The best 30 minute hunt ever!

Had a chance to quickly jump out of the house for a very brief hunt. Ended up going to two locations. The first was the 1917 house, and the second was a nearby gathering place that has been around part of the city for ages. About 10 minutes into the hunt, I pulled this out of the ground about 3-4 inches down in a spot where the land owner had been parking his truck. At first I thought it was just a copper/brass emblem with no real good identifying marks. When I got it home and washed off the other side, I got a wealth of information. The inscription read "Douglas the Tailor  Originator of the Concave Shoulder and the Unbreakable Front  85 S. Howard St.  Akron, Ohio"

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  After doing some research I discovered that Doug the Tailor did exist in Akron, Ohio - the only reference I found with an actual date attached to this business was in a 1917 publication of the Elyria Evening Telegram - not sure if this was when the emblem was made or exactly when the business was first around. I will have to do some more research. Perhaps the historical society in Akron can assist me.

Elyria Evening Telegram 1917


Relocated the last part of my hunt since I initially thought I was on my way home to provide my better half with reinforcement on the crazy kids, but was called off. The very first good signal I got was a nice consistent  28-30. About 5-6 inches down I unveiled my very first old foreign coin, a 1920 Large Canadian Cent in pretty good condition.

After this find, I was on cloud nine and then had to head back to the casa. Could not have asked for a better short hunt then this - wonder if another one will someday top how productive this one was in such a brief amount of time. Guess I will be returning this lovely spot again in the future.

Sophomore season yields first silver!

So as a follow up to my set of hunts I made that resulted in the discovery of the old button. That same park that gave me my first gold along with other interesting finds ended up giving me my first "deep" signal. I can understand now what the veterans speak of when they refer to "deep" signal. Some people refer to deep targets as giving a "narrow" signal - I guess this is one way to describe it. The signal is narrow in that it barely exceeds the threshold limit set by your machine and its detection area is rather "narrow" or "smaller" than compared to a target that is shallower. (Not sure if any of this made sense, as I have been frustrated myself with trying to understand what others have used to describe how deep targets are picked up). If anything, the only way someone can understand how a deep target is picked up by their machine is purely a matter of experience with detector and knowing what it is trying to tell you.

Anyway, back to the point here - my XTerra gave a consistent 38-40 signal and I immediately thought "here's another dime." After I extracted it from about 6-7inches down, I was surprised on how clean it looked fresh out of the ground. Well, to my surprise I read a "1947" on my very first silver coin. It certainly highlighted the hunt and just like finding my first gold, it made me want to find more of these awesome coins.

Glad to have another first checked off my list of finds - not a bad start to my sophomore season of detecting. Hopefully a sign of things to come.