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I have had my White's Prizm III for a little over a year now. I was told I would need one of the more expensive detectors if I wanted to find jewelry or rings. Well, after a little more than a year my Prizm III has found 36 rings...gold rings, silver rings the Prizm finds em all. I have also found over 100 Indian head pennies and over 100 silver coins, thus proving the Prizm is an excellent ring and coin shooter, and I am thrilled I decided to purchase it. Great detectors and great service mean I am a lifelong White's customer!!!
Bill, |
My White's Prizm III proved its worth as an awesome relic hunter this morning. I was hunting a private yard of an early 1800's house and much to my delight I found this Standard issue Civil War Union Army belt buckle....White's does it again!!!
Bill, |
As most of you know Roman V. and I love to metal detect and most of the time everyone just laughs at us with all our pennies. But sometimes something wonderful jumps out of the ground that is not of value in monetary terms but is of extreme value if put in the proper hands. A dog tag that we found a few years back reaped a ton of enjoyment when we were able to return it to the owner of the dog who has since passed on to other pastures. The card that was mailed back is one of my most treasured finds. Yesterday this WWI medal jumped out of the ground and Roman grabbed it. We were so excited and amazed not knowing what it was. Then some searching on the internet confirmed that indeed it would have belonged to a soldier in the first world war and further more if we looked at the rim of the medal it would have name, rank and serial number on it. There it was when we looked at the rim, PTE L.W. Vigue, 29 - Can - Inf and his serial number. Goose bumps ran up and down my spine. Roman dropped the medal he was so shocked. Both of us were lost for words except to say it wasn't ours and we have to find out who should have it. So in checking books over night we were able to find out who should have it. He drowned in 1939 and left a mother and eight children behind. Most are not with us anymore but one daughter was still alive and living right here in Revelstoke. Holy Cow! We have to get this to her as fast as we can. So off we went and told her our story. Was she ever happy and she couldn't believe what we had given to her. After talking to her she said that their house burned down in 1937 and most likely that is when the medal was lost. And we feel better now as well. It is funny how a person feels when you are in possession of something like that and you just don't feel right keeping it. It wasn't ours and we both felt the same way. Boy did she ever smile. They never had a funeral for her Dad because no body was ever found.
Well now back to finding more pennies :-)
Have a Great Day |
I had decided to take my son out detecting with me for the first time this season (first ever for him). The day started out horrible. We tried to start the car to go to the old farm house on the Hudson river, and nothing happened. It seems my alternator was dead. Well not wanting to upset him because i promised him we could go. We decided to hit the back yard of the house we recently rented. After talking to the woman next door, We discovered that our house was not here in the 1800's but our yard was a big field next to the train station.(house 3 doors down). Our back yard is around 3 acres. So we grabbed some bottles of water and walked out back. The first signal I dug was 2 inches down. It was a 1916 Wheat cent. I got a little excited when I found this. If nothing else a nice wheaty would make the day! We continued on finding clad coins and some assorted junk. I told my son we should walk down the hill a bit because we were so close to our garage that the land there may have been altered at one point. At the bottom of the hill I hit another solid signal...At 4.5 inches down was a 1847 large cent. I was very excited...But he ran right into the house yelling for his mother (he is 10). To make a long story short because I am unsure if anyone would like to hear the play by play, we had a great day. In fact I think it is my best ever! Here is a list of what we found.
3 Large cents. 1847, 18?? and a very worn 1798ish. I did not expect to have the luck I had. Most of my finds were less than 7 inches deep!!! My old XLT was screaming!!! Needless to say I am sure my son will make me purchase him a Whites XLT some time very soon. Well thanks for reading about my day!!! Kevin H. |
White's, I would like to share this story of a find I located with my DFX. First some history on myself, I grew up in the western part of Massachusetts in a little town called Pittsfield. There are a lot of historical places there, Norman Rockwell museum, Mohawk Trail, the Shakers, and a lot of revolutionary sites. It was in this town in 1971 that my grandfather let me try his old heavy detector. It didn't do too much but that was 35 years ago. This brings me to my story of my find. I purchased my DFX from Kellyco out of Florida. After receiving it by mail, reading the manual and playing with it a little bit I put it away until the fall of 2005, when I went back to Pittsfield MA to visit my grandfather. His property on a pond used to have an old ice house on it from about 1880 to about 1920 or so. I hit his yard around the old foundation and picked up 18 Morgan dollars, mercury dimes, pennies, and a couple of quarters. This wasn't bad at all for two hours of work. Back in February 2007 I was out with my DFX in my yard, trying new settings after I read "Digging Deeper with the DFX." I was playing with the sensitivity and trying around an old oak tree that is about 9 ft tall. When I got a good signal, deep any ways and entwined with the roots. I dug up a steel mechanism about 8 inches long and loaded up with dirt, about two inches deep. I was surprised. After I cleaned it up it looked like an old flint-lock mechanism. I took it to where I work and a friend there does revolutionary war reenactments and Brattonsville, SC. I took pictures and he looked it up. After a month he found a magazine with a flintlock article in it. Turns out it's called a Dutch Snaphaunce and it appeared in the late 1500's to 1600's. The article photo is exactly what I found. It is in good shape and everything still moves and works. No money to speak of but interesting anyways. I'm very happy with the DFX. Does everything but make coffee! Thanks White's! Charlie, SC |