Recent content by BillZ

Another activity that my wife and I like to do together is camp in our home built teardrop camper. We belong to a group of teardrop campers and get together a few times a year to camp and socialize. A few weeks ago during the last camp out of the year, we were having a nice conversation with...

Today the wife and I spent most of the day in our favorite woods. It was slow and steady at first. I got a silver Rosie and a big token that at first thought was a large cent. It is about the right size and weight. A couple more hours went by and among other things I scored a Sterling locket...

Yesterday my wife and I met another Detectorist, His name is Dave and we invited him to hunt with us in the nearby woods where we hunt most of the time. Although a lot has been pulled out of the ground in this spot, there is still plenty to find. It was great to meet another MDer from the area...

This past weekend my wife and I went to our regular woods. We are concentrating on some areas cleared by a bulldozer that made paths for surveying future development. Saturday both of us hunted for a few hours and Sunday my wife went out by herself for a couple of hours. The pickings were not...

I knew it would happen sooner or later. My wife and my favorite woods to hunt is being prepped for development. County approval is holding it up so that is giving us some time. However, a bulldozer has come in and cleared some roadways for access and surveying. We took advantage of the easy...

I don't normally hunt much in the summer but work has been slow lately and I felt like getting out. The last couple of days I spent in a local park that I have hunted many times. Not much found, just a few dollars in clad, 7 wheaties, and a 1954 rabies vaccination tag. Today my wife had to...

I just finished putting our best finds in the display case table. I quartered it into 4 main subjects with some miscellaneous objects down the center. I cut some hard foam insulation that was left over from siding the house to fit the bottom and covered it in black felt. Some staples from a...

I learned how to make a few basic woodworking projects this past year and thought I would try making a display case table. It is red oak, using 4 basic supplies you can get at Home Depot. 1x4's for the sides, the legs are 1x1's normally used for stair banister supports. I tapered them on a table...

My wife and I did some woods hunting today and came out with a few goodies. I found my first V nickle, 6 wheat pennies, a 1917s Merc, and a 1944 silver 20 centavos Filipino coin. My wife found 3 wheaties, a 1945P War nickle, and a cool President Tyler token. Yesterday I hunted a local park I...

My wife and I went back in our favorite woods today for about 4 hours. It has rained a lot recently and some areas were washed out, making available land that was previously hard to access. Also some trees came down this past winter and opened up other spots for hunting. I concentrated on land...

Yesterday my wife and I went to our usual woods where we find stuff mostly from the 40's. Both of us managed several wheaties in the hunt. I had my heart set on finding a silver coin but it was not to be. I did, however find a couple of silver items. One turned out to be a sterling infantry...

Today the wife and I went to our favorite woods. It was very cold, low 30's, and we didn't get out until about 3:00. But 2 hours of cold hunting til dark is better than nothing. She gave me a Tesoro Vaquero for Christmas and I have been itching to get it out in this woods. We went to an area...

The wife researched a new place recently and today we went to check it out. It was an old abandoned farm in the woods. A couple of houses and a half dozen barns and sheds. I was pretty psyched to check it out with the new Vaquero that my wife got me for Christmas. Well, to make a long story...

The wife and I spent a few hours on Sunday afternoon hunting in our default location, the nearby woods. Since I found the gold bracelet recently, Julia scanned it with her detector and realized that her discrimination was set too high to pick it up. It has been adjusted lol As a result, she is...

The wife and I are spending more time looking for old settlements in wooded parkland. We haven't done a lot of it or hunted with anyone who has. I would like to start a thread where experienced cellar hole hunters could give some tricks of the trade. In other words, What is your best source...