Recent content by brownbeardad

I was hunting at local park last Wednesday. In a grassy area near the entrance to a Men's Room the detector picked a up a target with a 11 VDI. Tone ID was high and depth was about 2 inches. The DFX showed a foil/ring. This park is very trashy and being near the concession stand I thought...

got out yesterday before the rain came through. guess i'm not hard core yet, the lightening made me leave. i did go back and search an area that worked about a month ago. found some clad and a keychain ornament. my takeaway is i'm improving in separating signals, good from the trash. going back...

Found this ring near the concession stand at the ballpark area of Tom Sawyer Park. This is the first piece of jewelery I have found. The VDI numbers ranged mostly from 48 ring/pull tab to 53 screw cap and continued to move from 18 to 85. I dug the signal since it varied so much and would not...

I dug this up about 3.5 to 4 inches deep between two baseball fields adjacent to a sidewalk. It ID'd as a quarter on my DFX using a 6x10 coil. The VDI number was 85-86 and the tone ID was loud and hi. It appears to be silver plated copper on the photos. When I first dug it I thought a small...

I'm a new member, so this may be user error. When I click on the new message button, I get no response. Could be my firewall software and will continue to work on this. Also, after selecting a thread I am getting a new blank window to open with the following URL: This happens occasionally...

I was out for about three hours, found about $1.50 in modern coins and a piece of jewelery. It showed up as a quarter, so may be at least silver plate, but my first jewelry. The weather was sunny and 72, tomorrow is supposed to snow again.

I have been detecting for about two years but had some health issues. Now I'm like most of the recent posts... when will the ground be soft enough. Have a DFX 950 and a Whites 6x10. Have searched a local park where I was stopped by a park ranger. I had heard the park was just starting to open up...