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[Weazel]

Greetings all, I have been looking over the posts here for a few days and enjoyed them, an figured I would regester.

A little about my self, I live in georgia and bought a metal detector a coupla years ago because of finding barbed wire in the woods not 50 ft from my house, having kids i figured I could buy the detector to find as much of the wire as I could to keep from having those horrible doctor visits for my kids or my self getting stuck by old rusty wire. So far I have discovered what can only be describes as an old farm house area. so far my finds have been interesting but not very valuable. 3 horse shoes, and old wrench and parts and pieces of wheels, and pieces of old farm equipment. mostly iron, or yeah I almost forgot I also fount an axe that was lost while we were building my house. I figure nothing I have found in older than 100 years old.

With the 5 gal bucket I keep for dropping the stuff I find getting full and the amount of stuff I am finding I am hoping that one day I will find something more valuable than what I considder scrap iron, I will be taking a few pics of what I have found and post them.

 

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[The Beep Goes On]

Hi Weazel and welcome to the forum! Sounds like you might have an interesting area around your house. What kind of machine are you using?

 

[Burdie]

Welcometo the forum. Patience is the name of the game. Research and finding a place lots of people have or had visited one time or another. HH Burdie

 

[Nana40]

Welcome to the forum!

And......be careful what you discard....you never know if it might be something really good!

Looking forward to seeing your finds!

 

[Weazel]

I am on a 250 acre piece of property that has a coupla open wells on it and known old home sites. My guess is where my house was built was a barn due to what I am finding. as for the detector I am using, it a Discovery 2200 made by bounty hunter, its the radio shack brand.

I bought it because of finding the barbed wire to keep my kids safe and me from many tetanus shots . in that alone I figure I have saved more than I paid for the detector.

as a kid I always wanted a detector, I have done some gold sluiceing and panning in my late teen early 20 years, and have always daydreamd about pirate treasuresince I was very young. Great story there. I was about 12 and the creek behind my house I found a rock that looked like a hand with a finger pointing so as a 12 year old boy I had to dig into the bank just knowing there had to be treasure there. never found anything. but the bug bit and the bug has bitten me ever since.

 

[Newline]

Hey Weazel, I'm pretty new here too. I had always wanted a metal detector and when I was little had the old orange Radio Shack kind. Now, many years later, I finally got one for Christmas...A Discovery 2200 as well. I know it's not top of the line but I figure, find some nice stuff and convince my wife it's worth the grand for a Fisher. It's a fun hobby, that I can see already as I'm reliving all of that young excitement. This is a great place to be, the people are kind, intelligent, and HELPFUL. Good luck on your land. I like anything I find so your pictures look like treasure to me. I just love finding those things which were always underfoot and no one knew. HH--------Newline

 

[The Beep Goes On]

I looked at the specs for the Discovery 2200 and it looks like it should do a decent job finding a wide range of targets. I'd suggest running it wide-open (no discrimination) until you get a good feel for the machine and for what type of things are on the property. More importantly, I would test it on sample targets (coins, jewelry, bullets, iron, etc.) to see how the detector responds...this will help a lot when in the field.

Good luck and HH!