<p><strong>Hello everybody,</strong></p> <p>I am from central Nebraska and here is my story...</p> <p>The wife rolled her eyes at me when I mentioned I would like to purchase a metal detector. I borrowed a BH QD II from a friend and found a 1919 wheatie during deer season at an abandoned one room school. It felt great. Even better than shooting a deer. So the crops were ok this year along with the prices and I purchased an X-TERRA 305 (E-TRAC users read on!).</p> [split] <p>This was just before Thanksgiving. I hunted my Father-In-Laws over the holiday. He must've been a tightwad because I didn't even find clad. Then I went a couple of miles away where he grew up and found five wheaties from the 40's and my first silver (1943 P War Nickel). I was pumped.</p> <p>Day after Thanksgiving. Set a goal to put up some electric fence over cornstalks for my cattle, if I got that done I would detect the local football field where I went to High School. Took my four-year-old son with me. I told myself before I started hunting I was going to dig up the pulltab signals on the X-TERRA 305. 10 minutes into the hunt I dug, about 3" down, a ring. The closer I looked at it, still in the hole the more I began to realize what I'd found. I lost my wedding ring in 1994. I didn't know where but thought it was at my in-laws' Dairy where I worked (I always took it off to milk). This ring, my first found metal detecting, was mine...again!!!</p> <p>I called my wife on my cell.</p> <p>Wife: Hello <br>Me: Hey. Guess what I found? <br>Wife: What? <br>My: My ring... <br>Wife: No you didn't. <br>Me: Yes I did...really. <br>Wife: No you didn't. <br>Me: Yes.....</p> <p>The conversation went on like this for a while and I'm not sure I really convinced her until I got home and showed her. The ring in the picture on the left is the one I found, the one on the right is the one we bought to replace it...they are the same pattern and the right one is way more worn as I've worn it a lot working on the farm.</p> <p>Sunday after Thanksgiving, after church went detecting in the small town we attend church at. Found my first Mercury dime (1942) and my first Buffalo (1916). I was on cloud nine all the next week. The weather turned cold, the ground froze and I had to quit.</p> <p>Many times before I turned in I would pick up the rings and coins and look at them and remember. Two weeks after:</p> <p>Wife: I wouldn't mind going with you. <br>Me: Going where? <br>Wife: Metal Detecting. <br>Me: No, you wouldn't. <br>Wife: Yes, I believe I would. <br>Me: Then I get to get the detector I wanted in the first place! <br>Wife:.....(she didn't say anything)!</p> <p>I now own a Minelab X-TERRA 305, E-TRAC, and (Pioneer 505 due to Kellyco's BoGo sale).</p> <p>Thanks guys for reading such a long winded story. I hope ground thaw comes early. By the way I had to go out on nicer days and try the E-TRAC in the yard and found the thin copper bracelet you also see pictured. </p> <p>I especially want to thank the guys on YouTube for the videos - Neswiper (another Nebraskan), LaDigger, Niagracounty, Gibsondan, Vidslayer, Yuleah, Crunch, and the others. I learned so much from you.</p>