JCR

That's great. Just wait until you get on some original ground that has some old in it. You will be really hooked then. 

Keep posting. Your enthusiasm is contagious.

Clever way to drive home how important using quality Headphones is.

A 2 box set up is definitely a specialty tool for out of the ordinary treasure hunting.  What is needed to go along with the tool is knowledge & technique. Bottle dumps,  large Civil War relic & hut sites, substantiated Caches and Post Hole Banks are not common features of most Permissions but they exist. Research and lots of time on the ground is required.  You also have to work smarter not just harder. A proper set of ground/bottle probes can save you a lot of unproductive digging as will a big coil on a good VLF discriminator.  It is tough to do alone but that is what a lot of the early guys did with less equipment but more time and more opportunities.  Can you imagine being able to hunt along the actual Oregon Trail before it was all obliterated or fenced off? There were scores of Pioneer trails thru hostile territory.  Or a battlefield or Winter camp? How about Galveston or Padre Island. 

We have less opportunity today but better equipment. You have to admire those early hunters who were very secretive and successful.

Perhaps the "Sticky" post could just be a link to that particular post in the original thread. In this way it would retain it's context and may generate additional posts to a useful topic.

Excellent idea to take what is certainly the most informative, useful and congenial Forum out there even better.

A consummate explanation. This should go in a DP Forum Glossary.

With some nice boot!

That's a lot of good targets and easy on the trash.   I hope you have a stylish beach hat to wear.

The English language version of the Versa Users Manuel is now available to be downloaded on the Rutus website.

Any idea what that went to?

Those are all very interesting finds. Thanks for giving the background information to put them in context.

My Garrett CX II automatically switches to Static All Metal when the Blood Hound 2 Box is connected. No need to Ground Balance. Mineralized ground  effect is much reduced.  Target ID meter still works to some extent. Will not report nails or smaller than a beer can at shallower depths. Quart size & larger is what it is tuned for.  I have a small cast iron Dutch Over at 3 feet. No problem.

Welcome back into the hobby from East Texas.

Spectacular.

That is some pretty nice serendipity.

Welcome from East Texas.

Nice hunt.

Some nice relics.

Fantastic 

That is a very unique find. At that time being a Mason could spare your life.

Quite possible. Also taxes had to be paid in hard money.

Very interesting finds.  The Great Seal of the United States button was used on Officer’s uniforms. Is the German item an oval button?

There was a similar POW camp one County to my East. My Dad remembered as a child seeing German POWs passing thru here on the passenger train.

That is a nice one.

Welcome from East Texas. You have a lot of History around you. Some good hunters and a great Dealer in that area too.

I still have my Dad's D Tex BFO with 3 coils. He bought it mail order from an ad in the back of  Frontier Times magazine,   I wish it still worked just to play with it.