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Hey guys! I have been interested in metal detecting for a bit. Got a book "Oklahoma Treasures and Treasure Tales" a while back because of a story my friend and I heard about hidden gold by a deserted group of Civil War soldiers that buried it by a river in SE OK and part of it is on his land... anyways... been reading the book and watching various TH shows on History and NG channels. Started looking at MD's on Ebay and happened to find a White Goldmaster 64TR (have a question about this later) at a junk store for $20... mint condition, looks to be never used. Last week I went to the almighty google to find a forum... and here it was! I have been reading threads day and night (girlfriend thinks I am crazy!) and I found what I was looking for! I saw lots about "coinroll hunting" so I tried it last night... got $200 in halves from the local bank. They brought them out to me and 19 of them were in the Macing rolled white paper rolls and one was in a brown hand rolled one and I almost exchanged it for the other type because I figured that there is no way that one would have anything... good thing I didn't!
Well the brown one I opened first... it had 7 1965-1968 Kennedy's! I then tore through the rest... and found 2 more 40% Kennedy's... wish I would have saved the brown one for last! I am going back to that bank to get the rest of what they have!
My question is about the Goldmaster. I found on Whites website that its prob about 40 years old... looks nice... and seems to work fine. I have seen that people recommend the ACE 250 and it looks to be a decent price. Is this one worthless? Should I just go ahead and buy an ACE? My grandparents own about 300 acres on a dead end road out in the country and there was a small rail "town" on their land that went away in the early 1900's. There used to be a railroad crossing on the property but both lines have been gone for many decades. The town consisted of a few buildings and on the net I have found that there was a Post Office for about 12 years and my gradma has a couple of pieces of mail that are stamped with the name of the town... but thats all the info I can find. I have a 1902 map that shows it, but a 1915 map I found online does not. There is nothing left of the town whatsoever. We find railroad spikes from time to time and a old glass bottle here and there but nothing else. As far as I know nobody has used a metal detector anywhere around there. So should I just get a new machine and then go out there... or would this machine be ok for that??
I am sorry that the post is so long... just excited! It looks like I have found a great place and I hope to make some friends and have some fun!! (I am already hooked on Danimal's Lunchtime Hunts!!)
BTW.. here is a pic of my finds!
Well the brown one I opened first... it had 7 1965-1968 Kennedy's! I then tore through the rest... and found 2 more 40% Kennedy's... wish I would have saved the brown one for last! I am going back to that bank to get the rest of what they have!
My question is about the Goldmaster. I found on Whites website that its prob about 40 years old... looks nice... and seems to work fine. I have seen that people recommend the ACE 250 and it looks to be a decent price. Is this one worthless? Should I just go ahead and buy an ACE? My grandparents own about 300 acres on a dead end road out in the country and there was a small rail "town" on their land that went away in the early 1900's. There used to be a railroad crossing on the property but both lines have been gone for many decades. The town consisted of a few buildings and on the net I have found that there was a Post Office for about 12 years and my gradma has a couple of pieces of mail that are stamped with the name of the town... but thats all the info I can find. I have a 1902 map that shows it, but a 1915 map I found online does not. There is nothing left of the town whatsoever. We find railroad spikes from time to time and a old glass bottle here and there but nothing else. As far as I know nobody has used a metal detector anywhere around there. So should I just get a new machine and then go out there... or would this machine be ok for that??
I am sorry that the post is so long... just excited! It looks like I have found a great place and I hope to make some friends and have some fun!! (I am already hooked on Danimal's Lunchtime Hunts!!)
BTW.. here is a pic of my finds!
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