Relic Hunting Basics with Jase Robertson

and here I am during the duck season split, you say, as you can see, it's cold, it's literally 34 degrees, about a 15 mile an hour wind and it was snowing before and you say, what are you fishing for, duck, not that , it's during the division, but I discovered something as fun as duck

hunting

, you're still

hunting

, hunting

relic

s, old metal coins, these are some of the things I found, so I'm telling you because I'm still a newbie, uh these old guys that I'm running around hunting now they're pros uh one of my best friends in the world that got me into this murray crow you know he's old as dirt but he's been doing this for 35 40 years I just I've been doing this less than two years, so this is what I want to convey to you: if I can do this and find all these things, you can do it, so the trick is to first find your machine and find a place to go.

I followed Murray and he explained everything to me. They have Garrett, who I'm with. They have some that are pretty affordable in the world of metal detecting and everything you're trying to do with headphones and you. When you look at a screen it matches the sound and the number that you're seeing on the screen and the sound in your ears, you know if it's not going well, but if it goes away, you say, "Oh, I've got something good and that excitement right there." That's why you come and then you find things, so what we do is we find old places on maps and then we go to that place and see what's there from time to time, and then we try to figure out if we can hunt there, so that It's part of the fun.

From all of this and even though I just started, I learned it pretty quickly, I mean, the first month there were a lot of nails, a lot of bullets, a lot of aluminum cans and a lot of frustration, but as I went on, my first find was an Indian head penny Ni I even knew we had Indian head pennies in our past and I thought this is cool and my best find so far in the coin world was a three cent coin that I knew we used to make three cent coins. I have discovered that we made them between 1851 and 1870.

So when I found this, I thought it was a toy because I couldn't really see it. I put it in my pocket. That day I found a silver dime. excited about it and I took a magnifying glass and I looked and I could see the United States of America, so I called Murray and I thought I found a coin that has a star on it and I said what did he say, it's a trine three. penny piece he said what year it is, I said 1851. he said well if it has a zero mint mark from New Orleans, it's weird that it looks like zero, we were laughing like schoolgirls and of all the things I found, that little piece is my best find and people look at everything I found and don't even notice this little piece, you can barely see it, it's very thin, it's half the size of a dime, 1851, it's hard to even hold a coin of three cents, he said, what are they? what are you going to do with it I'm going to keep it look at it I couldn't sell it it's priceless to me so I've come a long way since I heard strange sounds in the garden digging up every metal that crossed my path it has been a really very adventure funny, so now look, you can sit and talk about old times and memories, but the only reason I'm here is to go hunting, so I'm going to follow you, I'm going to dig up this thing we have.

Here I really think it's a uh, it's a bullet piece, I think it's a bullet fragment, uh, yeah, I don't know where this was, whatever it is, oh, I see it okay, look, there's a button that's well, pretty old, we keep it. buttons yeah, yeah, I just wrote something, they say don't rub it, debris, but hey, okay, I don't know, it could be something, I think I felt it, just here, there, it's what we have here. Actually, I don't. I don't know definitely brass, oh, it's the top of a spoon or some kind of utensil, look, look at the design, hey, I'm here with these Garrett guys and I'm actually going to do some Christmas shopping. because under this ground I believe there is treasure and where there is treasure there are gifts you find the right treasure and guess what you don't have to go to a store or a mall or order online you literally get it from the ground clean it and guess what she will never know.

Okay, look, I'm a newbie at this, but the way I learned how, when I go back, I have mine set to zero mode and I have some. of the iron dial set to about 15 so I could get a clear signal so I came up with this so you hear there was a little beep there now when I first hit it it was a lot of beeps like that and I'm getting a good signal but you can hear a little bit of iron when I turn to the side that doesn't sound good you say what are you going to do I'm not going to dig I'm going to keep going so what you want is that clear sound that you hear it's a little bit there but you turn to one side no, it's all iron I tried to be a good target I just wanted everyone to know what happens between my ears when I have my headphones on, so literally Pink Floyd was right, there is someone inside my head and it's not me 80 81 80 81 listen to that you know what that's the sound of dreams coming true I like that sign okay I'm a little excited that's the best sign I've ever had today we haven't been here much oh we hit we found a pen okay I knew it was something good, so we see ourselves saying, well, it's just a penny that someone lost, I would say at least 70 80 years ago, but it is a value, although it is a small value.

I came and put it back into circulation that's why we do this so why are you so excited to find a penny? It raised morale. It's not a Christmas present, but I know someone lost a 1940 penny, probably lost some silver coins in there too. when you put something back into circulation, there is a spiritual theme, you know you are lost, you don't know where you are, it's cold and dark and suddenly you look up, someone helps you and you start again. I mean, I don't think it's uh, I'm going to dig it up, it doesn't have the number on it, but it goes from 80 to 90, so at least I won't see what it is, well, I think it's garbage, now I see when I dug. the hole the number went down was to 60 so well I'm getting several, I don't think it's a good thing, sometimes you just don't know and it's like that, remember the Clint Eastwood movie?

I think he was a dirty, hairy you. I know Eastwood said, "You have to wonder if he fired six shots or just five and the bank robber was lying there and said, Hey, I figured no Eastwood stopped and the guy clicked, so I already knew, but I didn't." ". I know what this is, but hey, I gotta know, uh, okay, a piece of brass, some kind of clamp, hey, it actually has some writing on there and the writing is good, what does that say? I don't know if that's writing or designing a piece. Definitely a piece of brass, okay, now I know brass is good when you find a square brass nail, but I swear, but look, you never know what you're going to find.

This will definitely be a trigger because it's a little cat I didn't do. I can't find that with a metal detector, that would be with the naked eye. We found about uh, you know, ten more of these. We can have a little Christmas marble game, classic edition, so look, look here, he said, why are you setting up the metal detector? down, well, sometimes you get knocked over, do you ever get that feeling that you're being watched, this didn't register on the metal detector, what we have here is a decapitated porcelain doll of some kind, the barbaric world of porcelain , look here, look, I know.

What happened now? We can put two and two together. Now we have two marbles. Look, then, what we have. We had a game of marbles. A fight broke out. They may have thrown porcelain dolls. They apologized to us. The cash was well distributed getting 83 82 86. Wow it could be a silver quarter maybe I feel pretty good about it I think I think I'm in the good neighborhood the anticipation is building I hadn't found this yet well, I was just getting ready to leave the hole we were in wow Well, this has been a two day trip, we're still not sure what we have here.

Oh, but I like it. I like it. I think it's a silver quarter. Don't you try not to? Oh yeah yeah I think you got a silver quarter silver coin oh sweet there it is that's amazing jason it's not full of water uh it's always on that way back to the car I was heading back let's get out of here let me tell you I think I'm ready to go to the next place oh 35 35 19 35. sweet what is it today what year is it we are ready for 20 20 20 so 85 years ago some more guys around here oh

jase

that's why we do it we have money there silver in those hills and I got a confirmation from my gypsy friend, he said, oh yeah, sweet, that's marble digger day, we're going to have a game of marbles, gypsy, more marbles, you know, that old man who lost your marbles, we found them, I'm sure I'll see you all again because we'll do this every chance we get.