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    Any wetsuit recommendations?

    Does anyone use a wetsuit when detecting? If so, requesting some help here finding one that would be useful detecting in the surf or maybe waist deep. The water isn't real cold here in Virginia, but like to try this through the winter. Right now the temps are about 55 degrees. Normally I strap...
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    Beach Findings and Screen Indications (26 Nov: First Gold!)

    Beach trip with wife last Tuesday night Through Thursday. It was a exceptionally low tide so I stuck to hunting in the surf (first drop-off) that I read about in Gary Drayton's book. I have just over 100 hours on the beach (not much compared to many; but enough to learn some things). Past...
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    Beach Findings and Screen Indications 10 Oct 2015

    Gold? earring. 12-07 (First gold I've found if indeed it is gold) Feels light but I scraped the end and it was gold inside. Doesn't have and 14kt or other markings except a foreign symbol (see picture). If anyone knows what the symbol means, please let me know. 50 Cal shell 308 shells
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    CTX-3030 has great ECM :)

    This weekend at the beach, I was working this one area (about 0230) when 2 other detectorist were coming toward my direction. I said hi and smiled. They weren't the talkative type. Not even a smile. They stop to search around the area I was at, then one of them told me he didn't like the...
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    Why should I get a 6" Coil?

    Why should I get a 6" coil?
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    Ferrous Coin Question

    I tried using Ferrous Coin setting while hunting in an area in the woods that has lots of trash (nails mostly). Near an 1850's homesite. I was trying to see the difference between "High trash" and Ferrous-Coin setting. I threw down a nickel and quarter (amongst the buried trash) to check the...
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    Arrow "Spear" Head?

    Found this stone in a small Virginia river that I was told by the land owner whose family has lived in this area for generations, was a good place to find arrow heads. I don't know if this is a spear head or not but it is rather symetrical and if you look at it from the side, it seems to have a...
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    Beach Findings and Screen Indications.

    Beach finds: Found these during the first 20 minutes of a 10 hour hunt. -925 silver ring rang in at a solid 12-43. -Bracelet, during pinpointing highlighted a line across the screen from about 15-10 to about 15-35. No markings on the bracelet and it has copper color in some places so...
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    12 Hour Beach Hunt 5/6 June VA Beach

    I took off last Friday evening arriving at VA Beach around 2000 and detected until about 0830 Saturday morning. Just getting away on my own at the beach was just great. I started the hunt on dry sand between 4th and 6th street. This is where the previous weekend they held some significant...
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    Beach hunting after beachcomber passes

    I've read that it's no sense hunting the areas already covered by the beach combers. However, just for kicks I tried this anyway and still find Pennies, nickels, quarters, and other metal on the surface. Never found anything significant though. So checking what you all have to say about...
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    Where would a Platinum Ring ring in?

    Hi All. I was searching this weekend in the mountains to help a woman find her platinum/diamond engagement ring (antique; was her grandmother's) that she believes she lost along the trail. Since any signals along the trail and at a campsite were few, I just dug everything. So far, we have not...
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    Beach stops along the east coast question:

    I'm taking a trip to Florida in Nov., but I wanted to spend a day on the way there and back to visit a beach for some metal detecting. Some places I had in mind are St Augustine Fl, Myrtle Beach, Matansas Inlet, Fl. Does anyone off hand know if metal detectors are allowed on beaches in Florida...
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    Home site with lots of trash question.

    Does anyone have additional recommendations on settings for an old home site with lots of nails, metal pieces, etc. Everywhere I set the coil down will show some kind of metal.
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    Potential Civil War Field Hunt:: Finds so far

    I was recently granted permission to metal detect on a low lying field next to railroad tracks where Jackson shuttled 16,000 troops across the mountains. Looking around, this field is one of the only flat area troops in transition could have camped out. I started hunting with the 11" coil...
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    CTX 3030 leaking issue

    Hello Fellow CTX-3030 users. Today was my third "screen below the waterline" use and looks like I have a leaking issue as well. I purchased mine this past May. I am very familiar with using and maintaining sensitive equipment used in a variety of environments. I'm very meticulous about...
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    Beach Hunt:: 3030 indications/findings

    Well, still green as I've been hunting for 2 months now, and about 60 hours beach hunting time logged with CTX-3030. (Still no gold rings, etc. except one that doesn't count). Here is some info from last weekends trip to Virginia Beach. Mostly searched using the standard Beach mode with Hi...
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    Aluminum/Gold question

    I'm attempting to find a friend's wedding band that was lost in a park field 7 years ago. This area is loaded with the aluminum bottle top covers that ring out at 12-03, 12-01, 13-03 area pretty consistently. Pull tabs are more like 12-15. So as I comb this area I started ignoring the 12-01...
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    Popping sound question.

    On the beach, during sweeps wet or dry sand, many targets have this "popping" sound, and the normal beep seems to be cut short. I thought this was only on bottle tops/etc, but it also occurs with coins. Can someone explain? Thanks!
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    CTX 3030 on the beach: Lessons Learned

    Again, these things are "pre-warned" but I seem to learn the hard way. This week I tried shallow water hunting vs wet sand and dry sand. I thought I'd start the hunt using the remote and non-waterproof headphones, since I wouldn't be in the water until later. Well I haphazardly started into...
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    Lost ring on the beach find.

    One of the things I thought would be cool to do with this detector (CTX-3030) was to actually help someone find something significant they lost. On my third trip to the beach using the detector, about 0200 July 5th, (Virginia beach) by myself, this guy comes up and explained he was toast...he...
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