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Had a great hunt today with Dan and the boys. It was a pleasure to meet and hang with Trooper Bri, Mango and Aloldstuff. It was really misty in the morning. There were times when you couldn't see anyone else. I had a blast digging buttons and buckles all day. Also found a nice rein guide...

Visited a couple of my old sites to get in a good hike. Had to stop the car to let some turkeys pass. A half mile down the trail I rounded a bend in the trail and saw a nice fisher coming my way. He saw me, turned around and loped off. Good size male. Beautiful animal. I tried a lip squeak...

Found this link on another forum. Check it out. Lot's of cool info. http://www.newmanportal.org/

I found a USA button about 3 years ago and frankly I was just too afraid to try and clean it. The last thing I wanted to do was destroy probably one of the coolest relics that I would ever find. But I practiced on some other buttons and decided to give it a go. First two pics are the original...

Hit a local late 1800s early 1900s spot this morning for a few hours. Dug a nice looking brooch. Not sure what the style is but the wife liked it and said she would wear it if she was born a 100 years earlier :) Also managed a Barber dime, a corroded Indian Head Penny that is the same size as...

I was poking around the edges one of my well pounded colonial sites and dug a button. Couldn't tell what it was out in the field but when I got home and started to clean it I started to get excited as a couple of numbers emerged. Best as I can tell it is a button from the French 74th Regiment...

Saw this on a UK forum.

This morning I was going to hit the field where I found that nice pistareen a couple of weeks ago but decided I really needed to get in a good hike. Just too much holiday cheer this year. So I decided to hike out to a remote site that I've pounded in the past. The hike was the goal, anything I...

I found this a few years back at a site that has given up some colonial coins including English, German and Portuguese coins. Its the size of an English halfpenny but very thin. I don't see any evidence of a shank, so I don't think it is a button. I see what appears to be a "O" and an ""N"...

I've been driving by an overgrown field every time I go check on my parents. Noticed it had been cut last week and thought I would give it a try this morning. Spent the first hour just digging a few bits of miscellaneous junk before I put my coil over this nice 1721 two Reales. Not...

Another insane weekend but managed to go to the cellar hole down the street from me for a couple hours Sunday morning just to get out for a while. My plan was to experiment with some settings to see if I could sniff any more deep goodies from the iron belt right around the cellar hole. Dug a lot...

I hadn't been able to get out in a while so I was happy to join Drew for a quick morning hunt. Last time we had been out we passed a hunk of woods that had potential. Drew did some tenacious research and found evidence that there was indeed an old home site back in there. He had us on the...

I got out Sunday morning for a few hours. Temps in low 30's but it felt nice hiking to the site. Deer ticks seemed to enjoy the chilly weather too :ticked: Hit a familiar site and managed a few finds. Very toasted Draped Bust LC. Finds included a smashed small crotal bell, some hardware...

Lost my faithful old black lab Sam a few months ago. The plan was to wait until spring then adopt a dog from the shelter. Of course we ended up doing just the opposite and got this little guy last week. Charlie the Golden Doodle is now running our lives. 8 weeks old and already too smart for...

Almost a repeat of last week. Scouted out a new site that didn't pan out then I hiked over to some stock pens that gave up a few goodies. I think the lense on my cell phone cam was dirty. These stock pens had given up a nice finds in the past. Managed a mouth harp, a few buttons, some sort...

Got a good hike in this morning before it warmed up. Checked out a spot I've wanted to get to for a few years. The spot didn't pan out like I had hoped though. So on the way back I detoured to a site in the woods that contained a few overgrown stock pens where I had dug a few stray coppers in...

Still too hot for me but I hadn't been out in a while so I gave it a go for a few hours this morning. Found a much closer way to access one of my sites from a few years back. Found a few goodies including a plated patriotic fob, fancy drawer pull, nice gilt cone shaped button (forgot to...

Been using a Deus about 7 months now. It's a VERY different machine than my DFX. The Deus has forced me to think about settings and adjustments in a different way also. With that in mind, I might try and tune my DFX much differently than the way I used to run it. Below are the settings I might...

I needed a hike so I headed out to an old cellar hole site that I hit a bunch of times a few years back. It really is just a hole in the ground with no stone foundation. It had given up a killer DB and a dateless Liberty Cap LC and a couple other coppers in the past. I spent a few hours...