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    G. Washington #4

    I added another GW Inaug. button to the collection yesterday. This is an Eagle with Star, the most common of the Washington's. I was hunting a new field close to a new job. I knew what I had when I saw the dashed border, then with a little cleaning the scrawny eagle appeared. The button was bent...
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    Oops, I did it again

    I went back to the site I found the Washington Inaugural button a few weeks ago. Things are pretty slim pickings there, so I was happy to get a few tombac buttons. Then I dug a big flattie, thought...hmmm, that's about the size of a GW, flipped it over and nearly flipped when I saw the "GW" in...
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    Lightning strikes twice

    Two years ago in December, I was hunting around a cellar hole and made the find of my lifetime. Never did I think I would do it again but last week I found another Washington Inaugural button, same type as before...Eagle with 8 pointed star. The second button was a little rough but there was...
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    Anchors away

    Ii didn't have high hopes for this little field. It was brush-hogged, which means the grass and brush was mowed down and left there. My spirits lifted when I liberated this nice two-piece Navy button, most likely, Civil War. It was the only button I dug but I did set a record for oxen shoes (5)...
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    Some cellar hole finds

    I went back to the cellar site where I got rained out the day before. It turned out to be a pretty good spot as I hit a flat button first, a gilded spoon, gilded button, what looks like a whizzer (the thing with the two holes) and a decent New Jersey copper. I had found NJ coppers in the past...
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    Stock coil for the F70

    I bought a stock coil for the F70 to be used on my F75 and in testing it out for a week, it has done a pretty good job. I hunt a lot of spots in the woods and this coil can get in some tight spaces. The light weight makes the easy-to-swing 75 even easier. Pinpointing is a snap, targets are...
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    Meeting house site

    I went to this site 3-4 years ago with a different machine and a lot less experience than I have now. This place is pretty neat, 1/2 mile up a hill in the middle of nowhere. There is a stone monument about 8 feet high erected in 1904 which reads, in part.....THE FIRST MEETING HOUSE WAS BUILT ON...
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    Disc. @ 5

    I started running my machine in Disc. 5 yesterday just to try it. As some may know, this puts the machine in a High Gain mode and I had to throttle down the Sens. to 65-70 or it spazzed out. I was running it in 10-15 Disc. and 75-85 Sens before. The nice thing about the High Gain is it gives...
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    Farm-fresh field finds

    I went on a few small hunts last night and today to some fields surrounding a farmhouse. Some of the fields were cut, but the good fields weren't. Still managed a few good finds as these sites were hit very hard over the years. For coins, I got a no date KG copper, 1936 Washington quarter, 1903...
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    Small coil for F75

    I'm at the point where I'll keep my machine for a while and am looking into a small coil as I hunt a lot of cellar holes. I can't find very much on what's available....there's the 6x9(?) and I heard there is a smaller elliptical coil. I'm even thinking about the 10" stock F70 coil (for fields...
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    Little broach

    I spotted a pine forest on a hike to find some cellar holes and it looked like a good place to hunt. Never did find any cellars but got this plated broach, my first piece of jewelry with the F-75. RonNH
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    A few new ones from an old site

    The grass is too high to hunt in fields, so I went in the woods behind a field that has given up 3 reales, 3-4 LC and lots of buttons. I noticed barbed wire in the woods a few years back and I suspected the field was bigger. I started finding pewter buttons, always a good sign as these date to...
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    Saving New England Volume 1

    I just got Bill Ladd's DVD in the mail yesterday and watched most of it last night. It's very well made and takes you on a journey to some cellar holes and other places out in the woods in New England. The video makes you feel like you are right there digging away and experiencing the thrill of...
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    A Yankee goes South

    I've been gone the last few weeks, you guys have been digging some great stuff. I got the chance to detect in Alabama where my sister-in-law lives. She is about a mile from a minor CW battle, so I detected her land and found the buckle (CW??) and the Possum Sardine lid which are made in Maine. I...
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    Question about beach hunting

    I'm going to Florida later this week and I'll be doing some beach hunting, not much, but enough to shake the rust off. I have never hunted the beaches with my X-70 and was wondering how to set it up. Just put it in Beach Mode, balance and start swinging? I suppose I could read the manual on the...
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    I notice a lot of new faces on here

    That tells me that the X-Terra line is really catching on. Good news for Minelab, bad news for coins and gold. Maybe simpler is better. Good luck to you new guys and when the North thaws out, this Forum will be rocking! Ron
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    A new use for my X-Terra

    Well I managed some detecting today, in the blowing snow and cold. I was contracted to put on a deck last fall but the owner put it off until now. Nice time to do that sort of thing, in the middle of the worst winter in who knows how long, but I needed the work. I managed to snowblow a work area...
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    It's a little nippy out there

    This was the temp yesterday, today it's a balmy 4 degrees F. Yesterday the wind chill brought it down to about 20 - 25 below, definately not detecting (or anything else) weather. I figure we got another 8 weeks before we'll be out there swinging again. What a long winter, "an old fashioned...
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    New use for the X-Terra

    Gets pretty good depth! Ron
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    Best find of 2007

    With the weather that's coming, this year is all but shut down so here's my best find for the year. It's a Cross 2 reales, minted in the early 1700's. I need to do electrolysis on it to clean it up. This was found in a suspected muster field where I found a Cross 1 reale, a nice 1803 LC, a few...
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