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Sod-buster Wrote:
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> All I can say, let's hope the price of Equinox coi
> ls is NOT like CTX.
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> Shiny shovel Sod-buster out.
> Oh, see the big game? You folks with good eyes?
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Um, I see a chupacabra running at the lower left corner of the barn. There's a sasquatch grubbing for acorns or someth
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
That is good to know about Columbia. I will apply for a permit. But, like you, I plan on doing most of my future hunting far outside the city.
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Columbia, sad to say, is one of the few towns in Missouri that has banned metal detecting on all city property. I wonder what the police would have said about people hunting the torn-up sidewalk strips? Wish I'd found out.
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Harold,ILL. Wrote:
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> What kind of Pizza? Ha
Silver Lover's. That's an extra-deep dish pizza.
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
If anyone is interested in forming a metal detecting group in Mid-Missouri, either as a formal club or as a monthly informal gathering to talk and show off finds, I have reserved a conference room at the Columbia Public Library, 100 W. Broadway, from 7 until 8:30 on the evening of Monday, Jan. 29. Let's meet and greet, eat some pizza and see if there is enough interest to give the club a fut
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
When you are lying incapacitated in a nursing home, thinking back on your life, which memories will make you smile? Finding that AU seated dime eight inches deep in an old park on a cool October afternoon? The flash of gold in the bottom of a sand scoop as you stand waist-deep in the Gulf of Mexico one fine morning in May? The camaraderie of you and your hunting buddies on a long June day as you
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I agree that it's a good buy. I have way too much clad coinage sitting in cans doing nothing but depreciate in value. Going to convert it to silver and bury it in the woods somewhere.
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
For those of you who invest in silver, what is your preferred form? Do you buy scrap coins and, if so, where do you sell them, when the appropriate time comes? Do you buy silver rounds or bullion?
Let's say I bought a $1,000 bag of scrap coins today for 11.95 X face from one of the big online silver dealers. Two years from now, scrap breaks 30 X face -- let's say 30.45 -- and I want
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
The Garrett Freedom II is my sentimental favorite. It was the machine that I used through most of the 1980s, replacing my old Garrett TR machine. I ran yards with that Freedom II all over a big city, back in the day when silver was still common. I had 50-silver months using that machine, and my dad and uncle, who had more time to hunt, each had a couple of 100-silver months. The Freedom II did no
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
If you were hunting for old coins in yards, what would your single detector of choice be now? Not necessarily what is the BEST detector (if there can even be such a thing), but what would be your personal choice, and why? The one machine that you feel most comfortable with?
For the past couple of years, I've mostly swung an etrac, but I still feel most comfortable with my 20-plus-year-old
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I'll add the Garrett Freedom 2 because I flat wore one out hunting old yards in Kansas City during the 1980s. I got to where I could recognize the tiniest clicks as deep coins and dig old Wheaties, Indian Heads and Barber silver. I loved hunting with that machine.
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
It was fun. You got to talk with a lot of interesting people. If you were agile and good with your detector, you usually had little trouble earning back your entry fee just in coins. If you got really lucky, you won a metal detector. At the main hunt of a big event like Sepulpa, your tokens might give you a shot at a mid-range detector and a top-end detector, which the club would buy at a discoun
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Yes, you could buy a lot of silver dimes for a $10 entry fee when they were selling for 3.5 or 4 times face.
I just checked the Indian Territories website. This year, the hunt drew 81 adult entries and 15 children's entries. The 81 adult entries were the total for all six adult hunts. So there couldn't have been more than 40 or so people in the main hunt. That's nothing like wh
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Thirty years or so ago (That long! I can't believe it!), club hunts were popular here in the Midwest. The kind of hunt where you pay to dig for silver and gold coins, tokens for prizes and that sort of thing. I haven't been to one since the late '80s, when I belonged to a now-defunct club that put on its own hunt near Kansas City. We were not a big club, but our one-day hunt always
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Thanks for the tips. I'll check out the Tiger Shark and the CZ-21. Appreciate it. The Garrett, too. I started hunting with Garretts in the late 1970s.
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I'm wanting to water-hunt in lakes and smaller streams here in the Midwest, so I'm looking for a detector that is durable and reliably waterproof to, say, 10 feet. My primary targets will be coins, lead bullets and gold rings. I've considered a 1280-X. What other machines should I consider that will be fully submersible right out of the box? How about the Fisher AT Gold? I currentl
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I'm going to hunt in an area that's getting pounded by E-Tracs and CTXs. Lots of big fields to cover, with coins dating back to before the American Civil War.
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I have a Tom-calibrated CZ6a with a stock 8" coil. I'm thinking of picking up a 10.5" spider coil for it. Are there any good reasons to spend or not to spend the money?
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
This language doesn't quite match up with my understanding of how my metal detectors work -- the "sending back a response" part:
“What do is they send an electromagnetic field – you can think of it as waves going into the ground – and then sometimes they hit treasure, a deposit of metal or even water,” Mr Torres says.
“If this treasure, if this chunk of metal or water gets
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Bill B.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I have a CZ6a with the stock coil. Is there a larger coil out there that would work on this machine and be suitable for coinshooting? I'm hunting a park where the old silver is now coming from 10 inches down and deeper, and I'm having a tough time trying to pick up a decent signal from it with my stock coil.
It's a Dankowski-modded CZ. When he worked on the machine, Mr. D. wasn&
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Bill B.
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