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Hiked out to a site over the weekend that I hadn't been to in a while. I had the big coil with me as the plan was to look for deep goodies. Was bummed to see someone had felled most of the trees at the site and it was tough to swing the big coil. Managed a smooth KG, a home made serrated knife...

Admins, for the last couple of days, it takes me forever to open up the AD site. My Sophos antivirus software keeps giving me the message below. You may want to check the site for malware. Thanks, Jeff 20180405 210241 Blocked web request to "allfontshere.press/fonts/courier3.js" (linked from...

You have to hand to AKS. They weren't going to sit back and let the Equinox corner the market. They just rolled out the "Perfessional" model. Take that Minelab !

I needed a good hike badly so I got out early Saturday early and took the long way in to an old site. When I got back to my car my GPS software said I had hiked 6 miles but it felt like 60 miles. :shocked01: I managed a tombac and a nice dandy from the lip of the cellar hole and was poking...

I needed a good hike so I headed to one of my favorite remote sites. Managed a shoe buckle from a rock pile. Chape and tongue were with it too. Tongue was brass but the chape was iron. Sniffed out a few buttons and some lead too. Best find of the day : My hat! Lost it about 4 months...

My sweetheart of a wife got me this book as a birthday present. Tons of great info on all aspects of relic hunting. Beautiful pics too. If you followed Bill Dancy at all on one of the other forums, then you know the incredible items he has detected or excavated in the Virginia Tidewater area. It...

I thought it was a fancy saddle rosette until I recently cleaned it up a bit. As I brushed away layers of crud, the outline of a sailing ship came into view. Further cleaning of the ribbon below the ship revealed it was the Niagara! This was a famous ship in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of...

I decided to part with my DFX. I was keeping it as a back up to my Deus, but now that I have a second Deus coil, I really don't need to hang on to my DFX as a spare machine. The DFX is well used but works fine. I did have it tuned up at Whites a some years back and they replaced the whole screen...

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Hit a site I hadn't been to in a while. When I got home I remembered why I hadn't been there in a while. My feet were killing me! Probably the remotest site I go to. Not much of a yard at this cellar hole. This was the good part of the yard! I was happy to find a decent looking 200 year old...

Rescued a couple more coppers this morning. The 11" coil I picked up for the Deus is earning its keep. The first target of the day was the KG II halfpenny. Classic "on-edge" coin. Wish I would have taken a picture of it in the hole. It wasn't particularly deep at 6 inches but because it was on...

I'm still working a few old sites that will soon be lost to developers. They are only about 100 feet away to this site. I managed a CT copper right near the entry to the site. Maybe I was too lazy to dig this signal in the past 10 times I've been there but two pieces of iron came out of the hole...

Not too stressed out about it though because it only cost me $8.99 at Harbor Freight to replace it. I bought the first one about 3 years ago. I figured I would snap the blade soon but it took a lot more abuse than I thought it could handle. The blade is still fine, but I left it somewhere in the...

Hit another one of my old sites destined to be developed. It used to be a 10 minute hike, now it's an hour hike because I have to come in from a long way off due to new houses being built where I used to park. I knew what this coin was as soon as I saw the Tudor rose on the reverse. 1722 Rosa...

Picked up a hardly used 11” coil for my Deus for a great price. Decided to give it a shot at one of my cellar hole sites that will soon be developed with houses. I was focusing on deep targets and dug a good bit of deep iron. But I did manage a couple of unusual finds. The first was this small...

Hit another of my “endangered” sites Sunday morning. Managed to salvage the brass spike, CT copper, matching cuff buttons, parasol piece and those round brass things from a 2’ by 3’ foot area just on the inside of the threshold of the cellar hole. I’ve detected that spot a couple of dozen times...

Went back again to one of my old sites that is going to get developed soon. It's kind of a sprawling site so I poked around in some of the remoter corners that I had pounded so much over the years. Dug a couple of deep brass thingies. I think the one with the "claws" is a harness decoration. I...

Well maybe not quite the Arkenstone, but I did feel like Bilbo Baggins for a second when I saw this in my sifter screen. I'm guessing it is cut glass or crystal and I am guessing it was a necklace jewel ?? Also sifted the thimble. Found the rest with the detector. Found the bone-handled...

Decided to give it a try. Wasn't that hard to build a shaker box. I had the scrap lumber, just needed to buy the 1/2 inch mesh hardware cloth. The arms and legs fit in my pack but I built the box just a tad too wide :blush: so I had to lug that by hand about a mile or so through the woods to the...

Hiked out to one of my favorite sites early Sunday morning. Weather was great. Pickings are slim at this site but I managed to sniff out a few goodies from the iron. I think a colonial atomic scientist wore this button ;) Also sniffed out what I think is a 1805 Draped Bust largie. But I...