I am amazed at most survival
book writers ignorance when it comes to fooling a metal detector. They
all seem to be repeating each other and it seems it has not changed in years.
It is very evident they are all wrong in my not so humble, ahem.
Over the last several days I
have reviewed many new books by writers in the survival world all who are very
knowledgeable with many skill sets, and this is not to take anything away from
those skill sets. After seeing this same mistake over and over in these 4
books, I dove into my extensive collection of survival books and did a fast
look for the problem. Each one said the same thing. They all advise scattering
nails , BBs and junk metal over your cache in order to fool a metal detector or
the operator. Even a novice who has read one book on metal detecting knows what
to do in the case of a heavy metal “collection” concentrated in one place. For
someone with lots of experience it does nothing but maybe pin point that
something is under all that junk . First it is out of context for the area.
Modern detectors can cancel out the surface junk and “look” down deeper and
ignore the surface crap.
Even an old detector will work
because any metal detector operator worth his salt will rake the surface and
and scan it again, rake again and check it again. Also the ploy of putting a
decoy cache on top of the real deal will not work… all operators always scan
the hole again after a recovery.
I have been at the game of
metal detectors and making finds for 50 years or more. I have found well hidden
caches that had these “fooler” junk metals scattered around, all it did for me
was ring my alarm that something is under there. The only place junk metals
would work is in a true junk yard… That would be a nightmare.
I mean no disrespect to these
fine writers with awesome survival credits and skill sets. For the most part
they are right on . Not everyone can know everything. This happens to be an
area of expertise that I know well. So in a way this is an open letter to those
fine survivalists who offer us their hard won skills in their books.
With the utmost respect to
those writers on survival.
By Dude McLean
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