Brett
Bronze Member
On the Fourth of July I was at a friend's house in northern MI. Their house used to be a train station almost 140 years ago and there was a small store at the end of the driveway in the late 1800's. Of course I was bringing my metal detector with!
I found quite a bit of stuff in the yard, but surprisingly there was only one modern penny in the front yard and the Canadian large cent from 1901 pictured below. The large cent was between the house and where the train tracks used to be. I found harmonica reeds, rifle shells, shotgun blasting caps, and all kinds of large metal pieces. The ground was fully saturated with water so digging was muddy as all heck, but the ground "healed" itself which was pretty cool.
The wheatie pictured above was found in a local park, but it was only 3" down in a well traveled picnic area that most detectorists would have definitely scanned around. This is my oldest wheatie so far, a 1910 plain.
This next one I found yesterday at a local school. My dad was up there already and I met him up there after work. As soon as I walked out in the field where he was, I said I wanted to go up front by the big tree. My dad was trying to get me to stay in the field saying, "there are plenty of deepies right here". I thought, you're going to have to try harder than that to steal my spot at some later date. Then my dad got a call... dinner was done. Killing time to wait and further talk about going up front by the tree, I just moved my coil from left to right without even moving. I got a loud low tone and hit it from a couple different angles. It was a clean 11-02 on the digital scale. I figured it was a nice crushed blob of aluminum can. My dad ended his call and I said, check this out... I had my new Lesche 36" Groundshark with me and I plunged it in just under where I had pinpointed with the SE Pro coil. I easily popped up a 3" semi-round plug that was 5" deep. My dad remarked about how it could just pop up a plug without cutting it out first... I said yeah it's good like that. It just hinges over on the side. My dad walked away and I started looking for the can slaw. To my surprise the edge of a 10K pinky ring with a heart cut fake ruby gem glistened and put a smile on my face. I exclaimed with glee, "No way!"
Not bad for the first signal, and first dug target of the day... after almost 48 hours since I got the 1910 wheatie with no detecting in between. After the ring I found about $1.75 in clad and another key.
I found quite a bit of stuff in the yard, but surprisingly there was only one modern penny in the front yard and the Canadian large cent from 1901 pictured below. The large cent was between the house and where the train tracks used to be. I found harmonica reeds, rifle shells, shotgun blasting caps, and all kinds of large metal pieces. The ground was fully saturated with water so digging was muddy as all heck, but the ground "healed" itself which was pretty cool.
The wheatie pictured above was found in a local park, but it was only 3" down in a well traveled picnic area that most detectorists would have definitely scanned around. This is my oldest wheatie so far, a 1910 plain.
This next one I found yesterday at a local school. My dad was up there already and I met him up there after work. As soon as I walked out in the field where he was, I said I wanted to go up front by the big tree. My dad was trying to get me to stay in the field saying, "there are plenty of deepies right here". I thought, you're going to have to try harder than that to steal my spot at some later date. Then my dad got a call... dinner was done. Killing time to wait and further talk about going up front by the tree, I just moved my coil from left to right without even moving. I got a loud low tone and hit it from a couple different angles. It was a clean 11-02 on the digital scale. I figured it was a nice crushed blob of aluminum can. My dad ended his call and I said, check this out... I had my new Lesche 36" Groundshark with me and I plunged it in just under where I had pinpointed with the SE Pro coil. I easily popped up a 3" semi-round plug that was 5" deep. My dad remarked about how it could just pop up a plug without cutting it out first... I said yeah it's good like that. It just hinges over on the side. My dad walked away and I started looking for the can slaw. To my surprise the edge of a 10K pinky ring with a heart cut fake ruby gem glistened and put a smile on my face. I exclaimed with glee, "No way!"
Not bad for the first signal, and first dug target of the day... after almost 48 hours since I got the 1910 wheatie with no detecting in between. After the ring I found about $1.75 in clad and another key.
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