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    Just Had a Very Eye-Opening Experience With My Explorer II...Long, But Worth The Read.

    And that experience was right in my backyard! I have a test garden, running along the rear of my backyard in front of my privacy fence. I have about a dozen targets buried out there, about 3 feet out from the fence and at least 3 feet apart. All along the fence I marked with a Sharpie pen...
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    Another Day, Another Silver...

    My buddy Jack and I went and hit a couple of new spots, looking for some silver action. We struck out at one and struck a little at another very trashy site. But we both hit silver. He got a '43 Merc and a '43 Rosie in the same hole, stuck together. And another silver Rosie, a 1950 I think...
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    A Short But Silver-Worthy Hunt

    Went out for a little bit today to the same house I hit last weekend where I got two '52 silvers...a quarter and a dime. Today I managed to snag a 1919 Merc. Other than a smoked wheatie and a couple 60's memorials, that was the only worthwhile target. The place has been hunted hard and I...
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    A Few Good Finds From Yesterday And Today

    Went out and hit a few spots yesterday with my buddy Darren. We didn't get much but I managed a few pieces of lead and a couple wheaties. The stuff was all deep and the tiny bullets amazed me when I finally got to them and saw how small they were. They can be a lot of work! Here's my stuff...
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    Out Digging Some holes Today...Got A Few Keepers

    Went and did a little peanut farm digging today and also to a large old grassy field that has yielded quite a few CW buttons and bullets over the years. I was running IM -16 with sensitivity at 28 and had a nice threshold most of the time...not bad for a 12.5" coil. The ground at both spots...
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    One Little, One Little, One Little...

    ...Indian. :rolleyes: Went out today to a BEAT TO DEATH :rage: old home site, a little place we call "The Barber House" that has yielded MANY a sweet find over the years. It's only been hunted about 150 times by a dozen different people with 18 or so different machines, but somehow it always...
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    First Explorer II Silver Of 2006...A Slow Start, But I'll Take It!

    Hit the same spot from yesterday again today...HUGE field that contains old bulldozed military housing. If there is a HELL for metal detectorists, it would have to be like this. :) SO much trash...everywhere. But if you're willing to play the Easter Egg hunt game, there are a few good targets...
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    Explorer II Bags A Few Keepers

    Happy new year everybody! It's been a while since I posted here. I hunted the beach all summer with my Excal and a little, early on, with the Explorer II. And I haven't gotten out much this fall so far, but hope to change that henceforth. I went out with my buddy Darren today, to an old...
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    Attention Virginia Beach Hunters: Help Requested For Lost Ring

    Hi folks. I was at a Christmas Eve church service and met a fellow who heard that I metal detected. He related that his wife had lost a ring during the summer of 2003 in the vicinity of 47th street at the oceanfront. The ring is probably silver, though could be white gold...he wasn't...
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    Haven't Been To The Beach Lately...

    ...I'm watching you guys so I know when the time is right. Been doing the land hunting thing, as I know some in here also do. I just had a fellow who deals in Civil War items pay me $95 for a button that I found...I shipped it yesterday. It's worth a little more than that to the right...
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    Explorer II Snags A Nice Pre-Civil War Naval Button

    I took the Explorer II out today to a field I've hunted many times. It has turned up numerous Civil War bullets, buttons, a few nice silver coins, and even some Colonial flat buttons in the past. Lately it hasn't turned up much. I've been hunting it on and off for about 5 years. Today I had...
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    Explorer II Snags A Nice Pre-Civil War Naval Button

    I took the Explorer II out today to a field I've hunted many times. It has turned up numerous Civil War bullets, buttons, a few nice silver coins, and even some Colonial flat buttons in the past. Lately it hasn't turned up much. I've been hunting it on and off for about 5 years. Today I had...
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    I Found Some Treasure Today...

    ...in a box that FedEx brought me. My new motorcycle seat! The bike is almost done now. Next will be a fresh coat of gloss black on all the stuff that's black now. The tank will probably stay red...I like the combination. I'm including a pic at the end of how it was when I got it from the...
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    Well, I Agonized About Whether To Go To The Beach Last Night Or Not...

    And I wound up going and glad that I did. Hit the surflane for the 12:45 low tide. Got out there at 11:15 and hunted until about 1:15. There were no other hunters there. There were darn few targets there. And then I hit a pretty hot area...coins everywhere. It was right at about 12th...
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    Two And A Half Hours In The Lane And Not A Lot To Show...

    It was very rough and very windy...I would have thought Rita was coming here, if I didn't know better. I hit one hot spot, about a block-long cut that produced clad. I had to work the incoming surf for that. I was hopeful a ring or two would pop somewhere in there, but not to be. By the...
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    Cover Me, I'm Going In! Er, I Mean...Heading For The Oceanfront.

    Should be near the pier around 7, hopefully.
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    OK, This Is WAY Off Topic...But Hopefully It Will Be Of Interest To Some...LONG.

    One year ago today, a lot of the folks on this forum expressed their concern and well-wishes when they heard that I had been rushed to the ICU, suffering a major heart attack. Tonight is a special milestone for me
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    Yes, The Surf Lane IS Bleak...And Yet, Lady Luck Still Smacked Me In The Head With Her Golden Wand.

    I don't think I've ever seen our beach so devoid of targets at this time of year...it's like the middle of winter, where you can go a 1/4 mile without a signal. But as I was telling an out-of-towner tonight...it's sanded in, but there are still a few good finds out there. I got to the beach at...
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    2AM Spin Down The Lane...

    ...snags some 14K and a belly ring! But not a whole lot else. It was really quite bleak...very sanded in, disturbing lack of targets. I came down to do a 2 to 5 AM hunt for a 3:42 low tide. I ended up packing it in after 2 hours...it just wasn't happening. The gold charm was in about 2...
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    Low Tide Hunt...Fairly Bleak, But Did Hit a Gold ring.

    Hit the lane from about 1 to 5 am. Bleak is a good word for it. Did hit a little clad hot-spot and also managed the thin 10K band, so not a total loss.
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