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I come here because this forum has very few pics , so it down loads quick, and I love reading all the teck stuff, most of it goes over my head, but I pick up some things, and I like to throw a joke in from time to time, life is short to take anything seriously, believe me, I've been on the net for a long time and a lot of old guys are detecting north of here, so be sweet and enjoy life
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I always thought cherry picking was cleaning out the silver, sometimes I like to hunt a field that I have hunted many times and only hunt low signals, then go back and hunt nickle signals, and have fun just digging the uncertain
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it depends on what type of hunting you want to do, 1500 can buy you a lot of machine or buy you a couple of them depending if you want to hunt land and water, good luck, we all have gone thru it, so of the guys buy new machines every year to try them out, would seem fun to try it
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I dug 2 piggy banks, bottle digging, and both were empty , but I dug a fluff marshmallow jar, some one stashed 1500 bucks in, 50's and 100's, I called it a piggy bank of sorts
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yup, and that's how I buy the next machine I like, now what do you do with the bucket of half eaten beach clad, reseed the beach with them in the spring
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I have a gti 1500 still and I know if it a coin or junk, I dug so many coins from ball fields with the smallest holes, I just can't find ball fields around here anymore, someone tore them up a few years ago and they won't let you on them anymore, I bought my XLT with the clad I dug in one year
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now I know why you guys get new machines a lot, most of the places I dig, the coins and buttons are close to the suface, 2 to 5 inches, some fields I will dig a LC at 12 inchesor less, but digging that deep is hard with rocks and roots everywhere
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my four best coins are 1786 Conn Copper, a Fugio, 1875H Canadian quarter, 1800 1 reale, ll dug within 3 inches, it's not how deep but location
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every year I find a spot that gives up at lease 10 old coins, 1850 or before, there is still a lot of virgin spots left, you just got to find them, research is the key and talk people into being on their land, and talk to older people, they are a wealth of knowledge, I just wish we could weed out the morons
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Boy, you guys have a lot of time, after I work I'm lucky to have 2 to 3 hours to detect every 3 days, I use to do all that before I had a kid, Keith, you are right about your Kin, I lost my Mom and Dad and 2 brothers young, I learn to enjoy every day like it's my last, that why I get so pissed when some one whines about nothing, I guess I'm lucky, my Job,and taking care of my Daugh
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under 4 feet of snow, woke up to 10 below, I going digging at noon at low tide, going to find some open area at the iced in harbour, stay tune haha, spring will be here soon in 2016
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as far as I am concern, you guys all talk funny, even Mr Ladd, and he grew up not far from where I grew up, that not a native New England accent, I like watching his video's too, Howard, that SICK
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I shovel snow, at lease I do this winter, we have 5 feet of snow and the harbour is iced in, I figured if I shovel all winter, my arms are going to be strong for spring, I have no other hobbies, just detecting in Maine
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How do you tell how deep you have dug, when I pop a plug out of the ground they are usually a foot deep, I hunt fields and I use a spaded shovel, a lot of times the signal is in the hole, but it could have fallen in or dropped out of the plug, does that mean it's down 15 inches, who knows, I have dug coins that go back into the 1600's two inches down and dug stink-in Lincoln's a fo
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I've been thinking about asking this question here too, great advice , I was thinking of going to the local Gold/Silver store where I buy coins to fill my coin books, the are fairly cheap, and ask him for a deal to buy some coins for seeded hunts and maybe pick up some Morgans for my self, good ideas
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Bill, up here they still have seeded hunts, BONES has a few every year in April, the two clubs I belong to have natural hunts, they try to secure a field and have a hunt with up to 50 members, with the new machines, there is always something good dug up, the last one I went to was a combo, they seeded it with club members donating coins and we dug some good stuff that wasn't planted
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now they are going up, guys I find my share in the ground like most but I was going to invest some of the clad I find, turn the clad into gold and silver, but where do I buy it and from whom, and what's a fair mark up from spot, if I start to buy, it will be for my daughters future after I'm gone, thanks
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have been taking a beaten in the market, many on this forum said they would never go this low, gold was going to 2000, so what do you think cause this and when do you start buying the metals, now??
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