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Awesome! It takes awhile to learn how to weed out trash from good stuff. Not sure what model you rented but a cheaper detector also won't go very deep or weed out the trash as well. I've got a spare if you ever wanna give it a shot again I'd be happy to go out with ya and see what we can find. When I was a kid we had a trail going straight through the woods, my dad got a detector and we found a railroad plate (not sure what it's called, it holds the rail to the tie) ... It wasn't until I got older and looked at some old maps that I realized there was a railroad that ran right through the yard in the 1920 that only ran about 10 years before it was abandoned.

It's all good brother, a good detectorist wouldn't dig up your yard, you wouldn't even know anyone had been there. Machines these days can pinpoint exactly where a target is, and guess at the depth, so anyone can cut out a neat plug, get the item and plug it back up like it never happened ... But I understand where you're coming from since some people, especially newbies, will dig holes you could fall in and just walk away or dig up trash and just leave it there, bad habits for sure that make everyone else look bad.

Anyone else metal detect? If not would you let someone metal detect your field or woods? If so would you be up for someone tagging along? I mainly detect civil war spots and old home sites west of Nashville but am always up for traveling. Not sure if your fields are worth detecting? I love to do research and find what was going on in the past, you'd be surprised what happened in your front yard a hundred years ago.