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  1. I had a guy come up to me in a park about a month ago with an attitude telling me that i had better be filling in mine. I about did the same, but i am not trying to relive my teens and 20s...lol. But it was irritating when I aways fill in mine and someone comes up with an attitude trying to, indirectly, say that I am not. But, I put on my statesman style face and assured him that I was. He then went on to tell me how he knew someone who had gotten hurt tripping on somebody's dig. At that point I could admire the irritation that we both had. I don't want to be accused, and others don't want tore up land and tripping hazards. If we don't police ourselves, somebody else will for us. And also, it helps not to have a hot temper either. That is a shortcoming of mine that I work on continually. While it might be nice to imagine kicking someone's ass, please don't do it. Even if they really, really, really deserve it. And yes....i knoooooow it can be hard.
  2. You know, I considered getting an MX sport. But I knew of the MXTs reputation, and had been wanting one for a while. So, I got the MXT A/P. I got it a day or two before Steve made his review public. Now I am still a noob, but that kind of news would have made me use words that I really shouldn't put here had I gotten the MX sport. Ok, enough bashing Whites. Now to be nice. I absolutely love my MXT! Whites..... you still my bro A day will come where the MXT will be a memory and won't hold a candle to what is out on the market at that time, but that is not today. Heck, the thing looks like its stuck somewhere between the 70s and the 90s with dials and switches mixes with lcd displays and push buttons. Although, that is one of the reasons i like it. I am certain that the MXS will be a proven winner though. It will have its strengths and weaknesses as well. As does any equipment. More people using them will flesh out what it will do just like it's older brother, the MXT. Maybe we will get something like a "MXT All Pro Sport MX". A machine with all the good things from both...and waterproof. One that would be able to use existing accessory coils from both. Maybe it might talk to your phone through an app to log your hunts and targets found. That could be neat I would think (now someone will tell me of a machine that does that). The options are almost limitless there. -Tom
  3. Nice....I think I'll be doing some of that when I get home from the slope.
  4. @GB_Amateur I know that you are probably meaning more towards silver coins. But, this is what I have dug over the past week....starting Monday. Found my first ring today too. It is a kids ring from a gumball machine, but it is still a ring.....you can see it at the bottom of the pic. I would say that is the take for about....mmmm....maybe 12 hrs of hitting a few of the local parks where I live.
  5. Geeeze....darn the luck. Get all excited and..... But with it being a "real" fake, and not a modern one, I'll bet that it a pretty neat piece. Its a good thing that the Romans didn't have pulltabs.
  6. Have you considered a short bed regular cab truck? You may not have the luxury of storage, or seating, in the cab. But you do get a short wheel base, 4 wheel drive, and the option of a V8. They are getting harder to come by anymore due to the popularity of trucks with 4 doors now. But, it could be an option. I have a 2010 dodge with the hemi. And at a rated 390 hp with something like 400 ft lbs of torque, power is not lacking. The thing drives like a 4 wheel drive muscle car. If you keep your foot light on the gas pedal, 20 mpg is not hard to get on the highway, with no load of course. But, only seating for 3 people. Some say thats a bad thing, I kinda like it. And if you throw a bed cover on them, all your stuff stays dry riding in the back. I put one of them on mine with a bed rug liner, and stuff rides well without getting scratched up or sliding around.
  7. That has got to be pretty cool to find a target that somebody lost possibly over a 1000 years ago.
  8. Ya know....I was kinda curious about that. The 10" DD does seem to pinpoint "oddly" compared to what I was used to with my Garrett with the 6X9. But I am getting used to it. I did pick up a 4X6 for the Mxt though. Kind of a cool little coil to play with. Just doesn't cover a lot of ground. But it is pretty nice to use around trees and such.
  9. Hey, all kids know that the best thing about getting a new toy isn't the toy inside, but the box that it comes in. Just ask my daughter....she'll tell ya so.
  10. If only pulltabs were worth something. Nice dime though.
  11. Yeah, I see them commonly too when I am at work on the northslope. Some of them are actually extremely "portable ". It like watching a house driving down the road with some of the small ones. Anyways, to get back to the topic. I have a minelab digging tool that is similar to a lesche, a plastic trowel when needed, and a little folding Gerber hand shovel for when i am in a "sandbox" , like in a tot lot, or in an area that I can dig without doing any damage. I have been working on learning how to use a screwdriver to pop coins though. Or, in my case, pull tabs.
  12. I like the ones where they go to dig a target and something really good, and unexpected, pops out. There is one on YouTube that a guy goes to dig a nonferrous target and a gold bar pops out. He is in total disbelief at the time and doesn't believe that it is gold. His buddy keeps telling him "no its not brass, you found gold." I think his day was shot after that...in a good way though.
  13. I like that idea. It might help out some noobs like me. The penny that I just posted a pic of came up as just that, a penny. And the tree that it was under just look like a good place for stuff to get dropped under. I found a few other pennies, a quater, and some bottle caps as well. In fact, the bottle caps that I found were right next to that 59 penny.
  14. Lol Yeah, at that particular park (spenard beach park that is) it seems to have a hardpan layer about 6 to 8 inches down under the topsoil. Even though i found a few junk items in it (right on the top of it), I would think that anything of value would be on top of it. But, I can't say that with certainty. I am not experienced enough to make a call like that nor do I know how many loads of fill may have been dumped there over the years. But here are a few pics of the older penny that I found. Like I said before, it was only an inch or two down next to a spruce tree. I also found my first quarter for this machine (I had found a few with my old one) so that was pretty cool. But no silver. Again, I would like to thank everybody's input on my original question. Lots of good information and entertaining stories have come about on this thread so far.
  15. Just found a 1959 penny at at spenard beach park here in Anchorage about an hour ago. It was only an inch or two down under a tree. When I get somewhere where the lighting is better, I'll post a pic. Sitting down for a afternoon beer and snack before I venture elsewhere. No silver as of yet though.
  16. Wow....so much good information here. When I posted this thread I didn't realized how much good "searching" information that I would receive. It really is inspiring to me to go and really look in the older areas where I live. I just pawned my kiddo off on the grandparents tonight for the weekend and may have to do as such tomorrow. In the spirit of this thread, I have snapped a few pictures of a dime that I had found a few years ago in some pocket change. It is a 1940 something. The last number of the year has rubbed off. It appears to be a 1946. I have actually kept it separated in one of my gold pans. I think that it would be cool to find a buffalo nickel or another older coin just because it would be older than what I am (being born in 77). Kinda funny too now that I think of it, I haven't seen a bicentennial 1976 quarter in a while either. I m8gbt have to check my change jar for one. I remember them as being quite common at one point when I was a kid.
  17. Some pretty good stuff here. But I agree with what steve had to say in the links, Anchorage is a bit on the young side to find any silver on a regular basis. And the older areas that would be the most likely to have it have been probably hunted to death, or have been paved over. Although I do wonder about the yards around some of the older houses around town. If a guy was to go out here (around Anchorage )shoot for silver the 3 main things that he would have to take into consideration are location, location, and location. I would figure the further south you would go the less likelyhood to find them would be. However if a guy were to hit up areas like Spenard, Fairview, Mountain view, and the older areas still open in the downtown area, the higher the probability. Also keeping in mind that it seems that most, but not all, of the parks in Anchorage were established in the 70's and 80's. Here is a useful link for anybody inerested: http://anchorageparkfoundation.org/directory/ It doesn't cover all of, what i consider parks (like Javier De Lavega-which may be considered a ball field and not a "park"). This is some good information that I am getting from everybody here. I think that it is cool that I am getting advice from not only from local people, but also from overseas.
  18. Absolutely correct on the digging part. And while you're right, your explanation doesn't directly answer the question, I loved the explanation you gave. It brought a smile to my face as I read it.
  19. Yeah, I have noticed when I get a strong, clean signal, the vdi is usually accurate. It is when it jumps around that things can get a bit iffy. And when digging in the sand that they use in some of the playgrounds around here, the signal can change as material is removed from the top of the target. Sounds like me digging up a few nails, beer cans, and beaver tails the other day.
  20. I know that this question is subjective, but I am going to ask anyways. For the guys out there who have found, and continue to find, old silver coins, how deep on average are you finding them? Just a question that came to mind as I was out this afternoon picking off "surface" targets at a local park. I know that there can be a lot of factors involved, and I doubt where I am at that I am going to be finding buffalo nickels or anything of the sort. Just a curiosity.
  21. I have to say, with my interactions with steve in the past, in person btw, he won't steer you wrong. I say this as being a total metal detecting noob in my opinion. And from what I have found with my MXT, and the size of the targets, something in that class may be better suited for your application. I have never ran a machine with a higher sensitivity than the one I own now. But, I can only imagine the patience, or greif, one may have by running a unit that has been tuned for a more prospecting environment used in a park full of bubble gum wrappers that has been chewed up by a lawn mower. Just my 2 cents for what it is worth.......from a self proclaimed noob.
  22. That's pretty cool. I have yet to go over my front yard. When I do, I'll probably find a bunch of old Milwaukee cans or house keys
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