105 definitions. Hope I got most of them. Too much Excel
Beach hunters - detectorists who mainly hunt beaches
beep beep - the sound certain detectors make.
Black gunk - in the water where the sand don't move
Black sand - iron particles that are so small they look like sand
Blanket line - first 10 ft in the dry sand, from the high tide line
Buoy - a close friend
Cache - a large amount of coins or jewelry buried together in a container
Cans law - shards, shreds, particulate, remains of, low cost metal containers encapsulating beverages, and various food items.
Cartwheel - silver dollar
Civ - civil war item
Clad - any US coin that is "sandwiched" with alloys of different metals.
Coil - the round thing at the end of your detector
Coinshooters - detectorist who look mainly for coins
Coldstone - opposite hot rock
Dig it - just dig it up
Digger - the tool used to dig your targets
Disc - ability of your detector to reject unwanted metal
Display - the target identification on your detector
Dry sand - The sand people lay there blankets and lawn chairs
Erosion - a part of the beach that will strip right down to bedrock.
Fall Thrus - Targets that are small enough to fall through the holes in the scoop, could be a 22 cal. bullet or a diamond earring.
Find - something you found
Finds - the good stuff you found
Fish scale - a small silver nickel made up to 1921
Fishin fer Spacerocks - detecting for meteorites
Floaters - Targets, usually pull tabs or small pieces of aluminum that tend to flutter out of the scoop.
Fossiker - detectorist for gold or relics/coins
Freestyling - knocking on doors, driving around, hunting immediately after getting permission
Globola - a black corroded glob
Go for a dig....going metal detecting
Gold in the Blood - gold fever
Gridding the beach - detecting using a pattern as you walk along, most common is "straight" or "circular"
Ground balance - adjusting the detector to the mineralization in the soil
Hard wired - a modification or quick fix to your detector
Herring Choker - New Brunswicker
HH - happy hunting
Hipmount - mounting the control box of your detector with a belt on your waist
Holey S**T - accidentally set your volume switch wide open
Hot rock - a black volcanic rock, meteorite, or a rock that gives a off a metallic signal
Hunting - grabbing your detector and going!
IH - Indian head cent
Injun - Indian head cent
Juice - a juicy good target in the bottom of the plug
Karked it - something that just died on the goldfield
Keepers - the targets that you keep whether good or bad
Leaveitright - A very large buried junk target, as in leave it right there
Loner - a detectorist that doesn't belong to a club
Loonie - our one dollar coin
MDing - metal detecting
Merc - mercury dime
Mint mark - a special mark placed on coins to let you know where or who made it.
Mole w/ Helmet - A target that seems to move under the ground from one spot to another
Multi-targs - an area with a lot of targets
Mung - That nasty seaweed that tangles in your coil while
Newbie - someone new at the hobby
Newfie - a Newfoundlander
Nice haul - a comment on your great finds
Nitro - A very nice looking piece of jewelry that turn out to be fake.
Nuggetshooter - detecting for gold nuggs
NUT - Newly unearthed treasures
o !!!! - briar vine in face
OH NO - someone walking up to you real fast with a mean look on their face!
Old timer - prospector looking for gold
Omg! - SNAKE
Poed - finding out you just spent the last hour MDing in a patch of poison Oak
Potato gold extractor - ask me about that one, old miner's trick to separate gold from mercury
Probe - A tool to pinpoint the target while still in ground
Pulseor PI - a waterproof detector that locates all metal targets
Relic hunters - detectorists who hunt mainly woods
Rev - revolutionary war item
Rosie - silver Roosevelt dime
Roundness - coins
Royality - Sharing your finds with the property owner.
Sand stuff - normal trash you find in the sand
Seeded hunt - a hunt where the finds have been scattered or planted
Shng ding - like 'thingy' ,something you find and not sure what it is
SLQ - Standing Liberty Quarter
Sludge - blackish, smelly beach sand coins are found in
Snippers and snappers - small items you find
Spaz - what your MD does just before the batteries run out
Spud - A Prince Edward Islander
Swingin' coil time - the amount of time you spent detecting
Swish - water dig
Target ID - a meter or display that shows you what your target might be.
Tector - metal detector
The machine - your detector
TH'ing - treasure hunting
Thingy - something you find and don't know what it is
Tone ID - different sounds identifying different target's sounds
Topsoil - first 4 inches of ground
Tweak it - adjusting the detector
Twoonie - our two dollar coin
UFO - Unidentified Ferrous Object
UMO - Unidentified Metal Object
Vicky - any coin with the bust of Queen Victoria on it usually from the years 1858 to around 1900
VLF - auto discriminates against iron
Walker - Walking Liberty Half Dollar
Wet sand - The high tide line to the low tide line, at low tide
What was that - What you say or think when something brushes your legs under the water.
Whatzit - (see UMO)
Wheatie - wheat back cent
Where'd He Go - What you say when that snake that you have been watching out of the corner of your eye, That has been swimming on top of the water suddenly disappears.
Whispers - low, barely audible tones
WOT coil - a 15 inch coil made by Coil Tech, for Minelab detectors
Zincoln(s) - 1982 and newer Copper Plated Zinc Pennies, Usually Corroded when Dug up