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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...

I'm in San Antonio this week and was pleasantly surprised with the view from my hotel room. You can only imagine what cool finds might be in the ground there. Of course The Alamo is a shrine and I wouldn't dream of detecting there but you can't help but wonder about the story some of those...

I found one of those "T" shaped things yesterday and one about a month ago at different sites. Both sites late colonial to late 1800's. Certainly more modern trash can be found at both sites. They almost look like electrical connections of some sort. I'm guessing the ornate flattened brass...

Got out early to beat the heat for a few hours of detecting at a stock pen area I've hit many times before. All the easy targets are long gone but you can always squeak out something if you work at it. Ferns were thick in some spots. But there were enough good targets to keep me busy. managed...

Many of us have found holed coins at colonial era and pre civil war sites. I’m sure some of these holed coins were worn as jewelry around the neck or wrist. But many of the coins have holes in them would lead you to think they might have another purpose besides jewelry. Why drill a hole in a...

I thought I hated deer ticks with a passion but after last week I think I hate chiggers even more. :badday:I was in central Texas last week for work and got my legs chewed up bad by chiggers. I guess they don’t really bite, but latch onto you with their mouths and inject fluids that dissolve...

I was going to say "Surprise Spanish Silver" but I shouldn't be surprised anymore with my new Deus. It continues to impress me as a good all around detector. I only had a couple of hours this morning so I made the two minute drive and hit the pounded cellar hole again just 5 minutes from my...

Decided to hit a late 1800s site that I had poked around at before. I would pass this site on my hike in to a colonial site. Found a few things there in the past but never really spent too much time at it. I had a fun few hours digging a bunch of non-ferrous targets. Horse tack buckles were...

Squeezed in a hunt Sunday morning at a nearby barn hole. This site is mid to late 1800's and loaded with iron. But I was able to sniff out a few relics. The salt shaker cap was right next to that big iron thingy. Pulled a couple of small tack buckles from inside the foundation. Managed a oil...

I only had a few hours this morning so I hit the pounded cellar hole 5 minutes from my house to see if I could sniff something out of the iron. The cellar hole is mid 1800s and has lots of iron trash. I was pretty surprised I was able to find 5 coins and other nonferrous targets. The Large...

Hit a nearby cellar hole today and managed to rescue an 1847 Braided Hair from the iron belt surrounding the hole. The LC was very shallow... 2 to 3 inches tops. I didn't get much of a signal but it was definitely a diggable tone. It sounded small and deep...certainly not what you would expect...

For the past 6 years or so I’ve used one of those short $10 pony shovels and one of those $8 Ames True Temper diggers. I liked the shovel because it would fit in my back pack along with my detector and gear. I would hang a pair of binoculars around my neck and hike to my detecting spots. If I...

This might be no big deal to you park hunters but I just don't find Liberty nickels. I bet it's been 5 years since I last dug one and this is by far the nicest. I found a sunny hillside near a not to old cellar hole that had some bare patches of ground. I managed the V nickel a couple of buttons...

We finally had a good snow melt this week. Still a lot on the ground in the open areas but I thought I could find some areas to swing the coil at a cellar hole site that is sheltered by some pines less than a mile from my house. This site has been pounded to death but I didn't care. It had been...