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[CASPER-2]

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Don "Casper" DeForre

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[CASPER-2]

TNET albums (many pics here that may not be in my FLICKR page

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[Terry Soloman]

Fantastic! Just WoW! Great idea for a thread! Here are a few of mine.

A Few Photos & Metal Detecting Finds

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[CASPER-2]

Fantastic! Just WoW! Great idea for a thread! Here are a few of mine.

A Few Photos & Metal Detecting Finds

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Continued Good Luck Terry!

 

[niffler]

Amazing Casper

 

[Sand Swinger]

and you want to see some "past treasures"

Don "Casper" DeForre

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Damn Casper, you have enough treasure to open your own museum!

BTW, what are you wearing on your face, is that a full-face snorkel? I've never seen that before but looks like it would be great to protect and keep cold water off your face at the same time.

 

[CASPER-2]

Damn Casper, you have enough treasure to open your own museum!

BTW, what are you wearing on your face, is that a full-face snorkel? I've never seen that before but looks like it would be great to protect and keep cold water off your face at the same time.

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they re actually very popular now in some areas - I tell people i would bet my house that i was the first person in the USA to own one. I used to go to sites that would show shows with new products being developed.
Company in europe (think france) had some at a show to look for investors and interest. I followed the company and they announced they were releasing them at a sports store like Dicks in some European countries.
My girlfriend had a friend in Portugal that lived next door to one of these stores - just happened they were
selling them on a friday debut and he was coming over here the next day. My gal asked him if he could buy me one and we'd pay him back ...he said no problem and i had it by Saturday night. You can imagine the looks i got
when i first tried it out at the beach. It does keep face warmer when cold out - only problem they have a lot
of airspace making it hard to dive to the bottom. A lot of snorkeling trips bought Chinese knock offs
cause they got sick of people losing the snorkels off their rentals- I paid i think like $100 - think
you can get cheapos for like $20 now

 

[CASPER-2]

Damn Casper, you have enough treasure to open your own museum!

BTW, what are you wearing on your face, is that a full-face snorkel? I've never seen that before but looks like it would be great to protect and keep cold water off your face at the same time.

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I wish I had everything i ever found - started detecting in 1975 (age 13) - I have like 3 coins from my first 20 yrs hunting.- 1899 barber quarter XF condition, 1918 over 17 - S mint in VF/XF stand lib. quarter, and a Spanish
1 real. I had a ton of stuff from land hunting in my early yrs. I wish i had at least taken pics back then but
alas i did not. I had a ton of silver coins and relics from hitting cellar holes and farm fields back then
Needed money back then and 2 divorces in the 90s and all that stuff was gone. Everything in albums is from 1995 to present and because of health issues i havent got out at all the last few yrs.

 

[OBN]

Damn Casper, you have enough treasure to open your own museum!

BTW, what are you wearing on your face, is that a full-face snorkel? I've never seen that before but looks like it would be great to protect and keep cold water off your face at the same time.

I have one of those if you want it. I tried it a few times but my issue in the bay ...it has no visibility. You can't even see your hands unless you touch the mask. 75% of the time I hunt with my eyes shut, helps me focus on faints. Odd...... you figure I could do the same when snorkeling with no vis........... nope.

 

[Sand Swinger]

I have one of those if you want it. I tried it a few times but my issue in the bay ...it has no visibility. You can't even see your hands unless you touch the mask. 75% of the time I hunt with my eyes shut, helps me focus on faints. Odd...... you figure I could do the same when snorkeling with no vis........... nope.

I didn't think it would be much help in our ocean & bay waters in MD & DE, due to dark, murky water conditions. But where I think it would be great to use would be something like a freshwater lake, water would/should be clearer than our ocean & bay, and I wouldn't have to keep looking up and around for any large toothy critters approaching, lol.

 

[Sand Swinger]

You can imagine the looks i got when i first tried it out at the beach. It does keep face warmer when cold out - only problem they have a lot
of airspace making it hard to dive to the bottom.

Yeah, I noticed that it does look a bit "unique", lol. Kinda reminds me of the face on a Praying Mantis. Definitely seems to have a modern, European type vibe to the design.

 

[Sand Swinger]

I wish I had everything i ever found - started detecting in 1975 (age 13) - I have like 3 coins from my first 20 yrs hunting.- 1899 barber quarter XF condition, 1918 over 17 - S mint in VF/XF stand lib. quarter, and a Spanish
1 real. I had a ton of stuff from land hunting in my early yrs. I wish i had at least taken pics back then but
alas i did not. I had a ton of silver coins and relics from hitting cellar holes and farm fields back then
Needed money back then and 2 divorces in the 90s and all that stuff was gone. Everything in albums is from 1995 to present and because of health issues i havent got out at all the last few yrs.

Right there with ya, started hunting dirt in 69' with a Heathkit that we actually had to build, then got a Coinmaster IV in 1971. I think I still have most of the finds I've made over the years, just have to find where I have them stashed, lol. I probably spent some clad quarters over the years, but never sold any bling or old coins, so I should have bags of finds around here somewhere. Once I find those, I'll snap some pics with my cellphone camera, at least to have for memory purposes and to share if anyone else wants to see.

I don't think I have any pics of hunting back in the day, but I'll have to look through my mom's old photo albums, she may have taken some pics of me at competition hunts. But what the younger generation seems to forget, is that back when you and I were starting out, pics needed to be taken by a film camera. Film cost money, then getting the pics developed cost money, so we were very judicious in the pics we took. Even back in 2011, when I switched over to beach hunting, I didn't take any pics out while hunting, too busy and moving too fast, and I think I had a flip phone back then, lol. But occasionally, I'd break out the Cannon digital camera and take a few shots of finds when I got back and got them cleaned up. But nowadays, with my cell phone, I can whip that out, shoot some video, take dozens of pics without worry, because as we all know, digital "film" is cheap, lol.

 

[Blak bart]

Still grinding, gold and silver still flowing !!

My current gold situation....still some voids to fill in with the smalls. Lot of these ive had awhile, and are the ones I like to keep. Bands and scrap get sold.

 

[OBN]

Still grinding, gold and silver still flowing !!

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My current gold situation....still some voids to fill in with the smalls. Lot of these ive had awhile, and are the ones I like to keep. Bands and scrap get sold.

Looking good!! First thing I scrap are those grills.

 

[Blak bart]

Looking good!! First thing I scrap are those grills.

Saving some scrap to give my jeweler. Gold bands, gold grills, and busted chains will go to the jewler for a big treasure coin build !! I have a nice dated 8 reale 1732....the very last year of the cobb coin production !! When I get some more diamonds 💎 ill take everything down to him and cut a deal to make a custom coin mount for my last year cobb coin !!

Finally after many years of looking i found one for sale that is similar. It sold for 11 thousand dollars!! So im holding scrap for my next build !! I've been offered 5500$ for the coin, but just cant bring myself to sell such a personal treasure !! So ill wear it and save it for my son !!