I've been swinging a metal detector for 38 years, and I still get the same feeling standing in a field that I got the first time something good came out of the ground. I'm based in Wisconsin but spend a good part of my time traveling to Civil War states — Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Pennsylvania — hunting the sites that produced the bullets, belt buckles, and personal relics that connect us directly to the men who fought there. Civil War detecting is my passion, and research is what makes it possible. You can't find what you can't locate first. The Metal Detecting Mastery Series came out of years of field experience and the realization that most detectorists struggle not because of their equipment or technique, but because they never learneI've been swinging a metal detector for 38 years, and I still get the same feeling standing in a field that I got the first time something good came out of the ground. I'm based in Wisconsin but spend a good part of my time traveling to Civil War states — Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Pennsylvania — hunting the sites that produced the bullets, belt buckles, and personal relics that connect us directly to the men who fought there. Civil War detecting is my passion, and research is what makes it possible. You can't find what you can't locate first. The Metal Detecting Mastery Series came out of years of field experience and the realization that most detectorists struggle not because of their equipment or technique, but because they never learned how to research a site before they ever swing a coil. These books fix that — whether you're just starting out or you've been at it for years and want better results.
That same research instinct is what led to the Dirt & Disorder Mysteries — a fiction series following Earl 'Digger' Boggs, a Civil War researcher and detectorist who keeps getting pulled into solving present-day crimes that trace back to old battlefields and older lies. Same ground, same methodology, just a different kind of find....more