2012 Metal Detecting Thread

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

OK, great weather for this area for November!!! Like 60....WOW! Anyway, I decided to get a quick hunt in at a local school. The school grounds are huge with soccer, football, baseball, and softball area that have activities throughout the year.

I pull up only to find......ANOTHER LOOTER.....this is MY AREA. A fellow hunter had beat me over here. No problem, lots of room! I did the polite thing and got his permission and to ask which way he was going and also to let him know where I was gonna hunt.

To add insult to my day, he shows me this cool silver ring he just found. It was like a spy ring. It had a hinged compartment where a stone would usually go. It was also a clah-dah ring.

Well I take off and my first target is a quarter....better than zinc!

5 minutes later I hit this little hottie that got me going for all of 5 seconds!



I keep getting mostly clad but I get a super loud "95" on the ATPro VDI and hit maybe, silver #10 for the year.



No hallmark but it is worn down and it passed the acid test. It is very heavy, too!

Here's the junk...for a little over an hour. 43 coins for $4.36, 2 rings, and 1 smashed/elongated penny.



Hunting them low tones again....got 9 nickels....no gold!

[bman]

Good hunting TheJonasCollegeFund!
My first job paid about $4 per hour

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

Good hunting TheJonasCollegeFund!
My first job paid about $4 per hour

But was it this fun!!!

[bman]

not even close, it was unloading trucks.

I'm going out today for some treause hunting at a new spot. Hopefully something cool will turn up

[bman]

well, the new spot we had lined up for today didn't turn out as good as we had hoped for but I did find a 1946 Roosevelt dime, a wheatie and an baby spoon (aluminum?)
We left there and went back to an elementary school where we have found silver in the past and it didn't let us down! My buddy Gary found a 1941 Mercury dime and I found a 1943 a few minutes later. Then I found 2 silver quarters about 10ft apart That puts me at 28 silver coins this year, my best year ever!

My clad totals for the day:
8 pennies
1 nickel
3 dimes
2 quarters
$0.93 total

[baggerman]

Took my machine to White's the other day for repair and now that it is fixed it's raining cats and dogs. Maybe it will dry out this next weekend, I hope.

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

Did my first plowed field hunt. Cut beans are easier than cut corn! I met up with a guy who had access to about 30,000 acres of farmland. The company he works for buys farm, tears down any standing structures to create more room to plant. We got out old maps from the late 1800's and went to where there was old school houses back then. We hit 4 or 5 spots. Between the three of us.....ATPro, etrac, and a CTX3030, 2 wheats(1910 1916), a 5cent aluminum trade token, and lots of square nails.

I was using the etrac and found a cool kids button. It had a locomotive on it. I also hit some type of ammo. It was a round ball, maybe a deer slug. Very heavy. I scratched it and it looks like lead. I like to think it came from the Revolutionary War. Lots of battles in north central Indiana!

[bman]

My buddy Floyd and I went out today and detected a bunch of schools. I got 2 arcade tokens, a Canadian cent a bent silver ring & some junk jewelry...and did I mention a PILE of clad?

My clad count:
40 quarters
51 dimes
4 nickels (didn't feel like digging trash today)
60 pennies
$15.90 total :D

[bman]

My buddy Floyd and I went to a new area today and killed it on clad!

My totals for the day:
109 quarters
68 dimes
26 nickels
54 pennies
$35.89 total

Plus a 1964 silver quarter, a 1990 5 pence coin, a Tiffany silver earring and a bunch of junk jewelry & trinkets.

[Thogey]

What's wrong with you people back east?

Do you all have big holes in your pockets?

Nice haul BTW.

Are you going to return the earring to Tiffany and Co?

[bman]

Are you going to return the earring to Tiffany and Co?

nope, finders keepers!

[bman]

Check out this link, those little silver Tiffany earrings cost $125

http://www.tiffany.com/Shopping/Item.aspx?fromGrid=1&sku=23900564&mcat=148204&cid=287464&search_params=s+5-p+4-c+287464-r+101323338-x+-n+6-ri+-ni+0-t+

[Thogey]

Clean it up, polish it . I bet you get $30-40 on e-bay. Someone is sitting ther with one lonely Tiffany earring.

[bman]

I closed my ebay account a couple of years ago, I would rather give it away then let them make any money off of me.

I just noticed that the weird looking bracelet that I found is stamped 925 in 2 places

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

2 career Tiffany & Co. Finds for me...........both fakes!

I really like those numbers......I know the cooler temps help in digs like that!

[bman]

2 career Tiffany & Co. Finds for me...........both fakes!

I really like those numbers......I know the cooler temps help in digs like that!

a fake hadn't even crossed my mind but I did find it at an elementary school playground so it probably is...
I wonder why my legs are sore today???

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

Went gold hunting for an hour today. I did get a necklace that had some good gold-like VDI numbers on the ATPro. But I doubt it's gold...but a solid "50" was nice to dig at least. Most pull-taps jump in the low 50's. Steady numbers usually yield better results.

Ended up with about a buck in change.

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

Here's the last 2 hunts with a couple of shots of a previous farmland finds.

Two small hunts. Today was beautiful for this time of year. Dang near 60!!! Anyway I got out for 2 hours. All clad but had a blast just getting dirty!!!!



I was looking for any good low tones seeking some gold on this and my last hunt.



My best low tone hit from the last hunt was this little bracelet. A solid 51 on the VDI. It never moved! It is non-magnetic. My guess it is brass.



Here's my 3 main finds from a hunt with FlushDraw. A big time thank you for the invite!!!!!

An old button with a locomotive on it. An old bullet casing. And a possible deer slug or musket ball or muzzle-loader round???







The ball of lead is VERY heavy for it's size. Any help??? I sat it on a quarter for size.

Totals...

13 quarters
13 dimes
2 nickels
42 pennies

70 coins for $5.07

[bman]

That railroad button is cool!

My buddy Floyd and I went back to the same area as last weekend and found some more schools. We didn't find nearly as much this time but still did quite well

I found:
1 Sacagewea dollar
46 quarters
74 dimes
26 nickels
66 pennies
$21.86 total for 213 coins

Plus 5 tokens and a bunch of junk jewelry.

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

I like seeing those nickels!!!! I enjoy digging for them, too!!!!!

[bman]

went out for an all day hunt again today to a new area. Didn't do too bad but not nearly as well as the last 2 weekends.

I found:
1 Sacajewea dollar
28 quarters
25 dimes
13 nickels
69 pennies ( +1 wheat)
137 coins for $11.85 total

I also found a small silver Claddagh ring and a bunch of junk jewelry.

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

I am jealous....had plans to hook up with some guys and some older parks on the West side of Chicago.....rained on and off all day!


Nice finds...........I know you had fun!

[bman]

it was kind of a misty-rainy day here today, that's OK though because there was nobody at the schools to bother us!

[bman]

I am on vacation this week and today was errand day but, I had a little time to kill before the wife got home. I stopped at my "old faithful" spot to see if I could find any silver. I decided I would stay for an hour or until I found silver, whichever came first. Well, after an hour and 20 minutes and still no silver I was about to give up when I got a nice solid "84" high tone on my Fisher F75, it turned out to be a 1944 Washington quarter. Happy with that find I left and did the rest of my honey-do's.

My finds:
2 quarters
3 dimes
9 pennies
$0.89 totalPlus:
10 wheaties
1 silver quarter (silver coin #30 this year)

[TheJonasCollegeFund]

Nice job on the silver quarter!

Looks like tax time will be CTX time for me.

0 silver coins this year. 12 pieces of silver jewelry, though. And 1 gold ring!

3300 coins...........none silver!

Time for an upgrade!