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It is on the top of the ridle to the south of cedar crest park, so I do not think so. The age of the trees on the lot suggest nothing industrial has been there for well over 100 years
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Well, today i took Ozzie to a large homesite in Allentown, PA. We both started with F75s, and spread out from each other on its 6 acres. OLD OLD OLD huge trees, and I was super hopeful when we started out. Due to the circumstances surrounding the property, this was likely to be our only hunt there. First thing I noted, was the bars. There were a few times I saw 3 bars mineralization, but mo
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Rod-PA
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deadeye,
I appreciate watching the various nailboard tests that folks post from the standpoint that when they define their settings, it helps me understand what a detector will do in a particular circumstance. Buying a detector off of someone's word from a place that I cant try it out...i have to depend on something. Listening to the tests, hearing the audio while seeing targets under the
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Rod-PA
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no. i tried lowering it today, and had really large ironman powerlines nearby. really high emi on all channels, but lowering sens didnt change anything.
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tabman Wrote:
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> Keith, I'm not that impressed hunting around nails
> with DD search coils. Lucky for me, I have fairly
> mild ground to detect in and don't have to use the
> m!
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> V
> ideo Link
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> tabman
Tabman,
do you happen to have the 5x10 concentric for the f75 that you can test?
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lytle78 Wrote:
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> As far as ML and Whites selling machines well abov
> e the $1000 mark, i suspect that those models aren
> 't selling as well as they were a couple of years
> ago.
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> I fully expect ML however to revise their multifre
> ak platform and price it above $2000 - it's classi
> c Minelab
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I have a dst. A lot depends on which coil you have on. 5x10 concentric seems to be more sensitive than the dds. I have also in the past rarely had to change free from f1, but am having to change it much more often, even at the same sites in different days.
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for you that are pro's at making videos for youtube. do any of you connect the headphones out on the detector through a splitter to go to your headphones and the camera mic input? does it work at all? Do you use external mic's ever for your videos that are done at home and not out in the fields/woods for testing, etc?
Thanks.
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I hunted in snow quite a few times with G2 with Ultimate coil. temps were usually low 30s, but once was high 20s....had to go, you know.
I just cleared a patch, ground balanced, and whenever I got a target, just cleared the snow, rechecked, and dug. It does get sloppy, because the frozen ground turns to mud. I always wear a kneepad on my right knee anyways, but that also keeps it from getti
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in Addition to the nail tests with nice nails, how about using some of the larger 150 year old rusted blobs of iron, some of which started out as nails and have morphed into nasty zombie type nails. one of the reasons I have been turning into a "dig most things" guy in some locations is that the endless variety of scrap and odd iron blobs is so very different than nice nails.
in Add
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Digs,
I have dug quite a few buffalo nickels, and most are a lower grade than yours, but the same bright red. I started a type set of all dug coins, and my shield, liberty, buffalo, and non-silver jefferson nickels in it are all red in a row. Hardly ever get coins non-philadelphia mint here, though due to proximity.
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Cal_cobra Wrote:
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> Nice digs!
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> Looks like you've got colonial and later influence
> at that site. You might get colonial coins at some
> point if you haven't already eh?
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> hh,
> Cal
Pretty sure Ozzie got the coins from there years ago. He should be able the list the old ones he got from
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Rod-PA
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One of the things that i have appreciated about the 3 main detectors I have owned (CZ6a, F75, G2) is that if I feel like going out, even if it is really cold or damp, they have performed well for me. Just slipped a zip-tied bag over the F75 and went. The last two trips to the button field have been cold and wet. Yesterday was really really sloppy as the field portion I wanted to hunt has ter
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Keith, 2 things.
1. you should get a cameo on the show. That would be must see TV.
2. If you havent ever...go find Fawlty Towers show from John Cleese back in the day.
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i know, i never had the g2+ but while i really liked my g2/ultimate combo, going back over the same ground in some of the spots i have gotten quite a few nice coins and relics down deep with the F75. Two old trees next to two different old houses for starters. I hunted under both trees thoroughly with the G2, but F75 came away with Indian heads and my only shield nickel and barber quarter to da
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Rod-PA
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The street sweepers for my borough all dump their tanks on the lot next to mine. I havent asked permission, but standing on the back side of them you cant be seen. dug zincolns till i was tired.. anyone wants to work it in shifts, stop on over.
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Rod-PA
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Even a bit worse....i have one field (the one Ozzie chased a skunk off of. he has had a rough skunk year) that has seen ALOT of cow remains dumped over the years at some point. I keep digging those cow magnets left and right...cow ear tags as well. If i was a skweamish type holding all those magnets that used to be in a cow stomach...
I needed a magnet in an emergency due to a bolt falling
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Rod-PA
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I was in a park field yesterday that is just COVERED in deer poop. It was also a bit slimy just due to the somewhat frozen ground melting so nicely in the sunlight....needless to say they went in the wash solo as soon as I got home andrinsing them off beforehand.
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MichiganRelicHunter Wrote:
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> LoL @ Rod-PA (jealous of Ozz man)!
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> To me it's mainly anything post 1900 that I consid
> er "modern". I don't even bother looking for/hunti
> ng sites that produce that stuff. If it shows up i
> n the mix it's because the site I'm hunting was in
> use
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I consider any coin that 8 out of 10 people couldnt identify as old.
large cent, half cent, 2c, 3c, half dimes, nickels older than buffs, 20c, dimes older than mercs, quarters before washington, 50c older than Walkers, any actual silver dollars other than IKEs.
Any foreign coin prior to 1900
Any coin Ozzie digs...they are always old, for crying out loud.
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