Metal Detecting News #44

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Hi, and welcome to the latest edition of Metal Detecting News, now in our second year!

Another shout out to our Rutus Versa subscriber giveaway winner - congrats to our winner - well done Caroline!

Keep an eye on the newsletter for more great giveaways this year!

Congrats to Caroline, our winner!

And as always, a massive thanks to all our amazing sponsors, RUTUS, Treasure Hunting magazine, Composite Cleaning Pencil and The Big Detecting Show for their continued support.

Industry News

Keeping this one here for another week or so, just in case anyone missed it over the festive period!
Our friends over at AMDS are not only offering an amzing £10,000,000 in public liability insurance for the princely sum of just £5 per year for membership, but if you become a member or renew before 31st March this year you’ll automatically be entered into a draw to win a Minelab Manticore - kindly supplied by Crawfords - no brainer really!

Fancy a treasure hunt? Well our great friends over at Digstock are running a global one, over the year, open to US and European entrants and it’s all online for you to enjoy!

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Detecting News UK

Jesus, not the sort of headlines we need for the hobby ;-(

The Big Deecting Show promoo/logo showing Dave and Adrian, the hosts

The UK’s only dedicated weekly show on metal detecting, two unbelievably talented yet technically inept hosts, awesome guests, competitions and so much more!
Weekly, Thursday nights at 8pm on YouTube, Facebook and everywhere!

200th episode!

Detecting News Worldwide

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MDN Subscriber Giveaways

We are lucky to have generous sponsors who are supporting MDN with giveaway prizes, plus there’s a few prizes that we’ve thrown in for good measure too!

As announced further up, Caroline McLaughlin has won the Rutus Versa in our December prize draw… but that’s not all as also have John Web winning a Cleaning Pencil Kit too! Please both respond to the emails I’ve sent you.

And, as always we have the awesome NEW Composite Cleaning Pencil Field Kit to give away this month - many thanks to Graham!

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Latest Youtube videos

All the latest videos…

(Deano looks like his smile has frozen on!)

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Club & Rally roundup

If you have a weekender, charity event etc and would like to let people know just send me a message and I will include in here.

News in of the first confirmed rally of 2026 and a ticket offer too, though they may have run out by now!

Next up, Minelab 500 - Reunion 14-16 Aug.

All the rest that’s fit to print

My good friend, and friend of the hobby, Dave Sadler, has launched a brand new venture!

I’ll let Dave do the intro…

Histories, Mysteries & Beyond is a multidisciplinary independent publishing and book-retail business exploring the worlds of the paranormal, UFOs, archaeology, history, metal detecting, treasure mysteries, and secret societies such as the Knights Templar.”

Now check it out!

A different type of discovery…

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