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  • No Giving Up

    No Giving Up

    I made a deal with myself that I wasn't allowed to leave the beach until I had found either $40 clad or 4 gold/silver rings. I was a bit worried about it actually but within 4 hours I had about 6400 y…

  • New E-TRAC Opened Up My World... We are in Love

    New E-TRAC Opened Up My World... We are in Love

    I recently purchased an E-TRAC. Prior I had a safari and a X-TERRA 705. I ended up hunting a local park that I have hunted many times... but wow... THIS MACHINE KILLS IT. In one week of use (learning…

  • Ancient Finds From Japan

    Ancient Finds From Japan

    Went detecting along another old mountain path that runs from Bishamon Temple to Nanzenji Temple in Kyoto. I wasn't expecting to find much but figured that if I did hit something it was going to be o…

  • I Thought I was in a Dream

    I Thought I was in a Dream

    I had been finding hammered coins for the last 3 days, and I had been out with friends, they had had enough and were on their way home. I was still wanting to detect and get a hammered coin for the f…

  • First Detection

    First Detection

    Hi everybody, I bought a X-TERRA 705 this winter and waited till last week to use it because in Quebec, winter has been cold and snowy. I had never used a metal detector before, except 30 years ago, w…

  • My Top Find Yet!

    My Top Find Yet!

    Hello Kellyco family! My name is Ty Gemberling, age 35. Now I am not a professional metal detector by any means. I have only gone out maybe 15 times in the last 2 years, due to my wife's illness. So I…

  • Life can Turn on a Sovereign

    Life can Turn on a Sovereign

    I have three detectors, all Minelab and they have all paid for themselves. I recently graduated from the E-TRAC and although a little intimidated at first, within a few short weeks it has almost beco…

  • Beyond My Wildest Dreams

    Beyond My Wildest Dreams

    Been using the E-TRAC for about 18 months now and my finds are beyond my wildest dreams. It's amazing what you are going to dig up next. Like this 1890s police badge. I've been running a Neil Jones pa…

  • The Lost Plantation On The Machipongo

    The Lost Plantation On The Machipongo

    Back in 2009 I started a grist mill on the Eastern Shore of Virginia to grow, cure and grind an heirloom variety of Indian corn known as Bloody Butcher 1840 DNA. I marketed the cornmeal to local, natu…