Random junk, but my 1st ever random junk!

[MKW]

I decided a while back that I wanted to get into metal detecting. After lots of research, I ordered the new MineLab Vanquish 540. It came today and I couldn't get it together fast enough. I headed down to a newly cleared (old growth woods) lot in my neighborhood. It about an hours time, I had a little pile of junk. I'm pretty excited because I've never had a detector in my hands. First find was part of a spoon. I ended up with the spoon, part of some old scissors, a 50cal shell casing, 2 square nails, and a random hunk of iron. There are several targets that I couldn't dig because they had the depth meter pegged out and I only had a very small garden shovel with me. I'll
go back more prepared tomorrow.

 

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[Digger RJ]

Nice!! Congrats!!

 

[lenmac65]

Good luck. Once you get hooked, there's no turning back.

 

[steve_rowlands]

Yeah you'll be hooked in no time

 

[Harrison]

Love your finds. I absolutely love finding things - historical or not- still treasures to me! I still remember my first penny dug, the fact I found money in the earth was so cool to me! Then my first civil war bullet I thought I was going to cry. It’s been about 2months for me now and I’ll I can think about is hunting. Before I go to bed I think of new spots, when I sleep I dream of discovering, and when I wake I go out and hunt. It’s addictive! I wish you the best of luck.

 

[desmobob]

It's a load of fun, isn't it? During my first summer of detecting, I had a sudden realization of how exciting it was to me to find even a penny. Just seeing a coin in the hole was actually exciting. What other hobby could make finding a simple little penny so much fun?

Enjoy your new detector in good health!

 

[MKW]

Thanks, yall. It was amazing how excited I was when I dug that old rusty spoon in the first hole. Then, then the rifle casing was even more exciting. I have no idea what it was doing there and it was about 5" deep.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on starting out in the hobby. Prepare yourself for more a lot more "random Junk" as you described it, before your detecting career is over. If your not digging junk, you will miss a lot of good finds.

 

[Raider19962]

If you think that was fun, wait til you find your first silver, or, God Bless You, gold!

 

[A2coins]

That's how it's done you will dig lots of junk before the goodies come and they will. Make a coin test garden to learn the tones and get a coin book it will help alot. Good job keep posting. Tommy

 

[A2coins]

Welcome from Mi. Tommy

 

[Gene Mean]

Congrats! For your first time those are great finds. Somebody was there a long time ago so keep looking.

 

[MKW]

So, today at the same place, I found an axe head, 2 more 50cal bullets (I really have no idea why these are there), a key, a buckle, a modern broadhead, a piece of lead, a piece of copper, 2 shotshell bases, and a square nail.
I'm going to go back one more time, but I believe I have about covered it because it's only about 1/2 acre.
Thanks for all the encouragement!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice job, keep up the good work!