Hiyas! I currently live in Clayton but have lived in the Cary area since 1974. Good to meet you all!
Ron P said:Hello MM,
I read a number of your impressive postings, it appears you are the Maestro of metal detecting. I read the thread about the club, I'm interested but this weekend is committed, I've got to get my gear ready for next weeks D-Day Jump at Ft Bragg. 54 yrs old and still jumping out of airplanes! Long adventure stories best told over coffee. I should be retiring out of the Army Reserves next year if I don't get deployed again, so I took up MDing to fill my future free weekends. Sold the idea to my wife that I would find her gold jewelry, "yea right!" I bought a used Bounty Hunter - Sharpshooter. Seems to work OK, my total finds are 72 cents from Regency Park. It appears I may do better with my eyes; I found a WW II pinapple grenade in Germany in 1984 (still dangerous and properly disposed), a 1943-S Merk at Ft Bragg 3 years ago and a Roman Provincial copper coin on a dirt road in Mosul, Irag in 2006. I'm still figuring the detector out but I have been getting a lot of false signals, it seems mostly around reddish clay which may hold ferric mineral but sometimes in sandy soil too. I have been digging mostly aluminum and iron trash. But I have a concern because I have gone over copper wire on the surface without getting a signal.
I'm down on the south side of Town off 1010, If you have time, I could use some pointers. Send me a PM
Thanks, Ron
Jack(IN) said:I lived in Hubert for close to 15 years and will be heading back for a visit and to do a little digging this Summer!! Hope to meet up with a few others there. When I first started detecting in NC in 1983, didn't meet or see anyone who detected other than an old Marine Gunner who found a couple gold coins on Camp LeJeune. Would be a treat to finally hunt there other than by myself!!