Been a crazy winter up here. November brought me 3 feet of snow and December brought warm temps and rain. Today was upper 50's and rain but about 1 o'clock the sun came out. I been sick the last week and figure why cough and hack at home when I can d
Read more…I think I found the workshop area. Another file, a washer, a piece of pipe and a broken round something.
I dont know if any of you have watched these guys on Youtube or not, I have subbed their channel for quite some time. anyway, I saw they made a little movie and the first 250 people to get it are entered in to win a Minelab safari. They are up to les
Read more…1857 Flying eagle cent. pretty rare find, these coins were only made for 3 years. it's toasty but i'll take it
Went back to my favorite ball field and worked a corner I haven't hit yet and got the usual can slaw, pulltabs and change. Working my way back to the truck out pops a silver ring. Good ending to a day. 10th ring this year so far....4th silver....but
Read more…Headed back to the cellar today for some swingin. Decided to dig pretty much every signal to see what comes up. I been running the Ace350 with everything below a nickel shut off but turned it all on today and got to diggin. It's nice not diggin pull
Read more…Kevin Hogaland posted this a bit ago on facebook. Look at his tie shirt in the beginning of the video..
Read more…Labor Day weekend was for metal detecting for silver in Northern Ontario. We hit one spot which kept producing as we got deeper and wider. Here is a short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgdEEh1NpmE
Read more…I used a vacation day to do some detecting today and boy am I glad I did. Got paid to dig targets...don't get better than that! I really have no intrest in beaches, but my gut told me to go check out a popular little spot at a lake by my house. There
Read more…Friday I went looking for an older homestead but didnt find what I was looking for. Along the trail I found the normal clad coins, bullet casings and caps. I headed off into the woods and came across what seems to be a dump site. I found a spoon, for
Read more…2014 was my first year detecting. I spent countless hours and dug 1000's of plugs in parks and ball fields learning my Ace350 through the summer. As fall came around I got into researching old home sites and detecting cellar holes. While I didn't mak
Read more…Went back to the cellar hole that gave me the 1848 large cent 2 days ago. The ground was a bit more solid than I hoped for but managed to dig some targets. I found this lock plate that has me a little baffled. It's obvious where the key goes but what
Read more…Got out for a couple hours today and had a little success. Got all the normal crap bit did come home with a silver rosie and my first buffalo nickel :) Was a good day!
Heres the keepers
and the back of the nickel
Had a few minutes before dark to check out a cellar hole I've been thinking about lately. Gonna go there Sunday and put some time on it. It's only a 5 minute walk from the truck which was nice as it was only 26 degrees. I got to the cellar hole and o
Read more…Yesterday I headed back to a cellar hole I hammered last year with my Ace350. Itching to put my new At Pro through the paces and see what i may have missed last year. I did get more targets but only scored one real keeper. Hunting cellar holes is a l
Read more…I went and checked a woods site Ive had my eye on and I'm glad I did! Will be going back for sure. Here's today's finds....the axe head is in great shape!
This bullet is almost as big around as my finger....
And my best coin yet....A large cent.
Read more…Went back to work more on the ball field this morning for a couple hours. Got the usual change, tabs and caps when out pops my first mercury dime. That is the coin I been wanting since day 1. Dont know what it is about them but I think they are the c
Read more…Been checking the old sites and cellar holes but to much snow is keeping me from them. The only place thawed out is a small park in town. So I took the new At Pro out for a couple hours. Got the expected clad and can slaw today but managed one keeper
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