Any Metal Detectors Out There?

[yukonjack]

My White's detector has the capability of turning off the high sensitivity setting which allows me to get right next to metal and still detect objects. They sound different than normal but I have found a lot of good finds next to metal fences and playground equipment. One was a Mercury dime about an inch from a playground pole in Chickasha. One was a large gold ring in Yukon at a school fencerow. One was a Kennedy 76 commemorative 50 cent piece in Loyal next to a metal building.

Using a small sharpshooting coil helps a lot too.

The thing that really amazes me is the unusual finds in the unusual locations.

How does a perfect condition English Two Pound coin end up in a sandlot school playground in Wichita?

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Show and Tell. Found about 2 dozen foreign coins at my grandkids school on the playground.

 

[kwaynem]

It's a fun hobby I need to get back into.

I would like to get into it myself dad had one he played with wish I had one now

 

[Snattlerake]

I cannot stand those videos because the titles are out and out lies. Cops come and they are horrified at our finds! etc, etc, etc.

 

[Jcelt]

In the park area, just east of the water outlet building on the south end of Olverholser was a pre Fort Reno army encampment. I found a lot of harness buckles, buttons, some brass and horseshoes in the woods next to the park. I had no need for the shoes and no museum wanted them so they went into the trash.

That would be some great detecting. I really got into it for relic detecting old farms etc. I think it would be great to hunt a site like you did. I have found 10-12 old horseshoes, fortunately I have someone that collects them so they get them. I gave them all the old buckles I found also. They weren’t military but they were fun to find.