MINELAB ETRAC, GARRETT EUROACE AND VISTA GOLD COIN SHOOTING

I've been joined on this hunt. Well, not that it is a hunt yet, but I've been joined on this quest to get to where we're going to hunt by Jimmy. Jimmy. This is up near his house, and this road, it's grown over a little bit, but it's actually all cobbled. This is an old drover's road, so we're just looking for somewhere where drovers may possibly have camped. And my car's just conked out. We've just come miles up into the middle of nowhere and we had a little bit of a... Yes, let me explain Richard's disaster who stepped out of his van while leaving the engine running and managed to lock the keys in it. So we've now spent 20 minutes pulling fencing wire and grinding the door open with a spade to actually get into the vehicle to get it moved from the middle of the road in the middle of nowhere. He's come into the field and walked and he paces from the gate in a bad mood and he's found... And a silver of some sort. I don't know whose it is. It's not an old one, it's just George V. I was excited there for a minute, but I mean, that's still a good find. Silver, silver. Silver, silver. That's a cracking start to the day, or night as it is. This is quite a deep hole, probably nine, ten inches deep, for this little military button. Seems to have quite a lot of detail on it. So, I'll give it a clean up and see what it's like at the end of the video. Jimmy's got a good signal here reading, well, on mine it was reading 1245, which was kind of shilling country. So, I'm kind of hoping it's a good coin. But not as good as the one I found. I'm hoping it's a slightly younger one. It's a doorknob, isn't it? What? What on earth is that doing up here? You sure it's not just a brass musket ball? I think it must be, aye. Yes, aye. Or a cannon ball. Just keep your finger over that bit so the viewers can't see it. I thought it was about here. No, no, it's not. It's about there, is it? Yeah? Yeah. Okay. I ended my hunt with Jimmy. This is a new hunt with my son, James. We're in the coin shooting field. So James can try and find some coins, he'll probably find better ones than me. I'm using the e-track with a big coil. I've forgotten my harness so it's going to be a bit of a tussle swinging it through this pretty long grass. James has got the Vista Gold. Last time we used the gold it wasn't too good, the ground was absolutely sodden and it was freaking out quite a lot. When we're out tonight it seems to be running very stable. I've whacked the discrimination up a little bit because there is quite a bit of iron in this ground. And it's latched onto a good target here, so we're going to give it a dig and see what's there. I hope that was going through a stone and not a coin. Oh, it might have been that. You think it might have been that? Do you want to go over it again, just to see? Looking at it, I'll come up to you in a minute. A bit further out? The little bottle with a metal cap. Unfortunately, I've hit the cap with a spade, so it's not really a collector piece. It's no good, but it would have been quite a nice little bottle, that. This is a bit of an iffy signal. It's jumping around a little bit. But when it does show on the screen, and it's not dropping into the discriminative bit, the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, it's hitting up towards the top right-hand side. So that's generally where silver and biggish copper hits. Definitely worth a dig. I've got a super old broken thing. Have you? Might be something very small in here. Nope. I think if that's a coin... If that is a coin, that's a record. Let's have a look. Nope. That's a lump of coke. It doesn't normally pick coke up. Unless we're missing something, which is even deeper. There's a tiny little bit of cork, which is almost 18 inches down. There's a hell of a depth, which makes me think that there's something else in here. Yeah. It's still saying there's something in there. Right at the bottom of the depth gauge. I'm going to get it, whatever it is. Hopefully, the coin. What are you doing? What is it then? Let's have a look. It better be an old one. That's a good one. Oh, it's not even very old. And I've hit it with a spade. Indeed. Now I've dropped it. Thank you. That wasn't actually that deep. It was probably... Where did it come from? Eight or nine inches down. On its end, though. And that's a 1940 George VI sixpence. In reasonable condition, apart from where I hit it with a spade. Somewhere about here, James has got a decent signal as well. I'm not going to check it with the e-track. Shouldn't need to. Something in there. See, it's there. What is it? It's an old Threepenny bit. Not the silvered variety, unfortunately. Very faint, but maybe it's worth a dig. All right, then get in there and have a look. It's in there somewhere. Yeah, you can see it. Ah, it is a coin. That's a George the Sixth Halfpenny. Terrible condition. And it's another coin. That one's a George the Sixth Penny. It's a George the Sixth Halfpenny, on end, and about seven inches deep. Got a decent sort of a signal here. Reading 1241 on the 8-track. It's a shallow one, but it's a nice one. Very nice one. It's a George V, it's a George V, 19, what was it? 1917 Threepenny bit. Very nice indeed. What's it doing? It's got an itchy backside, I think. Go on, son. I don't know. Anyway, back to reality. We've got a decent sort of a signal down here. I told you it was doing that. It's reading 13, what was it reading? 1338, I think, on the A-track. Uh-oh. Horses going near my metal detector and smelling it. It's another George the Sixth halfpenny. Just pulled a copper coin up from probably about nine, ten inches deep. And it looks like a George the Third. It is George the Third halfpenny. It's actually in pretty good condition. Not bad. I imagine it's got like a shieldy sort of harpy thing on the back there. I don't want to rub it too much because it's got a lovely patina on it. I don't want to ruin that. It's a nice coin though. George the Third halfpenny. Okay, back home now, and this is just a quick roundup of what I've found on two very quick upland pasture hunts. One was with Jimmy, and one was with my son, James. These are modern coins, one pence, two pence. State of that, absolutely shocking. It's made of pure rubbish in this country. That's a decimal ten pence, not the one we use now, but the one previous to that, big one. Again, rubbish. Modern 20 pence, rubbish. A pound coin, terrible condition, but... It'll probably still spend. Predecimal pennies. This one here looks pretty old. Not sure how old. No doubt on it. Predecimal half pennies. Most of those are George VI. Predecimal Threepenny bits. Well, actually, there wasn't a Threepenny bit in the decimal. And moving on to the silver. Very nice 1917 Threepenny bit. That's in great condition, that. Just give it a quick rub with a bit of baking soda and it's come up nice. A 1946 pence. A 1920 shillin'. It's come up so good, that one. It's a little bit worn as well, but it's not too bad. Still silver. Makes me happy. It's got quite a lot of detail on. Unfortunately, the back is terrible. And probably the best thing I found was this George III half penny. Hasn't got much on that side. The portrait side's not bad. You can read all the writing. Georgius III. If you compare that to my previous best George III half penny, I know which one I'd rather keep. Mind you, I did brutalise this one quite a lot when I was trying to clean it. This one has not been cleaned. I'll just give it a rub, take the heavy muck off. So that's it. A few coins there, three silver, one nice half penny, two quick hunts in beautiful scenery. See you next time. Thanks for watching.