This is my first post on this forum, but I have been reading the past posts here to learn more about my machines. i have found it to be very helpful - and inspiring!
I own a Radio Shack version of the Bounty Hunter Land Star that my wife bought me a few years back. I took it out a few times, and then it sat in the closet for a long time.
When we moved from the Twin Cities, MN area to the small town of Crosby, MN, I took out the detector and searched the back yard of our new home, which was built during the 1940's when Crosby was a booming iron mining town. It must have had "beginners luck" or something, because my first two coins were a 1957 Washington quarter and a 1921 Mercury dime where the clothesline used to be. I have detected the yard any time since then, but it hasn't given up any more silver.
I also searched for a few hours around an old TB sanitorium that is scheduled for demolition, and found a Barber dime and a handful of modern coinage. Unfortunately, I also picked up a deer tick bite, and had to go on antibiotics.
I was telling a co-worker about my finds, and he told me he has 3 Bounty Hunters that he bought at yard sales. We decided to team up and find some places to hunt together. He owns some land that used to have a town on it that he has been detecting for a couple of years now. But he's keeping that all to himself, and I don't blame him.
Two weeks ago, I bought a new Bounty Hunter Land Ranger and a pin pointer on eBay. I've had the new machine out a few times to get the feel of it.
Now, I plan to go back to the old sanitorium, providing my partner and I get written permission from the contractor who is tearing the place down.
I am a area supervisor for the company that provides security for the site, and my partner and I have to get permission from both our company and the contractor to go there while off duty. (I got permission the first time from the facility manager when the building still belonged to the State of Minnesota.) Our company has given their blessing, and if the written permission gets approved by the contractor's legal eagles, we have been promised exclusive detecting rights as long as the contractor is in possession of the property. That's 160+ acres of searching area! We will have all summer and most of the fall since there are 11 buildings to demolish, and a few are 100+ years old and made of brick. I just wish I had more free time and I wish it wasn't a 75 mile drive one-way!
I hope to be posting tons of finds here soon!
I own a Radio Shack version of the Bounty Hunter Land Star that my wife bought me a few years back. I took it out a few times, and then it sat in the closet for a long time.
When we moved from the Twin Cities, MN area to the small town of Crosby, MN, I took out the detector and searched the back yard of our new home, which was built during the 1940's when Crosby was a booming iron mining town. It must have had "beginners luck" or something, because my first two coins were a 1957 Washington quarter and a 1921 Mercury dime where the clothesline used to be. I have detected the yard any time since then, but it hasn't given up any more silver.
I also searched for a few hours around an old TB sanitorium that is scheduled for demolition, and found a Barber dime and a handful of modern coinage. Unfortunately, I also picked up a deer tick bite, and had to go on antibiotics.
I was telling a co-worker about my finds, and he told me he has 3 Bounty Hunters that he bought at yard sales. We decided to team up and find some places to hunt together. He owns some land that used to have a town on it that he has been detecting for a couple of years now. But he's keeping that all to himself, and I don't blame him. Two weeks ago, I bought a new Bounty Hunter Land Ranger and a pin pointer on eBay. I've had the new machine out a few times to get the feel of it.
Now, I plan to go back to the old sanitorium, providing my partner and I get written permission from the contractor who is tearing the place down.
I am a area supervisor for the company that provides security for the site, and my partner and I have to get permission from both our company and the contractor to go there while off duty. (I got permission the first time from the facility manager when the building still belonged to the State of Minnesota.) Our company has given their blessing, and if the written permission gets approved by the contractor's legal eagles, we have been promised exclusive detecting rights as long as the contractor is in possession of the property. That's 160+ acres of searching area! We will have all summer and most of the fall since there are 11 buildings to demolish, and a few are 100+ years old and made of brick. I just wish I had more free time and I wish it wasn't a 75 mile drive one-way!
I hope to be posting tons of finds here soon!
HH