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After a dissapointing hunt at Hampton Beach on Monday, I decided to try a new place this morning. Funny thing is that when I first started to hunt, all I was finding were quarters (two-bit park I guess lol ). Also interesting was one of the dimes was a little bent out of shape. [attachimg=1]...

My niece owns a house that is situated on what use to be part of an 18th century farm. Needless to say I was pretty excited to detect the area but only found a quarter, some pennies and this tag which looks like it has something to do with railroad cargo. The site was full of trash and maybe...

Thursday is grocery day so I didn't have a chance to do a long hunt but did manage a three hour one in a small park. The park is typical of small parks in a city where there's no money: waste cans overflowing, trash all over the grass and dog poop. My initial hopes were not high and I started...

I noticed that the more I'm detecting, the more stuff that I'm starting to carry around or store in the trunk of my car. I was wondering what people carry with them on hunts recognizing of course that it varies on location. :thinkingabout: I don't normally carry a backpack if I can see my car...

I know that if I'm ever going to find anything close to what other people on this forum are finding, I need to practice my deep detecting skills. With that in mind and with some advice from Angel from another post, I headed out to a very well hunted site and gave it my best. It started off great...

I keep seeing all the great finds being posted on the this site and I have to continuously remind myself to be patient. Fifty plus years of detectors have wiped out a lot of sites but I know I'll eventually find some more silver to add to my measly two. Now for my gripe of sorts. I don't mind...

I don't know if there would be any value to this but the other day when I was detecting and picked up a strange signal, it occurred to me if someone else with a Sovereign would be able to give me some idea as to what I was picking up. Then I wondered if sample signals of various targets might...

I think that I may have a potential site to detect. We have in town some old rail tracks that were laid down in the late 1800 as I recall reading. Many sections have been removed but there are still long parts of it that has nice grassy areas next to it. Even if this area has been fixed in any...

Is anyone out there as amazed as I am by the fact that no matter how far you go out in the woods, you can always manage to dig up crap? I guess in a way that's good as you hope that if they're throwing out crap, hopefully there's a chance that they're dropping change.

I have a friend who knows someone who knew of an old farmhouse and was offering to show me the location. Needless to say, I was more than excited. Our first arranged date was a rainy one (about three weeks ago) and we finally made it to the site yesterday late afternoon. Judging by the grounds I...

Well, much to my surprise, I finally found a couple of sites that are yielding quite a bit of clad. I believe one of these sites was created in the early 1900 and the other maybe 20 or 40 years later. While I have only had a chance to spend a short amount of time at either site, I would have...

I was wondering if someone could tell me what the protocol is if you show up at a small to medium site and another detectorist is already there. Do you go ahead and hunt or just leave? At a large site, I don't see a problem but I don't know about smaller sites. Thanks for any input.

After finding a large cent yesterday, I went detecting again today and only found a 1924 wheat penny. The fisherman in me wanted to throw it back in the hole because it was too small. Fortunately I remembered I was detecting and not fishing. lol

I went out after supper for a bit and managed to find another large cent which was in the thick of the woods and was a bit of work digging it. The left object is my non-descript, the second is my first large cent and the third is the one that I found tonight. Wish they had dropped a bit of...

This past weekend I made a decision to become a real detectorist and started looking at parks and other potential sites. On Tuesday I went to an old drive in and a really old deserted picnic/playground site behind a cemetary. Both were awful to the max. Obviously anyone who has been detecting in...

I don't know if this has ever been discussed or if anyone has thought about this so apologies if it's a repeat or nobody cares. I was wondering if anyone has done a statistical analysis of the probability of finding a certain type of coin. If you think about year, population of that year, coin...

I went out today to an a practice football field and just found four dimes and three pennies - all clad. Tonight after supper I couldn't sit still so decided to treck through the woods next to my house where I found the non-descript item in another post. I only found one item - a penny and it's...

I was just curious to know that if someone finds something truly historic (for example a silver cup made by Paul Revere - ridiculous but just an example), does any government (city/town, state, federal) have the authority to confiscate the item if found on land not considered to be a historic...

I was detecting in the woods pretty much away from anything (too nice a day to be indoors so I had to have the detector in my hands) and I found this buried pretty deep (about 10 inches). I'm assuming it's a buckle of some type but am curious if anyone can provide more information about it...

Would any one in this area like to get together for a hunt? I'm fairly new at this but getting better. Unfortunately, I don't know of any potential areas as most of the sites I planned to detect didn't allow it. Thanks Bob