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  1. J

    Two short returned class ring stories...

    In 1992 I found a huge class ring with a 1984 graduation date in the south end zone of the local high school football field. . I checked with the school to find out who the owner was and contacted him. When he came to get it he told me his brother had been one of the football team managers and...
  2. J

    I never posted an ad but..........

    I've searched for and found metal objects lost by people for over 30 years and only took compensation twice. I've searched for and found numerous jewelry items, property markers, car and house key, weapons used in crimes, tractor parts, two buried treasures I didn't find, assorted personal...
  3. J

    A newbies first find.....

    Back in 1997 or 98 a couple of detecting buddies and I hunted an old townsite and along the road that ran through it. The name of the town was Prairie Mount and it was about 20 miles west of where I live, but it moved five miles southeast to the Ohio-Mobile railroad when the railroad was built...
  4. J

    Cow patties and CW bullets...

    The Battle of Brice's Crossroads was fought on June 10, 1864, about 35 miles from where I live, and in 1993 or 94 Jim Armstrong and I got permission to detect the area between the crossroad and Tishomingo creek. I hadn't thought about it in a long time, but a couple of nights ago there was a...
  5. J

    A $2.70 detector.....

    Tuesday is senior citizen day at the Dirt Cheap stores, a chain of salvage stores in MS, and everyone 65 or older gets a 10% discount and doesn't have to pay sales tax. The stuff they sell comes from truck wrecks, stores that were damaged by natural disasters, insurance companies that paid...
  6. J

    Halloween.....

    When I was almost nine years old, in March of 1952, my dad bought a house directly south across the road from Mr Carpenter. Mr Carpenter was a World War I vet who was mentally challenged, a result, or so it was said, of being shell shocked during the war. He didn't do much of anything every...
  7. J

    Golden

    I seldom post finds but the size of the chain is so impressive I couldn't resist posting it. Found early this morning in a gravel area where a swing set is located at the elementary school just down the street from my house. It's 3/8 of an inch wide, 37 inches long and weighs 117.6 grams...
  8. J

    Golden+iron slug=silver dime......

    Took the Golden
  9. J

    Old Garrett can still hunt......

    A couple of months ago I bought a Garrett Freedom III CDC off Craigslist. I've used it several times and found a lot of newer coins and a few wheaties, but yesterday a friend and I hunted the yard of a house that dates to the late 1800's and it got a goodie. An 1888 seated dime. Also got the...
  10. J

    The old heart skipped a beat........

    Saturday a friend and I were hunting an area that has produced a lot of Civil War bullets. He got two bullets, an Enfield and a .50 roundball, but I dug a beltplate. It was 5 to 6 inches deep and had been rolled up. I thought for sure it was Civil War, but while it's old and the right size...
  11. J

    Mike Hillis syndrome....

    Yesterday I bought the Golden
  12. J

    How deep was the coin?.....

    This afternoon I dropped a load of stuff off at the local Salvation Army store and on the way home stopped at a likely looking site to detect for a few minutes. The first signal was a flattened bottlecap, then a moderately weak high tone that's almost always a dime or pre zinc penny around 5...
  13. J

    Coins everywhere.....

    Today was yard mowing day, hot work as it was 94 with a 101 heat index, but since I was already soaked with sweat and wasn't going to get any hotter I rode up to the ballfields and started hunting a small graveled parking area I haven't hunted before. The Golden was getting serious interference...
  14. J

    Goes to show.....

    No place is ever hunted out. This afternoon I hunted an old baseball field that I, and many others, have pounded with everything from BFO's to most of the top end detectors from all the mfg's since 1970 and got three silver roosies and an almost worn slick Barber half doller. The area where...
  15. J

    An unexpected Golden find.......

    Hunted a grassy parking area this afternoon that I haven't hunted in a few years, got a little over $3 in clad and pennies and a surprise. A spur. It has U.S. and W.L. on the inside and according to the info I found online it's a WWI era Calvary spur. Mr Glascow, who was the mayor in the...
  16. J

    Mudhole hunt and a happy lady........

    On the way home from hunting an old homesite I got a call on the cellphone from a guy I found a lost ring for about 15 years ago. He said his mother had lost her wedding band and asked if I would come see if I could find it. I stopped by home, got the Goldtrax Baron and followed his directions...
  17. J

    Two hours in a pile of tabs and bottlecaps.......

    Wasn't using a Tesoro, but since there's no Gold Mountain forum and the GMT 1650 is a ripoff of the Bandido (with true 180 degree discrimination and split high/low disc ranges) I'll post it here:). The Jaycee ballfield here in town dates from 1947, and it's the oldest baseball field in town...
  18. J

    Wanna play with Virtual Earth..........?

    I put the script on my website, you can use it from there or save the page to your computer (only 1 K) and use it from there. To use it, click on the link below and Virtual Earth will load. If you haven't used Virtual Earth, double click on your state, or any state, and it will zoom in. Keep...
  19. J

    May all of you have a great holiday season.....

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  20. J

    I've found a lot of things that gave strange signals, but.......

    Yesterday I rode up to the Park and Rec equipment building to talk to Benny, one of the P&R guys. No one was there so I got the A.&.S Baron with the small coil out and made a few swings with it in the graveled area where they park. I found a few pennies right off and then got a signal that was...
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