What was your first find?

Pulltab Parson

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Jan 20, 2007
823
84
Northwest PA
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Tesoro Tejon, Tesoro Vaquero, White's Prizm III, White's Bulls-eye Pinpointer II
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Metal Detecting
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wheatfinder13

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Nov 23, 2012
3,383
1,192
New Orleans
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Teknetics alpha 2000 ,garret pro pointer
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Metal Detecting
My first find was a lid to a viana sausage li
 

Sever

Greenie
Jan 22, 2013
11
10
Russia, Nizhny Novgorod
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MINELAB X-Terra 705
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Likely all had first finds from area of packing materials. I here found at first the whole heap of jams from under vodka. Well it is normal - I in Russia. :laughing7:
The first good find was a silver coin of 50 kopeks of 1896. Изображение 001.jpg
I so was delighted. I thought that now all treasures will be mine.:laughing7:
Still I store this coin, as a talisman

P.S. Excuse, if my English bad. I write with the dictionary.
 

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Sovereignelite

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Sep 30, 2012
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Bloomington Indiana
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E-TRAC & TESORO GOLDEN SABRE II---ETRAC COILS :SEF 10x12, SEF 6x8, X-5, Detech 8" concentric, ,--- TESORO COILS- 12x10 TOOLS: Lesche, Profind 25, Garrett Propointer
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All Treasure Hunting
My first find was a can . My first GOOD find was a 1903 IH cent.
hey All,

What was your first find? Mine was a number of years ago it was an Aladdin's Arcade Tolken that I found in my yard when I first got my Prizm III. I remember it like it was yesterday!
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Let's hear what your first finds are!!!

HH

Pulltab Parson
 

Fitzwilk

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Jan 6, 2013
368
193
East Coast, Florida
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Minelab Excalibur II
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
My first find is somewhere in this pile of Lincolns.
 

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Minrelica

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Mar 24, 2010
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Minnesota
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Minelab EQ 800, Minelab SE PRO, Minelab X-Terra Pro & 14 other machines
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All Treasure Hunting
I brought my ACE 250 down to an old beach on the Mississippi (yuck). I turned it on and when the coil touched the ground it beeped. It was a clad dime and took about 15-20 seconds to find.
 

dougofpa

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May 18, 2012
486
121
PA
Detector(s) used
Minelab Safari, Garrett ACE 250, Garrett Pro Pointer, Lesche Digger
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
I had the 250...turned it on and went in my backyard......found a piece of wire..typical
 

Pork King

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Jan 27, 2013
65
38
North Mississippi, USA
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Bounty Hunter Sharpshooter Ultra Mag
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
My first (just a couple of weeks ago) was in my back yard. Appears to be a small suncatcher with most of the colored plastic knocked out. I'm keepin' it!
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HutSiteDigger

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Nov 26, 2012
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1,283
Stafford,Virginia
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Fisher 1266x and a shovel
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All Treasure Hunting
Think mine was a shotgun shell.... First civil war relic was a 3 ringer and first button was a Eagle I button! :occasion14: With a Fisher 1266x:occasion14:
 

Tnmountains

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Jan 27, 2009
18,716
11,709
South East Tennessee on Ga, Ala line
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Tesoro Conquistador freq shift
Fisher F75
Garrett AT-Pro
Garet carrot
Neodymium magnets
5' Probe
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All Treasure Hunting
Mine was an eye ball find as a kid. An arrowhead. I still have it. My metal detector find was a 3 ringer in the front yard. Boy have I gone down hill :laughing7: Today was nothing but shotgun hulls.
 

gerryk

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Jan 20, 2013
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Orland Park
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Minelab X Terra 705, Bounty Hunter Pro 505, Garrett Pro pointer, Pro swing 45, TDK WR 700 wireless headphones, leschee digger, green canvas mil surplus messenger bag as finds bag and brown bomb#2 to
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My first find was my edding band that i lost in our yard doing landscaping work. My second find was also my wedding band. I have since only worn my wdding band when we go out
 

boris

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Dec 17, 2011
468
92
Cape Cod
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tesoro stingray
Primary Interest:
Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
My first find was a musket ball the rain had washed up at age 11 in New York and I started to think about those detector ads in "Popular Mechanics" Mag, but it was about dowsing long range stuff then in the "60s.
 

Terry Soloman

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May 28, 2010
19,423
30,109
White Plains, New York
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Nokta Makro Legend// Pulsedive// Minelab GPZ 7000// Vanquish 540// Minelab Pro Find 35// Dune Kraken Sandscoop// Grave Digger Tools Tombstone shovel & Sidekick digger// Bunk's Hermit Pick
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
My first find was classic..
 

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smokeythecat

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Nov 22, 2012
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Maryland
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10
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XP Deus II
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All Treasure Hunting
Arrowhead when I was about 8. I still have it.
 

Brian C.

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Jan 14, 2011
1,271
1,330
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Whites and Garrett. I use several machines, the ace 350 is a nice machine. I have a 5900, 6000, whites.
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Relic Hunting
A 1917 large cent.
 

GrizLeeBear

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Jan 18, 2013
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Full Time In An RV
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Garrett GTI 1500
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
Back in 1959 I was at the library and read a back issue of Popular Mechanics and read an article on metal detectors. The had a design and instructions, so I made one. It had one ear plug, emitted a constant tone that changed when you went over metal, and used a very heavy battery. It was good to maybe five inches on coins in loose playground sand. I took it to the school I went to and cleaned up all the coins in the playground. I also found some bottle caps. There were no pull tabs back then. I found an old Roy Rogers pocket knife that has the Morse Code on the back. I think I still have that knife. I paid for my investment in less than a week. The detector was made from wood that I cut, a broom handle, a simple electric circuit of parts I bought from a place that fixed radios and TV's, and a large, heavy battery used on a special kind of flashlight. My coil was wound from the wire in a car radio transformer. All my coins were silver or Wheaties. That's all we had back then. Love to find some of them again. Imagine you are out on a search and you find two standing liberty quarters and you are thirsty, so you go over to a Coke machine and spend them! Ha! The good old days.
 

Fishermanjuice

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Jan 24, 2013
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millerb91 said:
My first find and still can't find info thinks has something to do with rail road

<img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=731034"/>

Maybe it is a lockout-tagout tag for equipment repair. Very possibly railroad equipment. This would be given to someone that would lock a switch and put this tag on the lock to identify who locked it. Only that person can unlock it. It's for safety. It's a longstanding procedure common at power plants. Many trains deliver coal to plants.

Cheers
Fishermanjuice
 

detroitdigger

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Sep 26, 2012
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Garrett gtax 1000,Garrett ace 250, Technetics delta
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My first find was a screw cap!
 

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