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    Need Help!! Platinum ring search.

    My buddy and I pledged some time too help find a platinum ring lost in a back yard. Figured it would be no problem with a AT Pro and a CTX. However , after some research we found that platinum is 86%lower in conductivity than gold. ALARM BELLS!! We don't know the purity or if this ring has...
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    Does Lady Liberty play soccer?

    So after working graveyard shift last night I decided I would take a couple passes through the local soccer field after work, hoping to find me a little gold before going home to bed. Half way through the first pass after cleaning up some clad and a few pulltabs I Get this nice quarter tone that...
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    13" ultimate coil for ace models posted in detector accessory section

    I just posted my 13 " ultimate coil in the detector accessory section. It's forth Ace models. Thought someone on this forum would be intrested. You would not see this section until you are signed in. Thanks for looking.
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    Grinding out a few silver.

    Not allot of postings with finds lately. Thought maybe everyone is having a tough go lately . I started the spring out with a bang, had 25 silver by June 1st. Now it seems like they are getting few and far between for me anyway. So I decided to follow some of the veterans on this forum and...
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    Ben and I getting to be on a first name bases!

    Was getting pretty down on my luck. Hadn't found a silver coin for the month of June yet. Got allot of hours logged. Day off today, up at 6, out to new old high school by 6:35. NO FLIPPING BATTERY! Forgot it on charger. ( I really should dig out that emergency double A pack and leave it loaded...
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    Some observations and some questions ctx3030.

    :twodetecting:Was out the otherday and hit a few parks, I was running in ferrios coin at first but then switched to ground coin to try for awhile, nothing seemed strange there. I dug a few coins and some low tones everything seemed normal. I stop at another park on the way home and my coin...
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    TRX New trick!

    I was just fiddling around with my TRX after work tonight and noticed something that might help out in the field. You know how when you want to ratchet down sensitivity you must keep pressing the button. Well that can be kind of a pain and slow going. Try this, when your close to target back...
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    couple of questions about Deus.

    I have been contemplating getting a deus for awhile now. It's performance seems very good but I really like the weight and it's portability. I'm just wondering if some one could show a pic of it all broken down. I like to take my bicycle into some areas that are to far to walk. I understand...
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    12:08 = Pearl !

    Had a long three day weekend and I put the coil to the ground by 7am all three mornings. Probably almost 30 hours of swing time. My first good find was hitting at 10:08 mostly then 12:08 when I found the sweet spot. Nice little gold ring with I think is a real pearl. It was in sandy swingset...
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    Me and Ben found Liberty at the old ballfield today.

    Found a new spot today. It's old and I think it may have been a fair ground at one time. It's now four ball diamonds and even they are old but still in use for little league. I hit the obvious areas and like most areas around here it was already gone over . I think it was because the few clad I...
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    Got Punked at the Park!

    :shrug:Went to a small park early Sunday morn. Now I'm used to allot of Zink penny signals but this was ridicules. I spent most of my time on my knees trying to clear an area with my pinpointed just so I could make a few sweeps. It started out bad and got worse. There were penny's on top of...
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    Got a couple strange finds need help to I.D

    I found these two neat items lately. The round thing in the center of the dime and penny is copper it was 6 inches deep in a old 1950 farm field turned into a school yard in early fifties. It is almost if not exactly the same diameter as the dime. It is slightly thinner than the dime. Obviously...
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    Minelab stock headphones inop.

    My headphones wheat completely out yesterday. For the last 6 hunts they were cutting in and out . I would lose one speaker from time to time then yesterday both cut in and out and now I plug them in and all I get is the outer speaker. So now all I have is ear warmers. Took them apart last night...
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    I got two words for the TRX.

    AWE -SUM! I got mine in the mail today and took it out for an hour. It performed outstanding! I normally use two pointers the minlab and the pistilprob. This is because I hate digging big plugs, so I try to narrow my search, area down as much as possible. Shallow coins are easily extracted...
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    Gold vs. Nickle help I'm overwhelmed with Nickles.

    Recently I had a chance to search a drained man-made swimming lake. I only had 6 hours to scan 3 acres. The bottom was a virtual bed of coins. Sometimes as many as 4 in one sweep. Had as many as 4 nickel s in one sweep. I had to egnor all coin hits and try to dig all other lower tones. I managed...
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    New coin dept record for me

    I hit a new personal dept record today with a 9" wheat measured, using the 17" coil. Just wanted to see if anyone wants to chat about coin depths. I just got my ctx in June this year and early on I was getting some 8" wheats. Then it got dry for the whole summer and the deepest coins I could...
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    Beginners strange silver find

    Decided to just work all the steep hills in a park that is close by. Its a large park along the Mississippi river in Iowa. The park is not that old maybe 1920s and not really developed till 1940s. It's been hunted in all the busy area's like all the other parks in this area so I thought I should...
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    Combined mode ????

    New to metal detecting been doing it for about 6 months, got the ctx 3030 about 2 months ago and am doing well with it thanks to all your expert help on this form. One thing I haven't found yet on my ctx menu is the combined mode. Could some one explain that to a rookie and tell me where to find...
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