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This[easyazon-link asin="B000HATWHK"]Bounty Hunter Pinpointer Metal Detector[/easyazon-link] is a really good pinpointer to start out with!  I started with this pinpointer as it came with the [easyazon-link asin="B000VC1AO2"]Bounty Hunter QD2GWP Quick Draw II Metal Detector with Pinpointer and Carry Bag[/easyazon-link] that I started out with.  This is a great metal detector and since it came with a pinpointer it got me out and Grizzly in no time to really learn this metal detecting craft!

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Now this pinpointer is not as great as the [easyazon-link asin="B001GQRUGO"]Garrett Pro-Pointer[/easyazon-link] as the Garrett PinPointer is one of the best on the market!

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But this PinPointer is an inexpensive way for you to learn to shorten your recovery time and get onto the next target.  It is also a great backup pinpointer or the pinpointer you can put in the hands of the person you are introducing to this great metal detecting addiction.

If you do not yet use a pinpointer, try one of these two pinpointers out.  Better yet, buy your first detector that comes with one without breaking your bank.  Just know you will soon be looking for a better detector and pinpointer as you grow in this craft!

Get Grizzly!

Try this inexpensive book out!

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I thought I would do a quick blog post on the items I use when I go out Metal Detecting.  I am ranking them in order of importance!

1. The Garrett Pro Pinpointer is the essential tool next to your choice of Metal detector.  This tool will quicken your target recovery and get you onto that next target in half the time!  [easyazon-block asin="B001GQRUGO" align="none"]
2. Mosquito Head Net!  I just purchased this as I needed some relief from the Minnesota state bird without dowsing myself in insect repellent.  It works Phenomenally well!  [easyazon-block asin="B000WFXDMK" align="none"]
3. The Trusty Lesche Digging Tool is the only digging Tool I recommend as it is really the cat’s Meow!  [easyazon-block asin="B0004L7QIY" align="none"]
4. Even if your in the heart of the city park, or deep in the wild, you may want to think about a good survival kit.  Here is the one I use:  [easyazon-block asin="B0000DZV6B" align="none"]
5. I recently purchased the Tactical hydration Assault Vest and man is it worth the money!  I just did a 8 hour hunt out in the woods and boy, could I carry gear with no problems along with all my finds and garbage with no problems!  The hydration is really essential especially during our hot and humid Summer days!  If you don’t have a hydration system, get one!  You will thank me!  [easyazon-block asin="B001L557FQ" align="none"]
6. I use an authentic military pick and shovel I found at a garage sale but this item is affordable and I suggest you add it to your metal detecting arsenal as you never know when that pick will come in handy!  The shovel also gives me a crisp clean plug that I can expand from 4 sided plug to 5, 6, and so on as the target size and search area needs.  Simply an essential tool!  [easyazon-block asin="B000UU5K1E" align="none"]
7. Gloves are also a necessity and I always wear them!  Try to get the cheapest you can as I am already on my 4th pair this hunt season, but try to get the leather fitted as they will save your fingers and let you easily handle your gear and delicate finds. [easyazon-block asin="B000FPAS2K" align="none"]
8. I usually use a simple two pocket cotton apron when I hunt.  Especially if it is hot and I don’t want to carry a ton of gear.  Great for coin shooting and metro hunts.  You only need two pockets, one for the good, one for the garbage.  I have even hung my Lesche digger from this apron string when I forget to wear a belt.  Truly versatile and cheap!  [easyazon-block asin="B00023S9US" align="none"]
9. I always have a bandana someplace tucked away when I hunt.  It can be used to wipe the sweat away from your eyes, blow your nose or to place your plug dirt upon in highly maintained areas where you don’t want to leave any remnants of your plug hole behind.  [easyazon-block asin="B004NE4IX4" align="none"]
10. Ever open up a plug only to face a cluster of annoying roots?  Well, I always have my handy hand pruner on me to make short work of them and recover that target.  [easyazon-block asin="B00002N679" align="none"]

I hope this top 10 list of items I use when metal detecting help you!  If they do, make sure you leave a comment or add other suggestions that you bring along on the hunt!

It would really suck to be a rock.  Just laying around getting eroded, cracked and the waiting would kill me.

This weekend and this early week I find myself waiting.  Waiting to miraculously get my etrac returned and waiting for the GTI 2500 to finally arrive so that I can cram years of experience learning the machine into about a handful of days before one of the greatest hunt locations I may ever hunt.  I am not the best at waiting, even though, this upcoming hunt was almost a year and a half in the works.

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I can’t wait to share with you and the world all the craziness that this adventure has already enjoyed.  I have had threats from the elitist academic and archeological gatekeepers, tons of intrigue and strange players in the drama that surrounds this site and this upcoming hunt to answer some of the claims and theories surrounding this historic site.

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Speaking of waiting, I am after this post going mum on the word of this hunt until I have time to put it all together and present it in a professional way to you and the world.  So I ask you to be my rock, and wait until I have the opportunity to lay out this saga for you and the world.

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If I come to an untimely death, ask questions!  LOL!  Seriously!

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Get Grizzly!

Chad T. Everson

I once again stepped up to purchase a top of the line metal detector to keep getting grizzly hunting relic and treasure.  It was an agonizing decision because I enjoyed my Minelab etrac.  I always felt that when I walked into a property, I was able to find whatever was there and recover it.  Yet, today I need depth that the Minelab etrac just does not give me and I have limited resources.

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I hope to once again own an etrac, but for now I had to go with the Garrett GTI 2500 Pro with Eagle Eye Treasure Hound metal detector.  This gives me a great Garrett metal detector with the ability to reach deep.  I ordered it late last night and I hope to receive it this week.

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I am almost excited about learning the new machine, yet still hoping someone will return my lost etrac.  Wouldn’t it be great to have both machines for any hunt location?

With this new metal detector, I should be able to find lost graves as well.  So I will be able to accomplish another goal I set for myself this year.  I tend to think everything happens for a reason.  I am excited to have a good Garrett metal detector and learn it like I have learned the etrac.  I just pray it does not take as long.  The Garrett is also suppose to work in highly mineralized soil and where I live, this sugar sand is highly mineralized.  I can walk out my back door and put a magnet into the soil and come up with it covered in black sand.  So it will be interesting to say the least.

Since I don’t have any relationship with any metal detecting shops in my area I just ordered the machine through KellyCo Metal Detectors.  I have bought all my machines through them and have had good luck.  It is hilarious how much money a local detecting shop could of made off me, and those that read this blog and Temerity Magazine if they would of only bought a small advertisement with my online effort.  Well, that is the way it goes. I am committed to continue this dream and putting my hard earned capital behind it.

The etrac I lost was $1600 new and I had not even had it a year, then this GTI 2500 was $1200.  So my business has shelled out $2800 this year on those two items alone not to mention the customizations and extra’s I added to them and will add to them.  Relic and Treasure is not a cheap hobby, but it really is rewarding finding that penny or dime that gives you a date and evidence of those that have trod the property before us.

I love this hobby, and those I am blessed to meet in it.  It is exciting all the new contacts my lost etrac has also blessed me with.  I have a few new hunting partners that I am excited to get out and hunt with.  So all in all, even when a little rain must fall, life is good.

I have been corresponding with an elderly yet passionate treasure hunter that has had some unimaginable success in this industry and hobby.  He has righted the history books, and inspired many like myself to live with temerity.  I cherish his friendship and words of wisdom.  He is now unable to continue his hunting days and I pray he can live vicariously through my effort.  He has inspired me and taught me to see things that I have never noticed before and it is paying off.  I have yet to find anything of significance, but it is only a matter of time.  I am putting myself in the right locations and blessed with the ability to have the right technology for the job.  I can’t help but think of him and all the other great relic and treasure friends that reached out during this set back and encouraged me onward.

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Sometimes, you don’t realize how blessed you are until you get humbled and find out who among your friends are really truly friends and peers.  I have a ton of work left to do this hunt season and pray I find my payday.  I have invested quite a bit of capital and time into assuring my success for myself and for those great land owners who put their faith in me. It is truly an honor to do what we do as relic and treasure hunters.

Well, look for some new videos this week of the new machine and my learning curve and comparisons to the old faithful Minelab etrac that I lost in a moment of stupidity.  But that is how life goes.  You get a setback and if you choose to let it defeat you, then you will never truly know how truly blessed you are.  I am blessed, and I am blessed that I can share this with you.

Get Grizzly!

Chad T. Everson

I have been working on this idea for a song since Michelle and I were first married.

A Little Rain Must Fall,

A Little Rain Must Fall,

Sometimes in Life…A Little Rain Must Fall

I often think of this little diddy when the rain is falling in the challenges I try to perceive as opportunities that are thrown in our path.

Recently I have faced one big challenge that I can not but admit it was all my own doing.  Tuesday after hunting the Foley, MN City Park I must of left my Minelab e-trac on the roof of my Jeep.  I drove off and went home.  Wednesday I did not go anywhere and I did not realize it was gone until Thursday morning when I was on location near Kensington, MN, opened the backdoor of the Jeep and my baby, the Minelab etrac I even customized and it was essentially the heart of my business and relic and treasure hunting.

Needless to say, I was and am still crushed.  I am also without a metal detector.  So a little rain must fall.

Yet, I refuse to be defeated.  I have one of the most promising and special hunts of my young career coming up adjacent to the Kensington Runestone park where the Kensington Runestone was dug from the ground when Omar Olafson was pulling stumps.

So faced with this great opportunity, I will need to replace the beloved etrac unless it is miraculously given back to me by the great American that has found it.  Even then, I imagine I would have to repair what was broken when it fell off my Jeep.

I really need a machine that will go deep and be able to ferret out and detect hordes and caches.  So I am contemplating purchasing the Garrett GTI 2500 with the TreasureHound Eagle Eye Search Coil.  If I go this direction, it may take me a while to replace the Minelab etrac.  But the GTI 2500 would be both a metal detector and horde and cash machine.  So although I love the Minelab etrac, I may be going this direction to meet my present needs.  I hope to be able to add the etrac back to the arsenal here soon, or maybe there will be a miracle and someone will come forward and return it.  I really hope so, it would be fun to buy that person a metal detector and go hunting with them as a finders fee and reward.  Hell, I would even take them on my Kensington hunting trip!

Well, sometimes in life…a little rain must fall, otherwise the plants would not grow and we would all be thirsty!

Get Grizzly!

It was amazing!  Tons of great vintage product and the place was packed with people and great deals!  Here are some photo’s I snapped!  If you can make it down to Oronoco, MN GO And tell them Grizzly sent you!

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