Recent content by michmark

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 surface finds no digging allowed what kinda B.S. is that! can anyone on here tell me if they...

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 corner on the etrac i swing real slow and thourough and only have to listen for a high squeak when i...

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 deep stuff without all the distraction what am i missing here on the advantages of manual sometimes...

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

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 half. The coins are a 1917 wheat , 1901 ih penny and a 1910 barber dime then the storm hit but it...

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 good thing. i wouldnt mind finding somebody who is into serious detecting , research, gridding a...

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?

heres hopefully a better pic of the pendant i posted yesterday

went out this morning to beat the next hard freeze and dug this

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. seems most people skipped them either accidently or on purpose

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

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 ?

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 reddish brown ?

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 quarter ,a standing liberty, three v nickels a shield nickel and a franklin half i cant explain...

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 by which frequeny was hitting hardest what are tricks on the etrac