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acatnan

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Newbie's finds 1st Silver

Just recieved my first detector today at 5:45pm, an Ace 250,out the door by 6:05pm. Walked across the street to an open field and found my first item,it seems to be a tap shoe cleat,its got a circle and the words tip,tap,top around it, it appears to be aluminum or white metal, it was about 5in down. Second find was the piece of brass pipe about 3ft away at the same depth. Last find was the dime about 5ft away and about 4in down. 1st detector and first silver all in the same day. Been doing research of the area and found a map from 1869 showing 4 buildings across the street,needless to say that they are no longer there. Talked to my nieghbor 70yrs old and she said when she was a little girl there was a gas station/general store on the corner. Need to go get permission tomorrow to detect the field.There is a man who comes here in the spring when they till up the land (26 acres) and justs walks the field finding arrow heads.This area was settled in late 1700's, early 1800's, lots of history here. I found 18 1 room school houses on the same map all within a 10 mile radius of my town.Can't wait to hit some of them soon. I think I will enjoy this hobby,just wanted to say hello and thanks for looking,very nice forum. :icon_study:
 

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Re: Newbie's finds 1st Silver

Congrats on your first silver. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
 
Re: Newbie's finds 1st Silver

Grats on the new Ace!...now all I have to do is manage to wait till Thursday for mine :-\

And finding silver on your first outing! double grats!!

Hope to be joining you soon as a proud Ace owner ;D
 
Re: Newbie's finds 1st Silver

Welcome to TNet acatnan. You have got your first silver out the way and now on to the gold. Great looking merc. I know you will have loads of fun with the Ace.
 
Re: Newbie's finds 1st Silver

plehbah said:
It is amazing- I do not think I have ever seen so many new metal detector enthusiasts.

It is quite a coincidence, as the finds and areas to legally detect are starting to really dwindle now. At the current rate, by next summer you will have to travel to the moon to find a pulltab.

I wish you could have seen it twenty years ago, nobody cared what you did, and there were plenty of areas to spend the afternoon finding neat things.

But those days are over now, and soon all metal detector enthusiasts will be hounded away from searching in the last tot lots for pencil eraser bands.

Welcome to TreasureNet.


That maybe the case but we are getting into it without the memories of those times, we don't know any better so we will be happy with what we get. ;D
 
Re: Newbie's finds 1st Silver

Congrats on your first post, first silver, and first metal detector. That's three firsts in the same night.

Welcome to the forum, keep us posted on your finds.

HH,

Dave

P.S. from the look of my junk pouch tonight I don't think we are in danger of running out of pull tabs anytime soon?
 
Re: Newbie's finds 1st Silver

congrats on the first silver :thumbsup: :thumbsup: the ace is a great machine...once u learn to understand a lot of the signals u will like it even more. well best of luck and looking forward to seeing more of your finds.
 
Re: Newbie's finds 1st Silver

That's wonderful friend ! finding that merc on your first time out is really special . I went out with friend about a

month ago , it was his first time out ever , and within the first half hour he scored a merc . and later that afternoon

he snagged a nice little sterling pendant with turquoise , I spent the whole afternoon picking up clad coins, well

I did manage a few later wheaties - And I was the one with the new modern high dollar machine - ha !

Argentium.
 
Re: Newbie's finds 1st Silver

Way to go on your first silver! :thumbsup: It'll be 35 years for me this summer. It was fun starting out for me back then and it is still a thrill to dig that next beep.

Good luck and HH!
 
Re: Newbie's finds 1st Silver

Welcome to TNET and a Great hobby!
You've started off this hobby like a Pro with doing
research on the area you plan on detecting.
Congratulations on you first silver and your first
detector.
Happy Hunting!

John
 
Re: Newbie's finds 1st Silver

Congrats on your first silver and may you find many more :thumbsup:
 
Re: Newbie's finds 1st Silver

Gotta love them mercs
nice silver

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Re: Newbie's finds 1st Silver

Sweet Merc acatnan... Hope you get permission to hunt, especially where the general store was located...

HH Robert
 
Re: Newbie's finds 1st Silver

Wow, now that is good hunting!
 
Re: Newbie's finds 1st Silver

Way to go ! and welcome to tnet.
 
Re: Newbie's finds 1st Silver

Welcome to the forum and congratulations on your first silver!! There are some here who tend to paint a bleak picture about our future but just take one look at the items that have recently hit the banner and you will see that there are still plenty of good finds out there. Check out the Iron Brigade's adventures every week and it's pretty obvious if you're as passionate about the hobby as they are and are willing to do some research and knock on doors,there are PLENTY of places to detect. Good luck with the one room school houses. They have been some of my favorite places to detect . One piece of advise..even in the 1800's they had a recess area that would have been a little ways away from the actual site of the building,find that area and you're gonna be busy with the Indian Heads and Barber dimes :thumbsup:
Jerry
 
Re: Newbie's finds 1st Silver

Welcome to TNet and you're off to a great start with your Merc.

HH
 
Re: Newbie's finds 1st Silver

Welcome to T-Net and the forum. Boy, you wasted no time at all getting out there and scoring some silver! Good job! I'm still looking for my first Merc. Keep em coming!

HH,
Moon
 

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