Recent content by Fire Fighter 43

Hello everyone! How have you been doing? I know I’ve been pretty absent from the forum but I think I still have some friends on here, LOL. Join me on YouTube live tonight at 8pm Central time as Shane from “Ohio River History” and Nick from “Take It On” interview me on their metal detecting show...

I found another Copper Culture artifact last week in a farm field that was part of a late 1800’s homestead. The artifact is an Awl. Here is some information and example photo about it from the Milwaukee Public museum. The last two photos are of the one I found. “Awls and needles constitute one...

This site was a one room school house field that dates from 1852-1953. The first day I found my very first fatty Indian dated 1863. The second days highlights were an 1852 Large cent and an 1864 2 center. Two coins that are rare for my area of the country. This was only my 4th Large cent and 3rd...

This hunt was at a wood parcel that once had a tavern/ community center on it. There was also an open field with a ball diamond. The ball field are is now part pond, long swampy grass gravel drive and corn field. I mainly concentrated on the woods and didn’t hit the ball field ares yet. I got a...

Tim (Ill Digger) invited me down to hunt a new permission he named Settlers Field. One Indian dated 1884, a partial ring and some cool flat buttons. The video: https://youtu.be/IWRjOV_ITkg

This hunt was on two different fields the first is a school house the second was a Church/tavern/community center. Not too exciting of a hunt but did find a few cool relics. The video: https://youtu.be/GzoCi2Ev1Ck

I’ve located a few more fields that once had one room school house on them. This post is from the first two fields. The best coin of the bunch is a stunning 1914-D Barber dime. The best relic is the Shoe company token date July 1910. Thanks for looking and stay heathy...

I was detecting at one of the beaches in Milwaukee when I was approached by a photo journalist. He stated he took my picture and wanted to know if he could put it in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel paper. I said sure why not. We had a big storm hit the shore line of Lake Michigan and it caused a...

My wife called me one afternoon the first part of November and told me a coworkers friend was in need of a metal detector. So the story goes. A farmer was spreading hay in his barn for the cows bedding when he noticed his wedding ring was missing. He searched for hours with no luck. About a week...

We have had some unseasonably warm weather here in SE Wisconsin so I took advantage of it with a few short hunts. All three were at my go to spot, the old picnic grove. I found 3 Indians 1865, 1891 & 1895, 4 wheats 16, 18, 34 & 35. A couple silver plated spoons. A very cool watch fob. It is an...

I managed to get out on Dec. 28th for a few hours. I can’t remember the last time I hunted this late in the year. I hunted a farm field that had a old one room school house on it. I managed to find 3 coins, a 1885 Indian, a 1919 Buffalo and a 1920 wheat. I also found a cuff link with some fancy...

Hello AD. Sorry I have not been responding to your post lately, I just don’t seem to have the time to do it that often. I know I’m retired and should have all this time but I seem busier now then when I was working. Anyway, I usually am lurking in the back ground checking AD daily just not...

Another new machine? With months of teasing before it’s introduced :shocked04: https://youtu.be/WGtZ2MoHJlw

My copper culture spear point is featured on the newest video from XP Team USA. My find is at the 5:38 mark. I got some XP swag for letting them use my find, a Deus hat, T shirt and a couple XP Team USA patches. https://youtu.be/IsqCjvF2c84

I finally got around to posting a wrap up of my 2018 season. These are my finds from my Wisconsin hunts and don’t include my trip to the UK. Thanks for looking and good luck to everyone in 2019. 138 hours of detecting all but 7 hours were on the Equinox 800 the other 7 were on the Deus. Silver...