Some older hunts and treasures vid

[CASPER-2]

made a slide show with some older finds - just plucked pics from some of my older folders
just a sample mostly from between 2001 thru 2010 - don't have many pics from pre 2000
wish I had pics of finds from my early years - been detecting since 1975 age 12
only have a few choice coins from the old days

 

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[A2coins]

Awesome that's living the dream

 

[OBN]

Awesome that's living the dream

Amen to that!!

 

[sandmartin]

awesome video and finds Don. By the way do you know Mike, NH beach metaldetecting on YouTube?

 

[CASPER-2]

I don't think so - NH waters are like 2 1/2 - 3 hrs away from me
I have not been up that way in yrs - there are a ton of guys in a small area on the coast up there
there are guys that go out like every day - so tough for a guy like me to travel that far into an area I
don't know
Funny when I was a teen - we would go up there for a week and most times my father and grandfather were the only
detectorists around on the beaches - now ...there are beaches I can take you to in the summer and there can be
like 25 guys and gals hunting - not my kind of scene
plus lot of beaches up there - tides go out 100s of yards so land hunters can hunt too
Im a water guy - I want to step off the shore and be chest deep
1KBlueTuber (Ron) probably does

awesome video and finds Don. By the way do you know Mike, NH beach metaldetecting on YouTube?

 

[sandmartin]

I don't think so - NH waters are like 2 1/2 - 3 hrs away from me
I have not been up that way in yrs - there are a ton of guys in a small area on the coast up there
there are guys that go out like every day - so tough for a guy like me to travel that far into an area I
don't know
Funny when I was a teen - we would go up there for a week and most times my father and grandfather were the only
detectorists around on the beaches - now ...there are beaches I can take you to in the summer and there can be
like 25 guys and gals hunting - not my kind of scene
plus lot of beaches up there - tides go out 100s of yards so land hunters can hunt too
Im a water guy - I want to step off the shore and be chest deep
1KBlueTuber (Ron) probably does

Ah I didn't realise you were that far away Don. I guess it's like one of you guys saying do I know John from London, lol. Wow those beaches get pounded then, I understand what you mean. I know you are a water guy, I will be trying that approach over here, once the water warms up a little! I have never seen anyone here hunt over ankle deep.

 

[lookindown]

Thanks for sharing Casper...now you got me wanting to hit the water.

 

[Irishgoldhound]

Awesome vid!! Thanks for sharing

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Great presentation, thank you for sharing!

 

[NowandThenTreasures]

Great video! Wish I had started this hobby at age 12. How accurate were the old detectors?

 

[CASPER-2]

I started out in 1975 with a Compass TR machine - they sold for like $129 i think - got mine used for I think $99
it had 2 knobs - one turn on and off/volume - the other sensitivity
I used to crank up the hum and go for the slightest fluctuation in sound - I did great once I learned my machine
alomost gave up after my first year - found almost nothing but after the snow melted in 1976 - I decided to hit
my lawn which dated back to around 1939 - i started finding all kinds of coins and then silver
i would go out day after day and then started to grid - then started to slow down and go for the faint sounds
i found quite a bit and learned my machine - i actually found my first LC in my yard - it had been hit by a musket ball
found out that years ago there was a town farm on the site - after that i was competing with the big boys on club hunts
i could hunt with guys with $500+ machines and find just as much and at time out shoot them
many of them would crank their discrim. and they would missed stuff - the older machine would throw out nickels
and white gold in pull tab mode - was i think around 17 when i showed up day late and dollar short at a drained ponds beach
looked like an artillery range - about 30 guys had been there - i went out with my non discriminating machine and started finding nickels they
all passed up - eventually i got a what we call a pre-engagement ring with 2 little diamond chips / white gold - then got a white gold wedding band
right where everyone of them came onto the beach and left it - MY machine back then would pick up a silver dime at maybe 6+ inches - it had
a solid coil and had a nipple in the middle - you could put your finger over that nipple after getting a hit and stick a screw driver in where your
finger was and hit your target - they were accurate - i was always told that i had what we used to cal a "hot" machine - this meant
that it was better than others of the same make and model - i have not heard that term used with most of the modern machines.
I can tell you - i own 3 CZ21s - my #1 is hotter and works better than the other 2 - its my primary machine for old areas
I have a #2 as my back up it is better than my #3 - number 3 is a good machine but can not get as much depth out of it as the other two
it is great for fresh drops - i have sent #2 and 3 in to see if they could tweek them - got them back the same