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Had a little time to hit the site I found the FE last night. Pulled another beat up dateless copper. Measured it at 12 inches, rang really solid. Looks like the same 1818-1836 range, also looks like there is a 9 in the date when you hold it at the correct angle. We have acidic soil here in...

For some reason, I had some black discrimination squares randomly show up in my loaded discrimination pattern while hunting last night. Turned on the machine this morning and there were a few more of them. About 10 or so total. I went in and edited them out (and that was kinda hard as well as...

Dug this treasure tonite, which is really too embarrassing to post. (If you use your imagination, you can see the outline of an eagle there), trust me :grin:. I'm certain it was an 1856 in a previous life lol. 2nd FE this year, and only 2 IH as well, so go figure. All I can hope for is that this...

Got out for a couple hours tonite to a new section of a site that has been good to me lately. Site was trashy and ferrous and not giving up good targets other than a stray clad until I got one that sounded weird and bouncy and silvery, with all the CO numbers bouncing in the 40-45 range and...

Had a nice drenching rain last night, and cooler temps this evening, so I took advantage of it. Pulled a copper only a detectorist could love (I think it is a matron head, 1816-1836, but mine came out dateless :bangahead01:). Also pulled a pair of mercs and a 5gr silver ring. The ring isn't...

Took advantage of some recent rain and cooler temps, and got out for a few hours this morning. Pulled a 35 buff, a pair of silver nickels, a pair of silver dimes, and a pair of silver rings. The first one, at about 1 gram, hardly counts, but the one with the stone is stamped 950 for some reason...

Was able to get out today -- first site was the location of an old baseball field that kept giving up pre '65 memorials :bangahead01: :bangahead01: for the better part of the morning, and with the weather 95 and frustrating I decided to move on to cooler pastures. 2nd site was an old homesite...

This was a little weird, merc at CO 43 at 5 inches on the E-Trac. Wasn't the best signal either. I think there was iron underneath it as the threshold nulled when rescanning. So, I guess that means ferrous objects in the area can mess with the signal to this degree? This should have been a...

Managed to get out today at lunch and got one silver. Sounded like clad quarter but was deep, so I had guarded high hopes and said show me the shine, and when I saw it I was expecting a silver Washington and couldn't believe it was an SLQ with a readable date to boot <: <: <: (a 1924, just made...

Managed to sneak out of a couple of hours this afternoon and pulled a couple of rosies, along with the usual clad. Both were deep, in the 9-10 inch range when accounting for 3-4 inches of unmowed grass :mad:.

Managed to get out at lunchtime to an old iron-infested site in the woods that has given up large coppers in the past. I've had 3 other machines in there in the past, and this was the first spin in there with the E-Trac. First target was a rough recovery, about 6-7 inches down thru several...

Used this site to research the mark on a silver ring I just found. Looks like they have alot of marks and the dates they were made. FWIW if you haven't seen. http://www.illusionjewels.com/costumejewelrymarksu.html

Haven't been able to get out much lately, but finally got some swing time. Took the E-Trac to a park that had given the V3 some trouble -- don't know if it was EMI, the extremely mineralized ground, or D2 issues, but the V3 never does well here for some reason. E-Trac only gave me sens of 13-17...

OK, so this has got me a bit confused. I usually hunt with the high FE numbers (27+) blacked out. If I'm swinging and get a promising but weakish signal (say 17-45 and the like), I figure it is either a good target, or iron falsing. So I go into quickmask (which is totally all metal in my...

Was lucky enough to get out this afternoon to a site that I feel should be giving up some silver, but never has. Finally got some today, tho -- first target of the day was the silver ring, and I managed to pull a decent looking merc about an hour later. Also scored some big clad -- my heart was...

Was able to get out this morning, and after 2 hours of digging deep nails and clad that sounded like silver :bangahead01: :bangahead01:, finally got the real thing just before I was about to bag it when the merc popped out. That gave me a second wind, and again just before I was gonna pack it...

Hit a old park tonite that had given up old silver in the past, but no such luck this time. Did manage to pull this old silver earring, tho. I'm guessing its old 'cause there's no hallmark, and it looks old. It actually looks really cool in the light 'cause it has these sparkling stones in it...

Went to scout out a site that I've been doing research on, but as I sort of expected it was too overgrown to hunt :mad:, so I had a few minutes, and hit a nearby school that goes back 100 years or so. There's old ballfields on the 30's and 50's aerials, but when I got there, it had all be...

The heat has just been oppressive, and the ground rock hard, but I couldn't take it anymore. not detecting, so I grabbed the E-Trac and got out tonight. Went to a park I'd been to a couple times before, but never found anything old, even tho the park is old -- the only reason I went there tonite...

Went back to the site I pulled large cent yesterday, and after about an hour of careful gridding, managed to pull one clad dime :bangahead01: I've got to get Angel in there to show me what I missed lol There's still one more section to do, but I got bored and went looking for greener pastures...