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    sault ste marie michigan

    i was thinking about detecting a city park in sault mich. while on vacation so i looked up the rules online and turns out metal detecting in city parks is allowed but! you are only allowed to pick up...
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    cherry picking silver in trash

    there is a small area in a local park that is so trashy i usually avoid because of to many signals just for the heck of it i closed my quickmast screen down to a small sliver in the upper right...
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    Re: etrac auto vs manual

    sounds like good advice from everyone i think i will force myself to hunt in manual more and try and get used to it especially in places i have hunted hard already and the new finds have dried up
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    etrac auto vs manual

    seems like most guys hunt in manual sensitivity mid to upper 20s but every time i do that theres so much chirping and falsing its distracting so i switch back to auto and still seem to lock on to...
  5. Thread: indians

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    Re: indians

    update, i went back to the same spot today and found to more ihps but much worse shape one appears to be an 1879 and one is an 18 eighty something i have them soaking in olive oil to try to get a...
  6. Thread: indians

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    indians

    dug a couple ihp today at a farm house site dating back to the 1860s the first was an 1893 the second is 1865
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    short hunt today

    I spotted some bare ground this morning at an old farm site i hunt and decided to work that spot before the next batch of snow came in. I was able to dig up three old coins in about an hour and a...
  8. Thread: west michigan

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    west michigan

    is there any old coin hunters in west michigan im in allegan county, after my first full year detecting i have only seen two other detectorists one time and nobody else. but i guess that could be a...
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    Re: e trac noise cancel question

    ok i was just wondering seems like nine times out of ten it ends up on channel nine and the other time channel 6 yet the pros recommend doing a noise cancel every 30 minutes or so but if it just...
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    e trac noise cancel question

    does anything else take place during a noise cancel besides selecting a channel is the detector ground balancing even though it ends up on the same channel it was on?
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    sterling pendant

    heres hopefully a better pic of the pendant i posted yesterday
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    sterling pendant

    went out this morning to beat the next hard freeze and dug this
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    Re: gold coins [ american]

    thats good to know but to be honest i skip 12-21s unless there really deep 500+ pulltabs later im sick of digging that number range lol
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    nickels vs how hard a site has been hunted

    Has any one else noticed the number of nickels you find vs pennys and other coins, goes way up in heavily hunted places i kind of use it as a gage on how hard a site has been hunted in the past....
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    Re: Is an E-Trac really necessary?

    I am by no means and expert and i so bad wanted to stick with my made in the usa whites machine but if you go to the metal detecting video sites i would bet 7 out of 10 of your most successful silver...
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    Re: gold coins [ american]

    there probly isnt many gold coins to find but at least i know i might get a prize by digging my normal signals
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    Re: gold coins [ american]

    ok so its only the quarter eagle that falls the hardest in pull tab range the rest are close to other coin numbers thats good to know
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    gold coins [ american]

    not that i would ever scan across one but what are fe co numbers on an e trac for members of the eagle family my guess would be pulltab range anyone know
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    ctx 3030 audio

    from watching videos of the ctx it doesnt sound like it does the minelab signature warble on deep silver or nobody hunts with it in multi conductive ?
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    Re: canada coins question

    the quarter i found today is a 69 but clean and deep so i know its been there a while i found a deep dime a while back the same way i also air tested both at home and the signals out of the ground...
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    canada coins question

    why is it that late sixtys canada quarters and dimes which the book says are nickel can come out of the ground as clean as silver yet american nickels and nickel clad coins come out of the ground...
  22. Thread: its a keeper

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    its a keeper

    I am glad i traded in my old detector for an etrac at first i wasnt sure if it would make a difference but after some time learning the machine its paying off with a lot of firsts including a seated...
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    Re: analyzing targets with etrac

    everyones advice has been very helpful and i am catching on to the tones and vdis im very impressed with the etracs stability and depth so far for keepere ive found 16 wheats and a 41 and 52...
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    Re: analyzing targets with etrac

    ok thats good advice and i will keep practicing i have found 5 wheats so far the oldest being 1911
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    analyzing targets with etrac

    any tips for deciding whats a good target i keep getting good solid 12-45 thinking i got a dime but its usually junk can slaw or something a trick i used on my vx3 was pinpoint signal strength...
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