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woodworking, metal fab, cooking, metal detecting and good bourbon, not in any particular order
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Tesoro Compadre, (2)Tesoro silver umax, Equinox 800, Equinox 900, G carrot, Ken's fabulous hand digger, Grave Digger nemesis
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Wow !!!!!! What you just wrote was a testament to our friendship. I doubt I could ever explain it that well. I have very few people in my life that I would bend over backwards for, your one, Ken and Rich are the others. My daily joy and pain are when you bastards start texting when I'm trying to e-mail on my phone HaHa. Occasionally I get inspired to make something special for people that I have great respect for. Yours started at Walmart in the x-mas ornament isle looking at a Minion and things snowballed from there. I can say for sure that without you guys, my life would be really boring and uneventful. At some point I'm going to drive the 5 hours to see you again but in the mean time I will just keep sending you really crazy video's!!! Love You My Brother From Another Mother.
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4th Beach Hunt Gets The Gold And More
dogodog replied to F350Platinum's topic in Metal Detecting For Jewelry
Nice job!!! But I'm really liking the petrified corn with dime. You should have poured resin over it and made a paper weight. 🤣That silver ring looks pretty old too. Good luck when you head back out in another day.- 27 replies
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Pretty good day my friend, Nice buttons!! The drought here is really bad, and I have not dug a hole in the ground since August 19th. Just for giggles I dug a hole in my yard and it was powder down to 20 inches. The farmers here just started to cut the fields but I doubt digging in the hard clay will be fun.
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Do You Keep All The Gold You Find Or Sell It?
dogodog replied to ognjen's topic in Metal Detecting For Jewelry
I collect it, which isn't much these days and wait for the rise in price. I like Joe B N sold a lot of gold of in 2012. Back in 2000 I bought a 100 ounces of gold for $295 an oz. and sold it for $1780 an oz. in 2012. For some reason gold collapsed back then. I also sold off a bunch of silver coins I found and ended up with around $9000. Luckily for me I have a really honest guy I sell to. Also keep in mind that each of you need to make money on the transaction. Sometimes playing the long game on precious metals can make you a good bit of money but just remember to sell it in small batches or you will take a beating in taxes!!! Right now I'm sitting on a measly 31 oz. of silver jewelry (things are tough these days). Remember!!!!, When was the last time you paid for dinner with some scrap rings and coins? -
Welcome Mark!!! It's a good place to be, but you probably already know that. Looking forward to your posts.
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If I Only Had A Key And Some Shoe Goo!!!
dogodog replied to dogodog's topic in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics
Markinswpa, I'm outside Filthadelphia. My lovely wife is a Steelers fan and from Indiana Pa. That old lock is probably one of the best I have ever found. I'm always amazed at how well fresh water preserves things. -
Yesterday I decided to take Friday off and hit the Creek again. For some reason I felt like I was missing out on some things. When I arrived at the creek I noticed some holes dug near the bank and in the water that I saw last Saturday. I chalked them up as someone looking for crayfish, well not so much. Turns out this fool was detecting and leaving his or her giant holes everywhere. Not a big fan of detectors that think its ok to punch holes without covering them back up. Back to business, today I was running the 11'' for better coverage (my bad). I was doing OK but man was this coil was killing me. Out of beach mode and back into park 1, Ah that's more like it. My first good target was a quarter followed by a dime and a penny. Not so bad for a start. Oops!!! Man I got a pinhole in my wader!!! I love cold water!!! My coil was acting really strange with some quarters sounding like iron, which NEVER happens. I hit a really good copper tone but it was drowning in iron. It sounded really good even though the iron was taking over the tone. Digging into the creek bottom for 12'' produced a really amazing old lock!! My next target was a quarter tone and once in the sieve I really thought I dug a Seated quarter!!! ( Not so much ) just a State coin. 💩 Getting colder and not enjoying my wet leg and foot, I decided to hammer on. Next up was a nice old flat lead sinker and a cylinder from an old cap gun. A few more things were dug up but I needed to head home and change my pants and socks.
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I used to be a bigger coil is better detector but realized quickly that the smaller coils just out perform my bigger ones. Most of my places are 18TH century farms and old parks filled with iron laden clay, nails and every other bit of trash you can think of. Years ago I started experimenting with the tiny coils and found out quick that my non producing sites were like new again. The small coils on my Tesoro's are really good but lack depth. The 6 inch on my 800 WAY out preforms my 11 inch in all my spots. Depth is almost identical and only coverage is affected. I very rarely run my 11'' with the exceptions of beach hunting. I found that running my recovery speed at 1 or 2 in multi or 10 khz, with the 6'' gives me a good 1 1/2'' over the 11''. My buddy thinks I'm NUTS for running a 6'' in a 60 acre field. Well maybe I am, But I'm in no hurry to wipe a site out. My find counts have increased since going small on the coils. This is not scientific but just my general observations over the years. If I had a single choice coil for a machine it would be 9'' or maybe a 6'' or maybe 5''🤣🤣 Sure wish someone made a 2''!!!!!
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Britain’s Most Valuable Treasure Find
dogodog replied to Steve Herschbach's topic in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics
If I stumbled across that Saddle Ridge gold I wouldn't have lasted long. I would have dug it, Looked at it and fell over DEAD. My lovely wife would be so happy!!! For the Gold you know😇 -
Good GOD man, I thought I hunted in some iron patches!!! But if your going to hunt a spot like that, Tesoros are the machine you wanna run. Their ability to disc out iron is pretty magical. I still do pretty well with the one knob Compadre but mostly I use the Silver u-max. Maybe you should start collecting the iron for a year and see how much scrap money you haul in 🤣 Nice job with the finds, Well done!!!
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Run the 6'' coil and cut your iron bias to 0 or -1 . For some reason someone at Minelab thought it was a great idea to lean on the iron side. I run an 800 and did own a 900 for about 2 weeks. This should help you with the no target syndrome. Just remember to verify all your strange tones from every angle possible, still nothing and you will hit it a month from now. Sometimes it comes down to the conditions of the soil (wet/damp) and some strange angle you didn't approach the last time out. The reason I dropped the 900 was because of the unstable ID's and the lack of tone break between a copper penny and a dime. I'm a tone hunter and it was really disappointing, I really wanted to love the 900 but in my area it just wasn't to be. This is not a 100% fix but it will help. Spend enough time in one spot and you will find all the stuff you missed the first time. Use your Horseshoe to try and verify iron vs good target. Detecting is mostly luck and paying attention, which sometime I don't have and don't do!!!
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Bet On A Beach Hunch And Won A Barber Trifecta!
dogodog replied to F350Platinum's topic in Metal Detecting For Jewelry
Those are some decent finds there Bob. I thought you found Blackbeard's treasure when you called me, Three Barbers is a pretty great find for 2024. I can remember way back digging 17 in one day. That included 3 Barber 1/2's. Sadly that old park is now a housing development. Glad your still doing well with that rustic D2. 🤪- 23 replies
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Jeez Ken, How did you get the nice guy moniker?🤣🤣 Those photos are pretty fancy, the ones you sent me are all blurry. I could have sworn that the one of the thimble, was a pic of a burnt finger. Nice finds now that you have clearer photos!!! Nice to see a silver thimble, I presumed there were no more left to find. Silver button is a big win too.
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Memories From The Rope Swing
dogodog replied to dogodog's topic in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics
Thanks for the input Strick!!! I was wondering if you were still doing well, Hopefully so !!! As for holding my breath there is no need, this once mighty creek has fallen to urban development. It's only 18'' deep at best. Down stream about an 1/8th of a mile is a 1701 Inn which still remains. My old man told me stories of an old ferry that ran next to and under the bridge that they would bring horse and buggy's across. The old bridge had a toll, but the poor people found a way around it. Access to it now is very difficult due to the development of the area. All my years of detecting it never even crossed my mind to hunt these waters. Thank GOD for felt soled waders or I would have busted my Ass!!!! Thanks and Hope your doing well!!!! -
Memories From The Rope Swing
dogodog replied to dogodog's topic in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics
Difficult barely describes it. I have to modify a scoop or something to combat the fist size rocks. There were a few good signals I abandoned because of the rock. Might just bring a spade shovel and my floating sieve.