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When you get a December day in the 50's, you just have to be out hunting. It started off bad as I forgot to bring water and my GPS decided to stop working so I had to do it the old fashion way with paper maps. It was not an old park but the woods adjacent to it looked interesting. My first merc...

As I mentioned in a previous post, I haven't been finding much lately, ergo, I haven't been posting much. Saturday started off with a real chill in the air (high 20's) and I decided to change my modus operandi to see if I could shake things up and change my luck. I went south towards Boston and...

I have a friend who is having problems with his septic and needs to know where a cast iron pipe is located. Can the e-trac detect cast iron at what I would assume would be at least two feet down? I'm thinking that it may be too deep even though it's large. Thanks for any response. Bob

I haven't posted in a long time as my luck has been in the toilet for about five months to a point where I almost stopped detecting altogether. Being with my son on vacation has ignited the spark a bit but not to a point where I'll drive too far. So, in any case, I decided to be outdoors on this...

I went back to a site that I detected last week and found that someone or something removed most of my plugs and the site looked like hell. Has this happened to anyone else? I went around and replaced them all but am very concerned that it gives them a reason to keep detectorists off the...

I found this object when I found my two large coppers and I initially thought it was just trash but after looking at it, I'm not sure. I hesitate to take up people's time posting trash but curiousity got the better of me. Can someone tell me if this is a relevant button or was I correct about it...

I don't normally post my clad findings but yesterday I was wandering around until I came to a new site. Both new to me and relatively new in time of existence. It was big and I really wasn't expecting to find too much because I figured every detectorist must stop here. It wasn't long before I...

I found a couple of large copper last Saturday but one was really encrusted and it took me some time to clean it up a bit so I could get somewhat of a decent picture. I also want to thank Dan (Del) again for helping me with the identification. The encrusted one turned out to be a King William IV...

It looks like a wanna-be-coin and it's heavily encrusted. Any thoughts what it might be? And no, not the half dollar, the round object next to it lol Also, any thoughts as to how to get the encrustation off? Thanks.

I went back to the site where my son found his mercury dime this past Saturday. First of all, I owe him an apology because I told him this site was worthless since the first time I hunted there, I barely had any targets. His response was that I was impatient (I won't admit or deny it). Here are...

My son came down for the Easter holiday and we went out together on Saturday morning. He found the only silver, a mercury dime. On Sunday morning we parted ways and went to separate sites which worked out well for me as I'm sure if he was with me, this post would be his. This site was small but...

I just had to send in my Sun Ray Pro headphones for repair and found that I had a terrible time with my backup set of headphones (came with the E-trac). I couldn't get use to the sound and they kept falling off my head. Annoying enough if I was finding stuff but beyond description when you can...

I just found this today and it's pretty beat up. I think it's a civil war buckle but would appreciate it if someone could confirm it. I have to admit, I didn't think there were too many civil war artifacts in this neck of the woods (southern New Hampshire) Thanks

Despite the mild winter, open fields in this area have stayed frozen until recently so I have been doing most of my detecting in the woods where the ground cover has protected the soil. Two months into the year and I haven't found any silver or real keepers until Tuesday. After hours of roaming...

when I first detected this, I thought it was just another nickel. when I got home and noticed the five on the back, I thought I may have found a shielded nickel but upon further checking I'm beginning to think it may just be a foreign coin. can someone provide a positive id on this, please...

A nicer silver ring than the previous one. The stone is a really nice color which is not too obvious in the picture. Found this on an old baseball diamond located in the weirdest place. [attachimg=1] A beat up Rosie from a very old and very well hunted common. [attachimg=2] [attachimg=3] A...

Due to illness in the family I haven’t been doing a lot of detecting of late and really missed out on taking advantage of the mild New England winter weather. I did manage to get some short hunts in and all the sites were located either on the way or in the vicinity of the nursing home where we...

I only had time for a two hour hunt today so I spent the first 90 minutes trying to extend my mercury dime streak but didn't have any luck. I figured it was going to end soon as I think I've dug up pretty much every signal in the area although I will still try again with a new grid pattern. For...

Saturday: Because of my latest success with the mercury dimes, I thought that I would go back to the park where I found the seated liberty dime. It would be awesome to get a second one but unfortunately, no such luck. That park has given up only the one silver dime but as my son said, if you...

Metal detecting is strange. I only had time for a three hour hunt today and decided that I would hit that old park again as folks in my other post suggested (not that I needed much suggesting). I think I found almost as much in three hours and I did in the hunt that was over twice as long (minus...