Dances With Doves

Ar 3:45 pm on May 7 it is at $4.739 according to CNBC. I think it will hit $5.00 soon.I have about 30 pounds of scrap.(NOT pennies).

You can't scrap them yet but you get a idea that a good size piece of copper can be worth more then a buck now.It adds up if you save them.

I was checking CNBC and copper hit 4.599 cents per pound.That puts the copper penny at over 3 cents for each one. Save your copper it is the new oil according to a article on CNBC plus recycling is always good.

They will probably use their wireless tech. and maybe have computer update capability.If they use that little 4.5'' sniper it will be a hot coil for a hot machine and it could be as hot as the Gold bug 2 with it's little coil.Time will tell.

He has been getting the best find of the month all year among the people I hunt with.It will be tough to beat that for the month of May.A great relic.He started the year with that huge gold ring in January in the first 15 minutes with his new Nox.Well done Relic Ray.

It was not mt but a guy I know.I think it was from Newfoundland.This guy also found I think over 10 trimes in one park in a small eastern Lake Ontario city.He also found a 1 dollar gold coin made into a love token.I wonder if that counts for Tom in California to be in the gold coin club. One time before Clad hopper has his Explorer this guy( who found the 20 cent coin) found about 15 Barber coins to his 0 in 1 hunt in a old Rochester park. I think he sold him on how good the Explorer was for coins compared to his Garrett 2500.Clad hopper is 6 short on his 1000 career Indian.They are hiding this year from him since he has not found one yet but are getting in the way of my coil since I have about 10.Speaking of trimes me and my buddy guided Mike Moutray which lead him to his first ever trime during his travels.It was also the day i found my 2 gold coins and the guy who found the 20 cent coin found a 1917-s Standing liberty quarter in Au condition.It was quite a day for all of us. Clad hopper was in Vegas for business during this hunt so he missed all the fun.

Yes. The 7.5 9'' concentric.No Us 20 cent but one found a 20 cent piece from a Canadian territory.The 9'' on the 18kz coil was good on small gold rings.

The 3 cent nickel version hits in the foil range so most are passed up.I have found 2. One was with the infinium and the other with the x-terra 70 with the 18kz. 9'' concentric which hits them better then the standard coil.They both were in the same park.Clad hopper got one that just gave his Explorer a thud sound because it was so deep.

On Monday a different member here found a Large cent in a different section of the park.There were scattered dwellings in this place before it became a park.Large cents are very rare in this park and are found once in a blue moon. I have never got one in the turf here but found a 1825 Farthing. The park is huge and very hilly with a few ponds and has a golf course.We don't hunt the golf course but on a different course my buddy has permission. One other guy who has permission at that course cleaned up and I mean cleaned up since it was a fairground before with a horse track.

That is my buddy. We were about a half mile from Lake Ontario on it's south shore.It was a old foundation off a road on a narrow ridge with about a 20 yard by 40 yard area to hunt.They were both over 7''.The other guys found a 1847 Large cent and a 1902 Canadian large cent plus a merc and a heavy sterling pin.I only got a Indian on the day we hunted with the other guys but I got the most wheaties.One buddy calls me MR. wheatie because I find a lot with the Nox.He is the one who found the huge gold ring in the first 15 minutes with the Nox and yesterday in a different spot got his first seated and it was a 1876 cc dime.I have yet to get a older then barber silver with the Nox .Clad hopper has had the Nox for a little over a year and has 2 seated, the trime plus the Barber half. One of the Seated coins was a quarter.The last Barber half I found in the turf was in 2016 with the x-terra 70.

I have only found 2 pre 1850 American silver.A very worn bust dime on top because they dug up a old tree and a 1838-o seated half dime in the water. My buddy got a 1807 worn American dime in the water and a Mexican reale from after 1822.My other buddy got a Mexican reale too.I have 5 Spanish reales and the oldest is 1736. I think a lot of the pre 1850 silver got melted.My goal is to get a American pre bust silver coin which is probably tougher then getting a gold coin.

Gerry also mentions that this is one of the best forums out there in the interviews.Gerry and Steve are one of the good guys of the metal detecting community and if there was a metal detecting Hall of fame they would both be in it for there contributions to the hobby and the tons of great treasure they have found.I would put Charles Garrett as the first person in the Hall of fame.In the detecting hall of fame you don't have to be retired from the hobby.

I found my only silver dollar with the 15'' wot coil on my explorer.It was 10 '' down but sounded like a 5'' zinc penny except it hit in the upper right hand corner of the screen in ferrous.It was a solid hit at that depth with that coil.

A 6000 and a Nox seem like a good combo to me for what you are doing.If Coiltek made a 3 by 6 snake coil for the Nox it would be even better.

I think it is part 3.I don't have much time to be sure.

Gerry from Idaho who is on this forum did a interview with coiltek which you can find on you tube.In part 3 he talks about how to use the 15'' coil and what it can do.

My Bandito 2 u max with the clean sweep coil is a killer combo after a busy weekend at the beach. The clean sweep is what my buddy also uses all the time with his Tesoro for the beach.

I see Gerry did a interview with Coiltek on Youtube and he said to take the 15'' to where you found deep coins before.He said it could get you coins the stock coil missed.

Those are like nice looking nuggets and worth more then melt and should not go in the scrap pile.

One time I got more silvers then my 2 buddies did with their Explorers in a penny filled picnic ground with the Infinium. The low high hits were mostly silvers and the wheaties ran mostly high low here so I could cherry pick the silvers. Also there were not many nails.At one of my beaches that is hotter I would get deeper coins then the explorer even though I was getting a lot of nails with the pi.A PI in the right place can do the job. You have to know when to pick your spots.

We went looking for it for a while on Sat. but we did not find it.We need to talk to the man in charge of the park to narrow down where it could be.My buddy found 8 silver coins in a different section of the park on a damp hill side.My other buddy found a 1982 pigeon band from Buffalo.This place has been hit hard but it is a big place.

When i had the X-terra i would use the 5by 10 coil for the beach because of coverage and the 6'' 18kz . coil for hunting the small gold when turf hunting.Even with a 6'' coil coverage was not that important because there was usually a great amount of targets and it was not long before you got a hit. Also it was easy to recover the target because of the small coil.You also had great target separation. Both coils would be good for tot lots. The 5 by 10 coiltech coil should be good for fresh water hunting since the 5 by 8 coil on my At gold did really good.

I like my hockey puck coil too. I may have a soft spot for those hockey puck coils since I have about 200 real pucks that I have collected since I was a kid. I even have a vintage Colorado Rockies game puck made by Viceroy. I also have eyeballed 3 hockey pucks when i have been detecting with a couple of them being older. 2 were as hard as a rock unlike the more rubbery ones.

Hi Steve.How are you using this sleek looking Detector for your area and what do you like about it for your type of hunting ?

We got permission to hunt a park that use to be a Girl Scout camp from the 1920's to the 1990's when it closed down.The head caretaker of the park is a great guy and gave us the green light to detect there.We gave him a few scout relics which he would put in the park museum and he was very grateful for are finds.He told us that one capsule was found but a old farmer said a other one was still missing and gave us the area it could be in.It is probably from the 30's or 40's.I think the one is in a museum around here and we hope to see what it is made of.Have any of you heard of other Scout capsules and what could be in them ?I hope they are detectable.If not we could still stumble on to some silver coins or rings for a consolation prize. If found we will give the capsule to the caretaker to be put in a museum.