Gimmie The Loot
Elite Member
To the noobies out there wondering if they are the only ones being fooled by junk metal... A big rusty nail when the target ID made you think it was a silver dime... A smashed Schlitz can when you were hoping for a silver half dollar...
A few years worth of detecting in these pictures. Many sites with plenty of potential. Many outings with no keepers to show. Many thoughts that I should just give up and find another hobby.
But I can't quit. I remember each good find like it was yesterday. I remember the people that I've met. The permissions that I've been granted. The feeling of being alone in the woods and finding an old coin someone dropped over 100 years ago. Why were they there and what were they doing back then?
I don't want to say I love this hobby but I really do enjoy it.
Hopefully these pictures do the justice of showing the ratio of my good finds to bad. Not pictured are the clad and wheat pennies. In my area I don't find much clad, and wheats are probably about 100.
A few years worth of detecting in these pictures. Many sites with plenty of potential. Many outings with no keepers to show. Many thoughts that I should just give up and find another hobby.
But I can't quit. I remember each good find like it was yesterday. I remember the people that I've met. The permissions that I've been granted. The feeling of being alone in the woods and finding an old coin someone dropped over 100 years ago. Why were they there and what were they doing back then?
I don't want to say I love this hobby but I really do enjoy it.
Hopefully these pictures do the justice of showing the ratio of my good finds to bad. Not pictured are the clad and wheat pennies. In my area I don't find much clad, and wheats are probably about 100.