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We have had some nice weather here in SE Wisconsin for an early start to the detecting season. Unfortunately between work, everyday life and Boy Scouts I have only had a few hours here and there to take advantage of it. These are my better finds from my first 5 outings. 3 Mercs, 2 sliver Rosie's...

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I had about 3 hours to kill yesterday so I headed out to a field site that once had an old farm on it. I knew there would not be much but it was a site close to home that I've wanted to check out. My first good find was a bell. I'm pretty sure it is copper and I could not find any distinguishing...

I had asked permission to hunt this church several years ago and received a Big No from the pastor at that time. I recently was driving by the church and noticed it looked as if it might have shut down so I decided to give it another try. I tracked down a care taker who confirmed that the church...

These are a few silver dimes I found in late November. They all came from 2 sites I've detected before. The 35-S Merc was a first for that date and Mark. I also found a handful of wheats and clad.

I just signed the petition, "Larry Herrighty NJ DEP, David Golden NJ DEP,: Allow Metal Detecting on WMA in NJ."I think this is important. Will you sign it too? In 2013 the NJ DEP stopped issuing legal detecting permits on Wildlife management Areas in NJ ..... The ordinance was never changed they...

A return trip to the old camp site produced another great hunt. The day started with 7 wheats in a row and then I got my first silver of the day a 1900 Barber dime. After the first silver it was an evenly paced day of great finds. My totals for the day were $4.13 in clad, 26 wheats, 1 1887...

Here are my finds from my last two hunts. The first was an old church site that was new to me. It started out great with a Merc, Rosie and two wheats in less than 30 minutes. The next 2.5 hours produce some clad and one wheat. I also found the old Ford key at the church. The second hunt was a...

I had the pleasure of detecting with Chris and Dave this week. We met at a place that I've been detecting for about a year. I have limited and access to this site so I usually try to make a day of it when I go. We all had a good day and as in the past I was not disappointed with my day. 3 silver...

I made a return trip to the camp I've been hunting the last 2 years and had a great day of detecting. I hit the dime trifecta with a 13 barber, 42-S Merc and a 52-D Rosie. I also found a 41 Washington, an 1899 Indian and a no date V nickel. The V and barber dime were a pocket spill. The Indian...

I recently got permission to hunt an old house in my area. The owners son has been doing some concrete work at the house and told me when he was breaking up an old side walk he found a 52 Washington under the walk. I thought that was a nice non detector find. I spent about 5 hours total over 2...

Had a good week with a few short hunts. The three dimes are from an old church site, 40, 42 & 53. The SLQ was from my go to spot, the picnic groove, it has no date. The prize of the week is the Seated dime that was made into a love token. I found this during the natural hunt in Indiana at Andy's...

Minelab FBS that is. I'm heading to northern Indian on Sunday for Andy Sabisch's Minelab FBS boot camp. The day consist of 1/2 day class room and a 1/2 day in the field, mainly covering the tips and tricks for the CTX and Etrac. I know I have 3 years and several hundred hours on my CTX but you...

I had about an hour and a half to kill today so I headed to an old church I've hunted in the past. I manage to have a great short hunt with 4 Mercury Dimes and a couple wheats. The dates on the Mercs are 31, 40, 42-D & 43-S.

Wisconsin Digger invited me to hunt a park he thought had some potential, so we set a date and this is my finds for the day. We met about 930 and planned to detect for about 6 hours. After introductions and some detecting talk I got to detecting. I did not even complete a swing when I got a nice...

Here are a my finds from my first couple of hunts now that my fall detecting has started. The Mercury 35 is from a new church site that was loaded with iron and very few good targets. I suspect I was not the first to hunt it. The two Rosie's 57 & 62 and Indian 1888 are from my go to spot, the...

I sent in a story and photos to Andy Sabisch when he was looking for contributors for the new CTX 3030 handbook. The story and photos I sent were the Native American Copper Culture artifacts I found using the CTX. It is featured in the Relic section on page 135. I was given a free copy of the...

It was a busy May with not much time for detecting but I did manage some good finds when I was out. The first hunt was for 2 hours at my grove site. I picked up a nice 1912-D Barber dime. My next 2 hunts were for a total of 7 hours at a new church site I just got permission to hunt. The first...

These are my finds from my last 3 hunts. 2 hunts were at church sites the 3rd was at my favorite site, the grove. The Indian head was a toasty one but I managed to scrape a date off of it 1880. It was a total of about 9 hours of detecting and all three sites produced a silver coin. The heart is...

This site is an old country cemetery that once had a church on the property. I found out it had been abandoned many years ago and that the township was maintaining the property. The town chairman gave me permission to hunt it. There are several grave stones with death dates in the middle late...