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@@mikebonn8669 that would be incredible! I need to do some club visits for XP as well. Thanks Mike. Please email me at kazanjianm@gmail.com and perhaps in the fall we could make something work. I truly appreciate this.
@@MetalDetectingNYC, will you PLEASE get some "Sushi Unlocked" tshirts made and put on your website. My wife wants one, and it would sure get her out of my ass complaining that you don't have any.
Merrill, I found a copper spear head about 20 years ago while detecting in a wooded area just outside of Chicago. Gave it to the Museum of Science and Industry for their Native American display. The director told me it was from the Archaic Period, approximately around 3000 BCE. After some cleaning it was placed on display with other Native American artifacts in their collection. I love going there and seeing it on display, I felt it was the right thing to do. Keeping such a rare artifact in a private collection unseen would be a shame.
Hey, Merrill, you certainly found your calling; you are a great teacher! Even though we've been detecting for over 20 yrs., using old maps and now the new LIDAR, your video was fascinating. Love how you showed the growth of the country as well as the way you made categories and added humor. A+!!!
Good tips Merrill. My friends think I waste too much time researching areas I want to hunt. But then they wonder why I’ve found such good finds. I must be really lucky I guess. lol A detector shop owner friend of mine went with me to an old State Fair site that had been abandoned for many years. Allot of the it had dirt streets when it first became a Fair Grounds. It was just being developed again when I got permission to hunt the site. I had found pockets full of silver coins before even telling my friend about the place. I was allowed to use whatever means necessary to dig up coins and such. My friend found what appeared to be a silver dollar under the asphalt roadway in front of the grandstands where horse racing took place. He worked for over an hour pecking at the asphalt with a screwdriver and hammer to retrieve his target. I went on and was doing well without having to need a pick. For all of his work he retrieved a very nice copper washer. He was so sure it was a coin. We laughed about it later but since he had to find out what it was. We knew there wasn’t aluminum cans back when the road was paved. It was just something you had to dig.😢 John
Glad i found your channel. Ive been binge watching your videos. I appreciate how well you explain things and get right to the point. Also enjoy your style of humor.
Merrill, you hit my wheel house, History and metal detecting! History is the reason I started metal detecting. I live just off of the Old Boston Post Road and enjoy New England’s Colonial history. Thank you for another great tutorial. Love your channel too!
Very good information. I live in a town that was a direct path on Wabash &Erie Canal. Indiana. My city replaced the road on the old canal bed. Wow! What a great summer I had! Large cent, silver coins, Indian head cents, heel plates, toe taps. Most were surface finds.
Awesome... I live in a later settled part of the states I've found 1852 prolly won't find much older here. Couple years ago I changed up my main method of site choosing. Rather then try to go places that no one has searched. I decided everyone was doing that and consequently these "unsearched" type of areas were very searched. So I started hitting places that people would say everyone searched or that area has been overly searched. I have done quite well detecting the places that others in the community would say everyone has allready detected.
Copper culture is fascinating for sure! We usually find 3 or 4 pieces a year. The first one I ever found was a celt/chisel. The first thing I wondered was who would make a chisel out of Copper. I googled Copper chisel. Then I realized how it ended up under the roots of a huge old growth tree. If you ever end up in Wisconsin I'll be happy to take you out to find one.
I just love the way you use common sense and research into the search for good and better places for metal detecting! Keeping an open mind and realizing how this country was developing as the population grew is key to good detecting areas, The learning curve never ends
Great video. I've been in Qns for 20 years (I lived in Bumblef**k Valley, ND until 2004) and I've managed to ride my bike to most of the BK/QNS locations you've visited. It never occurred to me to detect. I now see the city in a new ways. (As soon as you dropped the "Quick Review of What We've Learned," I knew you were a teacher. From one teacher to another, I love the channel.)
Hi Merrill, I detect Farms and Beaches here in the UK. The Farms produce most of the historic finds but like you say, an efficient swing is needed and the decent finds are few and far between. Maybe 2 percent are keepers after 6 hours or more swinging and digging for most. Often in the rain or over roughly cultivated ground. The ground can be frozen, muddy or dry and hard like concrete. Even if the field is not in crop the weeds or grass can make it difficult. Even getting there can be tricky with flooding on roads and muddy farm tracks to navigate and slippery soft waterlogged fields to park on. But whatever comes we turn out because detecting is great fun and good exercise!
U R very right about that old places and trail roads U C I remodel homes new & old And been at many places with old houses churches and so on and love history U gave me more insights of where to look plus I'm into antique
Good stuff Merrell. I use old maps as a matter of fact I drive around with the app open it shows where all the old places are and as far as random spots I almost always hit them anything with dirt is a spot for me 😎✌️🤟🖖
Man…just wanted to say this video is just what people new to the hobby need. Wanted to say thanks for the info and time it took to make and edit this video. I indeed liked and subscribed!
We found an old portion of Boston rd in Spencer Massachusetts that kept us busy for a year!! KGll’s came up like wheat cents, state coppers and militia buttons, it was a great time during the pandemic 😀
Awesome video Merrill. Here in Seattle , there used to be a ferry that went across Lake, Washington to Kirkland in the Early 1900s passengers would throw coins to the kids standing on the pylons
Excellent video Merrill and you couldn’t be more correct on the subject. The way towns/cities are laid out in our modern age is vastly different than during our early agrarian times in this country. Those meandering paths and stonewalls in the woods today were busy home/farm sites 200 yrs ago. 20 years of relic hunting has taught me the lessons that you pointed out in your video. Honestly a book could be written on the subject.
Good stuff Merrill! I live in southern Ohio in a small community that was founded 1801, 2 years prior to Ohio statehood. It was laid out in 1797 when the first settlers started moving in. Part of the Virginia Military District alotted to veterans of the Revolution. It lays along the main east-west route from Cincinnati to points east. I've found draped bust silver and copper, reales, and other 1700s silvers/coppers. Location is everything. Thanks for the video!
Great video, Merrill! Lots of good information delivered in an entertaining way. My buddy found a copper culture spearhead while detecting a street tearout in a Minnesota city. Pretty cool to imagine that artifact predating the 1800s town that settled over it and eventually grew into a bustling city.
Hey Merrill, it was so awesome to meet you today. I’m super pumped for an exciting weekend! Hope you’re able to get out there too and don’t have to work too hard 🙃 My husband pulls up LiDAR maps all the time for our copper culture hunting. It’s amazing what you can see! It’s been so helpful. It’s really obvious where the shoreline was thousands of years ago with that map. We print them out before we go on our adventures.
I would love to go Metal Detecting For Meteorites, on my bucket list also. Get video I have 4 sites I found that are great resource for maps of Pennsylvania. Keep up the good work. Have fun at Digstock. Thanks for sharing
Merrill, thank you for some fantastic insight on determining locations with "find" potential. I am new to metal detecting - as a serious hobby - and about to begin the curve of learning all about the Minelab Equinox 900 that just got delivered. I hope I selected a good machine.
I've been fallow years video and already find 2 gold rings 1 silver and a lot of coins and many others non gold jewellers..thank you for sharing with us 😊
I live in THEE Heart of the gold country in California Merrill, Grass valley ,ca. Home of the Empire mine. North Star mine ,Idaho Maryland mine,etc.. the 3 yuba rivers north,middle,and south river, the 3 American Rivers, and hundreds more of them. If ever looking to research for gold? This is thee greatest place of all to do so. N.T. nor cal, ca.
Hey big guy, thanks for this video. It reminded me that we have a very popular sledding site nearby. First hunt of the year for me yielded serval coins. I also had an iffy bouncing signal 58-96 with my Deus 2. I Wasn't going to dig it but the sound was strong and sharp did and it yielded a silver ring and another gold ring in the same hole. From your Connecticut neighbor, I wish you the best with your new endeavor. Deus picked the perfect motivating Teacher/Ambassador.
Thanks so much for this informative video Merrill! We all appreciate ya! Yes, I love watching Zach at Great Outdoors Detecting! And I love watching you too!
I looked up, “How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm” because I wasn’t sure if it was WWI, or WWII. It was WWI. Before that, 80% were on farms with 20% in the cities. By WWII, that had flipped? The song actually made folks mad, because it was true, and many abandoned farms for easier, more exciting city lives, with weekends off and better paychecks. Thanks for a great video.
Merrill! I live in Colorado and I hunted down an old trail head and found a 1850 braided hair. Large scent was pretty shocked! Thanks for all of your educational videos. You’re number one I wouldn’t have found that coin without you.
Hey Merrill, have you created a video for how to use LIDAR ? If so i couldn't find it. Do you offer a course on this? I REALLY enjoy your videos, and you are a very engaging teacher! Thanks for all you do man !
The farms no longer get tilled because they scientifically figured out that leaving the soil alone brings better mineralization. Nothing to do with fuel. I learned that this weekend with a buddy that has a family farm we detect.
@@MetalDetectingNYC I’m brand new and have been living on your reviews to decide which machine I want to start with. Tysm! I’ve picked the manticore, already watched your intro series a few times!
come on out to northern utah. i got plenty room and we can look for nuggets in northern nevada and southern idaho . look up lake bonneville and were it broke threw by my house. it had to have left tones of neat dirt and nuggets.
It’s a great video you offer right here. Your very first statements ring true for me anyway. The comfort zone of the 3 places I detect are hard to break away from. Time and ambition are factors of course. But I love detecting so much and I want to get out there further. Ok off to X finds 🤣🤣
Love old "copper" culture..... I've found many artifacts, including an unlimited supply of doughnut holes. 😊 very tiny holes left behind by the coppers !!
Hello. Enjoy your videos. I know its not your area; but was wondering if you could direct me on how to connect with a club in South Dakota. Thought you might know of a directory or something. Thank you in advance.
let me get this correct. The property that has been in the family since 1763 next to a RR depot, along the Wilderness Road coming out of Virginia in Kentucky on the Cumberland River. That would be a place to find great artifacts, and coins.
