Welcome to the Metal Detector's Blog!
Metal detecting has become increasingly popular over the years, and it has been a passion of mine for about 15 years now. With the technology new metal detectors are using, just about anyone can easily start metal detecting with a few minutes after getting a new metal detector.
This site offers stories, tips and finds from myself and others who mutually share the hobby of metal detecting. If you have a neat story or find to share,
please let me know and I may post it here. ALSO, PLEASE MAKE YOU SURE TO POST ANY REVIEWS YOU MAY HAVE TO HELP OUT OTHER DETECTORISTS. WE NEED REVIEWS!. Thanks for stopping by!
May 28th, 2008
I saw a guy detecting when I was a child and went to see what he was doing. I watched him for about 5 minutes, and he pulled a Mercury dime out of the ground. It was the first time I had ever seen a metal detector or a mercury dime and even though I couldn’t get a metal detector until I was older, I haven’t put it down since!
Tags: 1853 Seated Half Dollar, Bounty Hunter Land Star, Harsville TN, Large Cents, Mercury Dime
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May 13th, 2008
I am selling my Minelab Explorer 2 if anybody is interested. This is an awesome machine, and it is only 2 years old. We have a baby on the way, and I am selling some of my toys for now. I will also include two extra coils. There is probably only about 100 hours on the machine, and it has found some really nice stuff, including barber dimes, a wedding band, and a class ring to name a few. If interested, please feel free to contact me by using the CONTACT FORM. Thanks.
Tags: Explorer 2, Metal Detectors For Sale, Minelab For Sale, Used Metal Detectors
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May 10th, 2008
My Minelab Advantage metal detector helped me find one of the most rare Texas Civil War buttons ever made.
I got into metal detecting because my wife bought me one for my birthday. 11 years later and I’m still addicted to this great hobby. My favorite places to hunt are private property and plowed fields. The day that I found this button I was searching a plowed field in the state of Louisiana. I had my Minelab Advantage, which I had been using for over two years by this point, and a shovel to help dig.
Tags: Civil War Button, Minelab Advantage, Texas, Waco Guard
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April 11th, 2008
On October 22, 2006 I was relic hunting near Fredericksburg, Virginia. I had just dug three Confederate Gardner bullets and received another signal on my Explorer XS that sounded and IDed like another bullet.
After dumpung my second shovelful of dirt I was surprised to see a small silver coin on top of the dirt pile. I thought I had just dug a piece of Spanish silver but when I picked up the coin I knew I was wrong.
Tags: 1792 Half Disme, Fredericksburg, George Washington, Minelab Explorer XS
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March 21st, 2008
My occupation is in Sales, but while a contractor was developing the property where I was previously employed I saw people metal detecting. After asking them what they were finding and hearing about the Civil War relics they were finding I got hooked!
That was about 8 years ago, and I’ve been metal detecting beaches or anywhere I can find Civil War relics ever since!
Tags: Button, Civil War, Fisher 1266-X, Relic Hunting
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February 21st, 2008
Last summer a friend and I were detecting a site when I found this 1773 Spanish reale in shockingly good shape. It was about 4 inches down. This was at a site along the El Camino Reale trail in central CA. We knew that there was a small and short lived trading post on the spot in the mid 1800’s and there were a lot of corresponding seated coins found. However, we also knew that it was in the area of one of D’Anza’a camps as he mapped the inland trail of California in the spring of 1776.
Tags: California, D'Anza, El Camino, Musketeer Advantage, Spanish Reale
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