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I hear you there strick this is definitely my best season ever and it's so nice to have the bug again. I started in 1997 bought a metal detector with my tax refund from Uncle Sam after I got out of the Marines. I had a blast detecting for quite a few years but then it seemed like I wasn't finding much. I also got into fly fishing so that took up my time. After getting the equinox I don't know if it's the machine or just the time in my life but I sure am happy to start finding stuff again and more than I've ever found before LOL

Thanks a bunch guys! That gun was exposed on the ground in the woods.just under some leaves.

I stopped byto see the landowner and possibly drop off a box full of wheat pennies a couple Indian heads, the most recent shoe buckle, and a musket ball for the home owner but he wasn't there and the family said he probably wouldn't want the stuff anyways and to go back and detect if I wanted. I went back to the lawn first and realized that there weren't a lot of good signals. It probably had to do with the fact that in each hole there were at least two cut nails and EMI affecting the detector. I decided to hit in the woods where the old well was and I picked up that half dollar it was awesome. I then put my sensitivity at 18 infield two mode and the guy on finding some cool relics.

Here are some from today

thanks Jack Pine I appreciate it

That is a good one Andy! I've never found any silver that old that is awesome.

Thanks a bunch Happa! They're blowing me away too ? this is definitely my best year ever.

Thanks Andy! I just added then and I believe that I double posted by accident

I was hunting an old field and found an old button and after rubbing it with some vegetable oil to preserve it I went back to the same spot and found this old coin. I was shaking all over as I gently cleaned it off and rubbed it with a lightly oiled paper towel. I looked it up and it is a colonial Vermont copper from around 1785.

My mom found her first buffalo nickle and then her first silver soon after.

Thanks Mark!

Thanks a bunch Happa! I have been blessed to have some free time lately and it sure is nice to go out and find some good stuff. I think this is my best year yet!

Thanks a bunch GB! I remember having permission at a really fancy place dating back to the early eighteen-hundreds where I found a lot of great finds. I got a great signal smack-dab in the middle of the front yard. I very carefully ? Doug down to see what it was and it ended up being a flat box. Unfortunately there were a lot of roots around it and I didn't want to put a big hole in the lawn. I left it there and it still haunts me LOL I figured I would ask the homeowner at some point if I could do some morein depth digging in that area said she wasn't there at the time. Not long after the place was sold and my wife told her about my experience and she said why the heck didn't he dig it up it could have been a box full of cash or treasure after all it's only a lawn LOL

The reason I posted the pic of the hole wasn't to wasn't too show my tendancy for poor digging methods I just wanted to show how it was pretty cool to see that Buckle in the bottom of the hole and I apologize for posting evidence of poor digging methods. I am respectful of peoples property and when I instruct others how to metal detect I always make it a point to show them how did dig carefully and to use the hinge method. There were so many roots in the area I had to make a judgement call which I didn't think what happened in effect in the long run. I do appreciate everybody's comments though thanks

thanks as well Andy I do too but like I said this was over the bank in an area that wasn't really lawn. I use the hinge method in parks as well because I don't want to ruin it for anybody else. In the woods and in plowed fields I make sure that I cover up my holes as well. I appreciate you guys looking out for us.

LOL LipCa thanks and good point on the hole. That big hole was down over the bank from the house and it was already a patchy area to begin with but I made sure that it looked good when I left.

In the past I always was nervous to knock on stranger's doors so I stuck to public areas where permission wasn't necessary or asked friends and family to detect their properties. For the last year and a half I have worked part time as a union organizer. It involved knocking on a lot of doors. It also gave me the courage to knock on some doors and ask permission to metal detect. I was granted permission to detect a home dating back to the early 1800's. I had a blast finding mostly wheat pennies but moved to the base of a big maple and found the shoe buckle. I then began digging iffy signals since the lawn was loaded with cut nails and I found the large cent and then the IH. Both were 9-10" deep.

Thanks again, I had an Amazon gift card and just ordered it. My buddies thank you too since we now have a great reference!

WOW! Thanks so much!

That is totally awesome thanks for sharing. I was stationed in Twentynine Palms in my buddy was stationed in Yuma. I sure wish I had spent my money on a metal detector rather than lots of beer at the time LOL

Wow, you are awesome! Thanks again and do you have a book recommendation. My buddies have found some really nice ones and they just set them aside or on display thinking that there were so many made there weren't worth a lot but now I know different

Thanks so much for the research! From the research I did I'm leaning more towards it being made in England but like I said finding one in decent shape is definitely new to me. It definitely has been a good year because they one other one that I could read a date on I found this year and it definitely gave me the detecting bug again after taking a break to pursue fly fishing and fly tying. Here are the ones I found earlier this year and I'm freshly plowed field. They're the first one I ever found with date on it in the top center.

I hear you there. I started off with a White's classic ID and one day I used my buddies idx Pro and I found 2 old coppers in a field that had been hit several times before. The wild thing is I've hit the same area with a DFX, Troy Shadow X5, and recently with my Equinox and she comes up right off the bat and finds that on the first hole it was awesome you just never know.

Wow that is awesome. I've only found one that was in halfway decent shape and not as good as this one so I never really look them up to see if they were valuable or not. Thanks for the info that's amazing and she's tickled pink she wants to keep doing it which is just fine with me ?

I got to spend the day with my mom and after visiting friends and family we decided to hit one of my detecting spots because she was interested in finding some treasure. I have hit the spot several times with various other detectors. I'd given her the Fisher F-22 and put it in coin mode to make it easier. Wouldn't you know out of the first hole she digs a 278 year old coin. I couldn't believe it since I've never found anything there older than the 1920s ? needless to say I still have a grin on my face.