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Recent content by MassSandman

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    Bracelet recovered; few and far between finds otherwise!

    My vacation at Cape Cod ended yesterday. Being limited by the National Seashore, and, hence National Park Service rules, I was relegated to those beaches on the Mass. Bay side of the Cape. Very little found except recent clad. Best find was a bracelet marked "Tiffany" on the clasp which my...
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    XS Question

    My XS is barely registering as I pass it over coins. There is not the usual sweet fluty tone and the cursor is just below the area of the screen where it usually registers coins. It wasn't even registering pop tops at the beach this morning. I cleaned it thoroughly and used electronic contact...
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    Weekend finds - sorry no pics.

    Took advantage of some great weather and went to a public common/green of an old town on the coast. There is an old school house built in 1873 tucked away in a corner of the green. All around the schoolhouse, all I was getting were nails. I angled off the school about 20 yards, and found a...
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    Packing it in for 2006

    I've only been hunting since April and tomorrow I must go in for rotator cuff surgery which will prevent me from swinging and digging for awhile. Thanks to you folks' suggestions and help, my 2006 are meager compared to most of you but I garnered about $85 in clad, seven rings ( 5 silver, 2...
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    Good Information and Thanks to Snowy!

    With only about a year of experience under my belt, I want to thank you guys (and girls) for the depth and range of your discussions and suggestions on technique and machine settings. Today I went out to a trash-laden field/playground. I used a little lower sensitivity, ran in iron mask with...
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    Is it the soil???

    Not sure whether this belongs in the Classroom Forum or here but I thought I'd ask anyway: This passed weekend in Freeport, ME I had permission to hunt the grounds of an old (1830's) era inn. I use the XS. I couldn't get a threshold signal except when I held the coil ~ 5" above the ground...
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    Care to speculate?

    Just a bit curious here: I had permission to hunt around a church that has been in operation since 1804. Amid some junk and clad, I dug a target, heavily corroded and very thin, slightly larger than a quarter, maybe 26-27mm, but gives nearly the identical tone and cursor position as a nickel...
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    Whar do you think?

    I had permission to detect at a churchyard dating from the early 1800's. I found a curious piece that was so corroded and thin there is nothing to read on it. It is just slightly larger than a quarter, about 25-26 mm BUT on my Explorer XS it read and sounds almost identically to a nickel...
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    NAILSZZZ!

    Worked an historical house site yesterday for three hours. I got a couple of IHs, a seated dime and 2 Mercs (1917 and 1921, I think) but what I got the most of were nails and pieces of nails...of every length, thickness and shape...maybe a couple of dozen! Sometimes the learning curve on the...
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    Discouraging day at the beach

    I know we all have days like this but today goes in the loss column. I went out with the XS for a couple of hours betwen raindrops. Got three heavily rusted bolts, a clad quarter and a clad Kennedy half, six crown caps, and a beat up spoon. (I am being a good boonie trooper and digging all...
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    Anybody here from live in eastern Massachusetts?

    n/t
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    Image Bearers

    At my men's group this AM the guy leading the discussion talked about how we are, according to Creation, all bearers of God's image. I got to thinking that I usually don't treat people like they are image bearers, creatures who are loved by an Almighty God. Made me re-think my focus. Christ...
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    Sound problem

    I'm using my XS the other day when the sound/tone cuts off from the earphones. I unplugged them from the base and the speaker was working fine. (I finished the hunt using the speaker only...shabby results and all kinds of stares from the uninitiated because of the sounds.) I tested the...
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    Any suggestions on how to avoid nails/screws that show up as silver???

    n/t
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    First Merc

    I had the opportunity yesterday to hunt the lawns around a late 19th cty. house in Lowell, MA. THe good news is I found my first Mercury dime, a beat up, real thin 1917 and a wheatie cent 1957-D among a bunch of junk ncluding a toothed gear and a rusted out 1/4 inch socket. The bad news was...
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