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  • A Crazy Signal

    A Crazy Signal

    I had the opportunity to revisit a colonial house that was built in 1704(ish), I've hunted a few times. I was on site for about 5 hours and worked in an area measuring 100X100. This property is 47 ac…

  • Jump For Joy

    Jump For Joy

    I was coin hunting Wednesday 4/6/2011 with my X-TERRA 705 and I had found 7 pennies, a nickel and a dime and moved around to another section of the lot I was hunting when I got a tid of 38 and 40. I…

  • A Signal Most Would Have Passed Up

    A Signal Most Would Have Passed Up

    I got permission to detect a 1947 home of a friend of my parents. I went slow and basically dug everything that sounded good and some things that were questionable. Close to the road, I got a signal…

  • 99 Gram Nugget

    99 Gram Nugget

    I have been detecting with Minelab for the last 2 years and have been very lucky. Today I found a 99 gram nugget and then another 21 grams through the rest of the day. I am very blessed to be using M…

  • New Silver

    New Silver

    Back in June I brought the X-TERRA 705 home, read the manual and was off and running. I was hunting the biggest of four parks in my hometown. I found 6 wheat pennies 2 to 6 down that first week. I wa…

  • Reworking Old Ground

    Reworking Old Ground

    When I received my new GPX 5000 in the mail the first thing I did was race out to the closest location I have found nuggets before. After about an hour of experimentation with buried test pieces I st…

  • E-TRAC Leads to a Find of a Lifetime

    E-TRAC Leads to a Find of a Lifetime

    I was hunting with my MD partner at a local park with my E-TRAC. We hunt specifically for gold and silver jewelry. I was finding a few coins and only found out at the end of the day when I looked at…

  • A Happy Searcher with My E-TRAC

    A Happy Searcher with My E-TRAC

    Last weekend, I went with a friend to search for a couple of hours. Nice weather, and the farmers are starting with getting the grain off the fields. So we get more chances to go searching again. Fir…

  • My First Large Cent

    My First Large Cent

    This past weekend some friends from our metal detecting group “SPHRG” Southeastern Pennsylvania Historical Recovery Group which I founded four years ago met in Concord Township, PA. We di…