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Hello everyone. This is my 2nd post ever, although I read here quite frequently...lurk I guess. 
I'd like first to say that metal detecting is fairly new for my family. My son, who is 14 and will be joining the forum soon, has wanted a metal detector for a while, so his Grandpa went out and got him one, a Bounty Hunter Pioneer 202. We ended up returning it to Wal-Mart and exchanging it for another of the same, as we thought it was broken He seems to have problems with it giving constant false signals It always reads that an object is 8 inches down, and nothing will "pinpoint". The 2nd one does the same. Is this just something associated with that brand? It sold for a little over $200 so I know it's not a great one, but with it being a gift from his grandfather, who's in his 80's, what could we do? So....what can we get that's not TOO expensive, that will perform better. We have alot of detecting to do......Here's the rest of the reason why we need a better one.
We live in a semi-rural area, not far out of town, on 5 acres. This property has been in my husband's family for over 40 years, and there aren't alot of neighbors out here...yet, but development is getting closer. One of our neighbors is an elderly gentleman, who owns over 100 acres, that he has lived on all his life since the 1920's. He lives in an old farmhouse there. My husbands family has known him since my father in law bought the property here. I found out a few months back that there is a graveyard on his property that dates back to the late 1700's! It sits in a field but was all overgrown so you couldn't tell that's what it was, and many of the tombstones have fallen over, he thinks during the earthquake here during the 1800's. Once I found out there was a graveyard, my husband talked to the owner and found out that there was a plantation house, actually two, one was burned down by a slave, and the sites are somewhere on his property, which was part of the original plantation that encompassed over 300 acres, which I'm pretty sure our little 5 acres is part of also.
This man has never been married, no children and keeps pretty much to himself, so NO ONE has ever been over there looking around, and no one except some ancestors who come by from out of state to look at the graves even knows that it's there anymore.
My two sister in laws are pretty friendly with him, and one is a big Civil War buff, are now cleaning up the graveyard to take pictures of the crypts and headstone, one is the original owner who was German, which has the year of death in the late 1700's, then let it grow over again. The owner does not want to put a fence or anything around it, and there is a subdivisiion going up within a few miles, which will bring kids and vandelism, I'm sure. I know if I was a kid I'd go there.
Anywho, our goal is to find the original plantation site, and the other house, There may have been one more that a brother of the original owner built. From what my sister in law said, the land was first deeded to the owner from King George. There isn't alot of information out there, and even the local history books mention very little. The old gentleman thinks he saw the remains of some brick pillars when he was a kid, but his dad farmed the land and may have moved them "cleaning up". I know where my son will be every day during the summer .
I will have some pics to post soon of the graveyard and some of the older headstones.
My son has permission to metal detect on his property, so I want to get him one that will really do the job, without putting too much into it. If we find what I hope we do, I'll be happy to move up to a better model. He's been out once with it, and only came up with a nail, and tons of false readings. We are all anxious to get over there and poke around, but we don't want to wear out our welcome there. Hopefully someone can give me some advice about the false readings....
There's no problem with my son keeping what he finds.
So, any ideas about what type of detector to buy, and any detecting tips?
I'd like first to say that metal detecting is fairly new for my family. My son, who is 14 and will be joining the forum soon, has wanted a metal detector for a while, so his Grandpa went out and got him one, a Bounty Hunter Pioneer 202. We ended up returning it to Wal-Mart and exchanging it for another of the same, as we thought it was broken He seems to have problems with it giving constant false signals It always reads that an object is 8 inches down, and nothing will "pinpoint". The 2nd one does the same. Is this just something associated with that brand? It sold for a little over $200 so I know it's not a great one, but with it being a gift from his grandfather, who's in his 80's, what could we do? So....what can we get that's not TOO expensive, that will perform better. We have alot of detecting to do......Here's the rest of the reason why we need a better one.We live in a semi-rural area, not far out of town, on 5 acres. This property has been in my husband's family for over 40 years, and there aren't alot of neighbors out here...yet, but development is getting closer. One of our neighbors is an elderly gentleman, who owns over 100 acres, that he has lived on all his life since the 1920's. He lives in an old farmhouse there. My husbands family has known him since my father in law bought the property here. I found out a few months back that there is a graveyard on his property that dates back to the late 1700's! It sits in a field but was all overgrown so you couldn't tell that's what it was, and many of the tombstones have fallen over, he thinks during the earthquake here during the 1800's. Once I found out there was a graveyard, my husband talked to the owner and found out that there was a plantation house, actually two, one was burned down by a slave, and the sites are somewhere on his property, which was part of the original plantation that encompassed over 300 acres, which I'm pretty sure our little 5 acres is part of also.
This man has never been married, no children and keeps pretty much to himself, so NO ONE has ever been over there looking around, and no one except some ancestors who come by from out of state to look at the graves even knows that it's there anymore.
My two sister in laws are pretty friendly with him, and one is a big Civil War buff, are now cleaning up the graveyard to take pictures of the crypts and headstone, one is the original owner who was German, which has the year of death in the late 1700's, then let it grow over again. The owner does not want to put a fence or anything around it, and there is a subdivisiion going up within a few miles, which will bring kids and vandelism, I'm sure. I know if I was a kid I'd go there.
Anywho, our goal is to find the original plantation site, and the other house, There may have been one more that a brother of the original owner built. From what my sister in law said, the land was first deeded to the owner from King George. There isn't alot of information out there, and even the local history books mention very little. The old gentleman thinks he saw the remains of some brick pillars when he was a kid, but his dad farmed the land and may have moved them "cleaning up". I know where my son will be every day during the summer .
I will have some pics to post soon of the graveyard and some of the older headstones.
My son has permission to metal detect on his property, so I want to get him one that will really do the job, without putting too much into it. If we find what I hope we do, I'll be happy to move up to a better model. He's been out once with it, and only came up with a nail, and tons of false readings. We are all anxious to get over there and poke around, but we don't want to wear out our welcome there. Hopefully someone can give me some advice about the false readings....
There's no problem with my son keeping what he finds.
So, any ideas about what type of detector to buy, and any detecting tips?
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