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I am so bummed. After weeks of bitter cold temps, high winds and snow, the temp has finally climbed a bit. I got out for about 3 hours today to enjoy the warm-up. You may remember my last hunt was at a swimming pool going back to the 1920s. It was a very short hunt, which resulted in a handful...

OK, I have been wondering about this since I first got my E-Trac. Every time I set the EMI reduction it almost always selects channel 6 or 9. Exactly how do these channels work? Does any channel have an advantage of the others for silver? What channel does your machine pick most often? Anybody...

Worst Aviation Disaster Canada's worst air disaster occurred today when a small two-seater Cessna plane crashed into a cemetery early this afternoon in central Newfoundland. Newfie search and rescue workers have recovered 826 bodies so far and expect that number to climb as digging continues...

I was looking over my finds since I started using my E-Trac 8 weeks ago. In that time I have found 10 silvers, and dozens of wheats, and quite a bit of clad. Although this isn't any huge amount, it is more silver than I have found over 8 weeks for most of my detecting. This got me thinking, how...

background.... A couple months ago, before Sanborn changed thier password, I was studying some maps for a nearby town. One town I found had a public pool on a 30's-40's map. it was there as far back as the early 20's. Then I looked on Google Earth, and found the pool was still there, and the...

The weathermen were forecasting today would be a warm, beautiful, sunny day. LIARS! At noon it was still 36 degrees, dark and breezy. Since this may be my last chance to hunt before the the cold front and snow move in next week, I was determined to get out. I had to laugh when I went out becuase...

The weather today was incredibly nice. Clear skies and the temp was in the high 50's. So I went back to the baseball field I found my last silver (Merc) at. Got about 2 hours of hunting in, and the 1960 Rosy was found close to the end. The junk finds are interesting in that they are sounding...

All last week I was on a Caribbean cruise, enjoying life. I did miss detecting a little bit though. Today, with no detector in my car, I headed to the other side of town on business. I started seeing block, after block, after block of brand new sidewalk!!!!! How did I not hear about this...

While talking to a dealer yesterday, we were talking about our favorite model, the E-Trac. Anyway, he was telling me how Minelab sold out to another recently ( Codan), have lost many of thier top personell, closed down all thier manufacturing facilties and opened up a manufacturer in Malaysia...

While traveling to a detecting site today I found something I've been looking for all summer.... Tunas!! For anyone not familiar, tunas are the name of the edible fruits on the prickley pear cactus. They make an awesome jelly. The flavor is like a cross between peaches, strawberries, and...

It's been 11 days since my last silver, and that was a religious medal. It's been a lot longer since I found my last silver coin. Well, I guess I can start counting over again becuase I nabbed one more. I'm really shocked at the lack of finds. I went to a house (still standing) that was built in...

Today I went back to the old school hoping for some left over silver. Amongst the clad and the trash I found a ring. I pulled it from about 6 inches deep. When I broke the dirt, I saw the shine of silver and thought I had found a nice ring. Then I pushed the dirt plug from the center and got...

But sadly, nothing very interesting. I finally got to work the last section of the park I've been working for over a month. This park is 2 blocks long, and full of trash. It's been a slow, annoying search, but I've managed to pull 3 silvers and around a dozen wheats from this site. Today I was...

I did a walk-through in a field where a town used to be located. I was hoping to spot a coin on the surface, but most of what I saw was just glass and crockery. I did find 2 small buttons. They are both about the same size (dime size), and almost pure white. First I thought plastic, but plastic...

As some of you may remember, when I recieved my E-Trac in the mail last month, I posted that I left like the old man in the movie A Christmas Story when he won his major award. While I was hunting today I found something that made me feel like Ralphie.... I found a Radio Orphan Annie good luck...

Yesterday I found out that I am going to be deployed again..... Toda, we found out that our daughter got accepted to a private college, the school she has been wanting to attending. They only accepted 300 new freshmen, out of thousands of applicants. On top of that, she was awarded a presidents...

Since it rained non-stop all day yesterday, I was determined to get some hunting in today. The weather is cold, so I bundled up in layers. But I only managed to get in a hour of detecting. In the end, the combination of cold, wind, sleet, and rain drove me from the park. Only managed some clad...

Yesterday I got moved to a new station, so I had to re-find the web address. This website doesn't come up in the search engines! I even tried searching for american detectorist, and came up empty. Is there anything we can do to help spread the word about the site. Word of mouth is good, but much...

I just got home from a year in Iraq 6 months ago. I just found out that we are supposed to deploy again in early 2011. So that gives me about a year to get in all the detecting I can get. I've also got one year to get a bunch of brand new privates trained up for combat. Oh well, at least the...

Well, the more I use my E-Trac, the better I learn it's language. What I have noticed is that there seems to be three types of coin signals. There is the obvious one that has good FeCo numbers, and a solid tone. Then there are coins that have a Co spread of 10 points or more and Fe numbers all...