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That's a terrific map Tri.
May account for our jaundice attitude toward the Feds out here.
Like a common disease , the more you have to deal with it the more immunity(or perceived resistance) you build.
Thanx deathray but I just want to detect---although I do find it difficult to resist taking a cheap shot at the Feds
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The entire issue is one pertaining to archeological and historic sites. As far as I'm concerned , some unelected bureaucrats negligence in posting an area as such is a far more significant issue than my ignorance in knowing that if by some capricious decision said bureaucrat has decided to declare an area such. If I'm detecting at Grant's tomb I should expect to get some grief bu
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Look at the impact on the markets of Bernanke's alluding to "tapering" the money tree down.
These guy's love to masterbate their egos by emphasizing their position.
It's been a linear progression so far and this Fall China should become the leading consumer of all oil and particularly that from the Middle East.
There's going to be a new 800 # gorilla on the bloc
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Is a National Forest considered a "Federal Park"?
You can use a detector to "prospect" in the National Forest but you have to leave those cans and tobacco tins behind
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We may be able to do something ---I have the 75ltd very lightly used. Unfortunately , I just got back from detecting and have to be at a BBQ in 30 minutes. I will PM you this evening which may be late for you since I'm on MDT.
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My hunting partner and I have often commented about occasionally recovering 65 Quarters 5 or 6" deep that haven't got the discoloring of newer coins. In our alkaline soil with the artificial fertilizers they use it doesn't seem right they would not tarnish when similar dates are nearly black when just barely below the surface. 90'ers barely need soapand water whereas clad take
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I may have found Galt's Gulch!!!!!
One Colorado town's solution to Obama drones: Offer bounties to individuals who shoot them down
The small town of Deer Trail, Colorado, is taking a progressive and admittedly novel approach to the threat of unmanned Obama drones entering its airspace. According to a recent Breitbart report, the town, located about one hour east of Denver, is cons
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ozzie Wrote:
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> I don't look at it that way. When I buy something
> for hobby, in this case a detector, I'm not going
> to try to make up for the cost, with finds.
> Detecting, for most of us is entertainment,
> exercise, adventure, history learned, exciting,
> something to look forward to, meeting people an
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I can really empathize with you. Out here the hunting is mostly for clad or jewelry and since the lake beaches are prohibited it's hard to justify dropping those kind of bucks. I've located a bag of silver jewelry as well as 8 gold rings the last year or so but even with the clad I've picked up , which is probably close to $800 , I'm still well behind paying for the two detect
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BeeMan458 Wrote:
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> deathray Wrote:
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> > Never ever seen
> > someone go about things the way you do. You
> sure
> > your not pulling our leg????
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> Yes, I've read everything that's been posted for
> my benefit and I apprec
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My group has a $300 bounty/prize for the first member to bag one of those.
I keep a dedicated 12 ga. with 1 7/8 oz copper plated BB's at the country cabin and a bird point and fu-fu arrow with my PSE in town .
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There's surely a jillion videos on-line for detector learning wheels but I never have like videos much so when I get a new detector here's what I do:
Read the entire manual twice with the detector on the table in front of me with the switch on.
Get two 6' pieces of 1x2 , clear Scotch tape , the 5 common coins(zinc/copper pennies), 2 or 3 different pull tabs , the wife's gold
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This is interesting in that I have a similar park where the e-trac goes silent for a large area. TTF responds with a what appears to sound like a constant iron target signal without overloading , much like tin can dumps I've detected. Research shows this park had an old house/shed in this location and , speaking to a local revealed the place had a galvanized tin roof that was decomposing and
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go-rebels Wrote:
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> Getting closer? Keep Fear Alive!
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> Ben nailed it:
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> Now back to the real economy...
At least he's evolving.
Gold was a "barbaric relic" when he started, now he admits it's an "unusual asset" he doesn't understand. He will come around ab
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I'll suggest Kellyco -- 999 gets you the whole package until you figure out what you're doing , except for the digger of course. We all learned the inadequacies of garden tools the hard way, no reason for you to be different--you'll notice all the reviews are for gardening not detecting , Sure do like the hand guard on my leshe!
Suggest you also purchase a couple of heavy Winte
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Don't sell your areas short and every hunt doesn't need to be a half day affair.
I occasionally hunt with a gal who is now 85 and swings an Xterra 70----she caught the opportunity to hunt a rest area under construction in northern NM while her daughter was visiting a friend one day and picked out a silver cob from the 1790's.
Sometimes the biggest fish come out of the smallest p
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I hunt 4 to 8 times a week. Relying on convenient dirt would be like waiting for cheap steak to BBQ. Hunting whenever and where ever keeps the talent tuned.
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fisher cz-3d Wrote:
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> I decided to pull the video (Wild Bills) from
> Toms Page... We at some point in our lives have
> become so mad that we swear or hit a wall or do
> what we need to "vent"......I can see I have
> stirred up alot of oppinions....Last I knew this
> is a FREE country.. Wild Bill is not
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I did rather well prospecting in the late 80's. Used a Gold bug a bit but found it to be maddening without the ability to track the ground out here. I used a White's Eagle with a tiny head to check my prospect and the surrounding area at the end of the day which was the best use of it. Most areas nugget shooting is a fool's errand but you have to learn that--it ain't in the b
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> What I find amazing, considering all the MD's one
> sees at the seashore and how many coins and rings
> are being found; what's with that?
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> At least in the mountains, earth is constantly
> pushing up and errosion is exposing new minerals
> and there are abandoned mining areas a pl
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"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds"
- Samuel Adams
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E-trac gives no numerical ground reading besides the recommended sensitivity. Am I correct that your soil for these tests would have been giving you that reading of 12 or so? I have noted a correlation between the GB number on my F75 and rec. sens. on the e-trac that would suggest your "sandy/mineralized dirt" would GB around 80.
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charlives Wrote:
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> Jim,
> Thank you for your clear response. As a member of
> the "duck and cover" generation I absolutely agree
> with you on nuclear arms reduction. I also agree
> with you that, in a democracy, once given
> something it is difficult to take it back. I
> guess it is one of the probl
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I think we should make fisher cz-3d get a permit to bring this discourse to Tom's forum---maybe even ban him or at least limit him to 10 words or less.
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What good is a license or permit except to give more empowerment to some bureaucratic agency and government and give it the ability to turn another of your rights into a priviledge and make money doing it? That not only makes the ones in the direct area a victim but also those in totally different areas.
Licensing and permitting are just "solutions" for lazy , apathetic statists.
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deathray Wrote:
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> Mcgov...really..so someone tells you to get lost
> and you scamper??? Even if your in the right to be
> there?? Wow, not me bud. I'm sick of all our
> rights being taken away in this country, and won't
> back down. Ray
Finally some cojones!!! ********Couldn't agree with you more!
Fran
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The only reason PBS would do it is that they're government subsidized and motive for success is removed. There's a lesson there.
The only reasons detecting shows are considered a viable programming concept is the get rich quick motive of the American public and the technology now available , not for the improvement of detector performance , but to provide 500 tv channels that must be f
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Well , I've seen enough.
There's your new Fisher/Teknetics machine demonstrated by the porky hill billy--very classy that he attached the name of a pornagraphic image to it. What an embarrassment!!!! i spoke with him on the phone a couple months ago --had I known I would've hung up.
"Larry the Cable Guy and Robbin Williams at the opera"
Thank god it's only six sh
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It's also important what number of tones.
2 tone ferrous can be useful if the modern trash is light or if you want another set of info from your e-trac as to determine the quality of the target. I occasionally switch over on iffy signals but it's usually just as easy to dig it and use the in hand identification method as it is to stand there doing the minelab wiggle.
Relic hunting can
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