Metal Detecting: A Beginner's Guide: to Mastering the Greatest Hobby In the World

This book is a must-have for every beginner. As someone just getting into the scene, this book was extremely helpful and very detail oriented. I loved the big font and easy layout of the book too! I didn't realize how small some of the text was in other books I've been reading until I picked this up and realized how much easier it was on my eyes. The formatting on this book was just incredible - it's part of the reason it was so easy to get through the abundance of information. Learning the lingo from this book has been so much more helpful then I ever thought possible. I loved all the pictures in the book but particularly loved the ones that helped show the direction of the water when explaining what to look for when it comes to water flow. Fantastic! The diagrams and photos made it extremely easy to visual all the text they accompanied! Great book - highly recommended for beginners.

OK I have given this 4 stars because it is an easy read and the author was full of enthusiasm and would make a good coach for Detecting Camp if there is such a thing. He also included information about the best types of detectors for different types of detecting. I learned about probing, something I had not heard of before. The electrolysis portion was informative. The detecting rivers had some good tips. The Jewelry, preserving your relics and selling your finds information was helpful. The join the community links and links for research were cool too. If this book had been half the price It would have gotten 5 stars. It was informative but read more like an adventure novel instead of a guide to metal detecting. I am a beginner, If you have been doing longer than a year then this probably would not teach you much that you have not learned from your experience except maybe the Probing part, now that takes skill....

Very Interesting!!! Enjoyed the book a lot. I still need to buy my Metal Detector, but i am ready now.

My boyfriend wanted to try metal detecting, but he kept getting lost in the internet and the multiple conflicting sources. So I bought him this book and it’s wonderful for beginners like us! This book is a great introduction to metal detecting! It provided so much information. One of my favorite parts of the book was the simple definitions of the lingo. There were so many things I learned about just from this one chapter! The book also provided details of different kinds of metal detectors, from different brands to different uses for metal detectors. The book moves into where you should be metal detecting, the laws of property, to identifying your treasures to cleaning! It’s really a wonderful book, especially for a beginner.

This is a great book for beginners. It's easy to read regardless of your level of technical expertise, and the relaxed way it's written conveys the information without being intimidating. As an engineer with a basic theoretical understanding of how metal detectors work I found the technical descriptions to be on the simple side, though accurate enough for the target audience. As a complete novice to the practical aspects of finding and digging up metal objects, however, I found the book very helpful. My metal detector arrived shortly after I finished reading this book and I found the techniques and suggestions I'd read to be practical and useful.There are some minor grammatical and spelling errors, but not enough to detract from the book's content. I might have deducted a star for its short length if I'd gotten the dead-tree edition, but at the Kindle price I thought it was worth every penny.

Got this for my 11 year old son along with his first metal detector for a bday gift. He didn't have the patience to read it, but I did. Nice and simple, so good for kids - but not enough to keep their attention. I would recommend for young, teen beginners who have a great interest. For adults, it seems kind of common sense. For younger ones, not enough pictures to keep them interested. Well written, though. I would recommend it.

I bought this because of the rave reviews to get it. I used to to purchase exactly the type of metal detector I needed, or rather what would fit my needs. I loved the review of all the various types.I then purchased one from amazon, but within an hour canceled it because I learned metal detecting is illegal in my state of Wisconsin. Even though I am on the border of Illinois, I didn't want to be squeamish every time I tried to use it. So from what I saw of the beginning of this book, it was full of valuable information. It's just upsetting that I can't use it while living where I do.

I bought this book for my 15 year old son who recently started metal detecting. He has an entry level detector and with advice from this book has already made a few nice finds. Anything to get him off the couch and outside is a "win" in my book (no pun intended). This book has really helped him get off to a great start. The only down side is that now he wants to upgrade his detector. After reading a few chapters in this book, I might just get one myself. Bottom line, great book. If you're into metal detecting, get it.

I found the way the book was written suited me, short informative facts that I found easy to understand, rather than large rambling paragraphs where you have to sort out the pertinant facts from the waffle.

I am a beginner who has been out 4 times now with relative success. I did a lot of research before reading this book but still learnt a few things. If I hadn't done all the research I had, this book covers it all. Writing is clear and amusing. Illustrations well done.

Es un buen libro para adquirir el vocabulario básico del detector de metales. Escrito en inglés sin ningún problema ya que esta escrito de forma sencilla. Un buen método para todo aquel que quiera iniciarse en la búsqueda de metales

Has everything u need to learn for metal detecting. Also has a brief chapter on which metal detector to chose from.

Great book