Metal Detecting Abbreviations

[FinalLastDays]

I came across this while at another forum (TQ IS #1!!!)... wanted to share since I had trouble understanding different abbreviations. I know others have trouble also, therefore this will come in handy!

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.
(My Red Book defines Clad Coinage as Issues of the United States dimes, quarters, halves, and dollars made since 1965. Each coin has a center core of pure copper-nickel or silver on both sides.)
merc - mercury dime
rosie - silver roosevelt dime
wheatie - wheat back penny
injun - indian head penny
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

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
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
pulse or 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

[NC_Hunting]

Good Job Stephan ... information that all forum surfers ought to know!

[Joe(TX)]

Good info., especially for newbies but I already knew it since I was around when all this was being invented! So it really helps being a Vet. in Th'ing! How about GEB, TH'er, BFO, TR, IB, Long-Range Detector, Dowser, MFD, CDC, ADS, GD, GBD, CEC, MOTION, Slow-Motion, Non-Motion, Whipping and many more! I won't give the answers here since some are self-explaintary and I'd like for some to figure it out! If some are too hard to figure out, I will explain it in a later post! Alot of this terminology came out during the 60's and 70's. JOE