Relic stories with dirt still on them.
American Digger Relic Roundup turns Monday-night detector talk into a busy clubhouse of relic stories, gear details, caller energy, and magazine-linked interviews. It suits listeners who like gold rings, buckles, sluice boxes, hunt recaps, and friendly sidetracks almost as much as clean audio.
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American Digger Relic Roundup is a metal-detecting, relic-hunting, and treasure-hunting show with the rhythm of a live hobby gathering. It does not behave like a tidy documentary. It opens with music, magazine business, chat-room references, sponsor reads, jokes, missed cues, and the occasional technical scramble before the conversation locks onto a find. That looseness is part of the identity. The show is built for people who already enjoy the language of coils, tones, ground balance, VDI numbers, sluice boxes, pouches, and permissions. Recent episodes move from New Zealand reach and American Digger Magazine's global readership to Alaska gold operations, organized hunts, YouTube detecting culture, and artifact stories with enough detail to reward patient listeners. A standout segment follows Tim Saylor describing the moment a strange deep signal, first masked by iron, turned into a detailed gold ring. Another digs into Mark Schuessler's Alaska trip, where high bankers, slick plates, loader-pushed dirt, hoses, and sluice boxes become the machinery of a group adventure. The show is strongest when story and technique overlap. A practical lesson may be hiding inside a joke, a sponsor break, or a tangent about fishing. Magazine articles often serve as the spine, giving episodes a reason to bring on authors, revisit trips, or celebrate finds that already matter to the American Digger community. The panel energy is quick and familiar. Names recur, bits recur, and the show assumes the listener can keep up. It is not especially polished, and sometimes the live mechanics show. That can mean restarts, audio confusion, repeated copy, or a postponed episode when the connection fails. For the right listener, that roughness reads as honest field-radio texture rather than a flaw. For newcomers, the terminology may feel dense at first. For committed diggers and collectors, it is a warm, busy feed of finds, gear, events, and shop-talk from people who still get excited when old history turns up in the dirt.
Made for: Best for metal detectorists, relic collectors, treasure hunters, prospecting fans, and American Digger Magazine readers who enjoy live-panel banter alongside practical field detail. Newcomers can follow the stories, but the show speaks most naturally to people already inside the hobby.
What sets it apart: Its edge is the magazine-linked, community-room format: article authors, hunt recaps, detector talk, chat-room callbacks, and live-show chaos all share the same table. Similar shows may polish the story more; this one keeps the hobby's social noise intact.
For diggers and collectors of history. An hour long program every Monday Night at 9:00 PM eastern standard time. Join your hosts Butch Holcombe, Jeff Lubbert and Loy Milam as they explore the past. Learn more about Metal Detecting, Treasure hunting in all it's forms, and the preservation of history. Learn from our callers, and expert show guest's This is a call in show (678-439-1863) and you are encouraged to participate.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Field technique, object research and experienced guests connect buried artifacts to the practical process of recovering history.
American Digger Relic Roundup starts with objects in the ground and follows the practical work that gives them meaning. Butch Holcombe and Jeff Lubert ask guests about detector signals, recovery conditions, prospecting equipment and the research that can turn a find into…
A slick plate needs extra hands, and by the end you may volunteer yours.
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A faint deep signal turns into Tim's likely high-karat mourning ring, marked with a 1744 death date.
Tim's June 10 account turns on the kind of recovery detectorists remember: a likely high-karat gold mourning ring found deep on a hill where the easier targets had already been worked.
A practical look at gold-hunting gear, field logistics, and the work behind the dirt.
This installment of American Diggers Relic Roundup keeps its focus on the practical side of the hobby. It moves through metal detecting, gold and silver finding, prospecting, arrowhead hunting, and bottle digging, while also touching on a high banker and a slick plate.
A clubhouse-style relic show with detailed detector talk, magazine plugs, and lively side chatter.
American Digger's Relic Roundup plays like a clubhouse meeting with a microphone at the center. Butch Holcomb opens as host and publisher, folds in American Digger Magazine, and brings Jeff Lubert along to keep the talk moving between club business and detector talk.
A loose, friendly relic-hunting hangout that puts community first.
American Digger Relic Roundup gives a straightforward look at Jason’s visit to the relic-hunting scene. It moves through the magazine backing, the club tie, the travel, and the simple pleasure of doing the hobby with people who get it.
Birthday banter gives way to hunt details, silver tones, and a busy Conifer crowd.
Relic Roundup opens with birthday banter before settling into the practical rhythms of a seeded hunt: beautiful weather, two food trucks, a clean field, and the welcome relief of not fighting a monsoon.
A chatty, practical prospecting episode with concrete gear talk for listeners already into the hobby.
American Diggers Relic Roundup stays conversational and useful as it works through gold finding and prospecting talk. The best stretch is the plain explanation of how a high banker, a slick plate, and a sluice box fit together in the same hunt; that material gives the episode a…
Overlooked lives, read from the sources, talked through warmly.
Mike Duncan narrates Rome's full history solo, from Aeneas to Romulus Augustulus's exile in 476.
Host Butch Holcombe and co-hosts Jeff Lubbert and Debbie Schiffer Blades interview Mark Schuessler about his gold prospecting trip to Alaska.
Hosts Butch Holcomb and Jeff Lubbert discuss the recent Charles Garrett Memorial Hunt, sharing personal experiences and strategies from the event.
Hosts discuss the show's sponsorship and a co-host's appearance on another show, with a focus on metal detecting and relic collecting.
Tim Saylor describes digging a 22-karat gold ring that turned out to be a 1744 mourning ring.
A diamond stud earring got flung 15 to 20 feet by a volleyball net and found with a Deus at 71.6 kHz.
American Digger Relic Roundup centers on Butch Holcomb's "A Peculiar Curiosity" article in Volume 20, Issue 3 of American Digger Magazine.
Jason Boffuzzi of Quarter Hoarder joins Butchie, Jeff Lubert, and Debbie Schiffer-Blades on American Digger Relic Roundup after talk about Missouri, Texas, and England hunts.
American Digger Magazine's Relic Roundup features Jeff Luber and Debbie Schiffer Blades interviewing Greg Pickens, creator of Finding America, about metal detecting and presenting American history.
Ron's wife hauled a bookcase out of a damp basement for $50, and her maiden name is literally Treasure.
Twelve detectorists recovered 21 hammered coins during the England tour's stormy day, and guide Andy reportedly kept 58 items.
American Digger Relic Roundup’s April 8, 2024 open mic connects the Greenville, Missouri, Show-Me State Pro-Am with the 2024 eclipse.
Hosts discuss metal detecting, treasure hunting, and preserving historical artifacts, with a call-in format and guest experts.
A weekly call-in podcast about metal detecting, treasure hunting, and preserving history, hosted by Butch Holcombe, Jeff Lubbert, and Loy Milam.