Couple of fun videos on WWII mine detectors

A friend's father had the first metal detector that I had ever seen. It was a WWII mine detector. He showed me a bunch of junk and a few coins that he had recovered from his front yard. I wanted one and it started over forty years of my detector hobby. I think my first detector was a Jetco Hawk.

Silversmith45 said:

A friend's father had the first metal detector that I had ever seen. It was a WWII mine detector. He showed me a bunch of junk and a few coins that he had recovered from his front yard. I wanted one and it started over forty years of my detector hobby. I think my first detector was a Jetco Hawk.

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Hey there silversmith : I didn't think the WWII mine detectors were capable of finding an object down to coin-size. Only soda can and larger, or whatever.

On one of the videos, you can see the guy testing it on the trigger mechanism of a wooden box mine. That mechanism is about the size of a cigar , as you can see. And the machine could barely get a peep off of it.

I did hear that during the Korean war, there was at least one variety of mine detector made, that was noted as being able to get a quarter to something like 6" deep. I'm sure it would have been a beast to keep balanced, and probably didn't tackled mineralized ground.