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    Tough hunt!!! Interesting ground conditions...

    Took some vacation time this week and went to a place I've visited many times over the last 20 years to "get away from it all". It's always at least 20 degrees cooler at the top of this mountain versus the valley below, and during the summer months many people go to the general location, and...
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    Hunting in less than ideal conditions...

    Hey guys - Tomorrow I'm leaving for a hunt in the high country of Appalachia and I wanted to get some pointers on a couple of things. The area I will be hunting has 12-18" tall grass AT BEST, at worst it's an impenetrable rhododendron thicket. It's very rocky of course, and is full of...
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    Friday night surprise...

    Got out Friday night while the cooler air was blowing in, ushering a change of the seasons! We had almost 2 inches of rain in the last week, so the more productive areas of the fairgrounds have opened up again! First signal was a clad quarter not 2" deep and it had been there for a long...
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    Tiny bit of white gold and diamonds! :clapping:

    Spent almost the entire day at three different locations and did fairly well all things considered. My Propointer had to go to Texas for an intermittent issue, so I dug everything today "old school". I started off at a small park that used to be the site of two houses side by side. These were...
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    State of TN medal?

    Found this at a vacant lot which dates back to the early 1910s...nothing came up on a general search. It's about the size of a half dollar, appears to be bronze, and looks to be some kind of medal but not sure of age/affiliation. Rang up about 6" deep sounding like a dime/quarter signal... Any...
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    Preserving the green Indians and Wheats...

    I've been trying the olive oil trick for these older Indians and Wheats with the increased tin content (those that read "56-60" in 4 kHz), and before I was too aggressive in trying to get the corrosion off of the coin's surface. The trick is to remove everything except the patina, and keep the...
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    Coins, tokens, jewelry (and trash) from 2 vacant lots!

    So I got out Saturday night after work and again today for a total of about 9 hours...I visited two vacant lots which again had a virtual absence of surface targets. Almost everything dug came from between 4 and 8 inches and the ground was very easy to work with at both locations - not many...
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    The Queen of Clad, nickel trifecta, and many green Wheats!

    Dad and I got over to an older section of the city at a vacant lot that we've talked about detecting for a long time. According to the old maps, the house built in 1912 but was torn down in the late 1970s and has been a vacant lot ever since, so this small fact tells me that the lot would be...
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    More rental house goodies...

    I spent about 3 hours today at a relatively trash-free house courtesy of Marty. On this house the backyard was very small while the front yard was a standard 55 feet by 40 feet - much like the rest of the post-war neighborhood. Started off in the front yard and found plenty of zincolns in...
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    Weekend hunt at an abandoned home in small Missouri town!

    Went to a rural wedding this weekend and got to see some family I haven't visited in 15-20 years. My daughter and I started out from Memphis on Saturday morning, where is was already 85 degrees and humid. The further north we went, the cooler it became - by the time we arrived it was 60 degrees...
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    Old map research pays off

    We finally got some rain last night and I spent 3 hours in periodic rain showers enjoying the cooler temperatures and ease of digging! One day last week I was driving the whole 2 miles to work and spotted a driveway that led to a vacant lot...this got my mind going all day, and after work I...
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    Just one goodie!

    Last hunt I went back to the faithful fairgrounds and was considering tweaking the 4 kHz program I run most of the time. I remembered someone asked me why used Notch and Disc from 00-02, rather than just either/or. This thought went round and round in my head all day long Saturday, and when I...
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    Big silver! :shocked:

    Hello all! Went out last night and tried a new-to-me area of the DG course but for almost the entire hunt I used an 8 kHz program. Kept digging small mid-conducting targets, like small caliber bullets, deep can slaw, and when I found a small aluminum jean rivet at 4" that sounded good...I...
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    Short hunt today...4 toasty coins!

    Had a short time to poke around the other end of the DG course today and found a spot with softer dirt :thumbup: I haven't run 4 kHz in this area too much - when I first started hunting the fairgrounds this is the area I had initial success. I remember there being a TON of iffy signals while...
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    Last couple of hunts...

    Got out last night and a little on Thursday night and hit the fairgrounds/DG course once again. Stayed in 4 kHz both times, and found the usual haul of clad and junk targets (not shown). Digging bottlecaps is almost non-existent now, unless I come out of 4 KHz for any reason. I keep reactivity...
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    Fairgrounds is now Libertyland Disc Golf course! :clap:

    Was able to get out last night at the old fairgrounds site after we had some rain. Haven't been hunting much at all since the ground is about impossible to get through since the rain has slacked off. Did manage to get three Wheats, 2 clad dimes and three Memorials - one of the dimes was a...
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    Another rental house :thumbup:

    Payed a visit to the old neighborhood Sat night and most of today - found another virgin rental house that kept giving up all kinds of coins! I started off Sat night and about died from the humidity before a little more tolerable weather arrived this morning. Haven't had a lot of rain...
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    Taking the (deeper) plunge???

    Hey guys I regularly read about all the wonderful finds on this Etrac and also the CTX 3030 forum - there's no doubt that both of these machines will find seep silver but I want to ask anyone who is proficient on both. I currently use a Deus with the 11" coil and do very well with it around...
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    New test garden

    Haven't been hunting as much as usual lately due to unpacking and adjusting to the new neighborhood. It's definitely a lot safer and more convenient to everything, but haven't had a lot of time to pour over old county maps and such to locate those older sites (all in good time!) I dug up my...
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    What's your best program for dealing with high iron "infestation"???

    Hey guys - I've been having great success hunting in the trashiest parts of my sites, and along the way I've been using several different programs to handle mostly ferrous trash - things like nails, bolts, nuts, flat washers, screws, etc. Bottlecaps are almost an entirely different animal, but...
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