dirtlooter
Gold Member
- Jun 5, 2014
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- Detector(s) used
- XP Deus with 9"LF and 9" HF Coils and 600 Equinox with stock and 6" coils
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
One thing that I have learned is that kids, especially the little ones really get into the metal detecting. I was at my son's new to them house and was going to metal detect the front yard. Immediately his two boys, Cooper 3 and Casin 2, were out to see what I was doing. So I unplugged the ear buds so that they could hear as I swung the AT GOLD. They were very excited to hear what it had to say and quickly got under foot. I finally hit a decent signal that I was pretty sure was a zinc penny and so I got down and began to dig. As I located the penny with the pin pointer, Cooper grabbed my digging tool and tried to help me dig deeper. Casin, who is actually bigger than his older brother decided that he wanted the tool and the fight was on. After securing the tool, I told them that I had found some treasure and showed them the penny in the hole. Well, I had to find another penny right then so I pulled one out of my pocket and acted like I was getting another one out of the hole, disaster avoided. After just a few digs, I realized that I should have brought a couple of plastic digging tools for them. They were very intent on helping me dig and were downright dangerous about it. I quickly had them saying "foiled again" as they followed me along. I was busy digging up a quarter when I started hearing my detector making all kinds of racket. Yep, Casin was fine tuning it for me. The saving grace was when I began digging up the worms, suddenly worms were more important and I was back to my hunt. Now I always make sure that I have some safer plastic tools for them to help me with. The good thing was the AT GOLD was pretty easy to reset and get back to my hunting. Of course both boys quickly lost their treasure and I had to re-find them for them. The boys were sad to see me leave, they had a lot of fun digging in the dirt and catching bugs. I had to promise that I would do it again with them. An easy promise to keep.