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  • Another Rare Civil War, Confederate Uniform Button

    Another Rare Civil War, Confederate Uniform Button

    I have been very fortunate in finding some elusive Confederate Military Uniform buttons since I started detecting in NC, and this one is no exception to rarity dug with the amazing GPX 5000, around 1…

  • Explore and Discover

    Explore and Discover

    Explore and discover antiques dating back more than 1,000 years.…

  • V3i Finds a Beautiful Seated Liberty

    V3i Finds a Beautiful Seated Liberty

    My friend and I decided to detect a small local park with a few soccer fields. We both are detecting with V3i. The open area that we were detecting must have had the ground cleared and leveled out so…

  • Penny Penny Pick Me Up

    Penny Penny Pick Me Up

    My name is Bruce and since December of 2013 I have been having a ball. In Dec I found a 1551-53 English shilling. Now for some of you that isn't so great a feat but I live in Victoria BC. Since Jan. 2…

  • Karma Comes Around

    Karma Comes Around

    I did a ring recovery tonight near a hotel in Lexington for Chris and Erin, who called me after searching for "metal detector rental" in Lexington (a search I deliberately intercept with my website a…

  • X-TERRA 705 Finds 13.6 gram Gold Nugget

    X-TERRA 705 Finds 13.6 gram Gold Nugget

    First let me start off by saying I am now a true believer in metal detectors and especially Minelab. I live in southern Arizona and I have been working placer claims in the area for several years. I…

  • Making Dreams a Reality

    Making Dreams a Reality

    Ever since I had started using detectors when I was 19 in the Military I wanted to get my own for hobby use to find some shipwreck coins or treasure on one of the beaches or fields near home in Cornw…

  • Valuable OLD Copper

    Valuable OLD Copper

    This is a 2 part story: Me and a buddy went up to Vermont from Massachusetts for a day of hunting. We had a VERY disappointing start to our day, we ended the day with a big Bang in a farm field. With…

  • The Best Find Ever For Me

    The Best Find Ever For Me

    Hi there all, well I have only had my detector for a few months and still learning to use it, now learning even faster now I have the bug for it. I have found a 1930 penny that I found to be a forgott…