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Tuesday, the wife and I decided to spend some quality time together...me detecting the beach while she read a book. Now that's quality time together :hystericallaugh:But hats off to her for enduring my all day hunt. Pick the same beach Mike H took me to last week even though it was sanded in and...

Had a better Pequot hunt today, as we started to redo some areas near the village site that we did a couple of years ago. No bug bites today either :lol: Ended up with 10 small round ball and 2 identical small buttons and some other nice lead pieces, on that may be a form of decoration. Mike H...

Things have been hectic for me lately, so small hunts are the only thing I have time for. The Pequot hunts have been minimal and pretty quiet lately. Only a musket ball or two every so often. So I received an invite to do some coin shooting with Bob E. and Mike C. at one of Bob's fields. It has...

Had the day off today and decided to try out a new 10x5 DD coil for the GPX. Our sponsor John from JMT Metal detectors was excellent in getting that coil out to me fast :clapping: Thanks John. So I decided to try it out at a cellar hole that I got my nicest GW out of. That was the goal - to get...

It think it did :lol: Went out detecting to the button hole I have been talking about lately, to see if the GPX could find some of the deeper buttons there. At best I've found buttons at the 6" mark, 7" if they were larger ones. So off I went today early in the morning. Detected about 7 or 8...

:lol: Yep, them Pequot hunts are getting dangerous ;) Got stung again by a yellow jacket. Sting number 4 for the year. :clapping: They kind of feel good after a while....free acupuncture. I think this is the 6th or 7th ground nest we have found. I felt safe in this field since we have covered it...

Yep, got hit by yellow jackets again this summer:pirate: Only twice though. My friend Mike got hit 10 (or more) times today. I bet he feels good right about now :lol: but we did have a good day at the Pequot hunt. He got 3 or 4 musket balls with a huge 63ish caliber dropped ball. It not only had...

Well, the Pequot hunts have slowed down both in number of days out there, and quantity of good finds. I did a Thursday and Friday hunt at the location where the conical points came from 2 seasons ago. Total finds for the two days - good vs bad? 30 shot gun shells, 102 bullet casings, 85 22cal...

I had a pretty good day at the Pequot hunt today. I was worried that these fields would stop producing, since we have been over them a bunch of times. But because of how the land is situated, it is very difficult to go over every square inch of the place. So I decided to go after areas that were...

Wasn't doing the Pequot hunts today due to scheduling conflicts, so I decided to hit the local holes that have been good to me lately and have produced silver with the CTX and the GPX. I wanted to beat the rain so I started early. Now, I know I can't keep the GPX :crying02: But until I have to...

I wish I could say the GPX pulled this coin from iron, but in reality I was lucky to get it at all :lol: I worked another cellar hole that was near by and decided to dig iron close to the hole. And that is exactly what I got...a lot of iron with only 3 non ferrous targets... 2, 22cal casings and...

Spent about 8 hours in that fun stuff they call humidity :lol: But I had lots of water and Gatorade. I finished off the spot that I started the other day. I was not too optimistic, since this part of the retreat path is not very big, and a lot of musket balls have already come from it. There...

I had a couple hours free time today and have been wanting to get back to the site that I pulled the 1809 Capped Bust dime from. It is only a couple miles from my house, so today I wanted to try and learn the machine a bit better around a cellar hole. I was primarily trying to see if there was...

Got out again yesterday to see if the musket ball streak would continue. The machine did not disappoint me. Matter of fact, it surprised me in how well it could find targets right next to or even partially beneath the mineralize field stone that litters the area. I started out be hitting an area...

It was definitely hot and muggy at today's Pequot hunt. I beefed up the settings on the GPX a bit and it showed. Found some really tiny brass scraps in the area that a point was found previously, along with other brass pieces. This may have been a spot where some production of points took place...

Had a couple of days doing the Pequot hunts and did pretty well. That GPX 5000 is a vacuum cleaner for targets :lol: I'm using an elliptical mono coil, so no accurate discrimination. Ended up with a large amount of hits (close to 100) but only took pictures of these. Meant to get a picture of...

Had some good days at The Pequot hunts this week Doing a Village site (hamlet). Found a lot of things I did not take pictures of but did get some shots of some of the finds. My pictures lately have been of the "Rob quality" so bear with me :lol: Got a nice .63 cal ball, a 36ish cal, and a 45is...

Well it poured in Mystic today, just like it does every Thursday that I go down there.:dontknow: Started at 8AM and by the time 2PM rolled around I was completely soaked, even the insides of my boots :lol: Tried my video set up but almost every target was a 22 slug. Did manage 3 keepers today-...

I only had a little while to hunt this weekend, so I stayed close to home to make the most of it. I just bought the 17" coil for the CTX and it has been good to me when I used it on the Pequot hunts. This is my first try with it at a couple of cellar holes close to home that have been pretty...

I found a couple of these odd shells when Del, kray and OxShoeDrew had our hunt. Never seen this kind of shell before. Used some calipers on the inside of the shell and it mics out to 40 caliber. The base of the shell is what is interesting on how it is made, with a bulged out center and what...