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  1. jughed440

    E-Trac batteries ...can a 5v wall charger hurt them??

    I've noticed that the E-Trac batteries would not charge...one of them showed only a bar after charging for a whole day, the other had nothing. I've considered tossing both and ordering RNB batteries. Finally realized that the wall charger i was using is for wireless headphones. I moved a few...
  2. jughed440

    Made up my mind.... going with the 800

    Thanks to Equinox users for posting so many great finds and the stories behind them. It made deciding between the 600 and 800 (both being capable detectors) somewhat difficult but the 800 won out with its extra features....plus it'll be a retirement gift to myself so I can splurge a little...
  3. jughed440

    Cool "eye find" (but no silver to brag about)

    Saturday's weather was high 40s and no wind, good enough to revisit a 1800's home site (now a plowed field with lots of iron trash) that has produced several silvers and other goodies. This hunt landed a 1905 Indian and a couple of Wheats, but I couldn't read their dates. The best find was a...
  4. jughed440

    ALL of my silver finds in 2015....

    This is it folks.. '42, and '42 S Mercs...:blush:...at least i didn't get skunked...:super: Found some wheats and a few Indians too. Sorry to embarrass the E-Trac family. But i have the excuse that the # of hunts i did this year can all be counted on one hand. Too much work and no time to...
  5. jughed440

    Couple of keepers...trade token and button

    Had a short (1 1/2 hours) hunt today, but it was enough time to recover a trade token and a neat looking button. This token is not listed on the trade token data base site. Any info on it will be much appreciated. No coins to report. I posted this in the E-Trac forum but decided to post it here...
  6. jughed440

    Short afternoon hunt yields a couple of keepers.

    I had planned on spending the morning and early afternoon hours MD'ing but was called in to work overtime. So the hunt at a favorite site was cut short to 1 1/2 hours...but in that time I recovered a trade token and a neat looking button (and a lot of trash that isn't worth showing). I checked a...
  7. jughed440

    field hunt finds. IH & buttons.

    Permission granted, i got to hunt an 1800's home site last weekend. The road that once led to the house is also part of the field, which meant a half mile walk to reach the location. As all old farms are, the site was iron heavy but the 8x6 SEF with its excellent depth and seperation performed...
  8. jughed440

    Assorted finds...but no coins :blush:

    Spent a cold and windy few hours searching a couple of fields that were home sites marked in the 1874 atlas. Didn't stay long enough to find any coins or silver to brag about. :sadwalk: Dug up a lot of mason jar lid scraps, a pair of Schrader tire pressure guages, and other assorted brass. The...
  9. jughed440

    A must have book for info on Illinois ghost towns...

    I love this book published by the Illinois State Historical Society titled "Illinois Place Names" (revised copy printed in '89). There are over 600 pages of invaluable information...it lists virtually every named town that has existed, or still exists. It states when a ghost town's post office...
  10. jughed440

    Question on GPS features of CTX...

    ...can "My Places" from Google Earth be loaded into the CTX?? I usually carry a handheld GPS to mark the spots or take me right to the ones downloaded fom GE.
  11. jughed440

    ATG AND ATP operating frequencies...????

    I'm a long time Minelab user and for various reasons I'm considering buying an AT Gold. Question...the Garrett website comparison chart shows different operating frequencies... ATG is 18 kHz, and ATP is 15 kHz. Why the difference? Is the higher frequency better for finding gold??
  12. jughed440

    This stainless 'relic' is a keeper!!

    Any firearms fans out there??? I'm a big fan of S&W revolvers and have bought and sold quite a few...but this is one i will never let loose of. It's a Model 625-3 (.45 ACP) with the hard to find and very desirable 3" barrel. It took over 2 years to find one at a reasonable price. It's a sweet...
  13. jughed440

    Lovely old 1840's era home.....

    A couple of pics of a 1840's era house that sits south of my home town. It and the big chunk of land it sits on are state owned community college property and last housed a daycare until a part of the foundation began to crumble and collapse. Thankfully, local preservationists have saved the...
  14. jughed440

    need some settings suggestions for "well hunted" areas

    I have been hitting some new sights lately with the E-trac in the coin mode and doing good...but want to head back and see what i have missed at a couple of favorite spots (1800s farms) that I have hunted many times (with a Sovereign XS, w. Sun Ray DT III meter) that have yielded quite a bit of...
  15. jughed440

    CW era button(??) ..Illinois 132nd.

    Just sharing pics of a find from a few years back. Found this Ill. 132nd button while MDing. It was laying exposed in a plowed field where a house once sat (site marked in the 1874 atlas). I know little about the CW so i had to look it up and found that the 132nd was short lived during the CW...
  16. jughed440

    big beautiful tree

    This big old cottonwood sits on a 1870s farm site that i recently began to hunt...the detector shows tree's girth. Tall grass and fallen branches make the hunt tough, and i have only found a few relics near the tree, but i'll be back again.
  17. jughed440

    farm site finds. LC, IH, and silver thimble..

    Hunted a virgin 1800s farm site that is now a plowed field (using the basic coin setting and a few minor tweaks). Found more tin scrap than anything, but i did mange to score a sterling thimble (nicked by a plow, i assume), Also shown in the pics are the holed large cent (too rough to read the...
  18. jughed440

    christmas weekend hits...(3 IH & war nickel)

    Had a few hours between yesterday and today to hit a couple of my favorite old spots....first time with Etrac, using the X-8 coil. The IHs are dated 1908, 1891, & 1881. The three of them were found on the same site where my biggest coin spill find (7 IHs), and quite a few silvers were found. The...
  19. jughed440

    can someone ID what metal this is??

    I found this ring made of metal on a 1800s farm site and can't figure what it is made of. It had zero corrosion on it when pulled out of the ground, it's fairly heavy, and rang a solid 12-28 on the Etrac. Any ideas?? thanks for the help!!
  20. jughed440

    out with the old...in with the new (Etrac)

    Been looking forward to owning an Etrac for some time. As of yesterday, I finally have one to replace the Sovereign XS that i've used for 14 years. Besides having the obvious technological advantage...the Etrac (with X-1 probe) weighs just the same as the XS, but it is much better balanced. That...
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