Russoca
Jr. Member
- Jan 31, 2019
- 28
- 55
- Detector(s) used
- White's MXT E-Tracker, Nokta Macro Simplex+
Nokta Pinpointer
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Great forum! I really enjoy reading the stories of awesome finds, old coins, lost rings and stuff found and returned and legends of stuff still waiting out there.
I got into MDing back in 1976 when I was 13 or so and my family was out in Massachusetts for the summer. I had a beat up Treasure Hunting magazine that I had read and re-read 1000 times and there was an ad for a place near the Cape that sold a "Mach III Metal Detector." I worked all summer for the $30 or $40 and bought it. That summer at the beach I found about $40 in coins, a bone handled knife and a very old spoon with the bowl corroded through. Still have that detector, lol.
My two most memorable finds, oddly, did not involve a MD. For the first, I was in high school and my family was vacationing in Santa Monica, CA with a friend of our family. My brother was stationed at Camp Pendleton. We were at the beach one weekend and after returning to the house my brother discovered his class ring missing. He had to get back to base so I offered to go look. I knew where we sat and I looked all over, even walked the beach towards the pier, nothing. I went back and looked around, pretty sure I was in the right place. Disappointed I hadn't found it, I kicked the sand. The ring flew about 15' away! HA!
The second one was several years ago while in Nova Scotia. We were staying at my wife's families summer home on a river. A cousin and his new bride joined us on the small dock. He decides to swim across in the pretty chilly water. As he swam, his wife took pictures of him with her nice Canon digital camera. He gets back, and...you guessed it, no wedding ring! I had an idea: I took her camera, zoomed into each picture and could see the ring on his finger on the way back except the last picture. Figuring where he was between those two pictures I grabbed some swim goggles and dove around the area. About 20 min later I found the ring! I accepted a few cold Alexander Keiths Pale Ales as reward.
Nothing is lost, it's just not found yet.
Russ
I got into MDing back in 1976 when I was 13 or so and my family was out in Massachusetts for the summer. I had a beat up Treasure Hunting magazine that I had read and re-read 1000 times and there was an ad for a place near the Cape that sold a "Mach III Metal Detector." I worked all summer for the $30 or $40 and bought it. That summer at the beach I found about $40 in coins, a bone handled knife and a very old spoon with the bowl corroded through. Still have that detector, lol.
My two most memorable finds, oddly, did not involve a MD. For the first, I was in high school and my family was vacationing in Santa Monica, CA with a friend of our family. My brother was stationed at Camp Pendleton. We were at the beach one weekend and after returning to the house my brother discovered his class ring missing. He had to get back to base so I offered to go look. I knew where we sat and I looked all over, even walked the beach towards the pier, nothing. I went back and looked around, pretty sure I was in the right place. Disappointed I hadn't found it, I kicked the sand. The ring flew about 15' away! HA!
The second one was several years ago while in Nova Scotia. We were staying at my wife's families summer home on a river. A cousin and his new bride joined us on the small dock. He decides to swim across in the pretty chilly water. As he swam, his wife took pictures of him with her nice Canon digital camera. He gets back, and...you guessed it, no wedding ring! I had an idea: I took her camera, zoomed into each picture and could see the ring on his finger on the way back except the last picture. Figuring where he was between those two pictures I grabbed some swim goggles and dove around the area. About 20 min later I found the ring! I accepted a few cold Alexander Keiths Pale Ales as reward.
Nothing is lost, it's just not found yet.
Russ
California
