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Recent content by bill67

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    Hey Guys, I'm back .....

    Hey to the friends I made on here and all the people who helped me with advice on learning how to use my XS. I have lost touch with lots of things because last year was a nightmare. My wife's brain cancer came back after seven years of being cancer free. Brain surgery in March and chemo for a...
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    Reference info

    An old detectorist and treasure hunter friend of mine, who has been dead several years, had a good library and was a very knowledgeable guy........ He told me once that the best resource material he had found for helping identify peices and parts of old finds and relics was the reprint of the...
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    4900 DI Pro HELP!!!

    Got permission today to hunt a couple of old 1800's home sites.... the guy who gave me permission pulled out an old 4900DI Pro he had traded for several years ago and said he had wanted to learn to metal detect but had never used the machine and had no idea where to start ..... I told him I...
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    Running toooooo hot !!!

    OK .... It's all coming to me now ..:please:..... I'm realizing that I have been running my machine way to hot for the soil I have been hunting in...... That's why the stuck cursor at times and other times the cursor acting like it's in a pinball machine and confusing junk as prime...
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    Iron Falsing

    I really need some clarification here .......:please: Is Iron falsing .... 1. When the cursor is in the top left but sounds good .... or 2. When the cursor is in the top right and sounds good .... or 3. All of the above ??????? :look: I :rage: hate :rage: digging :rage: iron :rage:
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    Sounds ???

    I have downloaded the Emulator for the Explorer XS and II and it has helped me a lot .... but there are supposed to be downloads out there somewhere that have more targets with sounds . Does anyone have the link to some of them ? I tried the Minelab site but couldn't find anything ...... Help...
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    3 Settings

    Just wondering ..... I'd like to know what some of you feel are the three most important settings on the explorer... Gain, sounds, response, sensitivity, iron mask..... etc...... I'm not talking about what they are set at....and I'm not trying to start another manual or auto sensitivity debate...
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    The Nail Bounce :shrug:

    OK, I've heard the mention of the telltale " Nail bounce " enough times that I have to ask ..... What, How, When, Where?..... Help !! :blink: Can somebody please fill me and the rest of the "Newbie Clan " :chase: in on this.? ......... Thanks :please:..... Bill
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    Iron mask question SE, XS

    Got a question for someone that has had, or still has an XS and has used an SE ...... What iron mask setting on the XS is exactly the same as -22 on the SE ? Thanks to anyone who can help ......Bill
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    UFO Site Found !!!

    Getting back into detecting, I have been working hard to learn this machine I got two months ago ...... Have read about newbies finding great stuff on their first or second time out with a Minelab wanted to add my story ...... I took the Explorer out to an old house in town yesterday, fired it...
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    I just gotta ask this.....:help:

    I would like to ask the folks that post some of these nice ring collections a question.:please:....I envy your finds but digging pull tabs right and left seems to drain my fun meter way too quickly.....and I need some words of wisdom.:unsure:....... Here's the question........ What would you...
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    Oh great !!

    Well Harold, now you've really done it ..... you have got me feeling like a blind dog in a meat house:surprised:.....there is so much great information here to check out !! :clapping:...... I'm glad your idea became a reality.....and I know a lot of folks will benefit greatly from it ...
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    Thanks Mike Moutray

    A big "Thanks" to all the guys that want to help others be successful and share such great info on this forum........ I wanted to say thanks to Mike Moutray....... I just ran across the Explorer screens you made up a few years ago and feel like my understanding of the readouts on different...
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    Another new guy

    Through a mutual friend I met a guy called " Guvner" this past weekend. We became instant friends. After seeing nothing in the deer woods, we were back at the house for some chili and the subject of metal detecting came up. I told him I used to hunt quite a bit with a spectrum and had loaned...
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