Have not posted much, lurk a lot.
I finally ordered myself a high end detector. Well high end for me.
I started back in the 90's with a Garrett 1000, stopped detecting for 10 or so years and bought a Garrett 550. I found lots of nice things with the Garretts, some of which have ended up in a museum, but to be honest the Garrett bell tone drove me nuts. It would sound off on ANYTHING. I am not bashing Garrett, they just sort of fell out of favor with me. I then purchased a Delta 4000 and didnt have much luck, maybe 80-100 hours on it and it just was not getting deep. Which was strange because my brother was running a Omega 8000 and was really punching down deep for silver. I sold it and was researching and was watching videos and waiting for my tax returns.
I decided on a Teknetics T2. Got it for an amazing price from a great dealer. Now, when i ordered it, we were down to les than an inch of snow. I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and true to form, we got about 12 inches in the 2 days it took the machoine to get here. I have done some air tests with pretty amazing results.
We have an 80 acre city park with no metal detecting restrictions that has been in use for about 100 years and also have access to a formerly closed to the public campground that the DNR just purchased and they also allow detecting. This campground has had continual people on it since the 1600's. We started hunting there last summer and we are now starting to clear up some of the years of what I like to call the garbage carpet. I work an area digging just about everything. And in the few areas we have done this in, old silver and other goodies have started to surface. It is pretty obvious that there was years of beer drinking and partyong going on here, but the coins are starting to make themselves known.
Anyways, I am new here as a poster, some of you all are prolly like, "who is this clown.."
But I will be sharing my finds and will be making some videos of myself, brother and sister, we metal detect as a family.
I finally ordered myself a high end detector. Well high end for me.
I started back in the 90's with a Garrett 1000, stopped detecting for 10 or so years and bought a Garrett 550. I found lots of nice things with the Garretts, some of which have ended up in a museum, but to be honest the Garrett bell tone drove me nuts. It would sound off on ANYTHING. I am not bashing Garrett, they just sort of fell out of favor with me. I then purchased a Delta 4000 and didnt have much luck, maybe 80-100 hours on it and it just was not getting deep. Which was strange because my brother was running a Omega 8000 and was really punching down deep for silver. I sold it and was researching and was watching videos and waiting for my tax returns.
I decided on a Teknetics T2. Got it for an amazing price from a great dealer. Now, when i ordered it, we were down to les than an inch of snow. I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and true to form, we got about 12 inches in the 2 days it took the machoine to get here. I have done some air tests with pretty amazing results.
We have an 80 acre city park with no metal detecting restrictions that has been in use for about 100 years and also have access to a formerly closed to the public campground that the DNR just purchased and they also allow detecting. This campground has had continual people on it since the 1600's. We started hunting there last summer and we are now starting to clear up some of the years of what I like to call the garbage carpet. I work an area digging just about everything. And in the few areas we have done this in, old silver and other goodies have started to surface. It is pretty obvious that there was years of beer drinking and partyong going on here, but the coins are starting to make themselves known.
Anyways, I am new here as a poster, some of you all are prolly like, "who is this clown.."
But I will be sharing my finds and will be making some videos of myself, brother and sister, we metal detect as a family.
