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mumszie · Nov 14, 2008

If someone would call me and say "You are welcome to come to my yard and hunt but I live 50 miles away. You will only find a few pennies but you are welcome to them." I would say not very likely! I mean who would drive 50 miles for a few pennies? Oh yes, I drove about 50 miles this morning (one way) and although I got lots of hits I didn't find much. I found a bullet casing, a dog tag, a grommet from a tarp, another encrusted lock ( I seem to be real good at finding these here lately), a bobby pin, a nut, a couple of things I can't identify, the head of a cheap razor (be careful when digging you never know WHAT you are going to find and I almost cut my finger on this one), what I thought was a ring but on closer inspection it is not, a handful of pull tabs and a total of $1.19 in clad. Only one quarter this morning. Most of my clad was pennies. Well I'm not complaining because I was gettin hits and I was finding some coins so I'm happy. I'll take it. So the answer to the question in the beginning is..... An MD'er! :wink:

mpostma · Nov 14, 2008

You are correct! Have an detector, will travel.
I once made a license plate for a friend that said, "Farming, the ultimate gamble"
Now I believe it should say, "Metal Detectors, the Ultimate wishful thinking gamblers!"

Glad to hear you had signals to dig!

Best of Luck,
Mark

MUD(S.W.A.T) · Nov 14, 2008

As long as your getting out and enjoying the day !

Keep @ it and HH!!

fldaphne · Nov 14, 2008

..........junk metal worth anything

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Kidding aside - I was glad to hear you got out and just know the next hunt will be FABULOUS!!!!

seger98 · Nov 14, 2008

I've driven further! ::)

romeo-1 · Nov 14, 2008

Not all bad...at least you earned yourself a tetanus shot!

Cynangyl · Nov 14, 2008

Looks like you might have to set up a display of locks!

Glad you got out and found some stuff! :thumbsup:

Monty · Nov 14, 2008

You're getting better at this! If you are finding nickels you are bound to find gold one of these days. Gold and nickels ring up about the same on my detector. Monty

N.J.THer · Nov 14, 2008

You drive for the possibility of finding something good and hope that it becomes a reality....

I'm driving twenty minutes one way tonight just to see if a farm field was plowed. If it was not I don't want to waste the time driving tomorrow morning when I could be detecting...yes we are crazy.

NJ

allen · Nov 15, 2008

you may not have found much, but you have a little more experience now than you did before that hunt...
theres always the next hunt...

catchdogcross · Nov 15, 2008

I kinda like a site that's "quiet", I know, I know it's counter -productive to the md'ing hobby but then there is more to this hobby than finding treasure, right? Sometimes I find someone I havent seen in a while...myself. I however never find myself to deep in md'ing Zen not to hear the beep, beep rrrr beep, beep. I think md'ing is part anticipation part meditation... So if you only found a few clad pennies and a dog tag you did good, maybe learned a few things about yourself... and yes I'd drive 50 miles to a site just to find pennies...
Catchdog