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    NEW X-5 COIL

    On Friday afternoon I received my new X-5 coil from our sponsor NEW ENGLAND DETECTORS. He gave me a great deal and even threw in something a little extra for me thumbsup01 I received it 1 day after ordering it. I had a spot in mind that I had wanted to try it out. It's heavy in surface trash...
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    Last Night and a few other hunts

    I haven't been posting because....welll :blush:...as much of a hard time I give Al about being old and not getting technology....I don't get it either :embarrassed:...I got a new phone, because I threw my last onbe out on a MCDonalds tay, and after digging through the trash an hour later...it...
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    Crakeling Sound

    Last night I was detecting with Al. It sounded like my detector (E-trac) was cutting in and out, and when it was in, there was a crackeling sound. I unplugged the earphones, and it was working fine, which led me to believe it was the ear phones. I used the inner part of my shirt to wipe off the...
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    Tweaking

    I was detecting over the weekend at a park with Al. I made a surface find of a silver hoop earing, but it did not sound off on my machine...whick irked me...so I switched to all metal, figured the coordinating fe/co numbers. I then thought to myself, if I'm missing this, what else am I missing...
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    Late post from 4th of July

    Al and I have been in a bit of a dry spell....as you may have noticed from my lack of posts....for weeks. I've also been extremely busy having to work, so I have not had the time to get out, plus my car has been in the shop for almost a month now...and now I'm sounding like a country song...
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    EARLY Tuesday morning hunt

    On Monday I noticed that a large parking lot was being excavated in the center of town. I wasn't able to get out and detect after work. So Al and I arranged to meet up before work on Tuesday at 4:30am to detect the lot before anyone else got to it. Pic of us detecting by the headlights of the...
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    Tuesday Rainy Hunt

    It was a @#%^& day yesterday, both weather and work wise...I needed to get out and detect and I didn't care that it was raining >:\ So after picking up another rental car because my car has gone into the shop for the second time in a week...I headed to a park about a block away. It was crowed...
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    Scored an 1916 D Merc......kinda

    For the past year and a half, I have been putting all of my found clad into one savings account that I started. After all it's found money lol. My goal was to buy a 1916D merc to somewhat complete my set (still need the 41/42 overdates :yes:). So last week I bought a 1916D in G4 condition...
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    Quick Memorial Day hunt with Al more BIG SILVER..and BIG TROUBLE

    So after ticking my wife off my detecting on Friday night, when I said I wasn't. Then spending all day Sat gone on the group hunt...Then I told her that I was all her's on Sunday and Monday :grin:. Al's house is right on the parade route. He had invited us over to watch the parade there and have...
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    Quick Friday Hunt (posting a few days late)

    Haven't had time to post really. Friday, I snuck out of work a few hours early. Had to be home before the wife at 5:30! I told her if I could go out all day on Saturday for the group hunt, that I would not hunt all weekend long. I hit the hills. Managed to squeeze out my first barber dime of the...
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    quick reference

    Is there anyway to tag a topic? For example, someone starts a topic, you ask them a question, they answer....but it's so far down on the list and you forget about it, or you can't remember which topic it was in to go back and look for the answer, so you have to go through a ton of them trying...
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    Sunday Hunt with Al and Tim and a BIG First for me.

    I'm sure you've read Al and Tim's posts already, I don't have a computer at home, that way I do not work when there. So I could not post until this morning. While my find is not as great as Angel's :angelic: coin spill :shocked04:. It was still an amazing find in my book. So here's the story...
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    Withdrawal

    The board seems to be a bit less active lately....If it would stop constatly raining maybe we could get out and hunt and find things to post >:\ >:/ I'm starting to go through detecting withdrawal. My arm starts uncontrolably swinging back and forth and my thumb ticks up, like it's hitting the...
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    Translation Question

    I found this pin out in the woods with Al. I'm wondering if anyone can translate it or know what it was for? I'm assuming it's Russian or some other Eastern European language.
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    Ongoing E-Trac problems....

    Last night I changed out battery packs. I had just charged a spare, when I slid it into the detector, which was not on, it made a deep decending tone, and the screen lit up with VOLTAGE OVERLOAD I didn't think much of it, then I started detecting, then it would do it again and shut off! I'd turn...
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    Odd and End hunt

    It was a beutiful day on Monday, my schedule got cleared of meeting with clients...instead of sitting in the office doing paperwork, thought I'd skip out and go island hopping (medians in the road), this has paid off in the past. Well after a few hours and a lot of clad, and one religious medal...
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    You never know what you're going to find!

    I was just speaking with a Realtor I do a lot of work with. She has a son who is a beginner detectorist, he's I think around 19/20. He was detecting around on old bridge and found a human vertebrae. He actually picked it up and brought it to the police station. They told him, that their was a...
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    Sunday Hunt with Mass Dirtfisher and AlOldstuff

    Sunday Al, Tim and I got together for some good ol' dirtfishing. We hit one area that Al had scoped out. We all went to different area. Everywhere we looked, we saw pluggs..some one got there before us....Angel?...so we decided to go somewhere else. We went to another park. Not 5 min in, I got a...
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    Wed and Thurs Hunts

    Been raining a lot, but trying to get out when I can. Al and I's schedules have not lined up this week and we've been hunting seperatly. On Wednesday I had to get some documents to someone in the next town over, but traffic was bruttal, between road construction and a semi getting stuck under...
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    Has anyone experienced this?

    I have been experiencing this more and more lately and was wondering if anyone else has or knows what the issue may be? After pinpointing andswitching back into discrimination mode, a part of the display for the pinpoint still stayes on the screen. It still detects normally in discrimination...

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