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Spent a couple hours totlotting and searching the grass in a park area, when a guy approaches me and asks me if my metal detector would find some keys. I replied any metal object. He told me he was mowing his backyard, stopped to move some lawn furniture and his keys came off his keychain. He...

On my 3rd time out with my new Fisher F70......used slightly different settings and got some more good results. The Merc showed a depth of 9 inches deep. Half of my Lesche's red cushioned handle was in the hole. The deepest dime I have ever dug and it sounded loud and strong !!! All the clad...

.... and is in the December 2013 issue of Western and Eastern Treasures. :grin: :grin: :grin: Robbie Morin

Got a new Fisher F70 Friday---Saturday morning went out and tried it out. Set it up, groundbalanced in a totlot and started swinging. 5 swings ---and I got a signal.......looked down at the woodchips and saw this ring. Not a bad start !!!!!

1st time out since getting my Fisher F70 yesterday afternoon and I was not disappointed at all. To a schoolyard I have been to many a time with the Fisher F5 and a few times using a Garrett AT Pro and the F70 did very well in its maiden trip out. First 5 swings and first target was this ring...

It was a cool morning ( below 85 degrees !!) FINALLY!! :) so I grabbed my Fisher F5 and hit 2 totlots. Got over 5 bucks in clad and .............. [attach=1] A very nice looking 925 ring !!! While it isn't gold...it's the next best thing--SILVER !!! :happy: :happy:

Went to see if the high schoolers dropped anything....took my Fisher F5 and got there this morning at 7am. Spent a little over an hours time, and got some clad and 2 nice silver rings.

In the last 6 times I have taken my Fisher F5 out, I have dug a 925 ring--each time. Totlot searching and the F5 are made for each other !!!! Here is a pic of the 6 rings with the Fishe F5 VDI number--all dug from woodchips each one, at a different location [attach=1] Some of these ring up the...

Not to brag or anything...... :grin:, but on page 60 of the March 2013 issue of Western & Eastern Treasures magazine is my 5th published story. It's better than a silver find dance, seeing your stories in print :clapping: <: <: <: happydance02 happydance02

With my F5 and a schoolyard empty from kids on Christmas vacation I retreived a nice amount of clad coins, a few junk items, a chain( the clip sticks to a magnet and it read iron on the F5) and a nice 925 horseshoe ring, this morning. [attach=1]

Spent 3 hours at a 1926 schoolyard with my Fisher F5 and removed a couple lbs. of aluminum pulltabs, can slaw, some crushed soda cans and a half dozen pieces of slag metal. In the process of finding all that trash stuff.... I did manage to locate $5.25 in clad coins, 5 old wheat pennies, 3...

Had a 3rd article published in the November 2012 issue of Western and Eastern Treasures magazine <: <: <: <: <: and NOW have a 4th story in print in the magazine !!!! :happy: :happy: :happy: On page 47 in the Dec. 2012 issue....................... :grouphug:

Well after this hot summer we have had I couldn't wait anymore---- I had to go out detecting. I have been out maybe 3 times since June 1st. ( Just too hot and humid) Taking the F5 out to the gun club area( presently a city park) and gridding out an area, I dug some clad that had been there...

Got some dirty foreign coins from a small coin shop, put them in olive oil for 2 days and then used a wooden toothpick to get some of the corrosion off, and then soaked them back in olive oil for half a day. What the heck are they:huh: Any Roman or Greek coin experts on here:huh: [attachimg=1]...

Back at the gun club site with my F5 and did get a few more lead bullets a few casings and some old coins. One casing was a little smaller than the usual ones I have been finding ( Winchester 32-40) This one had a stamp of 30-40. After doing a quick research on it, I found out it was orginally...

In the last couple of weeks I have been searching a park that used to be the site of an old German gun club( circa 1880-1940) With my silver finds from this park, I have had some other local competition for coins still in the ground, as more than 6 other locals have been trying their luck also...

After a few days, I returned to the gun club area with my coin/lead magnet Fisher F5. The summertime temperatures are already here in Houston along with the humidity......... I lasted about an hour---and I even went early in the morning !!!! :stretcher: Dug some more lead, some old ring tabs...

Went back to the gun club area park to search more more items from the club. With my F5 I gridded a section about 5X5 feet and dug every signal. On my 2nd 5X5 section I had a jumping signal --it went from 56 to 58 to 59 to 60 to 56--a good solid tone but jumping. I dug and there was 2 pieces of...

Took the Fisher F5 to the park area that had been a 1880-1940 gun club, where they had picnics and competition shooting matches. The park was built in 1956 after the original 100 acres was sold to a housing developer, and a subdivision was made. I have been searching this 6 acre park and have...

Out detecting a park grass area and got a odd number signal so I dug it up. At 5 inches I find this, and there was no kind of play equipment, or anything, except trees and grass for 100 yards all around me. [attach=1] There is a number 10 stamped on the top of this and the groove on the bottom...