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

[Bob207]

April 6 2014. 1974 lincoln and it has its own special spot up on the shelf

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

I do remember. It would have been about 1972 and the detector was a Radio Shack kit (Archer?) that used a PC board with an exposed "loop" for the coil. I found a quarter at about 1/2" deep (just under the grass weave). It wasn't truly a viable detector though it did work . . . until the first time I hit that exposed printed coil on rough ground and then "game over"

The first find with my Musketeer (my first "real" detector) was a glob of brazing metal/solder about 3" deep.

So, obviously the Radio Shack detector was better! ;-)

 

[Limitool]

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

Damn right buddy..... love the attitude. You ever come up to TN. (not far from me) let's hook up and dig................................................................... some more horseshoes. But I do have a lot of area to dig on... Brad

 

[johnnycat]

I found a Mercury dime in an empty lot behind our house. Can't quite pin the year down but, White's had just come out with their, "Coinmaster IV. I do remember that back then they had a monthly payment plan!

 

[GooniePirate]

It was the brass from a 12ga shotgun shell with my Jetco Mustang. Would have been about '73 or '74.

 

[DashHopes]

1st was a nail.

2nd was a 1935 Royal Saxony Silverplate Tablespoon.

My first coin was a 1975 Canadian Penny

 

[Tom_in_CA]

.... Can't quite pin the year down but, White's had just come out with their, "Coinmaster IV. ...

Ah, then that would be about 1974, as that was the year that machine was rolled out. It had a very good all-metal VLF (aka GEB) mode. But an exceptionally lousy TR disc.

 

[BosnMate]

A spoon I think, I was using my White's BFO machine, and it was a long time ago. I remember that the BFO would do false hits on me really badly, and I'd been having fits getting hits and nothing would be there. Then out popped this spoon all twisted up in a wad.

 

[Benhuntn]

I have been hunting for two weeks so it is easy to remember. I found a pull tab at two inches. Then five minutes later I found a beer can missing a pull tab.

 

[Brother Al]

I have been hunting for two weeks so it is easy to remember. I found a pull tab at two inches. Then five minutes later I found a beer can missing a pull tab.

You may be on to something.

 

[lookindown]

Took three steps from my porch with my new Ace250 and dug a zincoln...I was hooked.

 

[lookindown]

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.

A penny isn't clad.

 

[New Orleans Relic]

Poison ivy roots, and learned they were as the leaves.
Must have wiped my brow and forgot I had stopped to tinkle.
Next week and a half was no fun.
Ray

 

[RustyGold]

A square head nail was my first find!

 

[austin]

Had an old Radio Shack detector, drove to old abandoned stage station, found many square nails. Got hooked. Later went to Padre Island(before National seashore). Found mucho. But nails first. Late 50's-early 60's. Can't remember...

 

[against the wind]

I purchased a mail order beep and dig detector in 1970, when I was in the Navy.
I received it and decided that a beach on a Filipino Island would be a good place to start.
I think I found a one Peso Coin. At the time the exchange rate was 6 pesos to 1 US dollar.
I don't know if I still have that coin,, boy this post does make one overcome brain farts.