My name is Nathan Beard, I live in central Illinois. I've been detecting about 3 years consistently. I bought a White's XLT back in 2000 when I went to Ft. Myers, Fl. Then I got home and let it sit for about 10 years. What got me back into detecting was, back in 2011, I tore my Achilles tendon and as part of my recovery I figured I had to walk slow, so why not swing my metal detector. Been hooked since. I've found about 100 silver coins since I got back into it, among other goodies. I've posted some photos of my finds. (I don't photograph everything). I now swing a Minelab CTX3030, my White's XLT, and rarely my Fisher 1225x (although it is a good detector). Glad to be aboard.
This is me digging civil war bullets. Look how far my arm is in the hole and I'm holding a pinpointer. Figure 15" deep (at least). range. I found a total of 58 in an area 10' x 20'. I found a few in the 3" to 12" depths to begin with, and still saw targets on my CTX3030 (no audio signals though at those deeper depths over 12") so I continued digging down. I figure it must have been a target area. All 58 had been fired. There were actually about 30 more in the same area that my hunting partners retrieved, after I showed them where they were located. I believe they were .69 caliber. Very large bullets. Former site of Camp Lyon in Peoria.
This is me digging civil war bullets. Look how far my arm is in the hole and I'm holding a pinpointer. Figure 15" deep (at least). range. I found a total of 58 in an area 10' x 20'. I found a few in the 3" to 12" depths to begin with, and still saw targets on my CTX3030 (no audio signals though at those deeper depths over 12") so I continued digging down. I figure it must have been a target area. All 58 had been fired. There were actually about 30 more in the same area that my hunting partners retrieved, after I showed them where they were located. I believe they were .69 caliber. Very large bullets. Former site of Camp Lyon in Peoria. 
