Newbie find

[markg]

This guy (Jack) had just bought a used metal detector at a local yard sale. Nothing fancy, but it worked. His brother in-law (James of 25 years detecting experience) took him out for his 2nd hunting trip. James explained the importance of going slow and using proper coil control and off they went. Well back to the story, the gentleman (James) with 25 years experience went ahead of him to demonstrate proper technic and Jack followed swinging the cheap detector. Not more than 30 minutes into the hunt, Jack came upon a pair of sun glasses that James had failed to pickup or move out of the way. Well not picking them up he kicked them out of his path and swung over the area and got a very low volume beep. Thinking it was most likely a piece from the glasses he stopped to investigate a little closer. He said the signal was very small and unless the coil was in just the right position he could not hear the faint beep. After several minutes of work he finally located the target, a gold clasp of a chain, gently pulling he found it was buried stretched out about 1/4" below the ground. After recovering the full length necklace they all tried their detectors and were amazed at the fact only the clasp could be heard and one of the machines could not find it all. I must add all the detectors used were from the very low end of what we would consider todays standard machine. Final note, Jacks wife became the owner and wearer of a nice gold necklace.
Hope all enjoyed this little story.

 

[Larry (IL)]

Even many high end detectors have trouble with gold chains and the ones that can detect gold chains, the targets are often passed over as a small piece of foil. The newbie has the advantage because he doesn't know yet that it usually takes many hundreds of foil hits to finally find a gold chain.

Congratulations to Jack and thanks for sharing the story Mark.

 

[GunnarMN]

Good story, it is tru lots of situations can fool even the best detectors , and somtimes it may be better to dig like a bigginner searcher

 

[Hank68]

Great story thanks for sharing!!

 

[BarberBill]

Another example of why those that dig everything ultimately find the most goodies, but oh the trash!
BB

 

[bootyhoundpa]

great story....nothing like beginners luck.... my brother had hunted my parents yard several years prior to me buying a metal detector,long story short i found a new york state militia belt buckle the first time hunting it.... never found anything else there very worthwhile.... ive also been told about a metal detecting training class that was taught at the local comunity college..... i guess they would bury shallow clad for people to get the hang of how to detect and recover targets,anyway a 10 year old boy got a signal and dug up a nice large cent which was not planted and had been missed by several other classes......