friend about the place. I was allowed to use whatever means necessary to dig up coins and such. My friend found what appeared to be a silver dollar under the asphalt roadway in front of the grandstands where horse racing took place. He worked for over an hour pecking at the asphalt with a screwdriver and hammer to retrieve his target. I went on and was doing well without having to need a pick. For all of his work he retrieved a very nice copper washer. He was so sure it was a coin. We laughed about it later but since he had to find out what it was. We knew there wasn’t aluminum cans back when the road was paved. It was just something you had to dig.😢 John
U R very right about that old places and trail roads U C I remodel homes new & old And been at many places with old houses churches and so on and love history U gave me more insights of where to look plus I'm into antique
Good lecture professor
Thank you so much!
Its mind boggling how much lost and hidden treasure is now build up on and paved over.
Paved over is a great point!
Hi Merrill are you at dead horse bay now ?
Merrill, this is the most intelligent presentation I have ever seen on metal detecting.
Copper culture is fascinating for sure! We usually find 3 or 4 pieces a year. The first one I ever found was a celt/chisel. The first thing I wondered was who would make a chisel out of Copper. I googled Copper chisel. Then I realized how it ended up under the roots of a huge old growth tree.
If you ever end up in Wisconsin I'll be happy to take you out to find one.
I just love the way you use common sense and research into the search for good and better places for metal detecting! Keeping an open mind and realizing how this country was developing as the population grew is key to good detecting areas, The learning curve never ends
Very good information. I live in a town that was a direct path on Wabash &Erie Canal. Indiana. My city replaced the road on the old canal bed. Wow! What a great summer I had! Large cent, silver coins, Indian head cents, heel plates, toe taps. Most were surface finds.
Awesome... I live in a later settled part of the states I've found 1852 prolly won't find much older here. Couple years ago I changed up my main method of site choosing. Rather then try to go places that no one has searched. I decided everyone was doing that and consequently these "unsearched" type of areas were very searched. So I started hitting places that people would say everyone searched or that area has been overly searched. I have done quite well detecting the places that others in the community would say everyone has allready detected.
@@mattmatt6572 I’ve had same experience, hunting places people have hit hard or told me were hunted out.
Merrill, you hit my wheel house, History and metal detecting! History is the reason I started metal detecting. I live just off of the Old Boston Post Road and enjoy New England’s Colonial history. Thank you for another great tutorial. Love your channel too!
Hi Merrill, I detect Farms and Beaches here in the UK. The Farms produce most of the historic finds but like you say, an efficient swing is needed and the decent finds are few and far between. Maybe 2 percent are keepers after 6 hours or more swinging and digging for most. Often in the rain or over roughly cultivated ground.
The ground can be frozen, muddy or dry and hard like concrete. Even if the field is not in crop the weeds or grass can make it difficult.
Even getting there can be tricky with flooding on roads and muddy farm tracks to navigate and slippery soft waterlogged fields to park on. But whatever comes we turn out because detecting is great fun and good exercise!
Great video. I've been in Qns for 20 years (I lived in Bumblef**k Valley, ND until 2004) and I've managed to ride my bike to most of the BK/QNS locations you've visited. It never occurred to me to detect. I now see the city in a new ways. (As soon as you dropped the "Quick Review of What We've Learned," I knew you were a teacher. From one teacher to another, I love the channel.)
Glad i found your channel. Ive been binge watching your videos. I appreciate how well you explain things and get right to the point. Also enjoy your style of humor.
Excellent video Merrill and you couldn’t be more correct on the subject. The way towns/cities are laid out in our modern age is vastly different than during our early agrarian times in this country. Those meandering paths and stonewalls in the woods today were busy home/farm sites 200 yrs ago. 20 years of relic hunting has taught me the lessons that you pointed out in your video. Honestly a book could be written on the subject.
Man…just wanted to say this video is just what people new to the hobby need. Wanted to say thanks for the info and time it took to make and edit this video. I indeed liked and subscribed!
I appreciate that!
Thanks Merrill ❤❤❤
Good stuff Merrell. I use old maps as a matter of fact I drive around with the app open it shows where all the old places are and as far as random spots I almost always hit them anything with dirt is a spot for me 😎✌️🤟🖖
Thank you Barney
This guy tells it as it is. I love it!😂
Subscribed!
Appreciate it!
Just found your channel. Great info in this video, I just got my first detector. Nokta double score. It’s nuts that the kids nowadays can’t read a map. It’s not rocket science, but it is invaluable. Thanks 😊
Have fun my friend. I suggest you take a handful of potential targets a silver a copper a gold coin if u can access one. Also maybe a soda tab a bottle cap an old peice of tin. Lay the items out in your yard play with your detector. Get in tune with it know your machine. I do this every spring befor I start my hunting. When people ask me wich detectors are best I tell them it's more about knowing your detector then about wich detector you know.
@@mattmatt6572 I love this part of your comment…..knowing your detector, not which you know. Simple but true. It’s exciting, I’ve been digging up all kinda stuff around my own home, prior owner was a contractor. Not I can’t tell you how many nails and even some rebar which I didn’t expect. Right now I’m learning the tones, and how to properly create a hole and replace it with out leaving a crater. 😄 thanks for the feedback, don’t get much encouragement nowadays unless your half naked and singing rap lyrics….yikes 🤣
Hey Merrill, it was so awesome to meet you today. I’m super pumped for an exciting weekend! Hope you’re able to get out there too and don’t have to work too hard 🙃
My husband pulls up LiDAR maps all the time for our copper culture hunting. It’s amazing what you can see! It’s been so helpful. It’s really obvious where the shoreline was thousands of years ago with that map. We print them out before we go on our adventures.
Great to meet you too!
I looked up, “How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm” because I wasn’t sure if it was WWI, or WWII. It was WWI. Before that, 80% were on farms with 20% in the cities. By WWII, that had flipped? The song actually made folks mad, because it was true, and many abandoned farms for easier, more exciting city lives, with weekends off and better paychecks. Thanks for a great video.
Merrill, great video! Could you do a video on LiDAR? Thanks!
I will
Merrill, this is Ernie from Montana you make me laugh you make metal detecting funner. You’re also very wise and informative. Keep up the good work.
We found an old portion of Boston rd in Spencer Massachusetts that kept us busy for a year!! KGll’s came up like wheat cents, state coppers and militia buttons, it was a great time during the pandemic 😀
Great video, Merrill! Lots of good information delivered in an entertaining way. My buddy found a copper culture spearhead while detecting a street tearout in a Minnesota city. Pretty cool to imagine that artifact predating the 1800s town that settled over it and eventually grew into a bustling city.
You’re literally the best of the best! My dream is to go digging with you !
Good stuff Merrill! I live in southern Ohio in a small community that was founded 1801, 2 years prior to Ohio statehood. It was laid out in 1797 when the first settlers started moving in. Part of the Virginia Military District alotted to veterans of the Revolution. It lays along the main east-west route from Cincinnati to points east. I've found draped bust silver and copper, reales, and other 1700s silvers/coppers. Location is everything. Thanks for the video!
Reales!!!!
Hey Merrill your right brother I'm into history and old archive and stuff but anywho I just started my detecting adventure I'm a newbie so I appreciate your "TUBE"and your more easy to make beginner's like me to understand the basics of getting started so MAHALO ❤... ALOHA VA'LE'OE HAWA'N ROCK,S/P. Philly
Refreshing approach to the topic of research. I haven't seen anything "new" on this topic in 10+ years. Thanks!
Thank you so much!
So good! I'm in National Forest land in Montana and learning how to find where people used to live and hang out.
Awesome video Merrill. Here in Seattle , there used to be a ferry that went across Lake, Washington to Kirkland in the Early 1900s passengers would throw coins to the kids standing on the pylons
I love the plowed corn fields for relics I just got a mine lab vanquish 440 found at lawn shop now heading out to fields
Merrill, thank you for some fantastic insight on determining locations with "find" potential. I am new to metal detecting - as a serious hobby - and about to begin the curve of learning all about the Minelab Equinox 900 that just got delivered. I hope I selected a good machine.
Always enjoy hearing your take on metal detecting matters. Much appreciated, especially this summary.
Thank you!
Awesome video Merrill Thanks for the Information
Thank you!
Things have been changed around and tilled up in NY for decades. Almost everywhere there is a cool search place
I've been fallow years video and already find 2 gold rings 1 silver and a lot of coins and many others non gold jewellers..thank you for sharing with us 😊
Thank you Merrill, for the time you put in to produce resources like this! Appreciate you. 👍
most interesting even for us in the uk even if we dont know where bumble bleep is
I would love to go Metal Detecting For Meteorites, on my bucket list also. Get video I have 4 sites I found that are great resource for maps of Pennsylvania. Keep up the good work. Have fun at Digstock. Thanks for sharing
Hey yo! Just saw you on the Quarter Hoarder. Loved the interview.
Thank you! I had an amazing time!
Thanks for your video series on this important topic. In our first years me and my detecting buddies only detected in public parks and from time to time on some random farm permissions. The finds weren't bad, but since we put some more effort into our research the finds have definitley improved. Our favourite spots are old picnic areas, former road intersections, old taverns, solitary old trees and especially elevated spots in the landscape with either some strategic value or a very picturesce view.
When we come back from detecting next weekend I have to show my friends your video. We'll have a drink every time you mention that nice valley in Dakota 😂
Thank you, Merrill. Excellent information. Love the cartography portions.
Thank you
Great video, thanks for recommending it. Next time you are in Wisconsin we can take you to ty and find some copper. See you tomorrow!!
Let’s go!!!
Thanks!
Thank you so much!
Hey Merrill, have you created a video for how to use LIDAR ? If so i couldn't find it. Do you offer a course on this? I REALLY enjoy your videos, and you are a very engaging teacher!
Thanks for all you do man !
This video has sooo much detail. Must appreciated!
Glad it was helpful!
Hey big guy, thanks for this video. It reminded me that we have a very popular sledding site nearby. First hunt of the year for me yielded serval coins. I also had an iffy bouncing signal 58-96 with my Deus 2. I Wasn't going to dig it but the sound was strong and sharp did and it yielded a silver ring and another gold ring in the same hole. From your Connecticut neighbor, I wish you the best with your new endeavor. Deus picked the perfect motivating Teacher/Ambassador.
Always a learning pleasure with Merril😊
Saw East Islip on your map, Im from Bay Shore and my mom is in C.I. .... Miss the Island (sometimes, LOL)
Thanks for this very informative video , and all the time you invested in the making of said vidio.
Very informative and interesting. Looking forward to applying this to places here in Australia.
Glad it was helpful!
Hey Merrill I was was in Tennessee somewhere around Chattanooga where they have this Hill goes almost straight up... but anywho on my lunch break I've wondered into the back forest and notice a half barked tree and in it was musket Ball in it so I know it was a battle ground told the people who rented the house they said they're lots of old stuff back there ALOHA VA'LE'OE HAWA'N ROCK ❤
A very good video and it does give me ideas here in central Florida
Great! As I’m sure you know Spanish presence that predates America in central Florida
Hey friend! Well organised and edited video! Big like! Cheers from new friend and followers from southern Europe!
Cheers!
Nice video Merrill you nailed it 👍🏼
Thank you!
Nice job Merrill. Enjoyed the video!
Thanks so much for this informative video Merrill! We all appreciate ya! Yes, I love watching Zach at Great Outdoors Detecting! And I love watching you too!
Heck yes! Thank you for the priceless help and tips! Woohoo! 🤓🤓🤓
Hey Merrill it's HAWA'N ROCK again yeah about off the grid kinda thing by watching your videos I've been always known that historical places have old stuffs I remodel old houses and farms or where ever the job at when I'm at job site I always wondered what lies beneath that "ground"? ALOHA VA'LE'OE HAWA'N ROCK ❤
Yo Merrill, u need to talk to Miss Detectorist in the UK, watched her not able to hit 6 onch targets with the Deus 2,...had me amazed
Merrill I like the video bit here Wisconsin For the most we have terrible Metal detecting rules most parks are off limits because of no digging
Ugh! So many farms though. But that is noted. I was in Somers in January visiting family! I Love Wisconsin!
These videos are sooo thoroughhhh, rhabks 😊
TIC TOC brains.... that was perfect
Its become and official tern for super short attention span! Ive heard many people use "TikTok brain" in a sentence.
let me get this correct. The property that has been in the family since 1763 next to a RR depot, along the Wilderness Road coming out of Virginia in Kentucky on the Cumberland River. That would be a place to find great artifacts, and coins.
I would assume so.
Great video Merrill, Thanks for sharing. And I totally agree with you, support the real metal detectorists. :)
Thank you Merrill for sharing with us.
Like always Merrill.. thank you for you ! Your so appreciated and totally proud of you! N.t. nor cal .the gold country.
Honored Nick! Thank you!
I live in THEE Heart of the gold country in California Merrill, Grass valley ,ca. Home of the Empire mine. North Star mine ,Idaho Maryland mine,etc.. the 3 yuba rivers north,middle,and south river, the 3 American Rivers, and hundreds more of them. If ever looking to research for gold? This is thee greatest place of all to do so. N.T. nor cal, ca.
Great tips thanks for sharing!!!!!
You are welcome
The no till method (though bad for metal detectorists) is pretty solid for farmers looking to keep their land fertile without having to put much effort and money to invest in chemical fertilizers. However! if you notice huge fields of mustard or other cover crops, chances are they will till that back into the earth. I would suspect it's best to get permission and ask when they'll start tilling and to go detecting after they've finished putting all that organic matter back into the earth..
Best metal detecting content keep it coming.
Thanks, will do!
come on out to northern utah. i got plenty room and we can look for nuggets in northern nevada and southern idaho . look up lake bonneville and were it broke threw by my house. it had to have left tones of neat dirt and nuggets.
Never knew I had Indian copper artifacts in my back yard!! Thank you for a great video!!!!
RESEARCH IS EVERYTHING in metal detecting.....
The farms no longer get tilled because they scientifically figured out that leaving the soil alone brings better mineralization. Nothing to do with fuel. I learned that this weekend with a buddy that has a family farm we detect.
Ahhhh science......I think that perspective is limited to humans. Worms like the roller coaster ride of being stirred in the dirt. 😂
Agree, left a belated comment before I saw this.
Wrong! notill "farming" is for hippie's and gardeners not for farmers you cannot get proper aeration. Remember there is a difference between gardeners and farmers.. gardeners are mostly hobbyist.. farmers feed the world!
Ty merrill im gonna check it out here in florida❤❤❤ great tutorial
Have fun!
Ah man. You're given away all the secrets😉. Great video. Thanks.
Did you do a video on Lidar for USA yet? Without having to download weird file types/software to view them?
I will make one soon.
Homerun Merrill. I have a lot more tricks I've learned over the years but it's best folks learn them on their own
Explore your world !
Good vid merrill 👍
Thank you Marc!
Awesome video, one of your best. Great content and keep the videos coming.
Great vids thanks for all the information. Have to watch this one twice .Thanks.
Sorry I've ordered a Nokta find Xpro... ALOHA VA'LE'OE....HAWA'N ROCK ❤
I find it hard to find a place in Des Moines, Iowa. Our rivers are a no go because they are owned by the Army Corps of Engineers. State Fairgrounds is state land. And older properties are in less than desired neighborhoods (dangerous to your health). And not a whole lot of history.
I found the location of a Bonnie & Clyde shootout which was at an abandoned amusement park. I thought I was really onto something but my permission was denied because they breed prize bulls at that spot and I’m not a trained matador.. Dang it. I’m not quitting though. I love this hobby.
Awesome Content as always Thanks 👍
Another very informative video,thank you very much.
Thank you!
In Canada I detect 1830-1880 inn/tavern sites exclusively. Research makes it possible
I have heard no comments about the E Track or the CTX3030. Would love to get your take on them.
and by the way...mudlarking? we still are waiting for a london mudlarking video with adelle... god that could be so funny to watch ;D;D;D
I can’t wait to go! For two years now, they have suspended the permits and it would look bad if we go without a permit.
well i hope i get my mooving done this year and when my new place is fixed and done you are welcome to visit whenever you come to germany... may we can find some celtic stuff here in the woods ;D
Bumble fu valley 😂 awesome information 👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
one overlooked spot is old native american fur trading posts, they can be earlier than farms and are one of the only ways to find colonial coins in my area.
Hello. Enjoy your videos. I know its not your area; but was wondering if you could direct me on how to connect with a club in South Dakota. Thought you might know of a directory or something. Thank you in advance.
I just found this: www.mdhtalk.org/cf/club.cfm?st=SD
Great video Merrill. Keep up the good work.
This is what u do best! Teach!! Good job man..
I appreciate that!
Gonna miss you at Digstock. Waited too long and was full. Tell Gin ( lucky Gin ) I said hi for me. See ya next time!
Another great video. Thanks bro!
Thank you!
Greetings from Idaho 👋
Hello there!