The Best Metal Detecting Finds

If you are like many first-time metal detector users - you remember the feeling when you unboxed your first metal detector.   It was the best one to ever roll off the assembly line.   Little to no difference if it was a beginners model for $50, or a $2000 upper-end model.  It was YOUR detector and your time was now!  

Surely somebody buried gold bars at your local park.  Or maybe a lost Viking hoard just waiting in your backyard.  The crown jewels wrapped in gold, just waiting for you to uncover.  Get your retirement life in order, put your two week notice in at work.  You were going to hit it big on your first trip out.

You probably also remember the drive back home.  Sore legs and back from bending up and down multiple times.  A pocket full of pulls tabs and scrap bits of various metals.  If you were lucky, maybe a few clad coins to take the sting away. 

Perhaps you should call your boss and tell him you don’t want to quit in two weeks after all.

Don’t despair.  99% of the metal detectorists out there will never hit it big.  It is one of the biggest myths in the hobby.  Take pride in each wheat penny - every silver coin - every small nugget the size of a pencil eraser.  For most of us that will be about as good as it gets - and there is nothing wrong with that.  Enjoyment of the hobby should always come before the value of the find.

Fresh air - bonding with a hunting partner like a family member or friend - getting some exercise.

Remember - your personal finds and adventures will always be the “best” find there is. 

That being said - there is still the 1% out there that do hit retirement type finds.  So let’s take a look at some of their best metal detecting finds ever.  Like always - this is just a random list in no particular order.

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If you are into the hobby of metal detecting, you know how rare it is to find something that comes out of the ground in perfect (or even decent) shape.  Coins and relics lose their luster each day they are underground.  

Sure, precious metals like gold and silver resist corrosion, and some soils and fertilizers are kinder to buried metals than others.   But for the most part, iron relics are almost always going to be rusty and pitted.  Brass, bronze, and copper almost always having a patina of some sort.

The finds we intend to keep need some love to be restored to anywhere close to their former glory.

How does one go about doing that?  There are various ways from home concoctions to expensive machines.  Google is your friend here, as there are MANY methods I will not be covering in my short blog.  I will be sticking to the more popular methods for the sake of the reader's time. 

So let’s take a look and get to cleaning!

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The neighbors have probably started to worry about you.  Your family is close to staying at a hotel for a couple nights to get away from your newfound madness.  Peeking through your blinds all day - checking emails for tracking updates - walking to the curb strip to look up and down the street with that troubled look on your face.  It’s not the normal behavior of an adult, but you just cannot help yourself.  

You finally hear the sound of the truck in the distance.  The air brakes almost enough to send you into a frenzy.  Perhaps a little dance runs through your legs and body.   After countless hours of researching forums and watching YouTube videos, it is finally happening.

Your very first metal detector has arrived.

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The air is getting cooler.  The nights are getting longer.  The leaves are brown and falling from the trees.  While most of you are packing your tents and camping gear away for the winter, some of you are just now getting them out so you can be first in line at the local shopping mall.  Yes, it is already that time of year again.  The holiday shopping season is upon us.

 If you are like many shoppers, you struggle to find the “perfect gift” for Christmas.  You most likely settle on something with the hopes it won’t make it to the trash bin by New Years.  Socks for dad and Uncle Bob.  Perfume for mom and Aunt Martha. Perhaps Vitamin D for the kids, since they forgot what sunlight is thanks to last year’s cellphones and videos games.

It’s time to reboot the system and think outside of the box.  It’s time to get your family back outside, and enjoying time together again.  It’s time to bring back that sense of wonder and fulfillment into your lives.  It’s time for that new hobby you have been searching for but never found. 

It’s time for...a metal detector! 

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