hello friends. The post I made yesterday was my first, but I didn't find it. I was looking for a learning metal detector and someone else had that for sale. I was curious about it.
Yesterday I went around my back yard, learning how to separate the sound of nails. My dad uses brass nails a lot (sigh)
So after I spent aboit an hour and a half trying to learn to use it. I took a break for a while.
My friend will came over and saw the new metal detector (and the precision pinpoint whatevrr it came with) and said he wanted to "play with it"
I said no we won't play with it... and that I barely know how to use it but we could take the manual and stuff and go over some spots while I try to learn how to use "tone" mode.
I'm still getting the hang of the different sounds and what not. I'm hoping to get pretty good with a tracker IV before possibly upgrading, if an upgrade will really help me with detecting.
Our truly first find was a little peice of copper. From a sheet or pipe. I was more excited than I should have been. I was glad it seemed to be working.
We found another spot, with a rock that made the pinpointer buzz. My friend will is ridiculous and making me a bit, I don't know, urked... he is all excited for no reason that he found a peice of a meteor... yes its tiny and much different from the post I happened to post yesterday before this happened. I'm willing to bet an arm that its not a meteorite at all.
But I found a penny in the same little hole! That was exciting for me. My first coin. It wasn't a wheat penny. I can't see how old it is because its one with the rocks and dirt. Maybe I'll clean it eventually.
BUT our last find for the night. Got a signal in a spot and started to dig. A few inches deep and I like to sxan over the dirt I pulled out and if it beeps hit it with the precision.
I stuck the precision thing in the hole and poked around but no buzzy.
Dig some more.
Now the spot is in some loose dirt I dug up.
Hit it with the pin point again and BUZZZZZ
Sift the dirt with my hand and my heart dropped, I had a gold colored coin shaped object in my hand.
Within seconds I could tell that I was looking at some sort of an army pin, and quickly my heart went back into place realizing it wasn't gold.
Excited anyway I tried to find as much as I could out aboit the item.
Its the 181st infantry.
Its a type 2 or a type 3 collar pin.
Its from approximately 1920 to 1943 based on what I've read.
Out of pure guess I estimate it to be worth $15 to $50 dollars.
Thoughts? Anyone know more about these? Thanks! Dan
Yesterday I went around my back yard, learning how to separate the sound of nails. My dad uses brass nails a lot (sigh)
So after I spent aboit an hour and a half trying to learn to use it. I took a break for a while.
My friend will came over and saw the new metal detector (and the precision pinpoint whatevrr it came with) and said he wanted to "play with it"
I said no we won't play with it... and that I barely know how to use it but we could take the manual and stuff and go over some spots while I try to learn how to use "tone" mode.
I'm still getting the hang of the different sounds and what not. I'm hoping to get pretty good with a tracker IV before possibly upgrading, if an upgrade will really help me with detecting.
Our truly first find was a little peice of copper. From a sheet or pipe. I was more excited than I should have been. I was glad it seemed to be working.
We found another spot, with a rock that made the pinpointer buzz. My friend will is ridiculous and making me a bit, I don't know, urked... he is all excited for no reason that he found a peice of a meteor... yes its tiny and much different from the post I happened to post yesterday before this happened. I'm willing to bet an arm that its not a meteorite at all.
But I found a penny in the same little hole! That was exciting for me. My first coin. It wasn't a wheat penny. I can't see how old it is because its one with the rocks and dirt. Maybe I'll clean it eventually.
BUT our last find for the night. Got a signal in a spot and started to dig. A few inches deep and I like to sxan over the dirt I pulled out and if it beeps hit it with the precision.
I stuck the precision thing in the hole and poked around but no buzzy.
Dig some more.
Now the spot is in some loose dirt I dug up.
Hit it with the pin point again and BUZZZZZ
Sift the dirt with my hand and my heart dropped, I had a gold colored coin shaped object in my hand.
Within seconds I could tell that I was looking at some sort of an army pin, and quickly my heart went back into place realizing it wasn't gold.
Excited anyway I tried to find as much as I could out aboit the item.
Its the 181st infantry.
Its a type 2 or a type 3 collar pin.
Its from approximately 1920 to 1943 based on what I've read.
Out of pure guess I estimate it to be worth $15 to $50 dollars.
Thoughts? Anyone know more about these? Thanks! Dan
