A Very Rare Find
The 1st thing I found was a button and it was a BENEDICT & BURNHAM which was made in 1830-1835. Then I found a CONFEDERATE SWORD HANGER. "What you have is a Sword Hanger that was made specifically…
The 1st thing I found was a button and it was a BENEDICT & BURNHAM which was made in 1830-1835. Then I found a CONFEDERATE SWORD HANGER. "What you have is a Sword Hanger that was made specifically…
Feb 6th, 2012 is a day I will never forget for the rest of my life. I woke up and decided to detect a park about 25 miles from my house. I had been to this park one other time where although I had no…
The frogs are early this year :) Long week work, so I promised myself to take some time for myself to go searching. After a while the E-TRAC made a strange sound. Not a bleep but a kwek kwek sound (l…
My hunting buddy Steve has a spot he'd been working over with good results for relics in the past and we'd also worked it over many times as a team on top of that. We'd moved on to some other areas b…
l got word from a local 'old timer' that a certain area of a cove on my local tidal creek was used as a swimming & picnic area when he was a child. Got permission from the property owner to scan…
I've been detecting now just over three months, and I'm amazed at how awesome this machine is. I live in Philadelphia and love the history here. A few blocks away from me is one of the oldest parks i…
I have been detecting since '97. Started out with a cheap Quickdraw II and immediately became hooked. It wasn't long before I realized I needed something a little better. My first Minelab was an Expl…
I recently upgraded to my first Minelab (E-TRAC). I have been detecting a friend's yard with a house dating back to the 1890's. I have detected this yard several times with another company's detector…
On Dec.1 2011 I was metal detecting in our local park with my E-TRAC, looking for old silver coins. I love this machine. I call it my silver magnet because it is so accurate on locating silver. The h…