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    Finds from a colonial river ford

    This is the combination of two hunts at a river ford a friend and I have been hitting lately thanks to the drought. It's got a colonial era road leading into it but was used at least through the early 1900s. He kicked my butt at this site before I even got down there with a seated dime and half...
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    High Trash experiment produces deep and big on a non-producing site

    I have been going to a 1798 house off and on for about 3 years now with mostly disappointing results. It's kept up real nice and is rented out occasionally by the owners for vacationing tourists, so there's a bit of modern debris there too. Two years ago I dug my first IHP there and a 3-ringer...
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    Target Masking: How relevant is this 16 year old article to today's technology?

    The following article was published in Western & Eastern Treasures magazine in 2000: Beneath The Mask I encourage you to read it if you haven't already (it's been making its rounds on forums for years). It deals with target masking and outlines one project where the author "totally cleaned...
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    Two big finds out of a hunted out Union camp (sword belt plate and coin)

    So without getting into too many specifics about the location, I'm working a known long-term Union encampment right now that has been worked over pretty hard in the past year or so. It's been hit so hard that the only reason I got permission is because the guys who had been detecting it (one of...
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    Detecting "exercise" was eye-opening...now what?

    I was reading this article on Detecting365 this morning and decided to try this little exercise because I find that most of my coins, even with my etrac and now my 3030 are coming at no more than about 6" deep: http://detecting365.com/exercise-china/ If you don't want to read it, essentially...
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    Hunting on fire sites

    A buddy and I got into an old homestead recently where a house had burned down about 70 years ago. It's a totally bizarre site because the bulk of our finds have come from the other end of the property away from where the house was....not sure if debris was bulldozed there or what. The thing...
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    My $2 lower shaft.

    The phrases "I'm a cheap bastard" and "I hunt with a CTX" probably don't go together real often, but the price of their lower shaft (even Andersons') is ridiculous so I thought I'd have a go at my own. Turned out pretty well. It's 3/4" PVC with some black spray paint and a section of square...
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    Looking for advice on interpreting iffy signals

    I read something recently that said that strong, solid coin signals only account for "a small percentage" of coins that are in the ground, and the rest were iffy signals next to iron or other junk. I'm still learning my CTX and usually run it in combined audio with little discrimination and...
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    How leery would you be of buying used with no warranty?

    I have an opportunity to get a used 3030 at a good price, but the warranty expired at the beginning of the year. The seller is a dealer and says that before the warranty expired he sent it in and had a new coil put on it. Says it runs like new. Do the 3030s have a good reputation for lasting...
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    Coils for high trash and better separation

    Right now I'm going on about a year and a half with my Etrac and I have the stock coil for everyday hunting conditions and then the 6" Coiltek Treasureseeker for high iron. I've done well with the 6" coil, but is there something available out there that separates better than that for the Etrac...
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    I'd like to hear from people with considerable time on BOTH the Etrac and CTX 3030

    So I've had an Etrac for a year and a half or so and have put some serious time on it. I like it a lot, but I'm wondering if a move to the 3030 might be a good move next spring. Looking at comparisons online, most of them seem to be from right when the 3030 came out in 2012-2013 and most of the...
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    Past two hunts - probably the last for the year for me. They were awesome!

    The past two hunts I was on were probably in my top three for the year. I'm done now til spring because my wife and I had a baby boy last Monday! That's a whole new adventure in patience in itself, but we're getting into a routine now.... Anyway, the first hunt was at an old church site that's...
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    Baltimore American "Doo Dad Deb" Token

    This is a cool little token I barely squeaked out at about 8" today. It's about the size of a dime and the figure there is actually stamped in from the back rather than made like a coin or any other token I've found (in other words, the reverse is pressed in and concave). The front reads "The...
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    Monster new permission...tokens, silver, indians.

    I stopped by a big, old house next door to another big, old house that I got shot down at a few weeks ago. The owner of the second house is all for it and gave me some pointers on where to look as well as a nice history lesson on the property. Between an hour and a half on Thursday afternoon and...
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    I WANT to get used to manual sensitivity, BUT...

    holy cow is it chattery. I've tried on numerous occasions in clean(er) ground to switch over and given manual a shot because of the added depth I've read it can get, but I spend so much time chasing false signals it's not productive at all. If I turn the sensitivity down to the point where the...
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    US Marine Corps coat button

    Dug this button last night at a vacant house I have permission at. I've been over the area probably five times but this jumped out at me from about 5 or 6" with the stock coil in a trashy area. I thought it was Civil War based on some photos I had found but it is apparently WWI or WWII era...
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    Thought I was going to have a year without a colonial coin!

    Pulled this not-too-shabby 1773 KGIII last week at a spur of the moment door knock I hadn't planned on making. I only had about 20 minutes of usable light when I got there, so I will be going back this week. Apparently the yard has been hit before, and I've always been too chicken to stop before...
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    4 Tone Ferrous produces a single coin and saves the hunt

    Ironsight has been discussing the use of 4TF in a thread I started here awhile ago and I have been getting more comfortable with it based on his advice. Tonight I went to a park and struck out, but I stopped at a funeral home established in 1883 I've got permission to hunt at. Over the past week...
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    What's your strategy for hunting a "hunted out" site with your Etrac?

    I have had my Etrac for about a year and a half now and my quality of finds have increased over my other detectors I have used, but I feel like I'm not reaching the full potential of using this detector. I live in a very historic area that produces good, old finds for other detectorists in the...
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    How do I claim my Find of the Month prize from Minelab???

    I submitted a "success story" to Minelab's website about a month ago, and found out today when I checked back that it was voted the "Find of the Month" for February 2015. The thing is, I never received any notification about it....anybody know how I go about claiming my voucher for winning the...
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