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Horse Shit, or History?
What Does The Horse Represent In Canadian History? The Canadian horse is known for its great strength and endurance, resilience, intelligence and good temper The wild horse herds that once roamed the Great Lakes region came to hold deep cultural significance for the Ojibwe communities who lived there. They are considered a spirit animal and…
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Gord Downie Public Beach and Netherlands coin Found In Harrowsmith Ontario.
Today is June 14th 2023, the day started out wet, raining, & really not a day to be out detecting but since I only have a couple of days off in a row I decided that detecting was on the agenda anyway. I decided to head into Kingston ON to the gord Downie public…
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CHOOSING YOUR PERFECT DETECTOR
After spending the last year and a half metal detecting throughout southern Ontario, following many forums on the subject, there seems to be one question that is asked by many, and that is. what is the best machine within my budget? So I’ll start off by saying that just over a year ago…
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Successful Ring Recovery (Prince Edward County – Ontario)
On Thursday June 8th 2023 I received A text message from a Paul Davenport. Paul was in distress because his mother-in-law had just dropped a ring through a brand new deck that Paul had just built her. Mr. Davenport had explained to me that the ring was very sentimental to his mother-in-law and was…
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Radioworld & The Woodbine Beach Hunt
On June 3rd Radioworld held its annual Metal Detecting event at Woodbine beach in Toronto Ontario. With Now I attended this event for the sole purpose that I would be able to meet some fellow detectorists that I’ve been following and chatting with over social media and YouTube for the past year. I also thought…
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2023 Metal Detecting Adventures In the 1000 Island’s (PART 1)
We are now getting to the end of May 2023, the weather has started getting nicer, & the bugs have started getting worse for the season. That’s right, it’s black fly season, I have witnessed the clubs social media page taking a lull in activity. From the start of spring until about the 15th of…
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Becoming a part of the worlds largest Ring Finder community .
Last year in 2022 I had applied to become what is known as “The Ring Finders” This is an online worldwide list of Metal detectorists put together by the name of Chris Turner and designed to help people find their lost valuables around the globe, such as wedding rings and other valuable items. When I…
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Public Beach First Gold Of 2023
On Friday May 12 after getting my son off to daycare. My partner was just getting off working night shift and I knew she would need some quiet in the house, so of course my first plan of action was to give her the quiet peaceful rest she deserved. Well what better time for some…
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Putting Our Boat Back In The Water, Leads To A Quick Mother’s Day Island Hunt
It had been 2 years since the last time my partner Erin and I had a boat of our own in the water. For the past 10 years I have always had a boat of my own in the drink but since 2020 (the year of Corona Virus or COVID 19) or since Erin being…
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Midway Through The 2023 Detecting Season. Well as we know from my previous posts. This year (year 2 ) of metal Detecting I had decided to move from Minelab products and get into the Nokta products. Late last season in 2022 I purchased a Nokta Legend at their sale price which ended up being a…