Finally Back to detecting again!

[silver seeker]

Hello all, been years since I've been on here and haven't detected much in about 5 years or so. Got started back up in October. We moved a couple of years ago and I kept eyeballing this one room schoolhouse on my way to work. Found out it ran from 1865 to 1953. Being on a busy road and the fact that it's still there, I knew it had to be pounded to death. Talked to the owner about detecting it and he gave me the green light to hunt all I wanted, super nice guy. So a couple days later, grabbed the Etrac and headed over there. Got started and right off the bat got a good hit. It was a scratchy dime/penny type signal, so I turned 90 on it and it was still there, scratchy but repeatable. The depth was showing about 5-6 inches, dug down and out pops a merc. I'm thinking I'm going to be digging silver all day. Nope, 2 hours later all I found was a wheatie. Place is pretty hammered, no clad, no nonferrous trash, just lots of rusty nails. I like to hunt in manual sensitivity but had to switch over to auto +3 because of all the high tone falses.. and EMI. I need to get a smaller coil in there. So after 4 hunts here, this is all I found so far. I'll keep hitting it, just got to take it slow and listen. Great to be back!

 

[Ronstar]

Just the fact you found something others missed is an indication they used either inexpensive makes/models, improper settings, or they hit the area at too fast a speed. Go get the rest!!!!

 

[silver seeker]

Thanks Ronstar! Love pulling silver from pounded areas. I'm sure I'll get more.

 

[Odanscoils]

Congratulations getting back at it.
Always love finding silver

 

[silver seeker]

Thanks Odans! Dug my first silver coin like 40 years ago, never gets old!

 

[hotrod53]

We’ve always found that we did best when we were told a site was hunted out. One specific site that we detected, a guy showed up and said the he and many others hunted it out. We found a barber dime, a silver 2 cent piece, a buffalo, and at least 8 Indians .

I too just started back after a year off, got my first detector in 1972. Now that winter is here, I’ll be doing some scouting.

 

[silver seeker]

Got my first detector in 1982, a whites 1DB, a low end model, but enough to get this addiction started.

 

[hotrod53]

I started with a Jetco Coinmaster, can’t get much lower line than that. Coincidentally, I found one of my best finds ever with it, a gold ring with 1 center diamond and 12 smaller diamonds.

I’ve had 2 Jetcos, a White 5000D, 2 Tesoro’s, and 2 Minelab. We currently have 6 Minelabs in the family.

 

[Odanscoils]

I started with a Jetco Coinmaster, can’t get much lower line than that. Coincidentally, I found one of my best finds ever with it, a gold ring with 1 center diamond and 12 smaller diamonds.

I’ve had 2 Jetcos, a White 5000D, 2 Tesoro’s, and 2 Minelab. We currently have 6 Minelabs in the family.

Can't be sure
My first was either a Sears or RadioShack detector.
Have a pic somewhere
Still
Kept my pockets full way back in 74-75.