Summer 2011 Edition Garrett Metal Detectors Are Your “Hunted Out” Sites Really Hunted Out?
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™ Summer 2011 Edition Garrett Metal Detectors Are Your “Hunted Out” Sites Really Hunted Out? It’s a challenge finding a great to date, an 1841 Seated Liberty As many new owners of place to metal detect. There’s dime,” he related. the AT Pro are finding out, the the research time, the travel The site continued to produce secrets to bringing old sites back time, and the efforts to develop good finds, as he dug various to life are this machine’s excellent good relationships with the land Civil War and 1800s-era relics, an detection depth, its powerful DD owners. If only those great places 1891 Seated Liberty dime, and an searchcoil, and wide range of would always stay great! old “Long Live Queen Victoria” iron discrimination. Add to this There are some tricks, metal clip. the AT Pro’s fast recovery speed however, to help make old hot and its Iron Audio feature for spots productive again, thanks to checking trash targets, and it all better and deeper-seeking metal spells treasure recovery success. detector technology. For example, Bernie L. of Case in point is the new Randolph, VT, sent in his story of GarrettAT Pro, which many users using an AT Pro to search a field have reported as being almost he had hunted with two other magical in its ability to sniff out detectors in the past. “I wanted new goodies on favorite sites that to see if the AT Pro could pull out have been hit hard in the past. some additional relics,” he wrote. Jack G. of Windsor, Missouri, Bernie did indeed have luck in reported that he was “still in (Above) These two Barber quarters, Seated finding a copper 1795 one-half Liberty dimes, and the “Long Live Queen amazement” after his first three Victoria” medallion clip were dug by AT Pro penny Conder token that dates hunts with his new AT Pro. Jack user Jack G. at two of his “hunted out” sites. back to America’s formative dug two Barber quarters and a years. V nickle the first day at a local (Below) Jack also recovered interesting relics park that he has hunted the past dating back to the time of the Civil War on (Continued on pg. 2) 12 years with various machines. these same “pounded” sites. Moving next to a very old home site “that is completely loaded with iron and nails,” his luck continued. Jack had similarly hunted this home site for years with different detectors. “Within the first few A 1795 one-half penny Conder token (left) found by minutes at this site with the AT AT Pro user Bernie L. The photo on the right shows Pro, I had dug my oldest coin the same type coin in good condition. The Garrett Searcher Summer 2011 Edition www.garrett.com Hunted Out? (Continued from pg. 1) hunting this river with the AT the Garrett family for giving me The AT Pro International Pro in areas he has previously those feelings back.” version is receiving equally high hunted with several other brands New detector technology plays praise for its abilities. Markus M. of detectors. a big part in bringing life back to from England has already found “The AT Pro is amazing on hot spots of yesterday. Next to several gold pieces along the the foreshore,” said Markus. reviving old sites, the next best Thames River, which have been “Nothing comes close to its bet is to uncover new productive declared treasure trove by the performance in and amongst areas by conducting research. British Museum. Markus has also iron. The Thames is a dirty place, Relevant information on found many exceptional coins by mud everywhere. With the AT finding new hot spots and Pro being fully waterproof, it reviving old ones can be learned helps tremendously.” by reading the latest title from Other new users of the AT Garrett’s RAM Books division. Pro report how exciting it is to Relic Quest, written by detectorist find really old items. Rod Y. of and historian Stephen L. Moore, New Brunswick, Canada, sent provides valuable details on the in a testimonial during May types of detector technologies that related his find of a 1788 and searchcoils which perform Barbados 1-cent coin at one of his the best in various metal detecting favorite hunting spots. “I know environments. it’s not gold or silver, but it may Equipped with such practical as well have been,” he wrote. knowledge—and the technology These are some of the early coins and gold artifacts “The feeling I get when I unearth of new Garrett detectors such found by Markus M. of England with his new AT Pro International. The sphere ring and other two gold something like that is like I’m as the ACE 350 or AT Pro—new items above were declared treasure trove by the 10 years old again at Christmas, finds might just be waiting for British Museum. unwrapping my gifts. Thanks to your favorite old sites. Congratulations, Dr. Garrett! 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While searching the and her husband Dave have previ- yard of a pre-Civil War home, he dug ously worked over many times. Her the following old coins: four Barber finds included minié balls (includ- quarters, an 1896 Barber half dollar, ing an Enfield bullet), round balls, a an 1878 Seated Liberty quarter, an brass ring, a Ulysses Grant token, a 1856 Seated Liberty half dime, an button and a Borman artillery shell 1868 Shield nickel, an 1866 two- plug. Once Linda figured out her AT cent piece, a 1915 Barber dime, and Pro, she says she “was finding more three Indian Head pennies from the items than Dave was” on the same 1890s. “The half dime was just a sites. whisper and it measured nine inches deep,” Dwight reported. Elwood M. of Glen Mills, PA, found this 8-reale Spanish coin dated 1777 (see images above) on a stretch of New Jersey beach that had been deeply excavated. “The AT Pro sounded Among Dwight’s AT Pro coin finds from February Some of Linda Edwards’ first Civil War-era finds loudly and showed 93 on the Target were (above) an 1868 Shield nickel, an 1856 Seat- from Kentucky with her new AT Pro. ID,” he reported. ed Liberty half dime, an 1895 Barber quarter (below left), and an 1896 Barber half dollar (below, right). New Jersey New User’s First Finds are Truly Golden Dwight also found a 10k gold ring (below) in a park during March with his AT Pro. The emerald is sur- rounded by diamonds. He initially had a “bouncy” signal on this target and then soon found the source: a bottle cap was two inches below the diamond ring. Katie P. of Farmingdale, NJ, is new to metal detecting but was quick to learn how to use her boyfriend’s Garrett AT Pro. She was “extremely happy” to come away with three pieces of jewelry after her first search of a nearby park.