toregano54
Tenderfoot
Hello to you all. Decided to go public and join the forum, I've been reading many of the stories on this site for a couple of years and really enjoy skipping around to the various topics. I am not what you might consider a serious detector, I might get out 5-10 times a year. Never really find anything real exciting, but to me the fun is in not knowing what is there. In explaining the hobby to non MD people I equate it to fishing, you just never know what might be biting. My detector is a Whites 5900. I bought it maybe 7? years ago, at the time I wanted to go with non-digital. For my level of experience and limitied hunting opportunites it works fine. One day when time allows more hunting I will upgrade. An interesting story: The dealer I bought the machine from showed me his most valuable find, not sure if what but it was a gold 5? piece he wore on a chain. He told me that he liked to stop in small towns while traveling from job assignments and search the parks. The town he found this coin in was about 75 miles away and just so happened to be where I grew up and began raising a family. I had detected that park many times with my little Radio Shack detector prior to when he found the gold. I found lots of clad with that cheap little thing but often wonder what I might have found with a better machine. I tried to tell him that my grandmother used to tell me about her brother that was a drunk and that he had passed out in that park back in 1910 and lost some gold. I suggested to him that as the rightful heir to the coin that he should turn it over to me. I don't think he understood my humor though, just gave me a weird look. While hunting mushrooms last year I came across an old stone foundation in a pretty isolated spot, I don't think anyone has ever noticed it. It is definitely the remnants of what I assume to be an original settler, probably a fur trader's cabin. It is small, maybe 10x10 feet. It sits just above the old river flood plain and would have been an ideal location. I am going today to see how many nails I can dig up. Any advice is more than welcome. I enjoy all of your stories and hope to hear from some of you. Take care.
