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Got my X-8 coil and probe..Thanks Ralph!

Aaron

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Well..I finally got my X- 8" coil and and SunRay probe. Hooked it all up and decided to go to my local high school I graduated from ('85). I have been using the Garrett propointer and will continue to use it with my other machines however I decided get the SunRay just for my Explorer cause so many of you guys are using it. I used to have one on one of my CZ's so I'm familiar with it. As soon as I started hunting I had noticed where someone had just recently been detecting. I scanned over their plug and I'm getting a hi tone its looking very similar to a quarter, I'm thinking how could they miss this? I open the plug and theres a smashed beer can in there...oh great I'm thinking, another loser detectorist that doesnt have the sense to carry away his junk.:ranting: So I see another one of his plugs, this one had a wine bottle cap in it. I dont understand people, dont they realize they are just going to have to dig that stuff up again? Well..anyway I didnt find a whole lot because I ended up getting rained out. I dont understand what the deal is where I live, there is so many loser detectorist around here. I have a park right down the street from me and it seems this year I have seen more people dectecting there than ever. One guy was in there last week with his Ace 250 and a long handle shovel with a small spade on the end of it and he wasnt even making a plug, he would just stick the spade in diagnol and pop it up. I was over there with my kids a couple days later and there were his dead grass plugs all over. :ranting:
Oh well..sorry to complain. I'm hoping to get out with my huntin partner tomorrow to a more fruitful area and away from "loser central".
HH! Aaron
 
Sorry to hear of having unthoughtful (or just ignorant) folks poking about. It continues to be a frustrating and concerning threat to keeping places open for hunting everywhere. We lost a whole park system here last year because of it. All it takes is one bad apple.

Love using the X-1 though. Hard for me to hunt without it now.
 
MORE THAN WORTH THE WAIT:clapping:

Go super slow with that critter and it will work some magic for you.

As for "Loser Detectorists"...well I have dealt with a few of them myself in the past. In fact about 3 years ago a few of them got my hometown park shut down.:confused:

It was a park I'd hunted since the late 70's and they ruined it for me.:thumbdown:

Kinda' makes ya' want to thump a knot on their head:smoke:...but just move on bro cause' there ARE some losers out there BUT there are also some super cool people who feel the same way as you and I do.:thumbup:
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I would never want to hunt without my X-1 probe, even though mine is starting to break down.....they will start to false more (be more noisy) when the wires have been tweaked. I've gone through two of them already. Just be careful not to yank or pull on your probe wire, especially where it enters the back of the probe. And definitely do not try to dig with it.

Your story of the loser md'ers in your area reminded me of a guy I saw detecting one of my local parks a couple months back. This park was established in the 60's, so I know the way he was detecting, he was looking for shallow clad and jewelry. Well, his digger was one of those long-handled grass pluggers you can buy at a garden center. You just push down with your foot on the device, and it cuts a 3" x 3" square piece of plug out of the ground. Sounds like a great idea, except when I went back to the area he was detecting a week later, many of his plugs had been sucked up by the park's lawnmower, leaving an empty and very unsightly, grassless and dirtless plug!! :rage::rant: I'm assuming when he put the plug back in the ground, he didn't put the plug back so that it was even/flush with the top of the original turf. He must have been an out-of-town'er because I never saw him detect any other parks, and have not seen any of his plugging device shortcomings anywhere else, thank God! I hope wherever he hunts again, he realizes what he's doing and corrects this!

Good luck out there!!

CAPTN SE
Dan
 
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