Special Holiday “Finds”
Published by Larry on Tagged Coin shooting, Give-A-Ways, Promotional
I love to go metal detecting on holidays. I get some of my best finds and great experiences as well. A recent Christmas eve I was water hunting at one of my favorite beaches and retrieved a beautiful 14K diamond ring (size 5) which I knew would make a great last minute gift for my wife whose ring size is 4.75 on her left hand and 5.0 on her right. I wrote a poem with instructions on how to find the ring and wrapped it up and hid it on the Christmas tree.
Each New Year’s day, for more than 30 years, I have given myself a challenge of finding at least one dollar in silver change. Most years I have exceded that amount and for 17 of those years I found a silver half or silver dollar. So exciting! What a great way to begin a New Year.
The past two years I have had Easter Egg/coin hunts with my children’s ministry. This past Easter we buried 2500 hundred coins and gave each child 15 minutes of metal detecting, where they kept all the coins and a new metal detector went to the child finding the most coins. They dug up over 1800 coins on Easter Sunday and the nearly 700 coins left in the ground led to another hunt two weeks later in a fun-test comparison of four different brands of start-up detectors. The Titan 1000 user found 144 coins, more than $11.00 in the one hour challenge against a Fisher 1212X, Garrett Ace 150 and a White’s Classic 5 ID unit (order listed is the order they finished with coin totals of 121, 104 and 90). These participants were 8-11 years young and only Kevin, the Garrett 150 user, had any experience metal detecting. He is eight years young and won the 150 in a Christmas contest at church last year. Kevin got to go back and dig-up the remaining coins the next week. Th edetector given in the Easter Hunt was a gift from a man who was a metal detector company employee who sold me a detector on ebay and gave a nice proto-type Bounty Hunter that was never released for sale when I explained to him what I was doing for my 20 children.
This Thanksgiving will be no exception to the fun. I am so pumped for the opportunity I was given to assist a group of University of South Florida graduate level archeological students. They were going to a Daytona Beach area plantation site that burned to the ground in the mid 1830′s and needed to borrow some equipment. I gave them two turn-on and go Fisher metal detectors and they found some real goodies in a suppervised hunt of this site in cooperation with a state agency. They emailed and asked to take the detectors back another day and they agreed to share tha report of their finds, and findings, for using the instruments. I will share this report on Thanksgiving Day–my favorite holiday. Linda and I met on Thanksgiving Day at Lee University in 1966 and married the next Thanksgiving Day. Linda’s mom and dad met at the same college on Thanksgiving of 1946. We have so much to be thankful for. Rebecca, the young lady who contacted me about this venture, will be sharing the report soon. What I know already from the first day’s hunt last week is so “wonderbar”! Talk to you on Thanksgiving Day! Here’s to “diggin it”!
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