In April of 2008, I was detecting a ghost town site not to far from my home here in Oregon. The site was bulldozed in the 1970's and planted with fir trees. The bulldozing has mixed a lot of trash with the treasure so it is a very difficult place to hunt, but with a lot of patience and a great machine like my White's DFX, I still continue to make great finds.

On this April day though, I made my greatest find to date. I got a half-dollar signal on my DFX and after digging down I uncovered a medal with a soldier on the front. I thought it must be a kid's toy badge and didn't think much oabout it until I got home and cleaned it up.

After cleaning the dirt off I noticed that above the soldier's head it read, "THE PRESIDENT'S GUARD" and halfway down his body it has "4TH" on one side and "CAV." on the other and the date 1927 at the bottom. On the back it has the words, "SUMMER WHITE HOUSE" then "BLACK HILLS SOUTH DAKOTA" then the soldier's name, but rust has wiped out a few letters, but it appears to be "PFC JOE H HEID__ERKIN", then "MEMBER OF THE PRESIDENT'S GUARD", THEN "JUNE - SEPTEMBER 1927".

I started to research this on the internet and found that President Coolidge summered at the State Game Lodge in Custer State Park, South Dakota, in 1927. Soldier's from Fort Meade, South Dakota, were selected to guard him. They were chosen from the 1st Squadron 4th Cav and consisted of 50 men, 30 officers, a surgeon, and a medical detachment. The guardsmen were selected by LTC R.W. Walker. Major General Harry A. Smith, Commander of the 7th Corps Army Area Omaha, said "Every man will be as perfect a soldier as there is in the United States Army." This was the first Army Presidential Guard as previously the Marines had always served as the presidential protectors.

To find a medal given to one of only 50 enlisted men from the very first Army Presidential Guard is to great of a feeling to put into words, but it goes to show that with a lot of hard work and a great detector like my White's DFX, that you can still find great treasure laying in the trash.

Thanks,
Bill B.
Eugene, OR

My five best gold rings this year. Men's 14K with 1 caret of diamonds value $2500.00 & the blue sapphire 14K valued at $2,000.00 all found with the awesome Beachhunter300.

Shpadoinkle New Year!

As the new year rolled around, I looked forward to seeing that I would find with my most excellent machines. Some of what I unearthed was found using my XLT, and the rest with my MXT 300 using a 6 x 10 coil.

On January 1, a really cold day in Colorado, I got out for awhile and found a bunch of clad and a British 5 pence coin. I am always fascinated by uncovering foreign coins and wonder how they came to be here in Colorado. Thanks to my trusty rock hammer, I was able to liberate some of these items from frozen wood chips found on playgrounds.

After taking a day off because of snow, January 3rd warmed up nicely and I met up with a partner who also uses an MXT. My finds included a 1953 wheat penny, a British pound coin, an earring that looks like gold but stamped 925, and best of the day; 4 Mercury dimes dated 1916, 1918, 1923 and 1928! They came out of the same hole. I found one, and in my excitement, ran over to show my partner. He returned with me to the hole where I discovered another signal. I found the second and checked the hole again. Found the third and forth in similar manner. There was something else in the hole that we have yet to identify and may be just junk metal.

On January 4th, I had to work and came home to spend the evening with my wife. Once she wandered off to bed, I went out for a short night hunt. The temperature was 14 degrees and the wind was bitter cold. However, I still managed to come away with a nice group of coins and a heart shaped earring with a small stone attached. After about 30 minutes, I mosied home to avail myself of some warmth!

My partner and I met up on January 5th, and what a day we had. He started out besting me by finding a 14k gold charm from a necklace or bracelet. However, I outpaced him on clad most of the day. My one good find was a gold plated medallion. After we got cold, we came back to my place for a chicken dinner prepared by my devoted wife. Afterwards, we went out for a bit of night hunting. The first place we visited yielded little. Just a few coins. But when we hit our second stop, round back of the first, we found a playground infested with coins. I ended up with a silver ring, followed shortly by a 14k gold bracelet. After taking a hefty load of coins we moved to a 3rd location and I found a 14k gold ring.

To claim that White's makes the best machines money can buy would be an understatement of incredible proportion. Both my partner and I have found gold on a regular basis, and enough coins to bolster our checking accounts for buying more White's goodies!

Thank you for the most excellent machines and the overwhelming success we've already enjoyed in this most shpadoinkle new year.

Oh, and by the way... I rewarded my loving and devoted wife with her very own White's Prizm 6-T for Christmas, and it's only a matter of time before she has tales of her own to tell.

Blessings,
M-Taliesin.

Dear White's:

First I would like to thank White's for making such great Metal Detectors! I am the proud owner of an XLT (purchased in March of 2008) and DFX (purchased in November of 2008).

After detecting in various parks and schools in my area, it never dawned on me to go to the Arboretum (tree park) that is across the street from my home. The tree park has been there since the early 60's but is hardly used except by people in the neighborhood for walking their dogs and just recently for a yearly picnic.

One day in late October I was feeling the urge to detect but did not want to travel to far from home. So I decided "What the Heck", I'll just go swing for awhile in the Arboretum, not expecting to find anything. Much to my surprise while swinging my XLT under some low hanging braches of a Noble Fir tree I got a very loud signal. After looking a the LCD screen on the XLT and seeing a VDI number bouncing between 80 and 82 I decided to dig. I cut a horseshoe flap in the sod and started removing the dirt from under the flap. At five inches down I saw the glint of silver and retrieved a Silver and Black Hills Gold pendant with a stone in the center. I did not know what the stone was, but after some research I discovered that it was a Mossy Agate more commonly know as a Montana Agate. What a GREAT find!

Since then I have been back to the Arboretum numerous times and have found many clad coins and four silver rings, I will continue going there on occasionally as it is so close to Home. I guess it just goes to show you that you can find treasures where you least expect them to be.

Thanks again White's for a wonderful product that I will enjoy for years to come.

Randy
Portland, Oregon

Last week while talking about going to a tailing pile, Hannah my 10 yr old Grand daughter over heard me, and said that see would like to go. We headed out about 6:30 and arrived at the tailing pile about 8:30. I raked while she detected with the GMT. Sure enough after a while she found her first nugget. I thought that she would be tired by noon, but she had the fever. In all she found 4 nuggets and a piece of limonite with gold in it. It was a great day and the best part is that she wants to go again.

Doug