First find from family farm

[gregD]

My tesoro compadre arrived today and I took it out for a spin around the yard, trying to hit the major obvious areas along walk ways and near garden areas before the sun went down.

There is a lot of foil in the yard and lots of rusty nails that fool the descrimination knob!

I got a couple good hand fulls of garbage and one neat little thingy: a Woodford Co. dog registration tag from 1931

Neat

There are some pretty trashy areas to that are going to take a llooooong time to clean up
Lesson learned from today....i need a pin pointer and smaller shovel badly!

Hope this picture works...

 

[Larry (IL)]

Congratulations on the tag, those always brings a smile to my face when uncovered. A good pinpointer and a Lesche digger are just as important as the detector IMHO.

Practice with the Compadre using coins, rings, even the dog tag and trash samples, you will quickly catch on to the audio differences between a good target and most trash. The good targets will have a nice sweet "round" sound while most trash will sound a bit raspy and sharp. Once you catch on to the audio, you will dig a lot less trash.

 

[Nancy-IL]

Super find Greg. I also love seeing those older dog tags. That's a cool looking one too. Sounds like you've got some detecting to do and a good place to boot. HH, Nancy

 

[TroynSon]

Great start! Have not seen one that old in awhile, very cool. Looks like you have a nice property to learn your detector on. Nice work.

 

[2000nkb]

Cool find!!!!

 

[geodehunter]

Congrats on the dog tag Greg. I think I have only found one of them.