Treasure Hunting Tip!

 

Treasure Hunting Tip!

Read all the old treasure hunting books and magazines you can get your hands on! I'm appalled daily when I read comments and replies to posts, from beginners wanting advice, on most Facebook metal detecting groups. I'd estimate that 70-80% of what I read is not only bad advice but it's detrimental to our hobby. I try to correct some of it almost every day but it's an impossible task to refute it all.

I'm thankful that I started detecting back when we took our advice from real experts and early leaders in the field when they wrote books and articles for magazines. I've followed that solid advice throughout my treasure hunting career. That's why I never have any problems coming to terms with most landowners whose property I want to search and why I've never been asked to leave or even had my retrieval techniques criticized when detecting parks and other public lands. I have been observed by a few police officers and park employees, from their cars, over the years but they never get out of their vehicles and often just drive away after a few minutes of watching me while I'm detecting and retrieving targets.

There's one vintage book that I believe is essential for every beginner and serious treasure hunter to read - "The Treasure Hunter's Manual 7th Edition" by Karl von Mueller published in 1966. You can find a few copies of this classic book and vintage treasure magazines on eBay.

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Here's the back cover Introduction to my First Edition copy of the book:

"The Treasure Hunter's Manual" covers the complete activity of buried treasure hunting from start to successful completion. Details and examples are given on where and how to get leads, development of the facts through research, how to proceed with the actual search, and how to dispose of the treasures you find in the most profitable way.

The author, Karl von Mueller, is no mere student or researcher of the subject. For more than thirty years, he has been an active and successful treasure hunter. Everything contained in "The Treasure Hunter's Manual", is the product of first-hand experience, and the techniques for locating buried treasure are the ones that he has used in his own successful ventures.

First and foremost, this book is a guide for those who are, or wish to become, active treasure hunters. However, the armchair adventurer will find plenty of excitement here, too. von Mueller is a master storyteller, and his adventures have given him plenty of good stories to tell. You will find that the truth about buried treasure is far more interesting than any fiction you have read."

 

Our next regular monthly CTTC meeting will be Tuesday, April 2nd, at the old Early Chamber of Commerce Bldg. at 104 E. Industrial Blvd. in Early, Texas beginning at 6:30 p.m.  Visitors are always welcome and invited to attend!

Jay Longley, President, Central Texas Treasure Club