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  • A Girl and Her E-TRAC

    A Girl and Her E-TRAC

    About a year ago my wife Diane got interested in metal detecting with me and so I got her an X-TERRA 705 and she took to it like a duck to water. She was doing so well I decided to upgrade her to her…

  • The Best Find I Ever Had

    The Best Find I Ever Had

    Hello everyone! At the start of September, I went out with my E-TRAC to a field where people have been searching with metal detectors for over 30 years. Till this day people still dig up nice finds a…

  • The E-TRAC Does It Again

    The E-TRAC Does It Again

    Well I went out today with my friend Doug Mding. He had a new site to hunt. So we went out this morning in the cold. He had found some nice coin's last week. So I was hoping to find a real or a doubl…

  • The Fields Of November

    The Fields Of November

    Saturday, Kyle invited us down to his choice fields for a hunt, Doug and his nine year old son Malachi, Diane and I drove out to meet him and we all rode to a cornfield first. The stalks were still h…

  • From Paris to Iowa

    From Paris to Iowa

    In July 2012, I was detecting where an old house had been torn down due to flooding in 2010. I found my first Silver dime of 2012 on this site so I was excited to hunt it again. After finding a Buffa…

  • Spanish Colonial Cob!

    Spanish Colonial Cob!

    I went on a night hunt with a couple buddies. My friend found a really nice Indian Head penny and I only found a musket ball. It started to drizzle out then just before it started to pour, I got a so…

  • Wedding Ring Reunited With Owner

    Wedding Ring Reunited With Owner

    I got my first message from a chap who had lost a ring. They had lost it while walking the dog and felt it come off. It was in some long grass and they searched and searched but could not find it. Pe…

  • The TOT Ring

    The TOT Ring

    I was just calling in on a Sunday morning to one of my local permissions to have a morning session, and there was a lorry filling a farmer's feed hoppers, it was blocking the track to my field. I cou…

  • Found an 1887 Morgan Silver Dollar with V3i

    Found an 1887 Morgan Silver Dollar with V3i

    As the end of the season is fast approaching I decided to try my luck again at one of my favorite metal detecting spots here in Maine, on November 17 2010. I had one thought in mind, find one last pi…