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I tried relic mode out on my V3i and I had some fun in this mode, almost like using another detector, I'm gonna have to rig me up a custom relic program cause there's some neat stuff out there ya don't find when discrimating for coins. Metal Detecting January 26th 2010 Woods hunt..wmv

Last time I went hunting with my brother and he said he knew another spot we could try nearby the last one, it is a small patch of woods in suburbia with some older houses nearby. I got 1 coin so I didn't get skunked on coins, found a neat souvenir token from Honolulu with King Kamehameha on it...

I've always brought this old lock out to look at it every now and then, I found it at a paper mill site in January of 2007 and always wanted to open this thing up. I looked at it and thought I'll bet I could make something for for this old lock, I went to a locksmith (who I've known since junior...

A lot of the neat relics that I find are in the woods in the winter as are both of these. The skillet I found in a woods that once had a girl's seminary school that started back in 1879 and was open till 1910 (my brother and I also made some nice coin finds here too). I restored this yesterday...

I found this little Yale lock a couple years back at a spot out in Battle Creek my brother and I nicknamed the trash pit (it's still producing finds too) and I made a blank from a piece of steel and used lampblack and jewelers files to file it. I'm on a roll opening all these locks that I've...

I decided to give the woods I went to a couple days ago another try, I didn't find a heck of a lot but it was nice getting out of the house and getting some exercise. The metal object on the bottom left of the picture read high like a silver quarter (VDI 86) and it's way to heavy to be aluminum...

I found this last summer with my water detector, it was hitting in the gold range and it's very magnetic. . I should have it tested cause I know someone who works for an archaeologist and they also told me if you ever think you've found a meteorite, bring it to me and I'll get it tested free. I...

It was in the 30's and I met my brother at a new woods spot by a local little league diamond which covers quite an area, we basically went walking through about half of it just scouting around with our detectors, there's a good spot in it if I wanted to dig some bottles and some of the glass...

Went to my friends woods today for a short hunt, didn't get much but it was good getting out. I found the earth mover tootsie toy on my way out of the woods, by this time my pinpoint finger was numb and I had enough. It's supposed to get up in the high 30's tomorrow but they're talking rain and...

I got a late start cause I was undecided whether or not I was going to do any detecting but finally I thought I'm going, so I went to a spot about a mile from my house, didn't find a single coin but even when there ain't snow on the ground it's difficult to find a coin in this woods anyhow.

I found it in early 2005 soon after I bought my MXT, I was using the stock coil and could just barely hear the signal but I was getting a quarter hit on it quite often so I had to dig it. It was no less than 10 inches down, I'll never forget that day cause I'd been hunting for one of them since...

The only time I ever paid more than face value for a coin was completing a type set for a merit badge in boyscouts and the coins I had to buy weren't much more than face value. Here's a silver dollar I've managed to hang on to all these years, I bought it at a bank for a dollar, when I got there...

It's a rough looking silver but it's silver. Metal detecting Michigan, January 10th 2011.wmv

Anyway this story is about what was my favorite swimming hole when I was a kid, I even got caught by the village constable skinny dipping there with three other people back when they just said get yer cloths on leave and don't ever let me catch you doing that again. Al is one heck of a writer...

My brother and I had plans to go to a new woods today and I was going to use my 4x6DD coil but we're getting dumped on heavy duty right now and I just talked to him on the phone and he said we're supposed to get snow for the next three days. Well maybe in a few days when the snow stop's I'll be...

I hunted at Kleinstuck preserve today, found a plated spoon that's in better shape than any other plated flatware I've dug. I thought I was going to get skunked on coins but I did finally manage to get a memorial. I figured I'd post it here in relic finds cause a lot of times in the winter...

I found the spur in an old foundation spot my brother and I detected in a small village down by the Michigan/Indiana border, it was very deep, the pewter whistle I found at where there use to be an old school and I think it also was built on the same site as a school before it.

I ran across this site doing a google search while looking for tokens. I ended up finding out where the token I found yesterday was made with this site but it didn't give a date but on many of the tokens it will give the dates they were made, now I'm going to have to start to get some info on...

I went to the same woods where I found the silver buckle. I got a neat token, 3 wheats, old lipstick tube along with the marble, a compact lid and 6 cents. It was really calm out there today so the cold wasn't an issue at all.

I found it on Kleinstuck preserve in town here on March 26th 2008, it was about 10 inches deep in the peat (just about all the soil there is peat) and a gal who walks her dogs regularly there seen me up on the hill so she wanted to see what kind of goodies I was digging and she got to the top of...