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« on: February 16, 2010, 07:00:08 pm »
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 Shocked   I never really told anyone about my first cache so I'll use this forum to do so.  This is also a story of addiction, pure and simple. I was nine years old in 1970 and I wore my mother out to get me a metal detector. It was a Radio Shack BFO with a little 4 or 5 inch coil.  The shaft was aluminum and a little bigger than a pencil with a big square box sitting on top with no regard to ergonomics.  After 30 minutes, you were bushed.

Behind my house there was a stack of old rocks that had been left over from construction of a house that had once stood where our house at the time stood. In other words, I lived in the replacement house but there was material left from a late 1800's house.  My metal detector squealed and squawked every time it touched a blade of grass.  I pulled all the tall grass by hand because I just new there must be some big treasure there.

I was right.  I found a small steel box, about the size of an elongated watch box.  Inside were the most beautiful coins I have seen to this day. This was also the first time I ever saw a Mercury dime.  I remember that there was $6.32 cents in change. About 10 feet away I found a Confederate sword.  I am 47 now and I may as well have that pencil sized aluminum shaft shoved straight into my veins with a squawking box on the other end.  I became addicted at 9 and haven't been able to kick the habit yet, Haven't tried.  Detecting

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« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2010, 07:36:58 pm »
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Cool story, glad you shared it here. Still looking for my first cache...wtg.

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« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2010, 09:57:06 pm »
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Nice story, i've been addicted since 1977 Grin ...DW

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« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2010, 08:35:11 am »
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My first cache was 300+ wheaties steels and coppers back in 1965. I was 14 at the time.
The coins were apparently dropped through a hole in the floor of an old abandoned home.
There was an aluminum token "Snow white soap" with them.
They were all stuck together by rust from the steel cents.
It was mostly steels. My father tore them apart hoping to find
a rare cent but nope, just a bunch of common dates.

My D-tex went crazy when I stuck it through that hole and I just knew it was a treasure......
I wish he had left them as they were and I could still show them off but Que Sara Sara.
BTW we found more silver coins in that yard than any other site since.
My pockets literally bulged with finds that day, 2 halves both Walkers.
I don't remember how many dimes and quarters none rare.
I would sure like to run across that set up now! Now I'm out lookin for gold.
I guess I'm braggin now.

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« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2010, 03:15:50 am »
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Well my first find was not a cache of coins but it was in a old abandoned house in Alberta. I had been reading Karl Von Muellers Treasure Hunters manual 7 and he mentioned that he used to slice the wallpaper in old houses because they used old newspapers for insulation so I did this in the house and discovered a glory hole of thousands of newspaper all from around 1895-1930. Several with old maps of WWI on them was a huge thrill. I have been hunting ever since and will until the day I die.

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« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2010, 11:24:04 am »
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« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2010, 11:48:44 am »
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Ahh, the Radio Shack detector.  That brings back memories from childhood.  My parent's yard looked like the moon after I got mine.  The coolest thing I found was a really old pocket watch case and my buddy found an 1893 penny. 

Good times.    Great

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good stories!!  i really enjoy reading stuff like this.. thanks for taking the time to post.. happy hunting and continued good luck!       andy

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« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2010, 09:45:36 pm »
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Got to love these first cache stories.

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« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2010, 12:39:37 am »
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Here is a pic of one of the papers that was found in the cache at the old house.

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