Search results

Early yet, but it looks like it might be a winner. Calabash who admittedly is just learning the machine, has a video of him using the Manticore at an iron and trash polluted site. It looked pretty impressive pulling some nonferrous targets out of all the junk. That "2D" screen is pretty...

After playing with Park mode for a while (and even Beach Sensitive), I went back to Deep HC on Sunday's hunt. Not nearly as cool as Drew's coin purse find, but I had a very similar scenario. I got a hit that screamed iron but also a decent peep of an 88 to 99 tone ( I was using 5 tones). The XY...

Hey Drew, I was in Waterbury today on business and took the scenic route home to avoid the Rt 95 evening traffic mess and drove through your home town. It reminded me I wanted to pick your brain about Deep HC. I have used it and it has lived up to it's name. BUT as as I have griped about before...

Another of my sites that has not given up a copper in years gave up an Matron today along with a watch winder. I'm still experimenting with variatons of the Park program and it does seem to have some good unmasking abilities. I ran the Silencer at 3 to deal with the small iron and cranked the...

A few weeks back I uses Park and it sniffed out a few buttons at a worn out site and that got my attention. I wasn't sure if it was just the frequency range or something else. I hit another site today to see if Park could unmask anything in the iron and was really surprised when I pulled out a...

I had never detected with the Park prgram because it uses a lot more filters than I am used to hunting with. I thoughtmaybe it's useful in modern trashy sites but not likely good at colonial ironsites. But I saw a post recently where some guy says he really likes it at hisiron-laden colonial...

I think we got a real winner with this machine. I took it to my most pounded colonial site. It's a small little site and I've been lucky to pull a cuff button from the iron every now and then at this site over the last couple of years. The D2 managed to sniff out 6 additional buttons and a knee...

Snagged a few items last week. A TINY pewter spoon handle, two piece button with a drilled shank, and some old timey cufflinks. Back side of this whatsit leads me to believe it was a harness decoration of some sort ??? Jeff

I hit a cellar hole site that must have been a camping spot back in the 1970s. I've avoided detecting in that area of the site just because I don't like dealing with modern trash if I don't have to. You guys that hunt yards and parks have all my respect. Anyway, I sucked it up and ventured into...

I have no idea what it is but the XP video says it is coming! Time to crank up the rumor mill!

Haven't gotten out much but here are finds from last few hunts. Eyeballed a nice gun flint and little medicine bottle while digging holes. The copper on the right is a toasted William III. Pretty sure it is a 1699. Any guesses on what the black object on the left is would be appreciated. It...

Found this site about 12 years ago with a couple of buddies. I am estimating at least 150 buttons have come from this site but only 2 coppers! A KGII and an early DB. This cellar hole was in between 2 other sites that produced a good number of early coppers. So we hit it hard with Whites and...

Finally got out for a hunt Sunday. I am feeling it today. I hiked to a cellar hole and was hoping to find the last piece of a fancy broken shoe buckle that I have been finding pieces of over the years right near the lip. Found a rusted iron shoe buckle instead along with a rusted blade, fork and...

Seems like a year but it's been a month since I have gotten out to swing the coil. But we got rain here in southeast MA yesterday and most of the snow is gone and none predicted for a week. I'll be heading out Sunday. My detecting muscles have atrophied and I am sure I will feel it but I need to...

I initially thought I had a GW chicken hawk! But reality set in pretty quickly. It's just a funerary urn. This site has given up nothing later than KGIIs, so I am pretty sure it was abandoned well before Washington's death. But still, I am happy with the find. :) Jeff

Last couple of hunts: That ancient pocket knife has a wooden handle. Whizzer has 4 holes like a button.....maybe it is a button ?? Nice little cloak clasp and one loop. Came across the remains of a big buck. No doubt shot but not recovered. Coyotes left just skin and gristle. Big 8 pointer...

Got out to one of my old colonial sites Sunday morning to do a little detecting. The only excitement for the hunt was an earthquake. I heard this loud low rumbling noise and thought it was a squadron of jet fighters from the base on Cape Cod coming towards me. After no jets appeared I thought...

I picked up the XP backpack to replace my 30 year old Kelty pack. I have to agree with the reviews I've read about it. It is a very well made and well designed pack. It's got some nice features and plenty of room and compartments for all my gear. And I carry a lot of gear when out in the woods...

Nice to get out in the woods and do some detecting over the last couple of weekends. We had out first snow Friday. But it melted away on Saturday. Even though the skies were crystal blue, I got wet from the snow melting from the tree tops. It sounded like rain falling. Found a handful of...

It was too nice not to get for a while on Sunday morning. Hiked out to one of my favorite spots to swing the coil for a couple of hours. It's been at least a couple of years since this site gave up any coppers or even buttons so I was surprised when I actually got a nonferrous signal. It was the...