The Successful Treasure Hunters Manual - Develop Your Latent Skills...

  ESSENTIAL RESOURCES FOR SUCCESS HOW TO MULTIPLY YOUR TREASURE FINDS RATE BY TWENTY-FIVE TIMES OR MORE Obviously you would like to increase your treasure finds rate. I know I do. But how do you actually do that? Well let's start by looking at the equipment you are using. If you are serious about treasure hunting, you probably have a metal detector or are thinking about buying one. But with over 150 models to chose from, which one is best? Which one will make the most finds? If any one model stood out, wouldn’t we all be using it?  While some machines clearly excel on certain types of site, overall there probably isn’t more than a few percent to gain or lose on performance between models, once you get away from the low priced ‘toy’ range. You would be hard pushed to try out all the models available and frequently swapping from one model to another could not only prove very expensive but would undoubtedly reduce your finds rate, for maybe six months, until you become used to the machine. Using a pair of good quality headphones always helps. You will hear fainter signals and at the same time, cut out distracting noise from your surroundings. Then you could look at coil or search-head types and sizes. Wide-scan coils cover ground faster than concentric but at a loss of overall depth. A larger diameter coil will also cover ground faster while detecting deeper but it will find more larger-sized objects at the expense of smaller objects and a smaller diameter coil works the other way around.. You pay your money and take your choice. So what about time spent searching. It has to be true that the more hours you put in, the more treasure you will find. But there are only 24 hours in the day and 168 hours in the week. You have to sleep sometime!  Go out treasure hunting regularly if you can, this will keep you in practice and you will find more than if you go on a marathon session occasionally.  Let’s look at search methods then. We’ll assume you have a site to search, 69 yards wide by 70 yards long. That’s roughly one acre. Buried in the site are five treasures within detection range, each marked with a cross. You could do a systematic search with a metal detector, covering every square inch. If your overlapping search sweep averages 1.5 yards then you would need to cross the site 46 times and walk nearly two miles. It would take a few hours, however you would get 100% of the treasure finds. Systematic Search: 100% of the time for 100% of the treasure Some treasure hunters or metal detectorists like to perform a random search. Random search: 20% of the time for 20% of the treasure (on average) On the basis of your results, if you then decide to do a systematic search, you will spend 120% of the time for 100% of the finds, so best decide as early as possible to swap from a random search to a systematic one. If you are unlucky and miss all of the treasure on a random search, do you then write the site off as unproductive? Or you could use an ancient free technology to do this: 20% of the time for 100% of the finds (conservative estimate) Clearly you could cover five times more sites in the time in takes to systematically search one site. You should make at least five times more finds. Okay, let’s look at how you chose that site in the first place. Did it just come along or did you find it by research? Research will certainly put you in the right ballpark; maybe the plot next to the one containing the treasure, maybe the one with the treasure in itself. But you won’t know until you get out there, search the site thoroughly and dig the treasure up. Unless you use the same ancient free technology to discover exactly where the treasure is (or isn't), what it consists of, how deep it is buried and anything else you want to know – without leaving home and without asking anyone’s permission.  You need never search a barren site again.  This is not quite so easy to quantify as the search technique but by my reckoning this will generate at least another five times more finds.  And much more if some of those treasures are caches. So, just to recap, if you get five times more finds from the search method and five times more finds from site selection the two together will give you twenty-five times more finds. Here's how it worked for me.  Using the UK Treasure Act's definition where treasure is basically precious metal single artifacts or coin caches over 300 years old, I found one solitary treasure in 25 years before being taught, by a guy called Jim Longton, how to use an ancient free technology to find treasure.  That was eight years ago and since then I have had eight treasure finds.  Going from one find in twenty-five years to one find every year is an  increase in finds rate of twenty-five times.  However, two of the treasure finds were gold coin caches so the actual object find rate increased forty times.  And of course, my lesser but nevertheless