Dear White's,
I purchased my first White's detector, a White's Prizm II, in the fall of 2005. I wanted to see if the hobby was right for me. It took only a few months of poking around parks and schools before I realized that I was hooked.
Suddenly, I was spending more time outdoors, getting more exercise and more fresh air than I had in years, and I was getting paid every time I went out! What other hobby reliably sends you home with more money than you had when you started?
In the summer of 2006 I bought a White's XLT and joined the new metal detecting club that was forming in my town. With the help of several experienced friends, I began learning more about all aspects of the hobby, and the finds just kept improving.
By the spring of 2009, when the Vision (now the Spectra V3) was introduced, I knew I was ready to "move up" again, and was one of the first people in my area to buy this fantastic detector. Over the past few months, I’ve greatly enjoyed the cordless headphones, the color read-outs, and the ability to customize settings "on the fly" that the V3 provides.
On September 9, 2009, my wife and I were finishing a late dinner when she said, "oh! I was going to tell you, I drove by a place where they’re tearing out the sidewalk." When she told me where it was, I knew it was in one of the oldest parts of town. I changed clothes and headed down there with only about an hour of daylight left. My wife was right; the sidewalk was gone, and so were several inches of the ground that had sat under it for years.
The V3 was ready in an instant, and less than five minutes went by before it reported a signal in the high 70 vdi range. The exact pinpointing of the V3 provided information that the target was about 2 1/2 inches below the surface, which gave me the information I needed to dig around the target without damaging it. Sure enough, the small, silver reeded edge showed me I had found a dime. It was a 1939-S Mercury, and looked like it was almost new the day it had fallen to the ground.
Finding that dime made my day, but there was still some sunlight, so I completed my pass and turned around to go the other direction. Suddenly, the detector's signal was high and loud. The VDI said 92, and the depth said only 1/2 an inch. Having dug dozens of them before, I thought, "this has got to be a lid, maybe from a yogurt carton or an old can." But I decided to take a look and within seconds I knew that this was something very special, for there in all her beauty was Lady Liberty, and below her image was the date 1900! The sidewalk, for all these years, had been hiding a Morgan Dollar!
In the past, my White's detectors had helped me find silver dimes, quarters, and even some half dollars, but this Morgan was a first for me. I could hardly believe my eyes. I would like to say that I "kept my cool," but that wouldn't be totally true. I grabbed my cell phone and called home practically yelling incoherently, but eventually my wife began to understand what I was trying to tell her, and she joined me in the celebration of the discovery of one of the hobby's most elusive targets.
The daylight was ebbing fast, but I made a quick search of the rest of the dug-out area without finding any other coins.
Needless to say, I'm delighted with my White’s Spectra V3. Hours have gone by since that Morgan dollar showed up, and I’m still smiling! Again and again, this metal detecting hobby provides me with days I will never forget as long as I live.
Thank you, White's, for your fantastic products and for the incredible hours of fun that metal detecting has provided.
And to the folks who read this, don't EVER believe that all the silver has already been found!
Sincerely,
Mike W.
