Your goal for 2018

[Scrappy]

Happy New Year everyone! What are your goals?

My goal is to:
1. Find a Rev War site and a button
2. Take friends to a site where everyone scores real nice
3. Learn to shallow water hunt
4. Find a colonial school I’ve been trying to find for 3 years.
5. Teach my kids to detect self-sufficiently

That’s mine, what’s yours?

 

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[FreeBirdTim]

I'd love to find any of these items in 2018, which have eluded me in my 5 years of detecting (no particular order):

1) Any dollar coin. Not one of those tiny things, but a REAL dollar coin. Even an Eisenhower dollar would make me happy!

2) Kennedy half dollar. I found a walking liberty half a couple of years ago, but never found a Kennedy half dollar.

3) Crotal bell. I've found 2 Conestoga bells and 2 cowbells, but zero crotal bells.

4) Gold coin. Probably not gonna happen, but you never know.

5) Rev War "USA" button.

6) 1600's tree shilling. I'm not fussy, it can be a pine tree, oak tree or even a willow tree shilling!

7) Rhode Island Civil War button.

8) 1793 chain cent. Can't beat finding the first coin ever minted by the U.S. Mint.

9) 1700's cannonball. I've run into a few people who claim to have found them in my area. They're post-Rev War, but still an amazing find.

10) Seated dime. I found an 1853 half dime, but never a seated dime.

 

[GB1]

1.to gain permission to old civil war era house
2.to find any silver coin it would only be my second
3.to find any military button.
4.to metal detect a road bed that was used a lot from the 1870's to 1920's (have to wait till deer season is over)

 

[BigWaveDave]

Great post Steve....
1) Find a Barber Half
2) Score an SLQ with a date
3) Get better permissions
4) 50 silvers
5) Rub it in my boss’s face when New England wins the Lombardi Trophy for a sixth time.

 

[smokeythecat]

Find anything old, I'm not picky. 2017 was a beyond great year.

 

[Loco-Digger]

1. Dig some CW lead and other related relics (like a belt buckle).

2. Go east and pull some more early 1800's coins on maybe some from the 1700's

3. Dig my 1st shoe buckle

4. Pull 50 silvers

5. Find a good local hunting partner

6. Find another honey hole.

7. Get permissions for 3 old out of the way home sites that I have located through research.

8. Find out where the local scouts made a swimming hole back in the 1920's.

9. Gain permission to hunt a farm field where the 1st couple local agricultural fairs were held back in the 1850's

10. Dig 3 more gold items.

 

[relic nut]

My goals are to dig more than last year, find some new permissions and share a few old ones.
I will be happy with any relic I find but would really love a breast plate this year.
Good luck to all in the year to come.

 

[fuzzy535]

1. to dig holes of treasure and not of debt.
2. Spend more time for me and my family and less of work.
3. More times with friends and making new ones.
4. be less judgmental and angry towards issues that dont affect me, and not make them my problem.

 

[mrwilburino]

Keep getting out as much as I can & enjoy the hunt.

 

[toasted]

Find my first river silver with the Equinox and finally get a capped bust silver

 

[searching 4]

Keep getting out as much as I can & enjoy the hunt.

I second that

 

[Kurios1]

Hmmm? First thing for me personally is to get my act together and become disciplined and organized with the finds I recover, period. Having viewed many amazing year end tallies from other T-net members has me "convicted" in my spirit about the many piles of pretty cool finds I have been gathering up for several seasons and NOT properly organizing and putting them away where I can actually FIND THEM! I am too embarrassed to show ya'll what I mean but, suffice it to say my home is a cluttered mess of coins, relics, and various recoveries crowding out every available flat and level surface I have.

My best intentions to clean up this mess are usually interrupted with hunting or spending too much time sitting here in front of my computer viewing all the cool stuff other folks are still digging. So I will end here and head back into my kitchen and see if I can reclaim some flat surfaces and locate some of my 2017 finds from the piles of stuff I have drug home this year. Hopefully I will make enough progress to post my own 2017 Best Of Finds. I owe many of you a debt of gratitude as your collective influence on my treasure hunting strategies has caused me to take a significant change of direction.

This is perhaps my best season ever for notching off Bucket List items and scoring some of my best recoveries in the nine years I have been metal detecting. Thanks for the post scrappy. Much respect for the year you had and your influence on many of us T-netters. If I ever do regain some sense of organization with my "STUFF" I would like to continue notching off more Bucket List US coins for starters. After that recovering the oldest and most historic relics or coins my area can cough up is where my heart lies. Learning how to access the internet to locate old spots of activity in my area will be key. Gaining access to more spots in my immediate area through new permissions is a HIGH priority as well. Have a great 2018 mate.

 

[SusanMN]

Same detecting goal for the last ten years - the elusive, impossible for me to find, silver quarter. Lots of great finds and luck, but no quarter. Hoping that 2018 will the THE year.

 

[3cylbill]

Still stuck on a half cent ....and a gold coin along with a pile of silver and lots of indians...and a silver thimble and i should stop now....,Happy new year

 

[pepperj]

A silver dollar would be nice (It's gotten so dusty it's turning to dirt so I'd be digging it out of bucket list of wants-been wishing for 50yrs now)
A piece of trade silver.
A large trade axe.
Old silver pre 1840 would be nice.
Better military buttons.
More detecting time-less To-Do-List

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

1. Capped Bust Dime
2. Silver Dollar, any
3. Silver thimble
4. Native arrowhead
5. 8 Reales
6. 1or 2 Reales
7. Escudo Doubloon real pirate loot
8. State coppers, VT, CT, MA
9. US gold coin
10. Cache with all of the above would be nice

 

[JackalopeZL1]

My Goals

#1 Dig stinking V nickel, My darn white whale
#2 Find more Old sights for California. I can find lots of silver in our older towns but I really am trying to concentrate on Gold rush era sights
#3 Dig another seated of any kind
#4 Dig a Half dime
#5 Get in Shape. Lose the weight and keep it off, No more Ide cream for me

 

[mike b]

Covered the first goal on the first day of 2018 at about 2:45pm.

 

[Scrappy]

Great post Steve....
1) Find a Barber Half
2) Score an SLQ with a date
3) Get better permissions
4) 50 silvers
5) Rub it in my boss’s face when New England wins the Lombardi Trophy for a sixth time.

Go Pats!

 

[Scrappy]

A silver dollar would be nice (It's gotten so dusty it's turning to dirt so I'd be digging it out of bucket list of wants-been wishing for 50yrs now)
A piece of trade silver.
A large trade axe.
Old silver pre 1840 would be nice.
Better military buttons.
More detecting time-less To-Do-List

You forgot..

“For Canada to thaw before next winter sets in”

Hahaha