Dont have to sell it...

[SportFishingTourism]

Hi All... New guy here, been with you for a few months just sitting back and doing some watching and learning.. gotta say this is one of the best sites I have seen for the sport... I want to get a first post under my belt so I got a shot at the banner some time. A few months ago I stumbled upon some youtube videos of MD Hunts and that was all she wrote. It really fascinated the heck out of me. I have always been interested in exploring, pirates & treasure, and things like that from when I was young, just never really took it seriously enough to go get a metal detector.. and then I saw those videos of people finding such awesome things, then I saw this board and see people finding killer stuff everyday, and it was over.... Much to my wifes dismay I had to have a metal detector, and of course I wanted the best one I could get.. So I looked around and researched it for a while, and yes you got it.. I got the etrac... Well I was so darn excited I could not hardly wait to start learning this thing... I read the books, and just about everything I could find on it. Then I got to digging. Dug up my yard, I still got to fix that. And just went crazy for a few days going on MD hunts... Well I really did not find anything but lots of junk.. Lots of pennies, and clad.. And I thought damn this aint as easy as it appears on those videos. I thought maybe this would be a brief attempt and a failing effort and I should just cut my losses and sell it.. My wife has started a countdown for me to find something with it or I have to sell it.. And I got to get past the joking from my brothers and friends that I am a geek or something for wanting to do this. I just tell them I am walking my money sniffing dog.. And I am after one eyed willies treasure... Then I dig holes in their yards!! HA.. No seriously I am very aware of the of the sport etiquette and I am learning how to dig clean plugs and put it back like it never happened. So I got about 50 hours on my machine....
It took me about 5 trips until I found my first silver... It was a mercury dime... Since then I have only found one more siver, another mercury dime.... I also found a buffalo nickel.. and I found a few wheat pennies.. Lots of clad.. No jewlery or gold yet... Pretty crazy how much clad is in the ground. Well I have not done any MDing in a month or so.. I got too many hobbies... But I just really had to go see what I could find after this hurricane came through.. So I packed up the wife and kids and headed to VA BEACH..
Right away I started finding LOTS of clad.. More so than I ever have on the beach.. Beach hunting seems like a whole different animal than dirt.. And I find my machine falsing alot with too much sensitivity.. And I usually dont find too many targets... but this time there were plenty.. Crap loads of pennies.. got tired of digging em.. But I dont want to skip over anything so i dig em.. I like digging in the sand a whole lot better than the dirt... Well time was winding down and I was getting ready to pack it up.. When I got a low pitch signal.. a 12-01.. which repeated over and over.. Sounded just like the falsing but repeated so I knew it was something.. I thought probably some foil or something.. But much to my surprise it was my first ring... Little 10k ring with the Stone.. Which looks like a nice little diamond.. Yeah buddy.. Not a whopper but still my first Gold and it made my day.. And it fit perfectly on my wifes finger and she liked it... So I believe I have earned an extension on keeping the machine!!!
I dont care what she says, I am not selling it..

Hope to put some more posts up of some serious treasure... And the next one wont be so longwinded...
I just wanted to allow myself to introduce myself!
Thanks!!

 

[CanadianTrout]

Welcome to TNET. Your post wasn't long winded (could've used a couple paragraphs LOL). I thought it was a great intro post to everybody.

Good hunting so far and lots-o-luck in the future!