daytondigger
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This past week a caving buddy of mine retired from the Army Corps of Engineers after 33 years. A few of us met at another friends farm Saturday night to celebrate with a bonfire and cold refreshments. It wasn't long before I was showing the guys a nice large cent I keep in my pocket and telling stories of barbers and indians and tokens. I do this because most of my friends seem genuinely interested and it can lead to talk of places to detect, possibly some good leads. This time my buddy Jim who had just retired seemed more than interested in this hobby of mine. I had my detector in my truck and we were out at Ron's farm metal detecting in the dark. Jim was excited and we made plans to go out detecting the next day. He had mentioned he had a detector and he sure enough did. I'd seen this model before, of course I was a lot younger then 
. The old detector was useless. The shallow coins at 2 inches or less on my CZ5 more often than not would give him no or little response. I decided to let him use my machine with me training him on the fly. He was soon digging wheats and enjoying himself capitally. I set down for a while and watched him dig. I soon heard him say "it says six inches" and thought to myself he probably hasn't mastered the depth feature. He spent some time recovering the target, then I saw him raise up, hold something toward the sun and start to wipe. "1893" he says, Indian I asked, "no a dime" he replies. Wait a minute, the oldest coin I've found at this old picnic grounds is 1900, he's skunked me with my own machine, and I don't have that one in my coin album either. Oh well, I actually was happy for him........sort of . He also dug a nice '39 merc and an indian. I dug 7 silver dimes, an indian and many wheats etc.. Also included is a picture of my hunt from 2 sundays ago, 70 mile an hour winds as the remnants of hurricane Ike passed through. It was a humorous hunt and I scored a war nickel, 3 silver dimes and an indian as the large trees started to come down. 
. The old detector was useless. The shallow coins at 2 inches or less on my CZ5 more often than not would give him no or little response. I decided to let him use my machine with me training him on the fly. He was soon digging wheats and enjoying himself capitally. I set down for a while and watched him dig. I soon heard him say "it says six inches" and thought to myself he probably hasn't mastered the depth feature. He spent some time recovering the target, then I saw him raise up, hold something toward the sun and start to wipe. "1893" he says, Indian I asked, "no a dime" he replies. Wait a minute, the oldest coin I've found at this old picnic grounds is 1900, he's skunked me with my own machine, and I don't have that one in my coin album either. Oh well, I actually was happy for him........sort of . He also dug a nice '39 merc and an indian. I dug 7 silver dimes, an indian and many wheats etc.. Also included is a picture of my hunt from 2 sundays ago, 70 mile an hour winds as the remnants of hurricane Ike passed through. It was a humorous hunt and I scored a war nickel, 3 silver dimes and an indian as the large trees started to come down.
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So..... what kind of machine is your buddy looking to get 
. A tough area for a newbie to stay hooked.
