| Treasure Hunting is a lot like going Fishing. Most | | | | keepsakes by just focusing on the ground and every |
| people go "fishin" not catching. A friend of mine | | | | part of the environment around me. The first step is |
| named Jack, a fresh-water fishing guide, had the right | | | | to focus on finding. |
| approach to fishing. Jack had a catching mind set. | | | | Step two involves a universal law, the Law of |
| Before he would go fishing he would determine how | | | | Attraction. Visualize yourself finding treasure. |
| many fish he was going to catch. He practiced a | | | | Treasure abounds and you can attract it into your |
| spiritual approach of taking authority over the fish. If | | | | life. Create your own treasure scene or map by |
| he said he would catch 17 bass that day, he would. | | | | putting pictures of the kinds of treasure you would |
| When he caught his total the fishing day was over. If | | | | like to find on the wall or near your desk, bed, or |
| you were with him and he caught his total for that | | | | even better on your computer. Visualize them |
| day, he would load the boat and go home regardless | | | | routinely every day and see the magic take place. |
| of how many fish you caught. | | | | What you focus on you will attract. I have found |
| Having a "finding" mindset is what is needed for all | | | | many pieces of gold jewelry in parking lots and |
| treasure hunters. In more than 38 years of metal | | | | parkways in my use of this law. Found a 1793 |
| detecting, I have practiced this approach. The | | | | Spanish eight reale and a 1892 Columbus |
| accumulation of over 150,000 coins, collectibles, and | | | | commemorative half dollar in a convenient store |
| jewelry pieces in 38 years may not seem like much | | | | parking lot as I was getting out of my GMC to go |
| to the average detectorist, but consider this. For 31 | | | | buy a cold drink. Finding 51dollar bills floating below the |
| of those years I was a full time educator, had an | | | | surface of the water at Daytona Beach in ten |
| evening job (most of the time) and was a children's | | | | minutes time is a great example of attraction at |
| minister too. Time for metal detecting came only | | | | work. One short metal detecting hunt on a |
| after home and family needs were met and it was | | | | schoolyard turned up over 50 silver coins with 36 |
| very limited. I would find an hour here and there to | | | | being my favorite silver piece, the Mercury dime. |
| do my favorite hobby, coin collecting with a metal | | | | Before leaving the house to go detecting, I had pulled |
| detector. My best daytime coin find total is 244 | | | | out an album of better condition Mercury dimes that |
| found in four hours. That is a coin a minute. My best | | | | I was putting together, and 7 of those 36 dimes |
| night hunt coin total is 119 in about 6 hours, or a coin | | | | were extra fine condition slot fillers. I consider the |
| every three minutes. These are outstanding ratios of | | | | Law of Attraction, a spiritual law. Many of my best |
| coins to time. The night time best took place on a | | | | finds have come when I spent the best part of |
| church campground and I got started at midnight | | | | Saturday in a ministry capacity, and only had a hour |
| after all 175 children and helpers were in bed for the | | | | or so to hunt. These coins are a part of my belief |
| night (19 of the total coins consisted of silver dimes | | | | system of the Law of Attraction. I went to the right |
| dating from 1892). How can a Detector user acquire | | | | places and found 1904 O Barber half (XF), 1881 |
| or establish a finding mindset that produces | | | | Seated dime (AU 58), 1916 S, 1923 & 25 P |
| outstanding results like these? | | | | Mercury dimes (Full Split Bands AU/BU), 1924 P |
| Being a consistent finder is easy but takes practice. | | | | Standing Liberty quarter (BU 63), 1861 Seated Half |
| Long before I ever used a metal detector I was a | | | | (BU 63), a 1882 S (XF) Morgan Dollar with doubling |
| treasure hunter. At age 5, after spending 2 years in a | | | | and other minting errors that make it possibly one of |
| tubercular hospital, I was ready to discover life and | | | | a kind and extremely valuable. I can list many other |
| find treasure. Learning to look for "things" was a | | | | exceptional quality coins that were dug-up treasure |
| natural as my confinement in that hospital with | | | | that came to me as a result of this attraction force |
| children dying continually made me want to catch up | | | | working in a limited time frame. |
| with life. I found thousands of coins and other | | | | |