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  • War, What is it Good For?

    War, What is it Good For?

    The title is with a positive angle. If you're gonna think about all the horror or war around the world war has given, you wouldn't enjoy the many finds we make with our detectors. So yes, respect for…

  • The Find of My Lifetime - 1834 Capped Bust Quarter

    The Find of My Lifetime - 1834 Capped Bust Quarter

    I had a Capped Bust silver coin on my wish list but never really expected to ever find one, let alone a quarter. I found this dream at a public park I’ve been to many times but this is the firs…

  • 11 Silver Day

    11 Silver Day

    Was invited by a friend to hunt a very old site that had some recent construction done & a few inches of dirt removed. This was only my 3rd hunt with my new Minelab E-TRAC so not knowing the mach…

  • A Dream Becomes Reality

    A Dream Becomes Reality

    Five years ago I moved from England to work in Switzerland. Here metal detecting is really interesting and exciting because being the crossroads of Europe you never know what ‘nationality&rsquo…

  • WOW

    WOW

    One word “WOW” this metal detector just keeps surprising the "hell out of me". Going on to a farm that the three clubs on the Island have done for the past 6 years, I knew that the finds w…

  • E-TRAC Scores 112 Silver Coins in 17 Days!

    E-TRAC Scores 112 Silver Coins in 17 Days!

    I had business in an unfamiliar town, and researched potential places to detect while I was there. I threw my E-TRAC and gear in the car, and headed off. The first site on my list was closed, and whe…

  • Making the Club Proud

    Making the Club Proud

    This was another Sunday dig with timeline MDC from Birmingham. Went for a dig in Shrewsbury with 50 members. After two hours of detecting I was fed up, no coin, no artifact. Nothing except a few piec…

  • Some Good Karma

    Some Good Karma

    It was a beautiful day so I spent the morning hunting in my favorite park. The park maintenance crew recently cleared the undergrowth out of a very old section of the park where I've found dozens of…

  • My Biggest Nugget

    My Biggest Nugget

    I was told by my friends to buy the Minelab GPX 5000 machine and I am so happy that I bought my Minelab GPX 5000. I have been looking for gold in the fields for many years and have never been lucky t…