1st time finds, Beware nothing exotic... Lol

Hiball76 · Jul 27, 2016

I'm somewhat embarrassed to show my 1st finds but after about a hour of searching my front yard and my neighbors here are my goodies. I left out all the bottle caps, pull tabs, aluminum can scraps, I figure you guys are probably digging enough of those on your own. I'm still pretty slow, been concentrating on pinpointing items and working with different setting on my At Gold. I found a couple pennies, one of them was a 1919 Wheat (extremely worn), 1981 penny, 1981 dime, a older die cast truck, I very pliable knife, I think it's a Boy Scout or camping knife. The last thing I found was the big round tag, I initially thought it was a coin, so I quickly closed up shop and ran in the house to run it under some water while I'm gently rubbed some dirt off. Once I got inside I realized it had a hanger on it... Well crap. After cleaning it up a little more I could clearly make out the stamping and it's a dog tag. I don't recognize the family name. It I'm going to do some research and maybe I can find the family, it only has a 4 digit phone number with a J after it, not sure if that dates it a bit of they simply didn't put the prefix on tag. Regardless... I can already tell how addicting this hobby is going to be, even without finding anything with significant monetary value, I cant wait till AM. I'll be heading out to the family farm tomorrow, checking some old 1 room school house locations and previous home stead locations on the family farm.

Loco-Digger · Jul 31, 2016

Congrats on getting out and learning your detector. The more you swing the better you'll get. I really like to tootsie toy truck, I'd much rather dig them than a matchbox or Hot Wheels any day. Dig it all until you get proficient enough to know whether it's a good target or not. GL & HH

Loco-Digger · Jul 31, 2016

I use a small shovel that can be bought from Rural King for under 7 bucks, Lowe's and other stores sell them for under $10. I use a bent piece of thick gauge copper wire to hang it from the back of my pants when I swing the coil.

75matador315 · Aug 1, 2016

love the tootsie toy truck you found i would live to find something like that as i collect diecast cars and actually repaint a few tootsietoys that have lots of paint loss like yours. fantastic job keep up the good work.