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Title: Metal Detecting Lingo From The U.S. Post by: Kev on December 02, 2011, 04:55:16 PM found this on a U.S. site......................................... ;)
This is a list of some of the metal detecting lingo adopted by detectorists as they pursue their hobby, this list is not complete, but I have gathered the most commonly used words identifying them as I understand them. Feel free to post more or correct some because I know I may have missed some. HH - happy hunting MDing - metal detecting TH'ing - treasure hunting tector - metal detector clad - any US coin that is "sandwiched" with alloys of different metals. merc - mercury dime rosie - silver roosevelt dime wheatie - wheat back cent injun - indian head cent IH - indian head cent Walker - Walking Liberty Half Dollar cartwheel - silver dollar mint mark - a special mark placed on coins to let you know where or who made it. coinshooters - detectorist who look mainly for coins beach hunters - detectorists who mainly hunt beaches relic hunters - detectorists who hunt mainly woods probe - A tool to pinpoint the target while still in ground the machine - your detector digger - the tool used to dig your targets topsoil - first 4 inches of ground hipmount - mounting the control box of your detector with a belt on your waist display - the target identification on your detector ground balance - adjusting the detector to the mineralization in the soil disc - ability of your detector to reject unwanted metal tweak it - adjusting the detector whispers - low, barely audible tones beep beep - the sound certain detectors make. dig it - just dig it up find - something you found finds - the good stuff you found multi-targs - an area with a lot of targets keepers - the targets that you keep whether good or bad cache - a large amount of coins or jewelry buried together in a container nice haul - a comment on your great finds thingy - something you find and don't know what it is sand stuff - normal trash you find in the sand globola - a black corroded glob black gunk - in the water where the sand don't move snippers and snappers - small items you find hunting - grabbing your detector and going! newbie - someone new at the hobby loner - a detectorist that doesn't belong to a club seeded hunt - a hunt where the the finds have been scattered or planted dry sand - The sand people lay there blankets and lawn chairs wet sand - The high tide line to the low tide line, at low tide blanket line - first 10 ft in the dry sand, from the high tide line gridding the beach - detecting using a pattern as you walk along, most common is "straight" or "circular" hot rock - a black volcanic rock, meteorite, or a rock that gives a off a metallic signal erosion - a part of the beach that will strip right down to bedrock. black sand - iron particles that are so small they look like sand coil - the round thing at the end of your detector WOT coil - a 15 inch coil made by Coil Tech, for Minelab detectors hard wired - a modification or quick fix to your detector swingin' coil time - the amount of time you spent detecting pulseor PI - a waterproof detector that locates all metal targets VLF - auto discriminates against iron Target ID - a meter or display that shows you what your target might be. Tone ID - different sounds identifying different target's sounds Title: Re: Metal Detecting Lingo From The U.S. Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on December 02, 2011, 04:56:21 PM OLD - Anything Pre 1970
Title: Re: Metal Detecting Lingo From The U.S. Post by: Kev on December 02, 2011, 04:58:16 PM ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Metal Detecting Lingo From The U.S. Post by: Kev on December 02, 2011, 04:59:46 PM Yellow Banana ( prize for melonhead )
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