silverfreak
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- Aug 9, 2007
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- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Explorers and E-Trac
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
My beautiful wife has come along with me when I have gone detecting, and has held the Explorer, and felt it was heavy... but she has never actually hunted before. With my 3 bonus kids, and being beyond swamped with personal training appointments at the gym...when I go, we are always rushing to be able to hunt for even a few minutes. Her day is full too, as she follows a program at the gym I created for her, and has lost over 100 lbs doing so...going from 222 lbs, to her now 122 lbs.
We live at the gym, and just don't have much free time. I never wanted to push her to detecting, and to be honest, I never thought she would want to. She just likes to be with me, wherever I go and whatever I do. Whether it's loading up the dirtbike, and heading to the motocross track, mowing an 8 acre yard, or going to the gym to workout...she wants to be at my side.
I am blessed.
I ran into my old hunting buddy, Dave a few days ago...and we decided we were going to fire up the detectors for a few hours today after work.
To my surprise, my wife said "Will you teach me this time"?...so that's what I did.
She has watched me hunt several times, and I have let her hear the sounds when I locate something. Yes, she has heard, and watched me dig many nails that sounded like coins...
...but when you are searching in pounded areas for coins in the 9" to 10" range...that comes with the territory.
This time, I explained several things, told her what to listen for, what the different settings do, how slow to sweep the coil, etc...then cut her loose.
Within 3 minutes, she had dug her first nail...
. Within 7 minutes, she had dug her second nail . Then about 10 minutes went by, and I hear her scream from about 50' away..."Hey, I think I found something good". I then hear scream again. "Bryce...Dave, I really think I got something good this time".
She then came running over to me where I was working on a dig. She was genuinely excited, and had a huge smile on her face. She sticks out her hand to me...and in it is a nice old Merc.
She says, "Is this good"? My jaw just dropped...I'm serious.
I walked over to her hole, and it was every bit of 9"...and she had pulled the merc from deep in the bottom corner! With God as my witness, I kid you not.
The very FIRST coin she dug in her metal detecting career was a 1923 Mercury dime from 9" deep!
She is H.O.O.K.E.D....and as soon as we got home, she wanted to show everyone her find. She never found a wheatie, or even any clad, but she DID find 9" deep Merc. Now I have 3 bonus kids who want their own detectors, too.
We had a lot of fun, and I was able to find an old Barber dime and a few wheats as well. Dave also found a couple of wheaties, but I didn't get them in the pic.
We live at the gym, and just don't have much free time. I never wanted to push her to detecting, and to be honest, I never thought she would want to. She just likes to be with me, wherever I go and whatever I do. Whether it's loading up the dirtbike, and heading to the motocross track, mowing an 8 acre yard, or going to the gym to workout...she wants to be at my side. I am blessed.
I ran into my old hunting buddy, Dave a few days ago...and we decided we were going to fire up the detectors for a few hours today after work.
To my surprise, my wife said "Will you teach me this time"?...so that's what I did.
She has watched me hunt several times, and I have let her hear the sounds when I locate something. Yes, she has heard, and watched me dig many nails that sounded like coins......but when you are searching in pounded areas for coins in the 9" to 10" range...that comes with the territory.This time, I explained several things, told her what to listen for, what the different settings do, how slow to sweep the coil, etc...then cut her loose.
Within 3 minutes, she had dug her first nail...
. Within 7 minutes, she had dug her second nail . Then about 10 minutes went by, and I hear her scream from about 50' away..."Hey, I think I found something good". I then hear scream again. "Bryce...Dave, I really think I got something good this time".She then came running over to me where I was working on a dig. She was genuinely excited, and had a huge smile on her face. She sticks out her hand to me...and in it is a nice old Merc.
She says, "Is this good"?
My jaw just dropped...I'm serious.I walked over to her hole, and it was every bit of 9"...and she had pulled the merc from deep in the bottom corner!
With God as my witness, I kid you not. The very FIRST coin she dug in her metal detecting career was a 1923 Mercury dime from 9" deep!
She is H.O.O.K.E.D....and as soon as we got home, she wanted to show everyone her find. She never found a wheatie, or even any clad, but she DID find 9" deep Merc. Now I have 3 bonus kids who want their own detectors, too.
We had a lot of fun, and I was able to find an old Barber dime and a few wheats as well. Dave also found a couple of wheaties, but I didn't get them in the pic.
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