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    moving post?

    I recently did a post in 20th century tales forum that is better suited here. How do I post it here without having just repeat type it all over again, is that possible?
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    using the word

    Shortly after going to work on a ranch that was owned by the president of the local fair board, He was venting his frusration about an application for a vender tent spot at the fair from a local home bible study group that had done a witnessing tent very successfully the year before. In his rant...
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    surprised by a small boy

    About a year after first being bitten by the detecting bug I had to take a crew of amishmen and a pre built cabin from colo to Indiana for assembly as a hunting camp. Since I was not much of a carpenter and the only driver I often made supply trips to town as supplemental materials were needed...
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    milatary roads in the west

    where can i find maps of military roads in the west cirica 1810 to 1890?
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    where to hunt

    I am planning a detecting vacation for the week of march 15 to 22. Don,t get to beach hunt very often so I don't want to waste time finding the right place. would any of you experienced beach guys know the best beaches from Dana Point to San Diego for a landlubber to hunt { don't give away your...
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    where to hunt

    It has been quite awhile since I posted on this site but visit quite often. I am planning a long coming vacation with the single purpose of detecting till my arm falls off. I have some ghost town sites picked out along the way there and back but my question is about the 'there'. There being the...
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    testimony of toughness

    This post isn't about a great find but about a potential disaster turned great relief. I recently took a vacation trip in a 34 ft motor home. Three metal detectors were packed side by side in a small belly compartment in the right front side of the motor home. We left at 3 am (or dark thirty)...
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    2015 total finds and losses

    got my year end totals done. Did not get out as much this year due to work, etc. so totals are down some but my quality is up. 1 Kennedy halve, 410 clad quarters,13 silver quarters (3 slq"s) 143 clad nickels, 2 silver ,978 zinclons, 520 cooper, 61 wheat's, 1 IH. 11 foreign coins 2565 coin=...
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    where were you

    Where were you? You say you will never forget where you were when you heard the news on Sept 11th 2001. Neither will I. I was on the 110th floor in a smoke filled room with a man that called His wife to say "goodbye". I held His fingers steady as He dialed. I gave Him the peace to say " Honey...
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    Fisher/First Texas products pass the beach test with flying colors

    Just spent ten days in Maine visiting my stepson and His family, so of course I had to take some detectors. Being landlocked in the Southern Colorado mountains I very seldom have an opportunity to use a water machine so buying a beach machine for this one trip was not a viable option. I have...
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    tot lot bonanza/w silver! f-70 rocks!

    Since the local social engineering institutions ( ie.schools ) let out on Friday, I hit my favorite on Saturday. I set the f-70 for clad/jewelry disc 5, speed de, sens 50, thres -3, tones 4h. My take for 3.5 hrs hunting was 244 coins, 1 token, 9 junk bling and 1 .925 silver ring. for $20.67 The...
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    hunt #4 torn out park/ more silver & wheat's

    Made a fourth trip to the ripped up park and spent seven hours carefully grid-ding in two directions. F-70 settings were mild to overcome the huge amount of trash: thres -4, sens 40, disc 20, dp speed, 3h tones, gb-75. I dug all signals that would repeat within a 10 number bounce range ie: 62 to...
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    tot lotting and follow up trip to torn out park

    Spent the day scratching the itch. I usually hunt solo but today my youngest son volunteered to go along so there were two of us checking the contributions left for discovery by all my happy little depositors! first we when to a recently built grade school (3 years old) that I clean out about 3...
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    torn out park makes my year

    Finished my third trip yesterday to a small ( 1blk x 1/2 blk ) town park that they have torn out. The sod and underlying soil ( ie: rocks ) has been scraped off and hauled away, on the average of 6 to 9 inches removed. It is a total trash pit with pull tabs, cans, rusty bolts old horseshoes bits...
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    2nd hunt at Calvary fort site /more shells and gold!

    Took the f-70 back to the Calvary fort site that was home to the 10th Calvary regiment all negro unit know as the "buffalo soldiers" I have been hunting what appears to be a training area and or married men's housing south of the present restored fort site. The shell casings are all head...
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    Indian wars shell casings

    Trying to learn how to re size and upload pictures , if successful these shells are all from 45/50 and 45/70 sharps carbine and rifle respectfully. They were all dug in an old baseball field just south of the old fort garland, co This fort was under the command of col. kit Carson at one time...
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    pull tabs turn 50 now an artifact

    See this article at westerndigs.org/ring-tab-beer. Pull tabs are now reason to declare a site historical and off limits. "they are an important resource for identifying a cultural site" unquote the article Common sense is rapidly leaving the human race!! HH Ed in co.
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    Relearned an old lesson for a spring tune up

    I hunted a well hunted small town park today and didn't get a single signal in the gravel covered tot-lot. Moved into the grass right next to the playground because experience has shown me that often if the tot-lot is being picked clean by a local md'er, they are usually to lazy or unskilled to...
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    Priceless find in clad filled park

    Winter has finally given up and the ground is diggable, life is good!! Only the second hunt of the year but made a "find" of inestimable value! I was hunting a small out of the way strip park on the side of town that doesn't make the home show tour and hit a mother load of clad with a large...
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    Interesting prophecies

    The below post with the obama cartoon got me to thinking about the way the world is rapidly heading and how the daily news reports relate to clear scripture. Now before everybody starts yelling about the mistake of mankind trying set dates and times, let me say I am not doing that. I am only...
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