Hello my friends, 

An outing with my detecting association of the Ardennes in a forest of beautiful finds…the most beautiful for me..a 1 franc Charles X coin from 1828. 

david59 - Euro, France

One day while at work, A good friend of mine told me he bought some property with some old houses on it. He said I was welcome to detect there if I wanted. Needless to say, I was so excited. Getting to the site one evening after work, I was floored by how old the houses were. They still had stacked rock foundations, so I knew it was gonna be a good chance to find some goodies.

 I found a lot of nice coins there, Barber dimes, wheat pennies, a Three pence coin, a Penny from Japan, small jewelry items, and several Tax Tokens. But my favorite find was this GAR Medal for a Lyman U Humphrey.

On the 12th of June this year I decided to go detecting at an old farm with plenty of history, I have several other brands of detectors and none have found hammered. I've found a hammered with an X-TERRA 70 and now my most recent hammered is a Queen Elizabeth I Third/fourth issue sixpence. Mintmark eglantine, 1573-1578. Dated 1575 in almost nearly perfect condition since the day it was minted.

Minelab have always detected hammered for me and what a great result.

Anthony Bateson - Lancashire, UK

In June 6, 2011, I went to the beach in Ventura California for a quick hunt in the wet sand with my E-TRAC. For an hour I worked a beach cut that give me a few corroded coins, pull tabs and a corroded ring with a tiger eye stone that I first considered as a brass junk ring.

It was until the next day after another wet sand hunt, that I discovered by accident that the cheap ring turned out to be silver ring with a tiger eye stone.

The ring got wet with drops of salt water from the next morning hunt while I was sorting out my finds and I noticed how it reacted with the ring's brown tarnish.

I got really excited that cheap ring was in fact a nice silver ring with a tiger eye stone.

Juan Jimenez - California, USA

This whole mess of metal detecting started when my friend got his first Bounty Hunter and showed me how it worked in the front yard of my house. I was instantly intrigued and thought it was very interesting and really neat. Soon after getting the idea and learning how to do it, what to expect and precautions of detecting, I purchased my first detector. It was a Garrett Ace 250 and I had a lot of fun with it for 2 years from 2009 to early 2011 netting my first silver dime and first silver ring. After a while of detecting, I took it upon myself to watch some metal detecting videos on youtube. One thing I noticed during some of the videos was that people were having a very high success rate with the Minelab E-TRAC.

Hi, I am a member of Dewsbury Metal Detecting Club. 

At the weekend on a local dig I had to borrow a metal detector from a gentleman called Gordon. I haven’t got a metal detector at the moment, but I am saving my money for a Minelab E-TRAC. Quite a few members of the club have those type of machines, and from what they have told me, have had great success.

My father and I have been detecting for a couple of years never finding much but clad. I finally get into the hobby a bit more and purchased the E-TRAC! I un-boxed it and charged the battery overnight while I read through the user guide. I took it outside the next morning and first signal I dug with it ended up being a 1906 Indian Head Penny.

I have been using the Minelab E-TRAC for almost 2 years now and can say without a doubt that it is the best machine for the type of detecting that I do. I primarily hunt cellar holes and abandoned home sites from the 1700's - early 1800's here in the NH/VT area. All of the sites are trashy and require the best equipment on the market.

The other day, after receiving permission from the land owner, I was able to get out and detect an old cellar hole that had been hit by many detectorists with lesser machines. After about 10 minutes at the site, I received a nice high tone accompanied by the numbers 09-41 near the edge of the old stone foundation. I decided to dig even though there were lots of ferrous and non ferrous bits of trash in the area.

Following a decade absence from treasure hunting and gold prospecting, I was fanging to get back out to my favourite historical sites armed with the latest cutting-edge technology from Minelab. I had previously worked a Minelab XT 18000 for several years and unearthed various relics and coins including British pennies dated from the 1860’s, and also a bucket load of $1 and $2 coins on the beaches.

After several days of on-line research of various reliable sources, I made my decision in terms of a suitable “beeper stick”. It had to be a Minelab X-TERRA 705 or nothing mate! I forked out “a gorilla of gold coins” (1000 bucks) and scored an X-TERRA 705 dual coil package – for my pending return to adventures within the best of both worlds – coin/relic hunting and gold nugget detecting.

First time using it, the GPX-4500 and had a little luck. I been hunting around old peruvian inka houses and found some of their jewelleries, hope to find more of them. 

Wilb - Lima, Peru