A fine year of detecting although the rest sucked. My best 2020

[CT Todd]

I really can’t complain about my finds this year it was better than average even in tough social conditions. I spent my first 10 plus years as a lone wolf detectorist and in the last 10 years have really enjoyed the meeting of other detectorists while detecting and giving classes. The group hunts and great close friends I’ve made are now a part of my detecting that I truly enjoy and don’t like to do without. So 2020 was a bitch. We cut it about as close as possible getting out of England this spring 3 days before shutdown. Too close. Missed a bunch of events that were canceled. Anyway. The stats. I dug about 25 coppers fty in the usa. 5 Reale’s (my favorite thing to dig), a couple shoe buckles and all the normal Super Spoiled Northeast detectorist finds. Lastly was the Colonial Gold Ring which was off the chart and I’m proud to have found it. One note to the new guys, this hobby can at times be frustrating. You see all these great finds posted every day and wonder why you’re not getting great stuff. The thing to remember is you don’t see the posts when the guys find nothing. You only see the great stuff. Also keep in mind that you can’t find things that simply aren’t there in your area. I do tons of research and live in the northeast which is a big help. The best tip I can give is do research, learn your machine and be Relentless. My ring was a simple target that everyone here would have dug. I got over it first. That’s all. Your day will come.
Come on 2021!!
Get out there.

 

[okierebel]

Congrats to you, CT Todd!! Lot of words of wisdom I just read. Hope you have an even better year!
HH okie

 

[trojdor]

mike

 

[utmike]

Well said. Over the top finds! Congrats on a good year wrapped in a bad one!

 

[7centsworth]

That’s a good post. Ct you did really well like always. I always like to see what you have found. You have a lot of history up there. Congratulations

 

[Mark kus]

Nice finds Todd and from a fellow CT guy we are lucky in that aspect of being here in the NE with a lot of coppers and other colonial items.
Me I hunt with quite a few friends we never let up all year even with the woflu lol when my wife had surgery two years in a row for cancer so I had to do what a husband does and help out but I would not want it any other way.
To a Happy healthy Better New Year in 2021!
HH
Mark

 

[Ted S]

Well said Todd! You never know what you are going to find! I enjoy research and I did get one coin here in Iowa that was 1790s. Thanks for your help and words of encouragement that you share on this forum! HH! Ted

 

[plowboy]

That ring you found had a patina I have only seen one other time. I was using a detector along a railroad track where a hotel was. A dozer had cut a trench about a foot deep down a short grade, this guy walked up and was using a pitch fork to turn the soil over into the trench to see what he could find, I sniggered and said "good luck with that method". Two minute later he turns over a big clod with a thick gold bracelet stuck in it. It had that patina, looked old as hell and had a sun with rays on it, looked hand-made. Had that same deep yellow color. I think I turned a shade of green.

 

[Dale(Ia)]

Superb finds, Todd !

Iowa Dale

 

[Johnny5]

Nice hunting Todd, someday I hope to make it to England to hunt. But it's nice just going out and hunt, and if you fi d something nice
that's a bonus.