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yest Tony it looks similar to a trigger guard to a Pennsylvania or Kentucky long rifle , broken of course congrats !

mine is the XY screen , a lot of iron (especially the deep chunky ones) can sound great but the most often splay or fragment on the xy screen but i'm biased because i like digging deep big iron

Its doesn't seem that long ago .... I wish we still had everyone who started out on this forum as many now have moved on but some have remained and I'm thankful for that and the "new" ones who have recently found their way here . I hope you never change or grow up Dave and remember .....

and I appreciate the picture :thumbsup01:

Finding an unhit or very lightly hit cellar hole sites is very challenging but I've been fortunate to find a few . One such site was hit by us on a few occasions , usually on the way home from other opportunities that were further away that we felt had more goodies . The site in question seemed...

You gentlemen know you can donate those finds right here

Which one ?

now you've done it ! The "longhorn beetle" was really a disguised micro surveillance drone , expect the black SUV'S and guys in suits to show up soon !:lol:

Heel plates have been around since colonial times although most of the brass types we seen recovered are from the Victorian era "Toe taps " were placed on the tips and above the heel to keep the leather from being scuffed and worn through and were also used from the 17th to 19th centuries . many...

That is awesome

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wish they didn't sound so good in the ground !

Last Saturday's hunt was an invite up into Massachusetts , I was lucky enough to find a 1785 Nova Constellatio and I'll see if anyone here knows what the other items are for extra credit ;). Dan

Earlier this month I had an opportunity to head down to South Carolina (Orangeburg area) with some friends for a long weekend of "treasure hunting" ;) . We attended the "Relicon" hunt that was organized by Axel Macon and Clyde "Kandi Chilson" on a 1000 acre piece of property with supposedly a...

To appease the detecting gods , you must rebury the GW button ......

I finally got out this past weekend with Ron Yingling and we were lucky the area we went only had about an inch at most of snow on the ground . we hiked a good ways over half frozen streams and through mountain laurel thickets to reach a remote area with a old cellar and barn . these two areas...

Happy New Year !!!! to everyone here on American Detectorist !

I recently sold off a couple of detectors , the DFX went to a nice gentleman in Colorado and the Deus was sold to a real good guy (Mark) that i've detected with more than a few times . This left me without a decent cellar hole hunting detector but a good friend Dave (HEAVYMETALNUT) was gracious...