How many of you folks hunt in your own yard? ...................

[Kelley (Texas)]

I had a few free minutes yesterday evening and decided to hunt for a few minutes in my front yard...heck, better than nothing, right? Well, under the tree in my front yard I found this religious metal. It is heavy and may be silver, missing a few of the fake diamonds. I have no idea who could have lost it in our front yard. While we often think that our yards are hunted out, we can still find interesting things. One of the members of this Forum, BJ in Oklahoma, found a Indian Head penny in his front yard last year. When you only have a few minutes to spare, grab the MXT and hunt your own yard, or even a neighbor's yard...you might be surprised at what you find. Kelley (Texas)

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[bula]

Mine is hunted out, but like your find I once found a high school class ring from another town in my mothers yard. Do not have a clue as to how it got there.

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

from time to time. I have no idea where this religious metal came from or who could have lost it...probably will never know the answer. It was not really much of a find as per se when compared to most of what folks on the Forum might find, but it was interesting to find just the same and kept me out of mischief.

I once found a child's small gold ring in the neighbor's yard, the ones that lives three doors up from us and they immediately claimed it as one that they had lost. I made mention to them that they had no children and that the ring had been in the ground for a fair amount of time because it was approximately three inches deep. They just acted dumb so I handed them the ring, not much I could say in that it was their property that I found it on. I was disappointed, but things like this just goes with the turf and you move on. You never know what you will find in your yard, or a neighbor's yard. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Never hunted mine yet !!

 

[Nailbender]

One of my best finds was in my yard , a 1900 Morgan dollar.

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

I would be in hog heaven if I did find one in the yard! Kelley (Texas)

 

[okdirtfisher]

Here in Oklahoma (TORNADO ALLEY) Mother nature rains from the heavens many wonders-(that's to say wonder how that got there). I read a article one time telling about a farmer in Illinois finding remains of a viking sail ship and he was a mile from the Mississippi river.In the 1980's we had a big flood and in areas the water appeared to be running up hill,puzzling for awhile until engineers looked at old maps and found the water was following an old tributary that had been long since covered over.

 

[ohio fred]

Nice find.I always hunt my yard when i get new coil or new detector or if i have a few minutes i go in the yard to see if missed anything.

 

[floridason]

Hi Kelly, I bought my 1st MXT in June '07 (from KellyCo) brought it home put it together in the back of my truck . Put the batteries in stepped over about a yard and started swinging it and went toward the left back of my yard I got an 18 on C & J. got my gator digger out and started digging got 2" down and there was a niclel a '52,. put my pinpointer in the hole and got another signal 1" down (same hole) I ended up with 5 nickels in a hole about 4" around and 6 " deep. All the coins were from '42 up to the '52. A total of 6 nickels, and found a dime and quarter 3' or 4' over in my neighbors the next day. Go figure. Because about a foot of top soil had been put there about 20 years before that. Thanks for looking and HH. KC

floridason retired

2MXT's, DX-1, lotsa coils

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

I love hearing stories like your story, five nickels in one hole. I would not be surprised if you took a few minutes to hunt in your yard right now that you might find another coin or something else of interest. Something else, when hunting in your front yard or the neighbor's yard, you will always attract a few kids...they are fun too! Kelley (Texas)

 

[floridason]

Thanks Kelley. I wish I had more youth in my area but most folks around here are a lot older than I, and I'm 75. I do most of my hunting in our sports complex
about a mile from here and in an old Drive-in theater. I'm in GPAA and the wife and I are going prospecting in June up in GA. And there's a river up there that still has gold in it so I will use both my MXT and some gold panning equip. It makes for a nice 2 week vacation.
Oh yes, I've gotten permission from all my neighbors up and down my street and haven't found much of anything on either side of it.
I hit the tot lots every Mon. and usually pick up a couple of dollars from them.
We have a nephew that lives just north of Lake Whitney, TX. Are you from anywhere around there? Thanks for looking and HH and I've enjoyed your posts too. KC

floridason retired

2 MXT's, DX-1, lotsa coils

 

[BJ in Okla.]

That is a good find for hunting your own yard..
And you did not have to do a bunch of driving.

I have found a silver Rosie and a 1903 IH and a lot of pennies in my own yard,
And there have been times when I drove around 200 miles and not find anything good.

HH...BJ

 

[srf2112]

That's a cool find Kelley. The first day I had my first detector ( just before my MXT) I assembled the machine and headed straight for my backyard. My first signal came almost immediately and I dug up a highly corroded zinc penny. My second signal I dug up a quarter at about 2 or 3 inches. A new detectorist was born.
HH
Scott

 

[Nancy-IL]

Kelley, what a great find and in your own yard. Way to go! Larry has hunted the yard and not much of anything since there's a lot of fill dirt, but he did hunt the neighbors yard and he found a small gold ring with a little ruby stone in it. He offered to give it to them and they didn't want it.

Now for hunting in my yard where I grew up is a different story! Oh yeah! My mother still owns the house and large yard. Father has since pasted. Years ago they bought an old run down 150 yr old house to tear down and build a new one. SWEET! Needless to say, we know all the neighbors also in this small quaint little town of maybe 150 people and in the late 1800's and early 1900's this little town was one heck of a major hub for our county. Hotel, doctor's office, largest mercantile in the county, passenger railroad cars that stopped 4 times a day, old schools (yes one was my old grade school), etc. You've got the picture. Larry, myself and even my mother of 79 years young have detected quite a few yards in that town and have found many treasures and old coins. In my best friends yard, I had found a broken skate buckle from our metal skates and then two bottle caps, one Orange Crush and another fruity soda pop drink and I know those two were from Linda and I when we were young. We must have laid them down and ran off playing. Larry even found my old mood ring from the early 70's in a neighbors yard. Needless to say, the town never grew. Abraham Lincoln had practiced law at a nearby town at the court house and then the county seat moved shortly after that. Thanks for the memories and there's more to come out of that little town.

HH,
Nancy

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

Metal skate buckle and an Orange Crush soda pop bottle cap...we must have grown up in the best of times. We did not have Toys-R-Us or computers, but we did have the skates, tree houses, home made kites, stilts, and anyone that had an old tube for using at the old swimming hole was in hog heaven. It appears that you have lots of good places to hunt up there where you live, places where many of the items that you find will bring back wonderful memories...this is a great hobby. Thanks for posting this story, made me stop and reflect back to the good days of my youth. Kelley (Texas)

 

[joepierce]

tot lots is that playground?