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What drives me? I find old homesites (1890s and earlier) and dig every nonferrous signal around them. Then I dig the large ferrous ones. I want to be able to recreate in my mind exactly what happened in their lives, I want to get a good idea of what lte felt like in their time. If I find a coin, great. If I find jewelry, that's stunning. But most importantly, I want to know that every
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Just kept one...still have my Cortes. You have to learn the language of its vdi, and you'd better have some pretty mild soil since there's no ground balance in disc mode, but it has that beautiful umax tone! The notch is useless, the disc knob is basically useless as well, but if you leave that disc set just above iron, any beep or burble WILL be nonferrous. That machine just doesn
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Can't claim to be an authority, but I usually hunt in gm power, and offset the ground balance about 5 points negative. Makes the detector a bit chatty, but gets a little more depth and seems to id a bit better. I run sensitivity as high as I can stand.
I always assume gold isn't a HUGE possibility at old farmhouses, so I generally hunt in 4 or 8. When I find a patch of dense iro
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Not really dying for anything, but guess I'd probably try a ctx. Don't really relish the minelab weight, but I've always wanted to give one a go...
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Keith, I find those Prince Albert cans from time to time in farm fields... You're going to have me prying them open!
Only video I've ever seen of a true bank being found...certainly a once in a lifetime find...
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Depends on who you ask, I guess. I'll bet if you ask the manufacturers, they'd say video games. You just don't see young folks taking up the hobby that much anymore...
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I've been wondering why xp didn't come up with a wireless pinpointer that used the detectors circuitry for a while now...just seems like a no-brainer. Still, we've talked about all the reasons they won't make a small coil for the deus, wouldn't all the same issues apply to a pinpointer as well?
Keith Southern Wrote:
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jackintexas Wrote:
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> Most of the Racer talk is on this forum. My dealer
> who is a distributor for 3 brands never heard of
> the Racer until I pointed it out to him a couple
> of days ago.....Jack
This...head to some of the other forums. You'll either find them completely unaware, completely uninterested, or you
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Haven't seen it yet...might check it out tonight if it's available on demand. I loved their "WWII in color" series. Amazing how much easier it is to connect to the images when they're colorized for our modern eyes...
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Sir, your post just encapsulated the reason I read this forum. Thanks so much for that link...That looks like knowledge I didn't have
Keith Southern Wrote:
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> Those are flower butons...1830 for an average
> date..
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> Ivor Noel Hume : Artifacts Of Colonial America
> will date flat buttons for you very accurately.
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Public perception is what leads me away from all these "mil-spec" looking detecting rigs, too. Not saying that there's anything wrong with camo, guns, knives, etc but I would prefer the public to see me as the sweet, harmless old guy who wastes his time with a metal detector (on the rare occasion I hunt a public park). I see these discussions on forums about guys carrying sidearm
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It's actually kind of refreshing to see somebody else who only gets a chance to hunt for a couple of hours at a time! Most of my best finds were on little two hour hunts, and they might be the only keeper. You see these "today's finds" posts where people show 100 targets, good, bad, and gnarly. Most of my days look a lot more like yours...a couple of finds, perched on a pa
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I've found two in the last three years, but I always chalked it up to those being particularly bad times here in the Deep South. I have this completely unsubstantiated theory that very few coins circulated down here from around 1880-1930 due to reconstruction and the depression. My finds back it up. Ive found three seated dimes for every one barber...
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scoopjohnb Wrote:
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> It signals as the target leaves the coil.
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> Had a whites coinmaster do this. You just hit
> pinpoint after you get a few repeatable hits.
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> Looks like the detector wants to be very sure of
> it's target. Doesn't like targets spanning more
> than 1 allocated conductivity ban
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x2000 Wrote:
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> Saw this new video:
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> This thing just sucks (unless there is something
> wrong with the audio of this clip).
Wow, that lag seems pretty bad! More disturbing to me was the sound of the machine opening up at the beginning of the video. Didn't sound particularly well made, but I'
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It's funny...you spend thousands of dollars on various detectors that are, without question, deeper/faster/better, but if you wanted to just make money, the base model tesoros are still the best deal in town! Every time somebody I know asks about a first detector, I always recommend either the compadre or the silver...and they buy an ace250 . Guess it's screen envy...
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The compadre is a great choice...I'll go silver umax, cause then I can use the clean sweep coil. (Compadres are still hard wired, right?). I can say from experience that that combination is a clad magnet...and just one little 9 volt battery that lasts forever...
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tnsharpshooter Wrote:
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> Well, for a lurker, just one post. Fascinating!!!
> With all the great knowledge this forum provides.
> You never wanted to interact with the folks here,
> rather than just popping in with your review.
> Speaking of review. I don't take kindly to your
> reference to the disabled fo
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Amen, Gentleman. While I'm only a lurker, over the past weeks I've watched my favorite detecting forum devolve into a place for fanboys to drool over a detector they've yet to even see. I quietly owe tons of great finds to information gleaned from many very smart people here (not least of which NASA Tom and Keith Southern). I used to follow their posts (and many others) daily,
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