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I've been swinging the AT Pro for a few months now. Have dug up about 20 bucks in clad, two Indians, an 1889 and 1883, and one Buff, 1913. Lots of junk, and of course more bottle caps and pull tabs than I care to count. Getting much better at identifying sounds and signals, but as yet have not...

After speaking with the curator of our local historical society he gave me enough information to make some calls and head out to talk to some land owners. I found the site with relative ease, as well as the land owners on each side of this site. Very nice people who were happy to tell us all...

I haven't yet found a lot of good coins. But when I do find one it's been a pretty neat coin. I was at my local school yard again this evening, the same one my daughter found her Buffalo a few months ago(1913). Dug a bunch of coins, but my eyes won't usually let me see what it is till I get...

The signature I've added to my posts say "treasure hunters for life". Before we bought metal detectors we dug gems and minerals out of the ground. We moved back to Michigan in 1993 to take care of Family. But while we lived out West we spent our time digging this stuff. Every one of these...

So we've had our detectors for about three months now, AT Pro, and Whites Treasure Pro. Half of that time the ground has been frozen and snow covered. So really we've only been detecting for about 6-7 weeks. I found an 1889 Indian we put up pictures of back in December. Yesterday we took the...

We're new to the hobby of course, and eager for Spring now that the ground is covered with snow. But we've been doing a lot of research and knocking on some doors, and stopped in at the City Hall today to inquire about a track of land along the river that's vacant, and found it belongs to the...

Alas however it was the only coin of the day. Actually it was only an hour or so before the rain hit this day after Christmas. We should be out playing with our new snowshoes today rather than digging an old foundation. The first tone dug was only ten feet from the car and it was this 1889...

School is long gone, unlike some which have been preserved and turned into dwellings. But it seems like there was a school house every 4-5 miles depending which direction you went in this county. This spot is now on state game land which means we can hunt, so we spent about three hours there...

I've gotten some permissions along a row of houses that have some power lines criss-crossing the street and yards and was causing all sorts of problems for me. Reading about EMI and how to reduce or eliminate, I'm going to reduce sensitivity and try changing to another frequency. Anyone with...

I was going to post this in the what is this thread, but I think we know what it is. Found it at around 8 inches or so where we're finding all of the rest of the iron junk we're finding. This one was in a park we had not yet checked. Didn't stay long because we wanted to get back out to the ball...

I hope I don't bore everyone with this kind of post, but we had a great day in our town today looking for info and talking to people. I started today by going to our local historical society/Jail Museum to buy a couple books I had seen in a previous visit, and to hopefully talk to a couple of...

Very excited, because it's a very promising looking piece of property. Ancient(by Midwestern standards) looking farm surrounded by corn field. The only thing still standing are three very large masonary silos, and two out buildings. Most of the old farms around here are from the late 1800's, the...

Went out to our local ball fields again today to listen to more targets and the different sounds they make. These fields have proven to be full of clad, so it helps me to hear plenty of coins and all of the farm trash and just plain trash. I have begun hunting with the ATPro on Pro-Zero mode, so...

Went to a school yard very close to our house for an hour before dinner tonight and found this. I had hit some very deep sheet metal a few minutes earlier and thought I had more. I thought it was in quit good condition, with lots of paint still. The damage seen was not me. It appears to have...

Bought White's new Treasure Pro after my local dealer recommended it over the Garrett entry level models. So far we love the machine, very easy to use for a beginner. Pretty much turn it on and go. Our first few days out it found just as much stuff as the AT Pro. Depth indicator is difficult to...

Found this today along with more of the farm type junk we've been finding. Looked up square nails again, and can only find them up to 3 1/2 inches. This one seems to have no head or it came off. I did scrap a lot of corrosion off with my fingers to get a better look at it but it had no head...

This is actually the second one of these we've found, the other was very beat up. But it's a huge piece of lead, pictured here with what I think is a 22cal. bullet I pulled out of the ground in the same soccer field today. I don't know a lot about shotgun slugs, but a possibility given I've...

I'll post this over here since most of what we found today was the same farm type relics. Couple of new items today, a very old segment of barbed wire, a square nail mostly rusted away, as I was told to expect, and a what the heck is this. Still eager to find something jewelryish, but I do enjoy...

Of course we've only been at this for a few weeks now, and most of you have likely found many but we found our first square nail today.:happydance01: It's my understanding that after 1880 or so these were all cut from sheet and were more rectangular. This one looked rather rectangular to me. My...

It is becoming apparent that the parks in my town have been searched. There are several more for me to go to to hopefully find some old coins, but the last couple of places I've gone I thought would be good, gave up only clad. So, while I've spotted some abandoned farms out in the county that...