The very first signal you dug...you found?

[ParatroopVet]

I'm just curious if you can remember back to your first time out detecting, getting a signal then digging your first plug. What was the very first "discovery" that you pulled from the ground. Coin? Ring? Or pull tabs and bottle caps. Or perhaps something just plain weird.
Chuck.

 

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[Blitzriuriu]

I have yet to have my first dig

 

[Brother Al]

Sorry I don't remember. I am positive it was made of metal tho.

 

[kingskid1611]

It was a ring with a piece of metal attached. It was later I.D.ed as a pull tab. I was on top of the world.

 

[luvsdux]

AA battery.

 

[thumper]

1970 dime....still have it

 

[TheRingFinder]

It was either a 24K Diamond ring or a pull tab, I can't quite remember??

 

[Inches from Insanity]

A roofing nail.....I didn't keep it!!!

 

[pepperj]

I'm lucky to remember what I dug last week, 45 yrs ago

 

[CincinnatiKid]

Can slaw. My detecting friend found a dime.
Second time out I found a dime and my friend found a large cent.
Nearly bashed him with my detector.
Peace ✌

 

[DirtStalker]

What was the question again..

 

[NWMP]

Clad penny. My first cool find that bit me hard was an old religious medallion found under a huge old tree, on the grounds of an old school. I still have it and fell hard right there and then.

 

[RON (PA)]

My first find was farm tool that was a hammer, pliers, & nail puller all in one. Found at a distant cousin's dairy farm. It was covered in rust, but I was flying higher than a kite. I still have it somewhere.

 

[Limitool]

Probably just a horseshoe... but then again I have a horseshoe phobia thing going on!

 

[USMC Reaper]

Old Budweiser can, 3 weeks into this and still no "good" finds but that will change in the next signal, I just know it!

 

[Chizzy]

You inspired me to go dig my first.......found 2 quarters in the front yard.........1974 and 1983.............

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

my first keeper was a zinc penny in my back yard, the day I got my first detector (see?)
also note in the photo, the plug is detached, setting in a Frisbee (so I could pass the whole mess over my coil?)
Way before my first pinpointer...! ah, memories!

 

[cruiserkev]

How could you not remember your first find? Mine was some rusty needlenose pliers I found at an old garage site in the Summer of 1981. I was 11 then and gave them to my dad who soaked them in Kroil for a couple days and got them working again. He still has them after all these years too.

I used one of these old Radio Shack detectors to start out.

 

[basque-man]

HAHAHA! We were living in Star Valley Wyoming and the wife bought me a radio shack special for about 40 bucks. Sat in the garage for about a year. The kids and I decided to walk down to the new fairgrounds after they pushed around some of the old dirt to look for old bottles. First signal and dig was an 1891-S Seated Dime.........That was 2002. Been hooked ever since and now playing with my 6th machine I think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mrwilburino]

Don't remember my first find, but CLEARLY remember the moment I popped my first coin from the dirt. Found this one with a Jetco Huntmaster back in the spring of 1974. Took it home to show my parents, then into the coin holder it went.