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I would like to sell my XP deus that I rarely use so I thought I would offer it up here on AD first. I have had it for almost 3 years now and have had success with it (in fact my first silver with it was the 1812 Capped Bust half dollar in a field in Ohio). It has the 11'' coil, the bigger WS5...

As usual I went to a nearby park to detect during my lunch today. Decided to wonder in the woods to avoid the drizzle that was falling. Found a clad nickel right away. About 20 minutes later I got a nickel tone deep and scratchy. In my pile I saw it and rubbed it up a bit and was thrilled to...

I took my 4 kids to a park to give my wife some alone time to do some writing last Saturday. Of course I brought the detectors and as the kids played I was digging up treasure. My first good find was a sterling silver military sharp shooter badge. I am guessing from the 1940s to the 1960s? I...

Here are a few pics of my finds from the last week or so. Been finding lots of Buffs lately during my lunch break at a near by park. I am at 21 buffs for the year which is a record for me. The first pic has a interesting locket type of thing that I thought was a marble at first but soon...

Here are my finds from the last couple weeks. Mostly old parks but I did do some doorknocking here and there. I went down to Ohio last weekend to do some deer hunting on my family's farm and also did some doorknocking and found these 4 silvers... Then last night I revisited the Sled...

Its been VERY dry and hot here...can't detect any private yards. But I still did well last week in the parks!

Last night I visited an old town and met up with a new guy to the hobby to do some door knocking. He is very interested in getting a deus so when ever we meet up I let him use mine so that he can get familiar with it before he gets one of his own. My day was already great because I found a...

This past Saturday I took the kids for most of the day to give my wife a break. We ran a few errands and had lunch at a park that I have done well at in the past. I decided to dig any deep targets that I came across. I found a 12-30 signal one way and a trashier signal the other way. Dug...

Last week I took the family up north for our summer vacation where last year I found a copper indian arrowhead. This year I found a couple more old relics. The first is a Copper trade bracelet. I was thinking it might be old because it was hand made and has some great patina on it so I talked...

Here are my finds from the last 3 weeks or so. It has been very dry here lately so I have been detecting parks and other public spots only. If I did any doorknocking then I would be giving the homeowner's yards Chicken Pox. What do you think of that fob thing? It is not a fob but what I...

About a month ago my family helped out a neighbor bail some hay. I grew up on a farm and NOW my family realizes why we do NOT farm anymore. Anyway I stopped by the farmers house and asked to detect it. I got the yes from him and as it turns out they also own 3 other 1800 homes down the road...

Here are a few pics of my finds over the past 3 weeks or so. Been pretty dry here until last night so I hope to get out more now that the conditions are ripe for digging again. Did manage a wide variety of relics from tokens to musket ball to buckle to a sterling flag pin. One of the Indians...

I had a unexpected chance to go detecting last night so I headed to the same town I have been successful in lately. Had no expectations and just tried to enjoy the evening. The ground is bone dry...all the rain is missing my area of SE Michigan. With the dry conditions I decided to hit a...

So my wife and 4 kids went to see some friends of ours in Cincinnati all week. With no responsibilities what was I going to do with my evenings this week? Go detecting...every night...Oh yeah!!! Sunday afternoon was the first day. I hit the spot where I got the 3 barber dimes a few weeks ago...

I did another evening hunt last night in an old town. First spot is now an empty lot owned by the city but there were 4 homes on it back in the early 1900s or maybe earlier...I did not even find a single coin. Tons of trash and frustration. So I headed to an old park and used the XP deus...

I did an evening hunt last night for about 5 hours at 4 different spots. It was not until the sun set that I found my first silver, 1944P war nik, and then 20 minutes later as I was walking back to the car I got a 1942 Washington. Thought for sure that I was going to go home with the...

Here are most of my good finds from the past month or so. Its been hard to get out with end of school stuff with my 4 kids but I think I did fairly well. The silver item most everyone thinks is a small decanter top of some sort. You can see other pics of it in the "What is it?" section...

Here are a few more pics. If it is a candle holder it is a very small one.

This past weekend I found this silver thing. I put a buffalo nickel by it for size reference. It is not marked but it is sterling. The lower part of it is very thin and it fit onto perhaps a base of some sort or onto a container. It does not have the threads for screwing so it must have just...

Here are a few pics of the last couple weeks of finds. I found a fair amount of silver coins so that always makes me happy. There is a crusty old 1893 Indian and a Buff from the 1920s. I did find a bucket lister...I came across a wheatie spill and noticed that a couple of them were from...