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To the Superb People at White's, My hunting buddies (Chris, Kyle, Robert) and I decided to hit a 1700s Grist mill site one Sunday morning. The weather was superb and the ground was finally thawed! This field has already produced a lot old coins in the past (Colonials, Two-centers, Spanish silver, etc.). Within the 1st five minutes of detecting, I plucked out my 1st Colonial copper of the year. It turned out to be a 1787 New Jersey Post-Colonial! It definitely was a thrill to find. It was recovered in an iron-infested area at a depth of 3.5". I use the 4 X 6 DD coil with my Pro XL and it definitely made the signal "decent" enough to dig. By the way, this copper is only my second coin of the year (1770s Spanish half reale + 1787 New Jersey copper)! Our style is one in which we mainly hunt for pre-1850 coins. I think this year is going to be a "good" one. Thanks, White's, for your "outstanding" products! Kirk (PA) |
Dear White's, I just wanted to tell you how good your detectors are working for me. My first detector was a 4900 Di Pro, old blue box. It did a very nice job of finding my lost wedding ring, and saving my neck! That really got me interested in metal detecting, and I started finding lots of change in the local parks. When that detector got run over (a sad, sad day about six months ago) I decided to buy a new DFX. What a great detector! So far, I have found at least $300 loose change in the local parks, and quite a bit of jewelry. One ring was gold with a heart cut aquamarine and two diamonds. That was my second gold ring found with the DFX, about VDI 12 and two inches down. My wife just loves it! Then, I hit the motherload. One day on a weekend trip out of town, I took the DFX out to search the beach. While my wife and I were walking down the trail, I pointed out a good spot for people to lose change. As we were not in a hurry, I decided to look around. Just as I thought, I found a few loose coins and even a small necklace. As I walked around the area, I got a strong signal around VDI 87. When I switched to pinpoint, it appeared to be a very large target, and I assumed it was a soda can. I started to walk away. Then I thought, "I'd better check that anyway". Good thing too, as it turned out to be a container full of silver coins! We couldn't believe it. Someone had buried those coins in a container over a foot deep, and now I'd found a genuine buried treasure! Every detectors dream come true! I'm sure that if I hadn't gotten started with the old 4900, I wouldn't have bought a DFX. And without the DFX, I wouldn't have found the gold ring (and several more) or the silver treasure cache. Thanks again for your awesome products and really great customer support, and for helping make such great adventures possible for me!
Sincerely, |
White's makes the history channel. During the last 10 to 14 years, I have been blessed with the opportunity to assist the National Park Service with archeological studies. To do these we have been able to relic hunt on National Parks only. Some of the sites that I participated in the digs were: Shiloh, Stones River, and Battery Robinette in Corinth. The Southeast Archeological Center and Chattanooga Area Relic and Historical Association have worked on several sites in addition to these. I could only attend these digs because of logistics.
Anyway, the History Channel heard about us and what we do. They decided to make a documentary film on their series "The History Channel -- Battlefield Detectives -- Shiloh". We were all invited back to the Shiloh area to meet with a bunch of folks from England, who were going to do the film. There was one section of the film, where they wanted to film one person digging a relic. They were looking around at all the different detectors and picked the White's DXF of mine. There were plenty of the T_______ and even the factory rep. with the F_____ brand there. But, the director of the film, picked the DXF by appearance only. This didn't sit very well with the F_____ guy, but "that's the breaks". I was flattered to be on the TV show and have enjoyed my DXF tremendously. I have recently purchased a new MXT and will soon purchase another MXT for my two sons. There will be other stories in the future about our hunts. I hope this is appropriate. I will include a link to the website where you can get a copy of the movie and a link to our club website. Both have pictures and articles of our digs. |
If anyone doubts the MXT is a hot machine, just listen to this. I was hunting an open no till field that the cotton had just came off with my MXT and the Stock 9 inch coil. This field was no till because it was probably costing the farmer a fortune in plow tips. This soil was BAD. Hard rocky quartz filled red clay. Several nice items came out of this spot and I was working hard slow and it was paying off. A few cuff buttons and carved bullets were popping out. All of the sudden I got a nice deep hit at about 8 inches. Just so you know everything from this field had been found at half that depth due to the soil and several other machines had been over this very spot. The target rolled out of the hole and I immediately scratched my head as to what it was. Cleaning it there in the field reveled a patent date of 1863 with the name of Langholtz on it. On the reverse it said Topham Sole Manu. Washington. I immediately got home and began digging in the Patent office archives and found this item. A Strapless Riding Spur! Everyone I have shown this item to or asked about has never seen one. It’s great to link an item with the Patent information. Just another great part of this hobby and the MXT does it again!
Jonathan H. |
Dear White's, I just wanted to thank all of you for making a Truly GREAT line of products! Here's my story. I received my Spectrum XLT last June as a Father's Day gift. It was practically a brand new 10 year old detector. My father-in-law had purchased it in 1997 and due to health problems he never got to use it. Last year he gave it to me (best gift I'd ever got). Since receiving my detector I have found many many really cool items. One being a 9 inch long butterfly knife less than a hundred feet from the main entrance to an elementary school, some 1950 and 60 boyscout memorabilia. And my best find to date a 1975 Citadel Military College class ring. Well after posting and searching through 5000 rings on classring finder.com and finally contacting the Citadel's Alumni ring program coordinator (3 weeks of searching) I had finally made contact with the man that had lost this ring. He had given me permission to use his name in this story! He was ecstatic, thrilled, dumbfounded and not to mention extremely grateful. He was once again going to be reunited with one of the hardest Class Rings in the country to earn. He said that he had lost that ring while swimming with his wife, 30 years ago in a lake. Well it just so happens that I now work at this camp and they had drained the lake the last week of February. I figured there had to be some good stuff in there somewhere, Anyhow I found the Ring and returned it to it's rightful owner. Mr. Richard H. Smith of Laurens S.C. Here's a picture of me returning the ring to Mr Smith, and a picture of the replacement ring he had ordered. The ring on the left is the one he has worn for the last 30 years. After putting the original ring back on his finger, his eyes filled with tears of joy and I must say that this also brought tears to my eyes. He informed me that the day he had lost the ring he drove to Greenville S.C. and rented scuba gear and a metal detector and went back looking for his ring. He said apparently he hadn't rented a Whites detector, Anyhow thanks once again for a truly great machine... Wish a Ford and a Chevy still lasted 10 years!!!
Sincerely, p.s. Buddy received this letter by email after he had sent his story in to Whites. Dear Sir, I was at The Citadel with Richard Smith, we were both in D Company. Your hard work and diligence in both finding his class ring and returning it to him has pleased and amazed many of us. We were all told in the beginning of our tour at The Citadel, that joining that “long gray line” was an accomplishment that few achieved, and what we have to show for those four hard years is our ring. It means a lot! Our Class of ’75 started that August 25th, 1971 day with close to 800 freshmen cadets, and our graduating class held somewhere around 210, many were lost along the way to our graduation on May 17th, 1975. I am 54 and I still know the day I started and the day we graduated, something else isn’t it! I wear my ring, haven’t had it off my right hand in over 25 years, that’s a fact. I could go on and on, but shouldn’t. Suffice it to say that you gave Richard back something that was very special to him, and I thank you for your time and trouble. David B. Phillips, Sr. |