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21 minutes ago, CPT_GhostLight said:
That's a great haul, Cd! It looks like the D2 is treating you right or visa-versa. 😉 Congrats on the minne balls, button and it also looks like you got a silver thimble too, well done!
Thanks btw lol
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9 minutes ago, CPT_GhostLight said:
That's a great haul, Cd! It looks like the D2 is treating you right or visa-versa. 😉 Congrats on the miine balls, button and it also looks like you got a silver thimble too, well done!
Yeah, the thimble was a 2 day old dig from bfe Huntsville al in town beside my hotel. Digging on usgs maps 1936 variety old home hopeful kinda spot. The thimble is 1908-1912 stern brothers confirmed be stamp/makers mark. May pry a old coin outta the long lost roadside strip or I hope to. I basically never swing on prayer but only if I can see hope on a map or have confirmed something was around through reading! The usgs maps and coralated things to topo maps with proof have greatly upped my game since D2 reinvigorated my 1 and only escape! For certain has been the tool that basically lead me to doubling or tripling my cw finds along with 100+ year old anything!
I have also found countless bottle piles from confirmed i.d.'s 1920's-1940's-60's. I grab a 1 of each at every pile and confirm makes and models then add em to my hoard. I don't know much about the bottle world at all and only really retail prices on interweb but I could go gather $20 interweb priced coke/dr.pepper/mason/clorox bottles for the next few months if it was something I should do. I just don't know or care that much as of now anyway. Hard to have my iron burning in to many forges.
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5 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:
Nice hunt and a lot of digging, I hope your back gets better after all that
Good luck on your next hunt.
Not as much digging as you'd think! 3/4 of the mess is co-located shrapnel atleast 3/4. It's the kinda place whr no hole is single target! Was a readout/outpost "union" guarding a particular object and was occupied 20/30men for 2 years or more! Lotta things in the ground to say the least!
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Haven't posted in a bit! Hope everyone has been well,lucky and or productive in life/detecting!
I've been out less then I'd like over the last 3,4 months! I have been out just short hunts here and there with 1,2 decent finds per 7/10 outings! Example like 1 bullet,1 button,1 100yr old coin nothing amazing but those kinda outings which are great if it's all ya got! Huh
Today,same ol'union outpost I've hit many times and swung hundreds of hours no bull but facts! D2 setup with pitch,notch like a tnsquirellslayerwould!
He's spot on as I've ran it getting the 07,08,09 and did great but today with squirrel slayers notch I liked what I saw! Last few trips maybe 5hrs seemed like I was starting to struggle whether from 07,pitch hitting thousands of swarps or just digging moronic idk but for sure struggled at this site!
As you can see it has the carpet o nail,metal bits. Of course I was fooled on a few bigs,the big ass bolt and the bent 90° nails as I run it open with notch no silencer. When she locks on and I don't anxiously dig shitty signals on anticipation the D2 is king dingaling for sure!
I saw some of those one fellers banging up they're tehons brand in iron and another talking of a explorer and boy if they have good sights I'd sure go out of my way to follow em around with this dues! Since getting this unit I've hunted same ol places I've hit from atpro,multikruzer and pounded with my eq800 and I've absolutely killed it this year since getting the D2! Luck,difference of 9" to 11" idk the correlation as absolute but I'm gonna land on D2 is a bad ass machine if one knows how to caress her properly!
Yall take care and enjoy life,family and the upcoming holidays!
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Moth balls or something out of ordinary smell,sight or any other scare of the pest senses would be starting points for the task atleast
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If enough nails,iron,hot ground are about its impossible to hunt out and in this area every swing is blanket signals so ,sweep speed, direction,program many factors lead to pulling good stuff out the same general area for hours at a time and I've been over and over and over same ground! I dont grid I just sweep,dig and wonder letting the detector lead me lol put the deus in pitch audio and it's almost unbearable pop pop pop pop pop every damn swing!
Also the original fella I got permission from first words when I asked were "go right ahead,its been hunted for 40 years probly wont find anything!" Also a college in the 90's was there doing something! I have only saw 1 other person there one time and they dug junk and left. This place is tough but I put maximum effort in and go hard to be honest just my nature. Knowing things are there is all I need to not lose hope and call it dead site!
I've dug cannon ball pieces as well and when one day i run outta 2 way signals I'm gonna start digging iron and every iffy which are in the thousands that's no stretch at all. In a perfect world I'll be there many more times if I'm lucky but we can't count our eggs before they hatch I reckon.
Another thing the ground is so hard grey clay and flat sandstone these targets up to canister shot"really heavy" are 3,4 inches at deepest and sometimes double beeping barely under the ground. No turn over not a field or farm field just THE FIELD OF DREAMS.
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No Hey fellas,
Hope everyone is getting along well and stumbling across a few happiness finds! I'm still learning the D2 every chance I get. If fulltones hit targets in the thickest co located messes equal to pitch or 2,3 tones to me it'd damn near be perfect! Still have work to do as the brain behind the unit when it comes to silencer,iffy and broken signal chasing when I know better the excitement gets the best of me!
Recently I've made a handful of stops by the field of dreams with blessed every trip success and very fortunate blessing by landowners of permanent permission! Original permission died with the owner but the gentleman being downright amazing coupled the land gift with my permission to swing! I feel very lucky and grateful for this is why it must be told! I tell the lady what I find and possible value and that I will pay her for half value of things I may find that are 100% in this ground! She chuckles and says "you do all the work why would i get rewarded!? And maybe you'll be finding stuff when your old with a beard like previous owner!".
So as I've said in previous post I've been stopping by this place for 4,5 years now atleast 20+ trips now and up until last august with my detecting,work buddy and long time friend which has to be up toward 300 hours at this point! 5 hour trip yesterday like all other trips pass with a blink and darkness falls on me still hustling for 1 more find!
After all those trips bullets,buttons and at 1 time seemingly no more quality signals left I've come to the conclusion that was ignorance on my behalf. Lately I've found box plate,scabbard parts,buttons never before dug,bullets of varieties not seen,poker chips and other things over 100+ personal hours never seen at this site. All that said added with the fact every target is co-located with the nails scraps in these pics I have no doubt more amazing top tier finds will come up sooner or later! Some of y'all would undoubtedly call bs if you saw the small areas I stumble around for 4-8hrs at a time over and over always finding something good! Its mind blowing to me and areas I havent even swung until yesterday took a line around every quadrant and found something cw everywhr!
Poker chip is awesome I love it. Tip and finial where 1ft apart cleaned up nice,officer button is awesome my first,burnside bullets are my first and first from site after so many others withing ft I've had to walk over many many times,rivets,cleaners bullets are welcome finds and add to the collection. Pin fire cartridge is cool wish it was in better shape but hey beggars can't be choosers! Like I said and I'm dead honest no good find comes with a clean hole not 1 and my pinpointer frustrates me so bad sometimes I feel they are broken because it's tough as hell when it beeps everywhere you stick it. I think the big round iron is from a cooking wood stove? Oh what say you about the tiny buckle I like it! Cute! Lol I'm certain the triangle sliver is cut one cent it is copper!
So D2 has done me well on same sites I've found more in 3 months then 5 years and I've taken the nox to check virgin targets at this site. The nox as we all know a top notch unit and if I'm using fulltones mostly equal but pitch and 2,3 tone pull away from the nox both machines opened up all the way no silencer or iron bias! I was using pitch with great success for unknown reasons I've caused myself unnecessary struggle for parts of recent trips pushing buttons I should leave be but I reckon wasting prime time experimenting in the wild also gains oneself knowledge right!? Lol or looses valuable time not easy to come by one of the 2 or both are true! Have had amazing success with fast pitch filters off descrim factory reactivity 1.5-2.5,deephc descrim factory,everything factory but sensitivity up a few,audio up 1 on all programs and iron audio to 1 on all programs. I use sensitive the most I'd say and something about sensft with the tweaks stated above and silencer to 0-2 depending on my confidence levels I love the here everything of descrim -6.4 but I'm almost sure it doesn't hit in the thick stuff anything close to fast/deephc on pitch of 2 tones and if any arguement is relevant or close to true is the audio of ft and swing speed needed to hit thick iron co-located targets are widely different from pitch or 3 n under tones! That's what I think anyway and I want to use fulltones alone and it be as good it's just not in the every hole has pieces of iron situations! Having a damn good n fun year of detecting though and I hope everyone finds some happiness in swinging,family and stays strong in these strange times of America and her seemingly sabotagers! Until the next time dont let your meat loaf! Oh I'm almost 100% that is a rifle barrel ring of a Enfield of some sort but could be wrong let me know please!? Happy days,I'm buzzin oh no that's said I'm joe!
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On 5/8/2022 at 7:27 PM, UT Dave said:
I got my Nox 800 in Sep. and have been having what I think is pretty good luck with it. Park hunting isn't my favorite, but it's what I mostly do because I can get in an hour or two after work or between honey-dos.
My goal for this year, was simply to find an 18xx anything US coin. Penny, dime, whatever, as long as it is 1800's. I had reasonable confidence I'd find one this year. But I never expected it to happen in a park! But it did. Short park hunt today. Not very deep, in some tree roots. A 1895 S Barber!
Couldn't hardly believe it! Up till now, I've found only two silver Rosies in the parks around here. The other Barbers and the one Merc I've found were at ghost town type sites. So I was sure my 18xx coin was going to come from a site like that. But, nope, park find!
I have been on a tear on the park .925 and gold lately though. Counting today, five out of my last six short park turf hunts have produced silver and one of them produced 14kt gold. From just the last couple weeks of short park hunts:
I find those sterling CTR rings fairly regular. I guess because silver coins are so few and far between for me in the parks, I call those sterling CTR's "Mormon Mercs". No offense to my Mormon family, friends and neighbors of course. But they are by far my most common .925 finds.
Anyway, stoked to break into the 1800's! And it looks like the 1895 S is a semi-key date to boot!
- Dave
Great finds!
Dime is somewhr in grade good maybe up to 6 top end! Just for fun $60-$75 if it wasnt a dug "environment damage" sample!
If your like me you may want to know for conversation or glory or whatever tickles your bag!
Disclaimer I'm no numismatist although I've long been grading for my own knowledge and then getting the actual professionals opinion and I'm usually on point!
Happy days
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1 hour ago, Commonwealthdetector said:
3rd hole digging a can or what I thought was a can signal! Not much modern trash at this site but a few cans. After this glorious dig I chased many more big mushy signals most big iron or sheets of metal/tin used in building their quarters I'm guessing! I love it and I'm so darn happy I got this thing.
Damn so happy I forgot the main event! Sorry fellas
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3rd hole digging a can or what I thought was a can signal! Not much modern trash at this site but a few cans. After this glorious dig I chased many more big mushy signals most big iron or sheets of metal/tin used in building their quarters I'm guessing! I love it and I'm so darn happy I got this thing.
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I've had relatives of permission granters follow me around,hurl many hints they'd like me finds! Although annoying if land owner and I didn't agree to terms it's an uphill battle for the succubus!
I've gave many things to these succubuses to though if I think they are truly interested in the history! My thoughts are any object like jewelry,rings or anything with absolute ties/writing/links to family its theirs no question without asking as I feel it's honorable and right! All else is mine and I can't be bullied!
I have detecting cards with this on it I hand out to anyone I ask as well. You know leave yard as i found it,remove trash,have respect,return all things directly tied to household/family and "show all finds" that one is a at my discretion.lol and I'm willing to negotiate and I would detect to hand over all finds if i had hope of epic!
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3 hours ago, Tometusns said:
Commonwealthdetector,
I have a friend that’s a dealer and he said the same thing about the environmental damage. I took a 92s and a 76cc dime to him to give me a value on them. That’s when I found out these guys so worried about rubbing the dirt off were just fooling themselves. The coins already damaged from being in the ground a hundred years or more. Rubbing the dirt off isn’t really going to make much if any difference at all. I did also find an 01s barber last year.
We don’t get to choose what we’re gonna find so congratulations on a key barber dime! Awesome find!!
HH!! Tom
Those are NICE! I looked at some auctions and even with environmental damage if it graded vg which the guy said it would could be upward of $400 at auction. I saw one go for upper half of 5. All that said it's not for sale and this coin man is according to the interweb top tier. Charles with alabama silver and gold huntsville alabama. I bought a purple hue ms66 from him a few years back. He also told me of several hundred I wasted once "fakes" back in my early coin days! I'm not from Huntsville just tend to be around these parts for work often and I just email him pics, hes long forgotten me and has no complaints to give coin info albeit no holds barred opinion you will recieve!
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7 hours ago, Gold Seeker said:
That dime is a key date/low mintage and is worth at least couple of hundred bucks even being a dug coin, if it wasn't a dug coin it would be worth around a $1000 or so, I would put it on eBay as is if you are interested is selling it, good find IMHO!
I would seek to part ways with jewelry my wife or I didnt like but coins or relics are for me alone and hopefully kids in time! If I happened to find a pile of shells I'd consider selling but only shells if I could do something important with the $ if not I'd keep em
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7 hours ago, Gold Seeker said:
That dime is a key date/low mintage and is worth at least couple of hundred bucks even being a dug coin, if it wasn't a dug coin it would be worth around a $1000 or so, I would put it on eBay as is if you are interested is selling it, good find IMHO!
Vg08 $6-700retail latest auction 5to550. Not for sale but it's cool knowing I dug a dime with more than standard! My guy lifelong coin numismatist says vg grade would come back and it's what he does although environmental damage also I didnt ask what exactly it all meant as it was email and I was happy.
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On 4/5/2022 at 10:40 AM, Calmark said:
The Deus 2 definitely has a lot of adjustability. Both a good and bad thing for sure. The basic programs work well and suit a beginner on the machine like me. But, its good to know as a user gets more advanced, there are settings and the ability to highly customize programs to gain improved performance. I've mostly stuck with the preset programs in hopes of getting to know them and their basic characteristics.
I plan on using Deep High Conductor (and maybe even Relic program) more in the future and see how it does for deeper coins. But, soon I will also make up some of my own custom programs now that I can navigate the settings decently well and understand what the controls do for the most part. I too think having some custom programs saved will make the Deus 2 much more grab and go.
While I've had fun swinging the Equinox and enjoyed its performance, the Deus 2 so far has been the same, but also a pleasure to use due to its ergonomics and sweet sounding audio. No doubt others will find the reverse, since everybody is different in what works best for them.
Biggest things for me were audio response up 1 basically across the board which I only run pwm same! Day one testing vs nox the faint sounds which are still there up to 5 just a tad louder vs nox audio loud proud was not confidence building on factory settings! Imo may just be me.
Reactivity down to 2,1.5 seem to be as fast as needed and deep or atleast I've put good bits of time in honest iron laiden sites and had zero problems sniffing plenty out of no signalville for the nox!
Pitch tones is alertive,plenty loud and if a target can be hit it will hit it. Many times seemingly under bits of nails!
I didnt like pitch at first but I'll learn to be like anything that seemingly sees through things other units just cannot! Fulltones are my love just my last site seemed daunting to use,I may have given up to quick time will tell though!
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Has anyone ever dug such a thing? In the t&t book there is a variant wieghing 290something"im out of town dont have the book" whatever it is these wiegh that 290gn +a few equaling Mississippi rifle pattern.? They look like a duck,wiegh like a duck but come up 2,3 tenths short is it still possible given it's an old mold and had to be molded personally best I can gather? If anyone has anything it would be greatly appreciated. Btw the 1895 "o" barber I sent pics to charles caldarada I think may have butchered his last name from huntsville al best coin man I know he says if sent in it would most likely get environmental damage vg details.
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17 minutes ago, Doc Bach said:
Having a state of the art detector {yes like the Deus for example} can surely make a big difference that's for certain.But the simple truth of the matter is that you can never clean a site like that out.Find the trash and ash layers that can be several feet deep even deeper with the privies they contain some of the best non metallic and metal items that are well out of reach of any detector Build yourself a 1/4 inch sifter and do some screening and you will be surprised at what might turn up.
I agree its mind blowing at the amount of metal about. I bet your right as I came across 3 of these kshot signals in a triangle like pattern acouple ft apart and no grass in the area so I dug big and came up with 2 bullets not heard before hand! It would produce things I haven't had the privelage of digging yet in my opinion if I were to do this you talk of and I may in the future!
Would you have any recommendations as to whr the best spot would be to dig? There is one location 20,25yds long 10yds wide where I've found all the buttons that have came up.? I have a somewhat area whr all horseshoe's have came up,kshot loose like I've discovered "I dont think these were shot at the fort"in a area, carved bullets same area as button area which would be my guess as their housing area!? I've never considered this digging but now you bring it up I'm excited and very excited!:)
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2 hours ago, strick said:
Your a better man then I...I’m a bit of a flinger these days (when no ones looking lol) good luck in your search I hope you get it identified.
Strick
So were clear if it wasn't a interest to me big iron it woulda been trashed as iron scrap usually does. Leaverite in mind but taken out of the game I'm playing on the property if I care to come back for certain all digs go with me or wherever the owner is ok with. I haven't really dug that much big iron as I tend to f2/fe it out on nox800 pre D2. If I wouldn't have been using pitch and 0 silencer I wouldn't have dug these cool kshot along with big square thing as I usually run tones/2,3 silencer which also do away with these objects! If running factory descrim basically on all but pitch audio these things snap,crackle and pop or altogether dissapear as well so it's just circumstance I came across these things after many many trips to same location which is just a oversized yard holding the treasure of cw fort! I had intentions of using fulltones as I love the audio but after 15 minutes of just cracking,popping and plain broken signals with no solid tones to be had. Switched to pitch and if it's mingling several iron objects"nails,nail pieces,rotted tin/thin metal,you name the iron" together pitch will still hit what we're after it seems to me anyway as I'm very confident in saying I dug very few to no holes not infested with iron I speak of with the desirable target! I dug alot of holes too if I had to geuss 60+ easy. If you have a D2 or anyone who does once again if it crackles,pops or doesnt beep 2 ways without a wiggle"hover" its nails or iron trash a very high percentage to all the time!
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4 minutes ago, Doc Bach said:
The surefire method to figure out if others have hard hit a good relic site ahead you sometimes by decades is to go to the base of any large trees and or rocks.If the place has been pounded you will find gunnysacks full of leaverite.
The owner who passed away told us 4 years ago folks had been coming for 40 years I wouldnt find anything but have at it! Since then and many hours later,40+ bullets,15+buttons,pieces of cannon balls,rings,chess pieces,name slips my mind nap sack brass,kshot later I'm still pulling the goods! Very little modern trash and this was a vort manned by only a few tens of men so not very big. Enough small pieces of metal"period" and nails to mask stuff for many trips to come as this was a very good one to me and the 20th or so trip! I'm optimistic as I've just begun coverage with deus 2 and seemingly doing well!
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34 minutes ago, strick said:
Your a better man then I...I’m a bit of a flinger these days (when no ones looking lol) good luck in your search I hope you get it identified.
Strick
I flung acouple things yesterday down in the weeds acouple nice sounding cans! Besides nails and the bits of iron you see didnt dig over a handful of flingers!
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1 hour ago, Cal_Cobra said:
Nice hunt! That square thing almost looks like a mold, but for what? Always love the mystery finds!
I'm starting or have thought this as well. Don't know the what part,maybe we will find out.
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The square thing has no threads btw fellas! Kshot and cleaner are just for perspective.
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2 hours ago, Hardtimehermit said:
cool hunting, i don't see threads on the sqaure metal piece, but it kinda looks like a wagon wheel nut. 🧐
I've found big ww nuts "I think" in the past,this seems different. Very well could be still yet just seemed unique the way the outside is made!? Maybe it's a ornamental cannon wheel nut or wagon just fancied up a bit!?
I feel a shell is in my future at this location I just wish I knew what numbers or descrim to run to not walk over them.?
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2 hours ago, strick said:
Nice work lots of digging..I'm liking the iron fork never seen anyone dig one of those before..
I can help you with the square thing it's called a Leaverite
strick
Not leaverite at all strick!:,( men like myself can handle whole finds pouches full of such things! Matter fact never emptied and had all you see + piles of nails and randomness! Men or fools its left to individual judgements!
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I concur silver thimble in red al dirt 94 with a slight deviation 1,2 in my circumstance the other day! First for me,mine wasn't in working order as yours seems to be still of shape!