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I've been hunting in the cold for over 10 years now, when I moved to Maine 7 years ago I had to find new spots to hunt, I secured about 4 fields to hunt and that is where I do the majority of my hunting, I hunt them every day from April to Dec and when I don't find anything, I just go to another of the 4 fields, and I always find things I missed, I think some of it is from the frost, bu
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with Garret fixing the falsing problem and my belief in big business is recovering, can anybody work on this one. I'm sort of an old timer, I had a Dodge Colt in 1980 that got 50 miles per gallon, the best car now that you can buy ,that runs on just gas, get 40 mpg , so much for progress, Tom thanks for being a GOOD guy, I live with honesty
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TerraDigger, that's how I set up my XLT, but I have always hunted alone so I don't know if I get good depth, sometimes I dig things real deep, last year I dug a box eagle cartridge in a field in Maine, it was 18 inches deep, but it could have fallen back in, I don't think it did, it's funny, I went over it a couple of times over the years thinking it was some deep iron, but th
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the AT Pro when they are sending them back, are they replacing the coil or is it something else, I like Garrett that they are doing it, what do you guys think
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I've been using a XLT for over 8 years now, this machine has found some remarkable stuff, I have learned it well, but over the 8 years it would not balanced right and it would make a lot of noise when I hunted. I just thought it was bad ground, but even when it was this way , I dug some nice stuff, so I learned to put up with it. Because of my schedule,I take care of my daughter, I get to hu
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Tom, I got a 15 year old XLT , that I've used for 8 years now, making it water proof and an iron see threw on it would be lovely, but I got to have it back when the snow melts haha
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and it doesn't have to done soon or done at all, is there a way of having a spot with the abbreviation, so we can look up to know what it means, some of the stuff goes over my head, or you guys talk different than we do up here, here is an example...whilst invoking 'bp' mode thanks
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silversurfer, I got over 10 years in and I hunt every day when the ground is not frozen, and after reading a lot of stuff here, I know I'm a dummy , it's a lot of good stuff
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I have met Mike at a couple of detecting functions and he is a stand up guy, and I talked his ear off about different machines, and I like some of the detecting stories he tells
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where it met the ocean, the wanted to make the harbor deeper, the brought in a big machine, like the ones they use in dredging in Alaska, with a big conveyor belt and just dump the sand on the beach , they added in depth. about 10 feet to the beach, then it all washed back in two years later after a big storm, never found much, but just a lot of iron
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Tom, why do you think they put out so many new ones, do you think the detector community has grown 10 fold, you would think they would lose money with so many different types, maybe they know we all own 5 to 6 detectors and some many more, and people like variety
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I dug many targets with ants in the plugs, I just think there are a lot of ants, it's the full moon theory , you only remember nuts during full moons because you look up and see the moon
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here a map site with old maps, I use it with other mapping sites and compare where the places are on the old maps to the new maps, if a place does appear on the new map, but it does on the older map, I go look for the foundation , then the owner
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we have a lot of pine groves up here in Maine, so times I dig down over 6 inches before I see soil, and some of my best preserve finds come from this areas , could it be the sap in the needles, I know when I knee down to dig, I get a few needles sticking to me, would the sap have lead in it from the air??
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Keith, I did this for a test piece, sort of the same but a little different, I use a 2 inch piece of wood and drill holes but not thru, put the object in the hole and epoxy, wood is cheaper than epoxy and you can hang them up after, you can make a few different pieces with different distances between the objects
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but I'm afraid to pull the trigger, with all the new machines coming out, I fall in love with the latest, and research it and don't get it, it's been going on for 3 to 4 years, I have two top of the line, older ones, XLT and a GTI1500, but I want a water proof ,salt water beach one and also use it on land when it rains, I'm from New England, so the beaches are salty I am told,
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