Ok forum family, I got a question for all of you!

[Butch in Colorado]

What was your very first significant detecting find? Do you still have it?

If so, post a picture of it! And, include the detector you used when you found it and the date (if you relics can remember that far back. )

If not, that's fine, tell us about it anyway, thanks.

Here's mine:
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My very first significant detecting find that I found with my newly unboxed XLT in May of 2000. I found it in an old razed housing area that has since become a city park in Colorado Springs, CO.
I soon found out what the word maverick meant when it came to tokens as I had never heard the term before. I still have not been able to locate where or what the establishment was that this token came from. It remains a mystery to me to this day as to where it came from and how it ended up where it did.

Aside from a very small scratch I put on it when I recovered it, there are no marking on the back of it.

NEXT!!

 

[General Ray]

seen, found it the first year I started hunting, was using the XLT. The owner of the ring owned a farm, she was carrying a baby cafe at night from one barn to another barn in the dead of a Wisconsin Winter with snow on the ground.

The ring fell off her finger some where between the barns, the ring has been in her family for almost 80 years. After three days of hunting for it I was about to give up when I decided to try and hunt a area between the barns that I would walk if carrying a baby cafe in the snow, the same area she said she didn't walk, I found the ring buried less then a inch down within 15 minutes. I gave her the ring back the next day after cleaning it up and taking a picture of it, she tried to pay me for it but I said no thanks, my reward was finding it and returning it, it was a trill that could only be had if you where there and saw the smile on her face

 

[Magyar]

All my other finds pale in comparison to this precious ring.

Magz

 

[Jigflipper]

13 MM CSA kepi hat button. Found on 4-28-2007, around 8:30 A.M. and to this day I could get you within 3 feet of the spot that I found it. First day out with my new Fisher F-75. Went to try it out and to see how it worked. Hunted in a place that held alot of coins but all modern, After finding a bunch of clad I headed to a place that I had found some silver and other stuff. I had hunted it several times before, never once finding a relic there. Imagine my surprise when this little feller saw the light of day for the first time in around 145 years. I got so tore up that I packed everything up and went on home. I've since found info that the Confederates camped in that area for a night or 2 and have yet to find another relic there. Reckon it was just my day. Some folks have said it's a general service button but the back still has leather stuck to it, in which I didn't want to scrape off, kind of proves that it's a kepi.. This was my first Civil War Button, Ain't got close to equalling it yet. And yes I still have her and almost every good find that I've made other than a few relics that I've given to buddies in the fields. Thanks for lookin in.........Flipper out
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[Craig in Alabama]

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[Butch in Colorado]

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[Butch in Colorado]

At my friends house. It was a rush of emotions when I saw that first miniball.

Sweet find Jim, thanks for sharing!

 

[Butch in Colorado]

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[Butch in Colorado]

Pam's first gold ring she ever found was returned to the owner. We did not get any pic's as the young lady that lost it saw us detecting in a park and asked Pam what she was doing.
Once she found out what Pam was doing the young lady asked Pam if she could help her find her wedding ring. Within about a half hour Pam had found it and returned it to a very happy young lady!

It is a real nice feeling to return a lost ring when the opportunity presents itself. Pam was jazzed and it made for a nice day!

 

[mike(swWash)]

I was always intrigued(sp) with detectors and after finding the dolls leg in my wifes flower garden
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I went all out and bought a 3rd hand detector off Ebay and found a very insignificant coin with an antiquated detector 10 years ago, a beat to death 1900 dime worth about $1.00 in my front yard......1 minelab and 2 whites later I'm still addicted and still havet found anything that could be more valuable to me.... except the friends I've found and have had the honor to hunt with. Now using an XLT and never find enough time to hunt more than 10 hrs. a year these days

 

[Elson(La)]

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[Ed SW Fla]

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

[size=large]The old town of Cold Foot Alaska is 80 miles above the Arctic Circle. The decaying remains of this rough and tumble, turn of the century gold mining town is now reduced to but a few crumbling log cabins, grown over with trees and field grass. All but lost with the passage of time.

It was a hot, muggy, mosquito infested summer day. I waded through the waist deep grass detecting with my Whites XLT among the tons of rusting cans, cable, and discarded junk. This was a typical interior Alaska scorcher. Most people would find it hard to believe that temperatures in Alaska, and particularly the arctic, can reach 90 to 100 degrees in mid-summer. With barely any humidity, you feel every degree of it too.

I saw evidence of a couple of college archaeological digs that I was told were in the area. The amount of old rusting metal was causing the XLT to chatter almost continuously. I left one ear phone off to help listen for bears, and my S&W 44 mag is always with me in the "pucker brush".

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The fallen cabin that I was detecting around when I made the find. It's one of the last partially standing structures in the old town of Cold Foot.

Because of the endless amount of trash signals, I really wasn't expecting to find much when that good response finally rang out over everything else. Digging down about three inches, I saw the clean glint of silver, and soon found I had one end of a piece of jewelry. The other end was held firmly in the ground by a wad of small roots that had wrapped themselves all through the intricately woven tail feathers of a stone-studded, silver peacock brooch! It was as if the old town did not want to give up the tangible memories of the past. I knelt and admired the old brooch for awhile, as I pulled out the remaining roots from the tail feathers and ran my thumb across the shining blue and green stones. A few were missing, but I managed to find all but one in the hole. The last missing stone I had replaced by a jeweler who estimated the brooch to be approximately 100+ years old!

Had the brooch belonged to one of the "fallen angels" that followed the mining towns, perhaps dropped in the snow one long cold winter night? We'll never know. But I love to hold it and wonder of the way things were back then, a tough people in a tough land, long ago.[/size]
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[Craig in Alabama]

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[Brian(upstateNY)]

I walked many miles and spent many hours diggin and many finds were sweet too me
This one was a local find not far from my house in a field along the river where many coppers came out and had lots of fun
Here is a picture of me in that field a local newspaper photog took,I told him not to give away my location so he actually layed on the ground to snap it
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Ray went there and for a short hunt with him we had some fun as well
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Here is one find from the field and Im sure this field still holds more finds,Brandy if you ever get over there hit it again
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