Just to show what it took to find my first gold metal detecting

[piggman1]

I thought it would be good to just show all it took to find my first gold with a metal detector that I posted about yesturday. First off, I keep EVERYTHING I find, mainly because I don't want to come back and find it again. I hunt just the parks in this area and they are all fairly new, nothing around here is too old because it has all been buried under neighborhoods. Also people new to the hobby wonder why they are not finding what other people are posting. I've done prospecting in AZ and found gold. I've also found it in the Llano River here in Texas, but this was the first I've found in public areas with a metal detector. So here are some pics of this years finds. I garantee the parks are a lot cleaner when I leave.

 

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[Kentucky Kache]

I like that old ash shovel. I remember using them when I was a kid.

 

[Rob in KS]

Great post !!!
I need to look at this post every time I get frustrated.
Man thats quite a pile. Great job on the pics.

I still use my ash shovel

 

[diggitdoggie]

Holy junque pile, Batman!
No more complaining about bottle tops and pulltabs here..
Great pics.

DD

 

[piggman1]

I keep the trash to show any inquisitive park rangers or other law if they start to give me a hard time. It has let me stay in places where I normally would have been told to leave.

 

[Ant]

Are you looking for Gold? And where's the gold ring?

If you are, I would suggest using a dedicated gold machine. A good Gold machine will have a mode that can identify common iron and it uses a frequency that gold responds to much better than a non dedicated gold machine.

Your odds would rise substantially using a gold machine. Also, it's hard to find gold in old turf. But if the top 3 to 5 inches or are scarped, or any type of excavation or soil disturbance is present, the odds go up. I only look for gold in turf under those conditions. Most people find gold in turf incidentally to looking for coins. The ones that find a lot of gold look for it under the conditions I stated.

My 2 cents.

 

[piggman1]

I'm not looking for gold specifically, I'm just looking for whatever I find. I've prospected for gold in the past with pretty good results. Now I metal detect because there's not much gold around this part of the country. In fact, I just sold my claim outside of Wickenberg AZ because I couldn't get out there very often. The gold I was refering to is shown in a previous post. It was an 8", 14K gold bracelet, and a .925 / 14K ring. The first gold jewelry I've found.

 

[Cynangyl]

Well this thread definitely puts things in perspective eh?! That is a LOT of finds!!