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    1st. time on a beach

    Hi everyone.....it's been awhile since I've been out MDing (long winter in Wisc.) & so I went to a lake park that has this camping/picnic beach. I've never detected on a beach so I first tried out my 10.5" 7.5 KHz DD coil. Problem was I seemed to get a lot of false signals, like momentary high...
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    Merry Christmas!!!!!!!

    Merry Christmas everyone & I hope all that read this have a great MDing season in 2014. I'll be doing research on local potential sites to metal detect for the coming season. My first season was O.K.,for a beginner,but looking forward to 2014. Thanks to everyone on this site for all the great...
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    Resent find

    I finally reserved permission to hunt an old homestead that I've had my sites on all summer. A young couple bought it with plans of fixing the old house up & moving in next year. They mowed down all the high standing grass/weeds around the house & sheds which made it real easy to detect plus...
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    Parks=clad

    In the last week I've been to 5 different public parks in my area & all I find are clad quarters,dimes & pennies. Not a hint of silver,rings or relics just clad,pull tabs & other junk. I do prefer old overgrown homesteads but the weeds are high & I'll wait another month or so to hit them. Public...
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    pin pointer problem

    I have a Garrett pin pointer that works great but lately it likes to beep at times when not around anything metal. At times it works great then for no reason start beeping.I changed the battery but it makes no difference. Has anyone out there experienced this same problem? Time to send it in for...
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    Too hot,too humid to dig

    Here in Wisc. it,s been in the 90's & very humid for the last week & will be through out Labor day weekend. At 5:00 a.m. it's already over 70F & when I'm outside I can easily work up a sweet plus we haven't had much rain so the ground is rock hard. I was at my sisters home this last Sunday & dug...
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    My grass plugs are dying

    Hi everyone......I've noticed that some of the plugs that I have dug on my lawn are now dead grass. This being my 1st. year MDing I have mainly stuck to my own lawn & a couple of my families lawns plus 2 different parks. I would guess that about 30% of the holes that I've dug on my own lawn...
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    New Digger finds silver

    I guess in order for me to find silver coins I need the Digger. WOW what a great little coil it is & I also found my first nickel & a wheat penny. Friday night was my 1st. time out with it in my back yard where I combed over the same soil many times with my LF & MF 9" concentrics & also my 10.5"...
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    Choosing the right coil.

    Hi everyone.......a scenario. You have access to an old farmstead with a old house and outbuildings. The lawn is mowed so detecting is a easy sweep, but you have alot of trash around the buildings. As you move further away from the buildings the trash almost becomes nonexistent. The soil ground...
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    I'm getting the "Digger"!!!

    I've been hunting some old farmsteads lately (including mine) which hold alot of trash (nails,tabs,lots of iron junk,etc.) with my LF & MF 9" concentrics & am finding some clad & the occasional cool relic but not much in old silver or copper. So at work all the employees received a bonus check...
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    My KEEN find

    My latest find is this E.C.Simmons KEEN KUTTER lock that I found this last Thursday at an old farmstead. I believe these were produced in the early 1900's & I see there are variations on this lock-very interesting company history. I only had an hour or so to look this last Thursday & now it's...
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    Metal detecting across America

    Once again I'll be taking a 21/2 week vacation on my Harley out west,this being the 4th. year in a row. Leaving Wisc. I'll be heading to Glacier N.P. in Montana via Minn. & N. Dakota then meandering my way south through western Montana to Yellowstone then back east to Sturgis & back home. Just...
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    Lot's of clad but no silver

    Still being in the rookie stage (detecting about 3 months) I've hunted approx. 10 different sites from parks to old homesteads to my back yard which is an old homestead itself. I've found plenty of clad quarters,dimes & pennies(no nickels) plus various relics & trinkets. WHERES THE SILVER???? I...
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    Concentric or DD???

    So if ground balancing comes out at below 28 I'll use my 10.5" DD coil. How about using my DD in soil that GB's at let's say 40? I always here that a DD is better for soil that is highly mineralized but is it not just as good as a concentric in soil that is low in mineralization? The reason I...
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    My 1st. silver

    WWWAAAAHHOOOO!!!!!! Found my 1st. silver coin-finally. Ain't she a beauty. Looks like the mower got her. This is just the beginning....................................................
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    False/whisper signals

    Today I found what use to be a 1 room schoolhouse but now is a manicured lawn & received permission to detect on it & so I did & came up empty. But I did get plenty of signals or high tones sometimes followed by low tones. What I mean is that as I sweep I would get a TID of 40 or 44 or 38...
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    Locating old homesteads read somewhere about overlaying

    I've been researching,on line,for old plat maps in order to locate homesteads from the earliest periods of settler occupation in Dodge & Fond du Lac counties here in Wisconsin. I did locate a 1859 plat map of Dodge county but in order to see it I need to buy a printed copy. I am able to view...
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    My 1st. homestead site

    Here in S.E. Wisc. I got permission to md a pre 1880 homestead site that now is just a plowed field located on high knoll. The house that was there was moved to it's current site sometime around 1880 & is about 800 yards away & is occupied by the owners who gave me permission to hunt. I went...
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    Best coil for copper?????

    I have the 705 with the standard 9" 7kHz concentric + the 9" 3kHz concentric & now I would like to add a DD to the mix. What I'm looking for when I md are copper artifacts.I've been surface hunting in plowed fields for Indian artifacts for years & now I would like to use my 705 in these same...
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    Any new X-Terra coils on the Horizon??/

    I've been researching the x-terra coil options including the Coiltek's but I'm looking for a coil that's not being produced. What I'm looking for is a LF or MF coil that is also a Double D AND waterproof in a 6" or 9". I have the standard 7kHz concentric & the 3kHz concentric but would like a...
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