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I only had a few hours this morning so I hit the pounded cellar hole 5 minutes from my house to see if I could sniff something out of the iron. The cellar hole is mid 1800s and has lots of iron trash. I was pretty surprised I was able to find 5 coins and other nonferrous targets. The Large...

Hit a nearby cellar hole today and managed to rescue an 1847 Braided Hair from the iron belt surrounding the hole. The LC was very shallow... 2 to 3 inches tops. I didn't get much of a signal but it was definitely a diggable tone. It sounded small and deep...certainly not what you would expect...

For the past 6 years or so I’ve used one of those short $10 pony shovels and one of those $8 Ames True Temper diggers. I liked the shovel because it would fit in my back pack along with my detector and gear. I would hang a pair of binoculars around my neck and hike to my detecting spots. If I...

This might be no big deal to you park hunters but I just don't find Liberty nickels. I bet it's been 5 years since I last dug one and this is by far the nicest. I found a sunny hillside near a not to old cellar hole that had some bare patches of ground. I managed the V nickel a couple of buttons...

We finally had a good snow melt this week. Still a lot on the ground in the open areas but I thought I could find some areas to swing the coil at a cellar hole site that is sheltered by some pines less than a mile from my house. This site has been pounded to death but I didn't care. It had been...

I had a Sun Ray In-Line probe on my DFX. No danger of ever leaving it behind in the woods! When I got my new machine I had to buy a hand held probe. I figured there was a good chance I would leave it behind at a site some day. Here's my version of a probe tether. I picked up one of those...

I needed a pinpointer. The Makro had good reviews so I gave it a shot. So far so good. I liked the fact that it is waterproof, 4 sensitivity settings and 3 modes (audio, vibrate and audio/vibrate combo.) Buttons are easy enough to get at, even with gloves. After using only a Sunray inline...

Got in a full morning of swing time with the Deus today. Hit a site that I wouldn’t call “pounded” but I have hit it pretty hard in the past. But I knew there was a decent chance it could produce some coppers if I worked at it hard enough. I really wanted to focus on learning the audio of the...

Got out for a couple hours this morning. Hit a cellar hole not more than 10 minutes from my house. I learned to metal detect at this site and squeezed about all I could from it over the years. The detecting hordes found it too so it has been hit pretty hard. Someone had been there within the...

Slept in a bit this morning but decided the cold air and some time out in the woods with the Deus would do me good. I headed back to the same hammered cellar hole for my second outing with the Deus. I will say that so far it has shown to be deadly on buttons and ox shoes :lol: All the buttons...

Mrs. Lodge Scent surprised the heck out of me on Christmas with a new Deus! Around Thanksgiving she stated that we wouldn’t buy each other any gifts for Christmas this year. She set me up pretty good! Anyway, I had a few hours this morning to go out and play with the new toy. Yesterday I spent a...

Hunts have been few and far between last 6 months. But I had Sunday morning to myself and was determined to get out in the woods. The plan was to hit an old mill site. It's been pounded over the years but it is very trashy. I figured with some hard work and patience I could sniff out a goodie or...

Found this at a mid 1800's to early 1900's site. It's a brass cap that goes over a wooden shaft of some sort. Not sure what the bracket sticking out of it is ?? I was thinking horse hardware but can't find a match. Thanks, Jeff

Some major projects around the house have really limited my detecting time last few months. But I was determined to get out this morning for a few hours. Plan was to poke around a site I've hit in the past but as I was hiking in I decided to swing north on a hunch. Found a cellar hole but it was...

Didn't think I was going to be able to get out today but I was up with the chickens so I was able to squeeze in a few hours of coil time. I hit a spot that I thought might be hiding a cellar hole but it turned out to be an old stock pen and pasture complex probably associated with one of the old...

Got out today for a morning hunt. I suspected there might be another site on the other side of a stream near the cellar hole site I've been working latey but it didn't pan out. So I hiked back around and hit the far end of the previous site and was rewarded with three LCs. Two of them came from...

It had been a month since I last got out to swing the coil. Sometimes life just gets in the way of the stuff we really like to do:yes:. I hit a chunk of woods not too far from a cellar hole I have had good luck at. I started hitting lamp parts and horse hardware pretty quickly. First nice...

The fellow that lost this lapel pin was a veteran of WWI. You can only hope he never had to deal with the horrors of trench warfare. Let's try not to forget the many soldiers that fought in past and present wars, that did not come back home.

Headed back to the site where I pulled a NJ copper a few weeks back. This site is badly overgrown and I figured this might be the last weekend to detect before it is impossible to swing a coil. How thick is it ? Well it is so thick that Mrs. Turkey made her nest right on the edge of the...

Hit a site yesterday, man was it wet! Nearby stream had overflowed and soaked the site. This site was already tough to hunt because it is so choked. But the wet soil helped me find a few goodies. Found a toasted New Jersey copper under a big root . My first NJ copper, so I'll happily take...