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  • I Can't Explain This Feeling

    I Can't Explain This Feeling

    I had a lady contact me to help find her watch that was lost while bailing hay in a paddock. It fell off while changing the wrapper on a round bale machine.  Five months later I went out to the…

  • A Game Changer

    A Game Changer

    Here is a fun couple of days I had with my E-TRAC this summer. I mentioned on Facebook that I go metal detecting. An old buddy wanted to know what kind of detector I used, and how well it worked. I t…

  • Paid for My Detector

    Paid for My Detector

    The last thing I said to my wife before leaving to hunt was (half-joking), “I’d just like to find enough to pay for my detector.” Little did I know I was about to do just that! Flas…

  • 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…