Hey all, i'm extremelly new to this stuff, actually just joined today. All I have is very cheap stuff, as I just wanted to try it out and have a pretty good place I been wanting to try for a few years, just now got a cheapo detector and pinpointer. I live just off Bonsal Rd, 2 minutes from Harry's. Keep me on the list for future get togethers.
Like I said, I have no idea what i'm doing, and have crappy equipment, but after my first hunt this past Saturday, I think a new , better detector is in my near future....
Started out doing this so the wife and I could spend some time together, we both think the old time stuff is neat. Where I deer hunt is in Birmingham twp. down below WC, lot of revolutionary war history down there, so I always wanted to just mess around trying to find stuff there. We went down last fall, and dug up some old bottles from what I found two years ago was like a old dump. We found bottles from about the 1920's to the 1940's.
Bought a cheap MD and pinpointer from Harbor freight, paid about $55 for both. Inaugural day was this past Saturday. Got used to the MD and pointer pretty quick, finding the normal iron nails, and pieces of barb wire. But moved along and found some unidentifiable things that a buddy of mine is cleaning up now to try and find any markings. I also found what we have now determined is a old shot flask head. It was flattened out, but you can still tell that is what it is for sure.
Anyway, you can say I am now hooked, and looking to get back at is soon as possible.
I would love to see some of the stuff that you guys have found locally, I have lived on the same property my whole life, and know the area well.
Good luck to all.