dixiedigger57
Elite Member
Semtav i believe thats a old car tire tube valve cap. i find them pretty often. i see them sold to antique car collectors online.
How do you measure success.
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Semtav
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/1335365913...HJkqUXg10Yt8ahgDpy+wkAI3o=|tkp:Bk9SR_Sx8-PVYA
38 more and I'll be rich !!!!!!!
ringsandthings
Junior Member
Metal detecting is a drug. It gives you sunlight,exercise and excitement. All things the body needs. It also gives you depression when you come off of the high going to your vehicle empty handed,tired,and hot. Success to me is if I find wheaties aka the gateway drug.That let's me know my area hasn't been detected and/or it has age. We recently found 30+ coins on a property that were at least 1950 and older. After a hunt like that it's impossible to have "success " the following hunt. Metal detecting is all about the law of averages. If you keep that view you will never burn out.
Semtav
Elite Member
I hear you there. got about 15 coins and a couple really nice trinkets off this one homestead.
I'm lucky to get a coin and a so so trinket or two off any homestead so its gonna be a while to getting that euphoria again !!
One thing about being a crappy detector is there is always a chance I missed more and can keep going back.
maxxkatt
Forum Supporter
In north atlanta with plenty of aluminum trash, I define success when finding clad (better than nothing), any kind of relic that was either useful or as decoration.
Of course any silver coin (rare) is always a great success for me as is any Civil War relic no matter if it is not a CSA belt buckle. Not sure my heart could stand a CSA belt buckle or yankee belt buckle.
Yankee belt buckles have been found up north far away from actual battle or camp sites and CSA belt buckles out west since lots of battle survivors wore them home after the war.
Of course any silver coin (rare) is always a great success for me as is any Civil War relic no matter if it is not a CSA belt buckle. Not sure my heart could stand a CSA belt buckle or yankee belt buckle.
Yankee belt buckles have been found up north far away from actual battle or camp sites and CSA belt buckles out west since lots of battle survivors wore them home after the war.
Cherry Picker
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After nearly 50 years of swinging a detector I have found a lot, but I would say one of my greatest successes is that after 50 years there is still not a one no metal detecting sign in town.
