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Official 2011 Metal Detecting Tracking Thread

The purpose of this thread is to showcase exciting finds by Realcent members from metal detecting endeavours while promoting a little friendly competition.

Please report:
-Date Hunted
-Hours Hunted
-Number of Coins found in each denomination and how many pennies were copper.
-All gold and/or silver finds
-And anything else you want to share


Other Finds by Members:
Aluminum foil
aluminum wire
Amusement game tokens
arcade token
bolt
bottle caps
Brass Hose nozzle
brass shell casings
Cheapo ring
chevy key
ciggy lighters
Cub Scout thingy
dog tag
earthmover parts
eye glasses
hollow point bullet
Horseshoes
hot wheel
junk charms
junk pieces of jewelry
key chains
Keys
kids/junk jewelry
Lizard pendant
metal Coach bag tag
Metal toy cars/planes
nails
No Cash Value tokens
old cap gun
old metal buttons
pencils eraser part
pull tabs
Qualcomm cell phone
screw
sinkers
Stainless steel spoon
washer
zippers
and of course lots of


Gold and Silver:
2-13-11 thunter-Sterling Ring
2-19-11 bman-Sterling Ring 2.5grams
2-23-11 Rodebaugh-14K White Gold Diamond Earring
2-27-11 bman-14K Gold Earring 0.5grams
3-04-11 thunter-Sterling Religious Medallion 0.3 ounces
3-20-11 bman-2.2 gram broken Sterling earring
3-29-11 TheJonasCollegeFund-2.67 grams Sterling ring
4-15-11 thunter-toe ring, ear ring, finger ring....all sterling 11.3g total
5-4-11 TJCF-14K gold/saphire ring, 1953 Silver Dime.
5-8-11 thunter-Canadian 1951 half dollar Silver.
5-16-11 TJCF-14K Hoop Earring 2.26g.
5-23-11 thunter-Silver Dime and Quarter.

Here are my stats (Rodebaugh):

I hunt in WV

02-14-11
-2.5 Hours hunted at my winter pool lake (new area)
-11 Zinc pennies
-7 copper pennies
-3 Nicks
-1 Dime
-4 Quarters
-I did find a ring but I think it is some sort of base metal and I broke it.....ooops

02-15-11
-1 Hour hunted at the lake(after work quickie)
-12 Zinc Pennies
-5 Copper keepers
-1 Nick
-3 Dimes
-No quarters
-this is the same area that I pulled gold and silver from last year. amazing the amount of coin one "walks over".
Yep the lake is lowered to a winter pool. They drop it by about 75 feet for winter. The lake has a lot of natural cliffs that provide great swimming and jumping areas. I hunt these "hot spots". Some areas have silt but most are crush and run up to boulder sized sandstone bottoms. As for digging depth...1-6in with an average of about 2". The best part is I do not have to fill my holes back in as they will be covered with 50+ feet of water come spring. And yes you have time....now sell a roll of halves and go buy a detector.

2-16-11 yesterdays after work quick hunt
-2 hours
-7 zincs
-9 coppers
-0 nicks
-15 dimes
-3 quarters
-Overall a nice fun hunt at a new location (kids baseball field). Half way through the hunt I focused on dime or better signals and did much better. Still learning my machine.

Hunted today for a couple hours before it started the rain,

2-18-11
-16 zins
-4 coppers
-1 nick
-4 dimes
-7 quarters
-new area...on the lake.....still saving the "hot spot" for a latter date

TheJonasCollegeFund stats:

Hit my baseball field by the house.

2-18-2011
1-hour hunt
4 zincers
1 copper cent
2 quarters

Total = $0.55

Lots of DEEP mud. This area had 3-5 foot of snow two weeks ago! Still some left.

Got my ProPinpointer in the mail today....! Watch out now, well gotta wait for this recent snow and cold to go away....but you just wait!

2-23-11 After work quick hunt at the lake.
-1 hours
-2 zincs
-2 coppers
-0 nicks
-1 dimes
-2 quarters
-And..................GOLD

Marked 14K but so darn light it has little to no money value but the stone is a .............DIAMOND

For the purposes of tracking I am going to give it a 0.1gram weight

2-27-11 Hit a new area of the Lake. Weather was great at 60ish degrees
-2.5 hours
-17 zincs
-8 coppers
-0 nicks
-8 dimes
-2 quarters

Total $1.55

I got out today for twenty minutes. I'll post results later. Not a bunch. The coins are sitting in some water to wash the mud off. But, the Propointer was AWESOME. I found coins today that I would have left last year out of frustration! No gold or silver...better...a matchbox or hot wheels car....that's soaking, too!

TheJonasCollegeFund wrote:Got my ProPinpointer in the mail today....! Watch out now, well gotta wait for this recent snow and cold to go away....but you just wait!

I gave my coin shooter son a ProPointer for Christmas - He's had it out twice already and he loves it! It's very sensitive and it will pick up minute bits of metal that the discriminator won't pick up. He says the ProPointer really cuts down on pinpointing time. I got a Lesche digger with a 7" blade for Christmas. One side is a knife edge and the other side is serrated. It's supposed to be really good for cutting sod and it could double as weapon too.

The ground is muddy slop here and will be for a while with more rain coming in this week but when I start getting out to coin shoot I'll post what I got with you and Rodebaugh.

I am going to be in the running once this cold lets up.

I live in maryland and I got out for about 5-6 hours today 2/27/11 and found:

59 pennies ( I don't seperate the coppers from zincs because they all go into the tumbler first)
14 Nickels
30 dimes
35 quarters
1 Van Buren dollar coin
2 video game tokens
1 mood ring
1 junk metal charm that looks like a treasure chest
1 14K gold earring (0.5 grams)

bman wrote:I live in maryland and I got out for about 5-6 hours today 2/27/11 and found:

59 pennies ( I don't seperate the coppers from zincs because they all go into the tumbler first)
14 Nickels
30 dimes
35 quarters
1 Van Buren dollar coin
2 video game tokens
1 mood ring
1 junk metal charm that looks like a treasure chest
1 14K gold earring (0.5 grams)

Wow $14.04 in change and some gold. Nice going bman!

You guys must live in some populated areas. Where I'm at I have to hope the hereford's will drop some change. Seriously, I have to drive a ways to find people. More power to you if you have areas that yield. This year, after some research, we are going to start hunting timbered areas that had logging activity years ago and areas where the threshing crews used to congregate in the fields. Hoping to shoot some more silver like we have the last few years. It's a long hunt in those areas but sometimes they payoff.

My buddy and I went together today and we drove over an hour to get to the area where we hunted and we hit several spots for 1/2 hour to 1 hour each.

bman wrote:I live in maryland and I got out for about 5-6 hours today 2/27/11 and found:

59 pennies ( I don't seperate the coppers from zincs because they all go into the tumbler first)
14 Nickels
30 dimes
35 quarters
1 Van Buren dollar coin
2 video game tokens
1 mood ring
1 junk metal charm that looks like a treasure chest
1 14K gold earring (0.5 grams)

I got some catching up to do. Dang...nice going on the clad and the GOLD!

I live in Oregon and love to detect. I even go to England once a year to do nothing but detect for two weeks. This September will be my fourth year doing that. Not out too much yet this year. I usually like to go to places that are different:

2/6/2011 By the Rogue River

6 zinc
2 copper
1 nickel

9 total

Found lots of fishing weights. We have a local guy that runs a dive shop and makes dive weights with lead. He pays 50 cents a pound. 1 hour

2/13/2011 Grassy triangle area in town.

9 zinc
22 copper
5 nickels
8 dimes
4 quarters

One nice sterling ring, pewter bracelet with inscription, gold plated ring (plate chipping off) 2 hours. Big tree here. Kids must hang out but I've never noticed in the past.

2/27/2011

8 zinc
4 copper
1 dime

Went to a place I'd never been to before. High grass, junky area by a charter school. Threw about a dozen aluminum cans in the back of the truck. Found a broken brass lock and some assorted brass/copper fittings. Did much better on the raw metals then the coins. That's Ok it was a sunny day. 45 minutes

bman wrote:I live in maryland and I got out for about 5-6 hours today 2/27/11 and found:

59 pennies ( I don't seperate the coppers from zincs because they all go into the tumbler first)
14 Nickels
30 dimes
35 quarters
1 Van Buren dollar coin
2 video game tokens
1 mood ring
1 junk metal charm that looks like a treasure chest
1 14K gold earring (0.5 grams)

Now that's a nice day spent detecting. Congrats on the gold and all those quarters.

Hunt #2 for the year!
2/27
1/2 hour
3-zinc pennies
2-copper pennies
3-dimes
3-nickels

A whopping 50 cents.

1-hot wheels car
1-car wash token
4-pull tabs

thunter wrote:One nice sterling ring, pewter bracelet with inscription, gold plated ring (plate chipping off) 2 hours. Big tree here. Kids must hang out but I've never noticed in the past.

Any idea on the weight of the sterling ring?

here are the pics of the gold earring from Sunday and the silver ring I found on Saturday 2/19/11.
The earring keeps switching between 0.4 and 0.5 grams on my scale....it must be 0.45 grams or something like that.
I also found 19 quarters and some other coins but I didn't count them last weekend when I found the silver ring.

Snuck out for two hours this afternoon after a dentist appointment in a neighboring town.

12 1 copper
26 1 zinc
5 5
11 10
13 25

64 coins total

Also a copper bracelet and a GE ring. Boy I thought I had something real nice there for a moment!

Cool finds! Man you guys are killing me. I got alot of digging to make up!

TheJonasCollegeFund wrote:Cool finds! Man you guys are killing me. I got alot of digging to make up!

yeah no kidding Time for us both to step it up.

I will update yearly totals tomorrow. All new postings will be listed in March.

I am buying a propointer tonight.......period.

Rodebaugh wrote:

TheJonasCollegeFund wrote:Cool finds! Man you guys are killing me. I got alot of digging to make up!

yeah no kidding Time for us both to step it up.

I will update yearly totals tomorrow. All new postings will be listed in March.

I am buying a propointer tonight.......period.

I thought you had one already.....I'm in trouble now!

TheJonasCollegeFund wrote:

Rodebaugh wrote:

TheJonasCollegeFund wrote:Cool finds! Man you guys are killing me. I got alot of digging to make up!

yeah no kidding Time for us both to step it up.

I will update yearly totals tomorrow. All new postings will be listed in March.

I am buying a propointer tonight.......period.

I thought you had one already.....I'm in trouble now!

A pinpointer is a must! I use a DetectorPro jobbie that is tied to the headphones. Toggle swich on headphones goes from detector to phones. Pretty expensive though.

Hitting the road! Will post my finds...time to catch up a bit to you guys! Wish me luck...wish me some GOLD!

Went out for one hour -

7 zinc - 1
7 cu - 1
1 - 5
6 - 10
4 -25

25 total

Also religious medallion. Stamped Sterling Theda ?? Sound like silver on the machine but I've not run into that stamp before. I wonder what theda means?? Weight .3 oz.

Hunt #3

March 4th
3 hours....lots of practice with the ProPointer!

29 copper pennies!
64 zinc pennies!
10 nickels
13 dimes
8 quarters

124 coins/$4.73

Lots of junk. 2 junk pieces of jewelry.