indigo401
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- Apr 14, 2016
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- Detector(s) used
- Bounty hunter gold digger (don't make fun)
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
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. Over the weekend while visiting a yard sale I purchased a $20 metal detector. It is a bounty hunter gold digger. Since I was knee high to a grasshopper I have always wanted to metal detect. I love history and what better way to save it then to physically dig it up.
so I get back home put fresh batteries in the machine and head to the yard to learn the machine.
I step off the stairs onto the gravel driveway and get a signal. About an inch or two down the face of an Indian was staring back at me. I pick it up and it's an 1871 penny.
Wow beginners luck right?
Literally ALL
over my yard I am finding stuff from the mid to late 1800's ox half's, about 2 dozen buckles, all sorts shapes and sizes, horse shoes, a copper ring, clay marbles, old glass bottles embossed with local names,5 clay pipes, some sort of plaque made of cast iron that says lily dale on top with maybe song words under it. And a whole bunch of buttons, I also found 2 I think military pins, and a bunch of brass skeleton keys
It's all between 2-4 inches down.
So far i have 9 Indians 14 buffalo nickels and 4 half's but they are newer from 1964
The non metal stuff I find while digging the metal stuff.
My question is should i buy a real detector and see what's in the yard or will the $20 gold digger do
Today was my first dig and first time on this website, can I add pictures of my finds somewhere?
Background on my home built 1771 was a pony express, a post office, a saloon, a brothel, then a residence. The oldest thing I could find in the home was a 1886 providence journal newspaper,
Anyway thanks for listening
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