Metal Detecting Lingo Glossary

[elkameno59]

Dump = a place filled with newer junk, really junk. not worth the effort or time.

 

[Metalinmycoffee]

Audio

"The Beeps" ...... The sound you hear in bed after a day of detecting.

 

[borborygmus]

bump!

i realized i should be looking for the md glossary while viewing thread titles - glad i found it.

 

[seinfeldj]

When a salesperson is selling cars outside of the dealership in which they are employed. Often by negotiating secretly with the customers they meet at the dealership.

 

[(Heavy)]

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

no BLING?

 

[lem]

Not listed is TICKET......LANE and GROUND FISHING

not sure about ticket, other than its a good find,

and don't know about Lane,

Ground Fishing is fishing in the ground with a metal detector

 

[Metal Marauder]

I like all the lingo Max uses. 'Heater' refers to your MD. 'Depositor' is anyone who drops something (hopefully of value). 'Taking a spin in the lane' refers to the act of metal detecting at your favorite location of choice. 'The mine' is the spot where your digging for finds...

 

[Briman05]

dont for get tok haha saw that on diggers

 

[messil805]

We were freestyling last week and gridding an old 1850s house. Found an indian was surrounded by canslaw. It rang up as dime, but I was nulling all over and unmasked. I managed to pinpoint at 5″, cut the plug and found roundness after flipping. The indian was toasty but it had friends, so I rechecked the hole and found a memorial and a semi-key Barber dime in the coinball! ” – these are actual phrases used by detectorists.

 

[1967 Tempest]

Nitro: A very nice looking piece of jewelry that turn out to be fake. When first pulled off the ground it makes your heart beat so fast that you reach for the little bottle with the nitroglycerine tablets.

That made me laugh out loud this A.M. !!!!


P.S. I am adopting this to everything!! Pocket Ace's in poker, rare car parts, everything!!!! I have others, but lets keep it clean people!!LOL!!

 

[rocketshipjack]

Damn Good Post

I liked it! It helped! I'm New! Catcha tell? Went out this weekend to learn my way around. Found Junk. Then I found somor junk. It was cool! The junk was interesting too. Now I know I need knee pads.

Wannna go again ............ reallllllllllll sooooooooooooooon

Rocketshipjack

 

[hawkinlugies]

Never saw "Juice" listed. Those bafoons on the show "Diggers" seem to use that word a lot. (Between themselfs I suspect) Only took one show to stop watching them.

 

[amzee85]

nice

 

[gold hound]

I'm glad it's short.

 

[alpine]

Funny

We gotta come up with a neat name for all of those foil drink pouches and squeezable yogurt containers. I'm starting to see quite a few of them now.

Hopefully I don't offend anyone, but, I had a suggestion for this kind of fodder,

BT = Brat Trash

I'm new so haven't started other than my yard as of now, but, I do have children (brats) lol that went through many of these when they were younger. So sorry, you may have found some of my kids BT.

Alpine

 

[lyness_m]

md'ing lingo

my significant other, she refers to me metal detecting as "are you going 'beep-sticking'?" Dont know if that one is common, but there it is

 

[1981Eagle]

Great list

I live in Virginia, so I have often hunted on areas occupied by Confederate or Union troops

Three-ringer ... a type of Civil War musket ball with three grooves on it
Round ball ... as is sounds - a round Civil War musket ball
A Pull (or Pulled) ... a musket ball with a spiral 'screw hole' in the bullet nose, indicating that the musket had been loaded and the bullet was 'pulled' by a special ram-rod with a screw on the end.
A Drop ... a musket ball that has never been loaded, and looks like it was never shot - likely dropped by a soldier
Honey Hole ... a hole you dig that just keeps producing targets, and finds.

I'm sure there are others I've forgotten.

 

[silver soccer]

Whats a ....

Hi all new to this site and trying to learn the lingo...
I dont see Tot lots here what is a tot lot????? Lol

 

[Milhaus]

Hi all new to this site and trying to learn the lingo...
I dont see Tot lots here what is a tot lot????? Lol

It is any playground.

 

[silver soccer]

Thanks milhouse! much appreciated!