I snagged first gold with my AT.

Lakemonster

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Mar 20, 2011
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YAY.

My first gold item with the AT Pro!

I got up this morning and half dragged my wife outta bed to go hunting at a place I had not been before. There were some old barns and farm houses there once upon a time.... but has been turned into a massive city park within the last 15 years.

My wife usually likes to dig my targets.... she has been a bit intimidated with the actual detecting part. Today however I insisted she use the Tesoro Cibola and get a feel for it. We got there and I set her up for coin shooting.

We went over to some of the remaining structures and found the typical agriculture implement iron stuff. After about an hour and a half I saw that she was getting tired of digging up plow points and had the "lets pack it in" look on her face. I said, "lets run up to the tot lot real quick and shoot that for jewelry and then we are gone." Her ears perked up a little at the word "jewelry". I set her machine just above iron and off we went.

My second target was a bit sketchy. It was a 51-52 VDI with a bit of chop to the signal. Dug it and sure enough.... the ring.. bent in the shape of a "U". It bent right out and I called over to her and we checked it out. It had a 14k stamp on the inside.

Seems she got some sort of second wind and started back swingin the Tesoro like a Samurai. Funny how that works.

Thanks for lookin!
 

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Valley Ranger

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Mar 24, 2011
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"Her ears perked up a little at the word "jewelry"."

Works every time, doesn't it? :laughing7:
 

Born Free

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Oct 27, 2007
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A little gold can do wonders for the attitude!
Congrats, and that's for the ring AND getting the wife hooked on metal detecting.

Born Free
 

joeyfresh

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The first time I brought home jewelry, it was no longer my "nerdy little hobby" anymore :laughing9: It's great you two had fun :icon_thumright:
 

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Lakemonster

Lakemonster

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Mar 20, 2011
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White's VX3, Garrett AT PRO, Tesoro Cibola
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Lemme guess... it was no long your geeky hobby....but no longer your ring. lol.

easy way to slip into some better kit, right? :headbang:

durn auto spell check
 

Tuberale

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May 12, 2010
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WTG!!! Even a little AU goes a lllllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggg way.

After hours of digging iron implements, it also makes its own statement, doesn't it.
 

hikeinmts

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Dec 13, 2008
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My huge gold ring of 24K Korean gold ....... became hers the minute I got into the house.
But, it got me the rest of my life out hunting......she gets a little upset about me going out, I gentttttly remind her of
the possibilities. :)
 

liftloop

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sounds like the at pro had a hard time with that one....
 

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