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  • Silver Class Ring Reunited with Owner 50 Years Later!

    Silver Class Ring Reunited with Owner 50 Years Later!

    I was searching a local football field at a school that I have been hunting for the last year and I dug a signal 5-6" deep. Out the dirt came a very nice silver ring. The ring had 3 initials inscribe…

  • A Piece of Early American History

    A Piece of Early American History

    I have been using the Minelab E-TRAC for almost 2 years now and can say without a doubt that it is the best machine for the type of detecting that I do. I primarily hunt cellar holes and abandoned ho…

  • M6 Does it Again!

    M6 Does it Again!

    I work in the telecommunications field and have been doing a lot of work in homes located in the older section of town. If the homeowner is happy with my work I ask for permission to hunt their prope…

  • Finding Treasure with My MXT

    Finding Treasure with My MXT

    I have been an avid detector for the past seven or eight years and for the past four years I have use a White's MXT. I have found a lot of interesting, if not so valuable items in that time. One of m…

  • Backyard Success

    Backyard Success

    My father and I have been detecting for a couple of years never finding much but clad. I finally got into the hobby a bit more and purchased the E-TRAC! I un-boxed it and charged the battery overnigh…

  • V3i Finds Chinese Coins on the OR Coast

    V3i Finds Chinese Coins on the OR Coast

    This is a photo of four ancient Chinese coins I came across recently while beach detecting on the N. Oregon coast, using my new Spectra V3i. The stretch of beach where I found the coins has lost quit…

  • 1829 Capped Bust Dime

    1829 Capped Bust Dime

    A friend of mine invited me to hunt with him where he had found a large cent. We were there for about an hour and his wife called and said she was ready to eat. As she informed him of this, I pulled…

  • Day Three and the E-TRAC Pays For Itself!

    Day Three and the E-TRAC Pays For Itself!

    This whole mess of metal detecting started when my friend got his first Bounty Hunter and showed me how it worked in the front yard of my house. I was instantly intrigued and thought it was very inte…