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    I got one a few months ago and have scanned most of my yard. The house was built in 1929, but the oldest coin I have found is a half dollar from 1968. Blah.

    Is anyone else here into that stuff?
     

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    I got one a few months ago and have scanned most of my yard. The house was built in 1929, but the oldest coin I have found is a half dollar from 1968. Blah.

    Is anyone else here into that stuff?
    Used to be when I was a kid. Found a bunch of buffalo nickels and wheat pennies ( some mercury dimes and a couple of barber quarters)on the location where the play ground used to be at my elementary school that was built pre depression.
    Saw a picture of the school when I was going there in 2nd or 3rd grade of the playground’s old location and paced it off the building and scored on a bunch of Saturday’s :)
     

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    Used to be when I was a kid. Found a bunch of buffalo nickels and wheat pennies ( some mercury dimes and a couple of barber quarters)on the location where the play ground used to be at my elementary school that was built pre depression.
    Saw a picture of the school when I was going there in 2nd or 3rd grade of the playground’s old location and paced it off the building and scored on a bunch of Saturday’s :)
    Nice. I looked at old photos and figured out where the baseball diamond was fifty years ago in the neighborhood park, but didn't find anything old.
     

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    I got one a few months ago and have scanned most of my yard. The house was built in 1929, but the oldest coin I have found is a half dollar from 1968. Blah.

    Is anyone else here into that stuff?

    I was really into metal detecting a few years ago, then I had to give it up because of health reasons. I am still hoping that I will be able to do it again.

    My wife enjoyed it as much as me. When I bought a 2nd machine for myself and told her that I was going to sell my other one she said that maybe we should keep it as a backup. I knew then that she was hooked on the hobby as much as I was.

    What kind of machine do you have?
     

    skfullgun

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    No, but seriously been giving it some thought. My property was part of a lumber mill town founded in 1867. There is still an old abandoned house on the property from the early 20's. It has not been lived in since the 70's. There might be some interesting things around that place.
     

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    I was really into metal detecting a few years ago, then I had to give it up because of health reasons. I am still hoping that I will be able to do it again.

    My wife enjoyed it as much as me. When I bought a 2nd machine for myself and told her that I was going to sell my other one she said that maybe we should keep it as a backup. I knew then that she was hooked on the hobby as much as I was.

    What kind of machine do you have?
    Bounty hunter land star, cost me about $200. It's not fancy, but it has good sensitivity (adjustable), automatic and manual ground balance, discrimination, notch, auto-notch, and a reasonably useful all-metal pinpoint mode. I didn't want to get some $50 junky thing that would leave me completely disappointed, but I didn't want to blow a thousand dollars if I wasn't going to stick with it.
     

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    Been wanting to do that here. Our town was founded in 1835 and had a lot of Civil War traffic. While digging some electrical trenches I discovered some brickwork under the ground from an old house that sat about 100’ deeper in my lot, either from the 1920’s or earlier
     

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    No, but seriously been giving it some thought. My property was part of a lumber mill town founded in 1867. There is still an old abandoned house on the property from the early 20's. It has not been lived in since the 70's. There might be some interesting things around that place.
    In La Porte? That's not too far. I'm sure I could come out that way, show you the basics, and let you play with it for a while to see if you think you'd like to get your own.
     

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    Barbed wire and old pop tops is all I've found.Then again, I've only been out once.
    Newer machines have better "filtering" that will identify and/or exclude most ferrous metals like that. Some times they will show up if they have the right kind of return, but it's easy to ignore most of it.
     

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    Been wanting to do that here. Our town was founded in 1835 and had a lot of Civil War traffic. While digging some electrical trenches I discovered some brickwork under the ground from an old house that sat about 100’ deeper in my lot, either from the 1920’s or earlier
    It's hard to detect anything but huge hunks of iron and steel more than a foot under the ground. If they were at the bottom of the trench, the good stuff might be too buried. But scanning all would be a good way to find out for sure.
     

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    I've been interested in this for a long time. Never got around to buying one. I need to revisit that.
     

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    For those that are thinking about getting a detector, don't do it unless you are prepared to spend many hours digging junk and on occasion digging something good.

    It takes lots of time to learn your machine. And if you bought a cheap machine to begin with once you learn it you will be wanting a better one. I am not knocking buying a less expensive machine, that is where most people start. And I am sure not advocating buying an expensive machine that is more difficult to learn as a first machine.
     
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    In La Porte? That's not too far. I'm sure I could come out that way, show you the basics, and let you play with it for a while to see if you think you'd like to get your own.[/QUOTE
    In La Porte? That's not too far. I'm sure I could come out that way, show you the basics, and let you play with it for a while to see if you think you'd like to get your own.
    Actually, I was referring to my property near Lufkin.
    That was a generous offer and I appreciate it.
     

    Rhino

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    For those that are thinking about getting a detector, don't do it unless you are prepared to spend many hours digging junk and on occasion digging something good.

    It takes lots of time to learn your machine. And if you bought a cheap machine to begin with once you learn it you will be wanting a better one. I am not knocking buying a less expensive machine, that is where most people start. And I am sure not advocating buying an expensive machine that is more difficult to learn as a first machine.
    What's a good machine under $250?
     

    RoadRunner

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    What's a good machine under $250?

    I prefer a machine with a numerical readout and with that in mind these are some good machines at about the $250 price range, Teknetics Delta 4000, Minelab Xterra 305 and the Garrett Ace 300. If I was buying one in that price range I would definitely check out the Garrett.

    My wife has a Bounty Hunter Platinum, it is a great machine and very light weight. They sell for $300.
     
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