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Went for an afternoon hunt yesterday to an area that had several music festivals over the years. I didn't expect to find any silver coins, and I didn't. A relatively small area produced a good number of coins, pull tabs and other miscellaneous junk along with a Swiss Army knife that was in three pieces. The handles had become separated from the knife. After getting home and inspecting my finds,I discovered the knife handles are 925 sterling with an engraved name on one of them.I will try to contact that person. A very expensive little knife

I found this great badge in an old barn

The IHP is on my bucket list, nice find!

Nothing unusual here, but silver has been hunted for years here Norm

Nice Bottle!

Cal_Cobra The settings I was using were High Yield Normal Sensitivity 13 Volume 8 Auto Smoothing Off Threshold 30 Threshold Pitch 64 Volume Limit 10 Semi Auto Ground Balance Ground Smoothing Off Norm

I was out a couple of days ago, the temperature was in the low 90's and I was trying to stay in what little shade there was. Those conditions made me really slow down. I thought I heard a very faint squeak,it was repeatable at just the right approach and swing speed. It was one of those signals that says, "DIG ME". After moving several limbs I was about six inches closer to the target and it turned to a low warble. Then after scraping off about six inches of organic duff it turned into a screamer. After several inches I was rewarded with this nice little chunk Norm

I also use the "divide and conquer" method, but a little different version than yours. All of you GPZ users know exactly what I mean. If you find a very small nugget, once you have moved it, it can be very hard to locate. Instead of turning the coil over, I find something that will elevate the coil, then I pass the scoop over and under the hot spot. Before I started doing it that way, I had thrown nuggets in the discard pile because of too much dirt in the scoop. Just another way to do it. Norm

An amazing video, I highly recommend allotting yourself time to watch it. Thanks for posting it.

Gb I am fairly sure that I found that coin very near an oiled road in the fairgrounds. It was completely covered with a tar like substance. It looked so bad that I mistook it for a dirty clad. I put it in the rock tumbler with all of the other modern coins with soap and water. After about 30 minutes, I dumped the contents out for rinsing, that was when I could see a silver edge. I tried every thing in my arsenal, nothing would clean the tar. I searched the internet for solutions and settled on the electrolysis method. I went out to my garage and built it. After just a few minutes the tar was gone, revealing my Seated Liberty. I am sure it was in that condition when lost.

After finding my first silver coin last August, I recently found my oldest coin. It is in very poor condition but, it is a special find for me.

That Buffalo is in great shape. Congrats Art

Fred, I enjoyed the articles, I wish I could have been there with you

I have been going out to a local park since coming back from wintering in Arizona. When I first started going there last summer, the locals there told me that they had seen detectorists there for years. Since I was new to coin hunting and learning how to use my CTX 3030, I kept going back. I have found hundreds of coins including two Buffalos and several silvers. These are my finds for the last three times out, all were about three hours each. I dig nickel sounds because I haven't found any jewelry there yet. Not giving up Norm

I had the opportunity to check settings on an undug 8.9 gram nugget a few days ago. High Yield Normal was a screamer, High yield Difficult changed to a very loud warble and High Yield Extreme changed to a low warble. Sorry I didn't think about going to Difficult. Norm

There were several companies that struck coins in areas that had gold. Federal coins had dates and privately minted coins didn't.

Well the new ground didn't work out for me, but my friend Frank found a nice piece!

Well the new ground to me didn't work out for me, but my friend Frank had a very nice find. Maybe next time Norm

That is why I am in Arizona. 41 degrees this morning and planning on going to some new ground for me.

I was much younger when I got my ZED. I used the Pro Swing harness and bungee but carried my pick on my shoulder with my right hand, thus preventing me from using the swing arm. While having my pick with two very strong magnets on my pick, I found that the magnets were reprogramming my hearing aids. My pick has a very long handle and I used it as a walking stick on steep and rough ground. I shortened the handle on my pick enough to carry on my belt which solved the problems with the hearing aids and I could still access my pick if needed for support. Then I tried the swing arm. The difference in coil control and sharing the load with your other arm is amazing. I highly recommend using it. 76 and still swinging the ZED Norm

Only one "big smile"

Nice haul Beatup. Looking forward to next year!

Learn your detector, make sure you know what it is telling you!

Mitchel Not much weight, all ZED

Not much, but better than skunks!