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  • Key Date Mercury Dime

    Key Date Mercury Dime

    Hunting a park that dates to the late 1800's I found a hot spot where I've been finding lots of Mercury dimes, a few Barber dimes and many wheat pennies from the teens and twenties, even an 1899 Cana…

  • Worked out Park No Match For the E-TRAC

    Worked out Park No Match For the E-TRAC

    I have been detecting since I was 9 years old and have owned 5 detectors over the years with number five being the E-TRAC. I had left the hobby for various reasons and at the time it was an easy choi…

  • V3i Finds Ring in -5 Degree Weather!

    V3i Finds Ring in -5 Degree Weather!

    I have been metal detecting with White's detectors for over 10 years now and have found different ways to use the detector. Initially I purchased one to find property markers and underground lines. I…

  • In the Right Spot

    In the Right Spot

    I'm so happy I bought a Minelab E-TRAC! It was only a week old when I visited a local park again to practice with it. I had been there a few times in the past using another brand detector with margin…

  • 2 Identical Rings

    2 Identical Rings

    I found one of these silver rings about a month ago at our local city school yard. My wife and I went metal detecting again today to the same school and she found an identical one! What are the chance…

  • First Target of 2013. What a Coin!!

    First Target of 2013. What a Coin!!

    I decided to hit a small field closer to home I have always wanted to try. This field is next to a house that was torn down a few years ago. It was an old home. So I got the E-TRAC ready and started…

  • Discovering the Gold Dollar

    Discovering the Gold Dollar

    I had a small job this morning close to a place I have been trying to get to all winter but the road was impassable, a small mining town in the foothills with lots of iron and few targets. I was hunt…

  • 1774 Two Reale on Baseball Field

    1774 Two Reale on Baseball Field

    Found this on a baseball field I've hunted many times before. I've found many Rosie's and some silver Washington quarters on this ball field but was stunned when I pulled this 2 reale out of the grou…

  • Best Hunt Of My Life

    Best Hunt Of My Life

    My best day of metal detecting started just like most others: hunting one of my old stand-bys. Today’s stand-by was a university campus, originally constructed in the 1890s. My first two hours…