Metal Detecting - YouTube Video - 8/21/2021

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  1. paddyman98

    paddyman98 I'm a professional expert in specializing! Supporter

    Here is my latest YouTube video of my last Detecting trip at 2 new parks I visited in upper Manhattan this past Saturday.
    Short and sweet..
    Enjoy! :woot:


    US Silver #69, #70, #71 & #72 for 2021
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  3. Inspector43

    Inspector43 More than 75 Years Active Collecting Supporter

    Thanks for the show.
     
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  4. SensibleSal66

    SensibleSal66 U.S Casual Collector / Error Collector

    Enjoyable video ! Nice finds , :happy:
     
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  5. Southernman189

    Southernman189 Well-Known Member

    WOW! All I found when I tried that back in the 70's was beer tabs and bottle caps. Gave the machine away. I guess I didn't have the patience you folks have. Now older, with more time on my hands I may try it again.
     
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  6. paddyman98

    paddyman98 I'm a professional expert in specializing! Supporter

    @lordmarcovan
    Here is my latest Bunny Foo Foo YouTube video :cool:

    Some of my friends and members here have asked me why I don't video me swinging and actually digging. The answer to that is I want to do that when I purchase a GoPro camera that I can mount on my chest and also.. It is hot out there! It's bad enough that I have to carry so much equipment and supplies on any summer trip. I keep my videos short and to the point!
     
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  7. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    I've got a Contour Roam camera that I used in my dig videos, and on my England trip. It's eight years old now but hardly ever used- and since I'm essentially retired as a detectorist, I may never use it again. Takes a micro SD card. I sewed a mounting bracket to my cap so that you could slide the camera on and off of it.

    I shot all of this video (and my others) on it.




    You can sort of see the camera mounted on my cap at the end of my long video, above.

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    So anyway, not to spam up your thread or anything like that, but I ain't usin' the camera, and you, I think, could put it to very good use. Shoot me a PM if you are so inclined.
     
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  8. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    PS- maybe "short and to the point" is a good thing, BTW. The video I embedded above, like many of my written message board postings, is perhaps a bit too long and over the top. 'Tis just the way I am.
     
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  9. Wizank

    Wizank Well-Known Member

    I am very new to metal detecting and desire to become more proficient, so thanks for posting your home movies, they do help me understand the skill sets better. As you plan your excursions, how do you research and acquire permissions for detecting - and do you get accosted by owners ever?
     
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  10. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    I do know he hunts a lot of public parks, as did I.
     
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  11. Southernman189

    Southernman189 Well-Known Member

    Thank you so much for this Video. you may have "perked" my interest in metal detecting again. I owned a "coin master" detector back in the early 70's all I found was pull tabs and bottle caps PERIOD. not ONE coin. I lost interest and gave it away. I understand the new ones are much better and I love that wand you was using.
     
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  12. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    I too started out with an old TR detector in the (late-) 1970s. Regardless of the equipment, it takes a lot of patience and persistence, a little bit of skill (which evolves naturally from the “persistence” part), and then a dollop of luck on top of that. Some folks make it look easy, but if it was that easy, everyone would be doing it!

    That being said, there’s no better hobby. I think of all the times I felt truly alive in my life, most were when I was squatting on the ground somewhere, digging up old coins and relics.
     
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  13. Southernman189

    Southernman189 Well-Known Member

    As I mentioned once before on here I literally live on a Civil war battlefield here in Tupelo Mississippi and upon planting various bushes and plants I have dug up civil war bullets accidently. Hard to tell what's under my feet here (may not want to know)
     
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  14. paddyman98

    paddyman98 I'm a professional expert in specializing! Supporter

    Neat!

    One day I will record a live dig. You will notice something strange though. I hold my detector in my left hand and the shovel with my right. I do the opposite of what most detectorist do in their videos :)
     
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  15. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    (Now that I’ve watched)

    Fantastic! Very cool on the WW2 Victory medal, too! Be sure to keep that remnant of the original ribbon. It’s remarkable that that survived.

    I’ve found 1820s buttons with original thread still in the shanks, but textiles don’t usually survive like that, at least in the environments I’ve dug in. Maybe it’s a different story in drier places. Your NYC park sod looks similar to what I used to encounter in NC.
     
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  16. Southernman189

    Southernman189 Well-Known Member

    don't feel bad I am fully right handed in everything but I shoot a bow left handed and must buy a lefthanded bow, go figger huh?
     
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  17. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    Dude, you need to DIG!
     
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  18. Southernman189

    Southernman189 Well-Known Member

    here are some civil war bullets I have dig accidently on my land here is the past 30 years as I planted trees and bushes. One bullet has rat/mouse chewing on it, I'd rather not want to know what attracted the animal to chew on a lead bullet (I have read horror WIN_20210825_08_56_54_Pro.jpg WIN_20210825_08_57_28_Pro.jpg stories about the dead on battlefields after the fight)
     
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  19. eddiespin

    eddiespin Fast Eddie

    @paddyman98, that "pin" is rank bar. This guy was a lieutenant.
     
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  20. Mountain Man

    Mountain Man Well-Known Member

    Nice, as always.
    Your metal is a WW II Victory Medal, which was awarded to all military personnel that served between Dec. 7, 1941 and Dec. 31 1946.
    I believe the bar you are referring to was the ribbon holder, not a lieutenants bar.
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  21. eddiespin

    eddiespin Fast Eddie

    Yeah, I see the cloth on the inside of the pin, now.
     
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