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  • A Medal in the Park

    A Medal in the Park

    I was detecting in a local park this morning and found this medal for a ski event.…

  • First Time Out with E-TRAC = Beautiful Silver

    First Time Out with E-TRAC = Beautiful Silver

    I was excited to get out in the fields with the detector I had heard so much about and saved hard to get. Around two hours into my hunt, I was happy with my new machine, having found some deeply buri…

  • A Rare Find for the E-TRAC

    A Rare Find for the E-TRAC

    I wasn't feeling too well this particular day, but I was desperate to get out metal detecting. So reluctantly, I paid a trip to the field closest to me. I wasn't expecting to find much as I call this…

  • My 1st Gold Ring with Diamonds

    My 1st Gold Ring with Diamonds

    My uncle lost his 1949 AAA baseball championship ring he earned after hitting a grand slam against the Braves in Memphis Tn. He lost the ring 12 years ago in his back yard. The 86 year old Iwo Jima s…

  • 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…