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Quattro Bags A Few Keepers

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<STRONG>I only went out for a short hunt today...not quite 2 hours. It was about 30 degrees with a wind chill in the low teens, so that was about all I could stand. Just about too cold to detect. But not quite... <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
So I went out to this field today in Suffolk Virginia. It's been been hammered to death by myself and several folks with some top machines...Fisher CZ's, my Sovereign Elite, a Nautilus. It has given up a good number of Civil War bullets, some buttons, and a few coins. I have dug a 1912 Barber dime there as well as a 1918 wheatie and a bunch of Minnieballs. There's a good bit of iron junk in the ground as well as a big transmitter tower nearby that would mess with my CZ-70 if I got too close, so I wanted to hit it with the Quattro and see what I could come up with. It's a big field. I know there's more out there and when it warms up some more I'm going to hit it for a whole day sometime. I did well today...better than I expected. I sure didn't think I would get two silver coins. All the items were deep, at least 8 to 12 inches, and all were not the best of signals, except the quarter which rang out loud and clear as a 38. Not sure how we all missed that one before.
I had the Quattro set to manual sensitivity and was running it at 18 in the Coin & Jewelry Mode. I wasn't interested in digging any negative numbers, but wanted to get any buttons and bullets as well as coins.</STRONG>
<FONT COLOR="#ff0000"><STRONG>Here's the field, Quattro in the foreground and my truck in the background...</STRONG></FONT><img src="http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/3.jpg" alt="" />
<FONT COLOR="#ff0000"><STRONG>Another view of the field, looking left. Big field!</STRONG></FONT>
<img src="http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/4.jpg" alt="" /></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#ff0000"><STRONG>First dig, a 3-ringer minnieball from about 10 inches down...</STRONG></FONT>
<img src="http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/1.jpg" alt="" />
<FONT COLOR="#ff0000"><STRONG>Second Dig, a 1903 Barber quarter from almost a foot deep...</STRONG></FONT>
<img src="http://members.cox.net/nodesurfer/2.jpg" alt="" />
<STRONG>It was a little cold to keep taking pictures so I whimped out after that. But I did dig a 1927 Merc dime, a couple more bullets, a couple pieces of scrap lead and a "whatzit" before packing it in. I WILL go back on a warmer day, but today I had to get my butt inside. Brrr!</STRONG>
<FONT COLOR="#ff0000"><STRONG>Here's a picture of the final haul, when I got home.</STRONG></FONT>
 
It seems someone has submitted an anti-detecting bill in VA. It is not a good bill for us. If it passes the way it is, it will substantially hurt relic and coin hunting here.
HOUSE BILL NO. 2078 Virginia
I've read several of these bills now and they seem to all try to do the same thing.
1. give the state archeologist as much authority as possible.
2. prohibit detecting on all state property and some local too.
3. try to restrict detecting on private property in small ways.
4. make detecting much more difficult.
This bill outlaws all detecting on state lands. This means the beach will be illegal. You heard that, right? VA beach etc ...
It also allows the state archeologist to declare archeological sites on private property and inlist the aid of the property owner. This means they may find out where you like to dig and declare it an historical site and digging there becomes an instant crime. oops. Does anyone need to inform you first?
The bill would require everyone who digs on private property to get written permission. You know how hard it is to get permision to dig, try getting written permission. It is even harder to get. People don't want the liability or hassel.
It will be a crime to dig without written permission.
Is the owner liable if he gives you permission in writing for a protected site? Just wait till one of those gets into the newspaper and try to get permission.
The bill makes it a crime not to have written permission.
It also makes it a felony to sell more than $200 of relics in 90 days. A felony? Yep. $200 isn't much. A gold coin can exceed $1000, easy.
Its a bad news bill.
 
I disagree that this would affect detecting on the beaches. The state doesn't run the beaches, it's city (and thus public) property. As for the rest of it, it would make it harder on us.
 
nice pictures. <img src="/metal/html/wink.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=";)">
 
Good deal, Mike! <STRONG>Nice Barber</STRONG>, except the little gash on the right side of the photo - were your hands shaking from the cold??? That is a pretty unbelievable haul for how short you were there, especially considering how many times you've been there. Is that one of the fields we went to once when I was up there? I can't tell from those angles.
Still loving the Quattro, I see. Glad you were able to get out there, despite the cold.
 
as long as this hobby doesn't have some sort of political action organization, we will continue to lose our rights. state by state these elected officials of ours will continue to stamp on our rights because we have no national voice. a thirty second sound byte of some elected or appointed talking head spouting the preservation of our historical sites sounds wonderful to the great unwashed. not thinking that these places are already protected and that the politburo is slowly sinking its teeth into our basic freedoms,still, many of us are content with our lot in life. oh well, look on the bright side of this issue, if caught metal detecting on new jersey public land, you can be fined 750 dollars, lose all of your metal detecting equipment and any transportation that you used in the commission of this crime. not one official has demanded a shoot on sight order.
 
new jersey's new law banning metal detecting on public land has implied that each beach community can determine their own fate. after contacting some of the local chambers of commerce, they have all stated that it would hurt them financially to ban metal detecting on their beaches. i also have noticed that three communities on long beach island have put a dark to dawn curfew on their beaches unless you are surf fishing. i submit to you that these will be considered the good old days sooner that you may expect.
 
I'd like to thank both of you guys for hijacking my post, by the way. Seems being able to post a picture or two of your finds without somebody trouncing all over your parade is in danger of being a thing of the past too, huh?
 
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