r/metaldetecting

Found this in my backyard. (Bay Area CA). Not very deep… it’s about the size/shape of a hockey puck. Very heavy. Some sort of rusted iron?

I got an old detector for next to nothing, playing around my backyard had surprising results.

This looked a bit rough when I pulled it out of the sand, but after giving it a clean I'm wondering if maybe it's real silver and not just costume jewelry? No discernable rust or discoloration on it, non magnetic. Very stoked about it regardless.

This area saw heavy fighting in 1945. Hundreds of soldiers fell, dozens have been found since then. In about a month construction of motorway will begin so we try search thoroughly for any that still are MIA/KIA.

I’ve been wanting to get into the hobby for a while years actually I decided I have nothing else to lose. I bought a basic bounty hunter tracker4 and also a minelab xterra pro but I’m using myself into that one. I’m starting to understand the basic concepts with this bounty hunter. I found three targets in my yard before I went to the park three quarters and one chunk of something that did not register as iron. At the park, the first good target I had had like 12 coins in it in a big wad and then I found a couple bottle caps. I have this hand washer thing that I bought for my van and it works great cleaning off coins and stuff at the park. Also cleaning your gear before putting it back in.

Delaware - tried a new area I’ve been eyeballing for a bit. After a few promising hits and further into the woods away from the road trash, I hit a great high tone and dug a 1944 Washington Quarter. Took my pictures and started to refill but swung over it again, got another high tone much deeper, almost straight down. Out pops a 300 year old shoe buckle, my second ever colonial shoe buckle. A great instance of “what are the odds?”

Second favorite dig of the day was a 102nd Armored Cavalry pin.

I’m gonna be hunting this place out for a while since it appears it’s never been detected. Here’s hoping to save and learn more history about my area.

First timer, hunting a beach in cape cod with my Vanquish 340. Found lots of junk but then dug this piece of a Hohner brand harmonica from Stuttgart Germany. I was pretty happy when it revealed the lettering!

Found this thing at a possibly ex military site. Lots of bullets and some buttons, badges and stuff.
I wasn't sure about that. At the same site i also found some Hungarian Royal army badges.
Found in North Eastern Slovenia.
Thank you!

2 days of searching the same park about 5 hours swinging in total. The ring isn't real but sill a cool find to add to the collection

It was found at site where old house burned down (people say it burned more than 30 years ago).

It was 10-15 cm in the ground.

Location: Village in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Former Yugoslavia)

Found more ambiguous small stuff and no recognisable things like spoon or something.

Lighter for scale.

I found this, I'm pretty sure its a shotgun shell?

I'm very happy with this trip. Find of the day would be for me the italian 5 centesimi (1/20 lira) coin from 1940. Also found a nice button from german ww2 uniform and cool italian clip for 6 carcano 6,5x52mm bullets. This village is full of old ammo, so of course I found some cartridges but one is my favourite: american huge cartridge from 1942 (photo 15,16), I think it's .50 caliber. This is the largest cartridge I ever found. I will go again detecting to that village as soon as I get rid of all exams as school year is coming to an end.

Found in the uk and currently being recorded. I wasn’t sure what it was when I first found it but the final slides show the almost identical matches for comparison.