My success story begins here, this past spring I was in Canon City Colorado visiting my mom and sister. I decided to take my detector just in case I was able to find a good spot to hunt. After visiting with the family for a couple of days I decided to try getting to some ghost towns that were nearby. I hunted 2 ghost towns, and come back with nothing at all. It seemed as if they have been detected for many years and not even a nail was found. After returning back to my moms house she was curious how the detector worked as did my little sister as well. so, I explained to them how it worked and figured lets go outside and try it out on the property. Started out in the back yard and found bunch of nails, and old hotwheels from the 60s. Nothing major. I figured why not try the front of the house. As we were walking towards the front my mom had explained that it was strange not finding anything as the house was built in the late 1800s. That threw the flag up for me! I told her, why are you just now telling me this. HAHA. I would have been hunting this lot from the point that I got here. (remind you that this is a small city lot that there house sits on, less than an acre). I had fiddled with a old cheap detector that my dad had in the garage there before I really got into the hobby, and never found anything. So it never dawned on me to really hunt the house after that until she metioned when it was built. So after making it to the front of the house she explained there was a tree here and flower bed there and so forth. Then we started to walk around the yard randomly and digging all the targets. I figured that all the old stuff would be real deep and I was listening for those signals more than I was for the shallow ones. When I got a real good signal. I dug it, and it was about7-8 down and it was a 1909 s wheat penny!! I couldn't believe it. Of all the things to find in her yard. So I am super excited to see what else is out there. Hoping for an indian head, or some old silver. After about 30 mins of no good targets I started to get a little frustrated thinking that her yard may not have as much in it as I thought. Then I get this signal that sounded really good and was pretty close to being nickel range, but it was shallow. I started thinking it could be a ring or a recent nickel lost. So I start to dig my plug, and out popped a eagle pin with cannons on it. I started thinking it must be some kind of kids toy badge or something from modern uniform. I showed my mom, and she had no idea what it was either. So, I decided to do some investigative work on the internet, and found a picture of the same eagle emblem. Come to find out it was a GAR pin. (Grand Army of the Republic) which was a organization for Union army vets. I couldn't believe it. Something like this being found here in Colorado. Being from the west, I never would have thought I would find something civil war related. This got me really looking farther into it, and I found out that this belonged to a gentleman that used to live at the house, his name was Marshall P Felch. He was a Private with the VT 4th infantry. I still wonder to this day what brought him to canon city, as records show he wasn't born or raised there. I find it an honor to have found this peace of history, and know that I was able to save it from being lost for ever. As well as finding who it belonged to and learning more about him. With all this research I was able to share all of this with my family and my 10 yr old daughter, that is now hungry for more history after seeing that it is out there, and there is a story behind everything that you dig. Thanks to Minelab, for helping make this happen, and getting all of us closer to the history under our feet. Chris - New Mexico, USA