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The last two weeks of August have become the high point of the year as I get to spend time with my son and his family. We did a lot of early morning beach hunts and while it was not as good as previous years, we did ok. As my son mentioned in his post, the number of detectorists has gone up by a...

I'm heading to the beach next week and plan on using the CTX but was wondering if the larger coil would be more useful. My limited experience with the larger coil on land was that it picked up too much and I had some difficulty pinpointing with it. I'm guessing that I was not using it on the...

I haven't been getting out much of late but Sunday, Monday and Tuesday were just outstanding days so I got my derriere out of the chair and out for some morning hunts. I hit mostly wooded areas and one or two fields. Monday was the best for silver. Sunday I found the plated fork in some old...

after seeing Angel's three months of silver I find myself tired of digging clad so I was wondering if anyone knows of places you can pay to detect where the chances of finding older coins is higher than normal. Not seeded places but untouched locations. I figure people pay to go on a cruise and...

I got out Thursday morning and was feeling good about the hunt until I saw Angel's post. I'll just post the pictures and go cry quietly in the corner.

Well between the heat and some health issues, I haven't been out in quite some time. The heat sort of broke as temps have gone from the mid 90's to the mid 80's and the humidity from the mid 70's to the low 60's. I felt really rusty so I stayed close to home again and hit some nearby woods. The...

I haven’t been detecting for about two weeks now. The hot humid weather just took the starch out of me but today the temperature was down as was the humidity (although still present) so I hemmed and hawed about going out. When I finally decided, it was getting toward mid morning so I decided to...

This is not very interesting but I returned to the site from my last post and pulled out another bunch of clad 64 quarters 54 dimes (including one really mashed one) 60 pennies (including 2 wheats which gave me hope of finding some older silver but never happened) 1 Susie B. dollar (needed some...

Saturday I hit an old park and hunted for a bit before I finally started to hit some targets. My son's patience is rubbing off on me because in the past I would have gotten in the car and tried someplace different after 30 minutes of not hitting a target. I'm glad I didn't because while I didn't...

On Saturday I went back to the site from my previous post although this time I went into the woods a bit further. This site was interesting because it did not show any signs of recent visits by people (no new bottles, cans, mcdonald's bags, etc). It was pretty clean and there were signs that...

I finally got my first chance to do some detecting since returning home. My first site turned out to be very swampy so I hit a site where I found a dandy button last year. As usual, it has been detected quite a bit but patience proved to be rewarding. I didn't get a large number of coins but I...

When I go up to visit my son now, I stay at various places along the way to do some metal detecting. It cuts a long drive into smaller drives and gives me the opportunity to metal detect in new areas. Unfortunately the places that I hit are all way too obvious so I didn't really score too much...

I hesitated to post this question because I'm sure there is probably a really simple answer but after reading and re-reading the manual and searching the web, I still having found what I'm looking for so here's my question. I have been using the CTX on and off for about two months now (also...

I managed to hit two sites today and while I didn't get a whole lot of stuff, it was varied enough to make it enjoyable. The first site I hit has (like everywhere of late) been well detected but out of a mess of shredded cans and pop tops I was able to pull out a silver rosie. I bought a CTX...

2013 has really started off bad for me. Unlike last year, the winter has been cold and snowy and I just can't seem to find anything worth keeping at least until today. :happy: Not much clad, several strange objects, two wheats and finally my first two silvers for the year. When I dug up the hex...

There's a lot of information posted regarding the ctx3030 but I haven't spotted anything regarding the wireless nature of the unit. Any issues with it (i.e. ever get interference from something broadcasting in the area)? Does it deplete batteries quickly? Any potential weakness? Are you using...

In my last post I had honestly thought metal detecting was done for the year but mother nature is fickled and has been nice for the past few days. Thursday morning I got up feeling pretty bad :sick: so I headed to the doctor's office. After I was done I noticed that it wasn't a bad day and...

I have been asked to assist someone in identifying this object. It was found when the new owners of a house were moving rocks on their property. It's made of rock, weighs about 44 pounds, 12 inches in diameter and 5 and a half inches high. I think it's a fancy cat's water dish either carved by...

The last couple of fields that I hit have been frozen in spots, especially where the daytime sun never reaches so I decided to hit some woods. The year started off pretty good for silver but the summer heat appears to have evaporated silver coins along with the water. Things improved slightly in...

I was coming home from lunch with some friends and stopped near a park area to work off some of the food. Only spent about 35 minutes and pulled out this buckle (along with a bit of clad). If I'm correct, I think it's from circa 1700. Unfortunately one of the tines is broken off. I don't think I...