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I've been swinging the AT Pro for a few months now. Have dug up about 20 bucks in clad, two Indians, an 1889 and 1883, and one Buff, 1913. Lots of junk, and of course more bottle caps and pull tabs than I care to count. Getting much better at identifying sounds and signals, but as yet have not...

After speaking with the curator of our local historical society he gave me enough information to make some calls and head out to talk to some land owners. I found the site with relative ease, as well as the land owners on each side of this site. Very nice people who were happy to tell us all...

I haven't yet found a lot of good coins. But when I do find one it's been a pretty neat coin. I was at my local school yard again this evening, the same one my daughter found her Buffalo a few months ago(1913). Dug a bunch of coins, but my eyes won't usually let me see what it is till I get...

The signature I've added to my posts say "treasure hunters for life". Before we bought metal detectors we dug gems and minerals out of the ground. We moved back to Michigan in 1993 to take care of Family. But while we lived out West we spent our time digging this stuff. Every one of these...

So we've had our detectors for about three months now, AT Pro, and Whites Treasure Pro. Half of that time the ground has been frozen and snow covered. So really we've only been detecting for about 6-7 weeks. I found an 1889 Indian we put up pictures of back in December. Yesterday we took the...

We're new to the hobby of course, and eager for Spring now that the ground is covered with snow. But we've been doing a lot of research and knocking on some doors, and stopped in at the City Hall today to inquire about a track of land along the river that's vacant, and found it belongs to the...

Alas however it was the only coin of the day. Actually it was only an hour or so before the rain hit this day after Christmas. We should be out playing with our new snowshoes today rather than digging an old foundation. The first tone dug was only ten feet from the car and it was this 1889...

School is long gone, unlike some which have been preserved and turned into dwellings. But it seems like there was a school house every 4-5 miles depending which direction you went in this county. This spot is now on state game land which means we can hunt, so we spent about three hours there...

I've gotten some permissions along a row of houses that have some power lines criss-crossing the street and yards and was causing all sorts of problems for me. Reading about EMI and how to reduce or eliminate, I'm going to reduce sensitivity and try changing to another frequency. Anyone with...

The shape is about right for an old padlock, there's what looks like a big nail, actually it looks like two nails in it still, or the rivets holding the back plate on. Yes, I do believe you are right. The more searching I do the more it appears to be a lock, but the small square holes are...

I was going to post this in the what is this thread, but I think we know what it is. Found it at around 8 inches or so where we're finding all of the rest of the iron junk we're finding. This one was in a park we had not yet checked. Didn't stay long because we wanted to get back out to the ball...

I hope I don't bore everyone with this kind of post, but we had a great day in our town today looking for info and talking to people. I started today by going to our local historical society/Jail Museum to buy a couple books I had seen in a previous visit, and to hopefully talk to a couple of...

Very excited, because it's a very promising looking piece of property. Ancient(by Midwestern standards) looking farm surrounded by corn field. The only thing still standing are three very large masonary silos, and two out buildings. Most of the old farms around here are from the late 1800's, the...

Went out to our local ball fields again today to listen to more targets and the different sounds they make. These fields have proven to be full of clad, so it helps me to hear plenty of coins and all of the farm trash and just plain trash. I have begun hunting with the ATPro on Pro-Zero mode, so...

Went to a school yard very close to our house for an hour before dinner tonight and found this. I had hit some very deep sheet metal a few minutes earlier and thought I had more. I thought it was in quit good condition, with lots of paint still. The damage seen was not me. It appears to have...