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    How should I clean heavily crusted copper? Found a nice injun this weekend but its all "patina" and no copper so I got to wondering....

    How long should I leave it in a olive oil bath? How long for a peroxide bath? Whats better? What other methods are out there? What are you fellas best practices and recomendations?
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    Proven Explorer Settings.

    Well I know there are a lot of people knew to the machine who get on here looking for direction, and I know there have been a lot of posts about different settings to maximize the abilities of the machine, so I just thought I would share what I use and what has worked well for me. First of all...
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    Thanks Bryce for all you do for the forum.

    I got my 1895 barber qaurter from the contest in the mail today and it still had some little peices of Illinois stuck to it. Matter of fact the envelope had a couple of muddy fingerprints on it. lol.
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    Bored at work.

    Could someone please post a nice story about finding pirates treasure?
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    Discovering a land owners identity?

    Ok so lets say youve done your research and found a great spot, but its in the middle of nowhere and you dont know who owns it. How do you find out? Ive heard folks talk about HCad, but dunno??
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    Troy Shadow X5

    So I run an SE pro but have recently become aware of the Troy Shadows. Does anybody have one that can tell me how it stacks up against the Explorer, particularly in the depth category.
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    button ID help

    Howdy yall, Found a button today and need some ID help. It is a brass flat button I believe is early 1800's. Might be Mexican in origin. The only thing I can make out is partial words "eigh" and "colash". Any ideas?
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    button ID help

    Howdy yall, I found a small brass flat button today I believe to be early 1800's but I need some ID help. The only thing I can make out is partial words which are "eigh" and "colash". Any ideas? There is a chance it could be Mexican millitary. Thanks.
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    Need button ID help

    Howdy yall, I found a brass flat button today I believe to be early 1800's but I need some ID help on the backmark. The only things I can make out are partial words and those are "eigh" and "colash". It might possibly have been Mexican military. Any ideas?
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    SE headphone problems.

    I accidently knelt down on the headphome plug of my SE the other day and broke something. Now the jack wont go all the way in. Im thinking it should be simple to crack open and fix. Any warnings? lol
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    SE help me figure this out please

    Ok, So I have an Se pro that Im pretty good with and for the next couple weeks I have my dream job, a paying gig detecting the San Jacinto battlefield for an archeological survey. The problem is several times today I got what seemed to be really bad interference. There were other detectors...
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    se contradiction

    So I was thinking about some of the more common advice Ive gotten with my SE and one is hit a sight from multiple angles and another is check a target from diff angles to ensure it repeats b4 digging?
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    San Jacinto

    Im pretty excited as a Texan. My explorer and I will be enlisted in official capacity for the next three weeks at the San Jacinto Battle Ground (sight of Texas independance). Cant beat that!
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    Peoria Illinois

    Howdy all, The wife and I are loading up the RV and making the drive from Houston to Illinois to spend our vacation in the Peoria County area on Monday. I will be there wednesday through next weekend. I was hoping one of our fellow forum members was from the area and would like to meet up for...
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    finds last three weeks

    Ok sohere are my finds since my last post. Got a Franklin, a couple silver washingtons and rosies, about nine mercs, a barber, about 50 wheats, two 1943 mexican coins, and i think thats it....... and here are my tokens and jewelry. I think there are three silver rings, a couple saints...
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    Se Pro and wet ground

    Ok so I have heard people say that their detectors worked better in wet ground before but I always payed them no mind, now I am a believer. I have been hunting the same sight for about two months now and it has produced a lot. When I discovered it we had just had a lot of rain and I pulled 5...
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    Barnstable Mass.

    Hello all. I found a pretty amazing token today in Houston TX. It commemorates to tri-centinial of Barnstable Mass. in 1939. I have never been there or even heard if it but its a pretty cool token. I was wondering if anyone on here was from there or knew of it?
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    gas street light?

    Ok I dug this in an old park today about four inches deeper than the 100 year old coins I was finding. It is copper or brass and although its smashed used to be round. My best guess is part of an old gas street light?????
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    Finds for the week.

    So I got my Explorer about three weeks ago and as of this week I would say the learning is coming along nicely. I had what has to have been my best week ever as far as coin shooting goes, two of the mercs, the walker half, and the barber quarter all came from a pounded out city park this...
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