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  • 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…

  • A Special Birthday Present

    A Special Birthday Present

    Finally a Giveback. My wife and I were recently invited to my daughter's girlfriend's birthday celebration at the girlfriend's mothers home. Knowing that it might be a long day, I brought the E-TRAC…

  • Can You Identify?

    Can You Identify?

    On the way back home from our club's annual camp (May 2012) that was held at Norrie Station North of Cue I stopped at Nallan Lake for the night before heading back to Perth, and of course got the det…

  • Old Clothes Iron Reveals Treasure

    Old Clothes Iron Reveals Treasure

    I found iron clothes, used in the time of the slaves. The iron was found in a field that does not exist as vestiges of civilization! So I wonder what that was doing iron buried there? And best of all…