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Motley Digging Tools has added four new beach scoops to their line of digging tools. Named the Daytona Shovel, Pompano Excavator, Ponte Vedra Grabber, and The Buccaneer. The metal detecting hand scoops can be ordered in a variety of colors: blue, red, pink, yellow, and iridescent color coined “oil slick,” which is showcased in the…
Dear television and movie producers, can you please avoid portraying metal detectorists as uneducated villains, or looking like we came from the backwoods or are buffoons? A few shows did us right, and one that did it the best and showed the nuances of the hobby was the BBC series Detectorists. Thank you, Mackenzie Crook,…
Have you always dreamed of finding buried treasure with a metal detector? Underneath the surface, there are endless possibilities of what you may dig up. The Ring Finder by Steve Zazulyk is full of helpful tips from a professional treasure hunter to ensure you too will be successful with metal detecting. From getting comfortable with…
Motley has rebranded from Motley Scoops to Motley Digging Tools and released their new hand digger the Grass Knife. The company known for its colorful metal detecting sand scoops has expanded its line to include a hand digger, which they coined the Grass Knife. Like the sand scoops, the Grass Knife has a unique design…
The size is between a hand digger and a shovel. It makes nice, clean plugs better than a hand digger and is lighter to carry, and doesn’t draw as much attention as a full-size metal detecting shovel. Recently, I have been metal detecting for older coins. Because of the vast number of detectorists locally, the…
What is the right equipment for getting into water or beach metal detecting? Or what should you look for when wanting to upgrade your current equipment to something better? It doesn’t take much research to know that water can do a lot of damage to metal detecting equipment. Add ocean salt to the mix and…
For a beach detectorist, a sand scoop is just as important as a good metal detector. New beach detectorists realize quickly the design of a scoop adds to factoring whether a day at the beach is good or bad detecting. When people first get into the hobby, they often start with a plastic sand scoop…
Ideal for coin, beach, and relic hunting the Tarsacci MDT 8000 Metal Detector excels where other detectors might struggle with very mineralized ground. It is lightweight, durable, waterproof (IP68 rating, up to 1.5 meters for up to 30 minutes), and made in the United States, California. First, of its kind, the Tarsacci MDT 8000 has Mixed Domain…
I went to a particular beach to metal detect and that week it was all rock; so rocky no sand scoop could handle it. I really needed a shovel and my current excursions were really highlighting it was time to upgrade my diggers and get a decent shovel. When talking to fellow detectorists I highly…