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  1. Nice one George ! 1818 1848 ? well 1800s ! 👍 Worth a big smile all the way home any day. Half penny pics plz.
  2. Quite common ? Do you mean like pull tabs ??? arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh yer killin' me up here ! ! 😯 That's a NICE one though !
  3. George If I come visit , will you rub my head for luck ?????
  4. Good question ! Doing your homework in advance is good ju ju. Things can get very sticky for those unprepared .😵😩 (We might be related ? My shoulder is sore too ! )
  5. You do have a point. Best I can figure why I do it.. Because the greedy people that make and sell them earned the publicity . Because the clueless people thinking about buying them could use a heads up. (PT Barnum said "a sucker is born every minute" , so it seems someone always does. Evidence the occasional newb showing up and first post is asking about them , preferably before buying one) And maybe , just maybe , because if we do , well , some of those people will stop buying them? And finally , pointing and laughing , though not socially acceptable , can be a lot of fun for a good cause. Kinda like why some people think they should jump in the ocean in the middle of winter 🥶....not because they really want to.
  6. I did the same thing to that knife I dug last summer. We gotta dig bigger holes I guess.. 🥸 So much harder to hide than the little ones. I can't believe I didn't scratch the quarter I dug today. The ice kept deflecting the shovel and I was digging 5 times to gain an inch a lot of the time. But I WAS digging In the middle of February uptah camp . 🤯!
  7. Thaw update. The ground is saturated . If it thaws at all , it refreezes every night. A few more days above freezing then back to single digit temp nights and teens/twenties day. It IS February uptah camp. So very acceptable 👍 (I know I will be freeze-doomed for mentioning it 🙄) I started yesterday , just before sunset . 1/2 inch at a time , I just kept going back . Made it almost there . Last thing , I decided to waste a battery on the heat gun but the watery frozen dirt wasn't playing around. ( Not digging out the propane torch . Maybe tomorrow?) Today , I scouted out a couple more black spots ( I figured it would be less noticeable than white , no hope of leaving no trace plugs in this stuff ! I'm basically shaving the ice.... 4th try the target was out of the icicle dirt ! Only took a half hour , over two days..... Target 1 , a 2006 quarter. 🤗 Next spot , I think I found a nickel and that hole is getting sun (no sunblock) . Stay tuned , I'm going back out in an hour. Then a triple beeper up top , maybe a penny or a piece of jewelry? , I split it in half on the second "chop ? " and there it was ! Target 2 , 2/3 of a pull tab , slightly mangled . The ice dirt can keep the 1/3 left behind ! . The pointer is a must have for dig or no dig decisions . More than an inch or so is crazy talk. Then a really loud Target #3. 1/2" down , Horse tac. A broken off snap ring . It was slow going . Ankle getting sore from slamming down on the shovel but tomorrow is another over freezing day maybe over 40 ? I did manage to sink the shovel 3" in only one stomp near the rig but someone had already cleaned house there ! Target 4. The nickel turned out to be some aluminum foil.
  8. The junk you dig is better than the junk I dig . 😜 I look at a scratched coin as leaving my mark on history . 🤔
  9. This just in !🥸 The original gold gun prop prototype for the Bond movie The Man With The Golden Gun has located itself ! 🤩 There was a note found inside that read... The boss said scrap this ugly POS and go with one of the props from any war movie and a can of metallic gold spray paint . It's true, I tell ya ! 😎
  10. rvpopeye

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    Welcome to the crew hbrown ! 🥸 Where do ya like to go out swingin' and what are ya using for toys ?
  11. 5.5 OZT ! 🤯 Oh My Goshk ! That's gonna equal a LOT of spinachk ! 🏴‍☠️ 🤑
  12. 350 The only thing green around here is me with permission envy ! 🤗 That "rip" tool is probably why there are cans below the oldies ! But it doesn't mean there is nothing good below the cans......😜 Maybe the other pieces of that beautiful silver ? That Tesoro test will be interesting to see the results of , no doubt ! Oh , and btw my shovel bounces every time now. Maybe it just stops would be more accurate . I did get just the bottom 3/4" to disappear yesterday by waiting till just before the sun went down....maybe I shouldn't have given the big heavy root slayer away ? I even failed on the thaw methods , the wind kept me busy trying though...maybe I could get them to let me have a fire ring ???
  13. Amazing amount of coins . as usual🤩 I don't think I'd survive a day of the kind of digging you do .🤔 You just beat my year and I haven't even started yet ! LOL
  14. Arrrr nother one !🤯 W. T. G. 21 ID on a Nox 600 ? Guess my zincoln total will be higher this year ...🥸
  15. Next weekend is the annual suicidal ski bums being towed by gleeful horse owners yelling every feet per second they can out of their horses whipping the ski bums around the fairground harness track. Several jumps courtesy of town dumpers clearing the last storm up are spaced around the outer edge of the track for extra points. (that's the suicidal part).🙃 These aren't the harness horses that only trot either.. So enough of the scene here , the reason I'm posting is all of the (dead)grassy areas including the one I'm in are being plowed (since the sun came up) to increase the parking to maximum sooooooo. I had to go out with the detector , and I'm pretty glad I did ! 🤗 I was finding all kinds of targets everywhere ! Of course it's still frozen solid so I couldn't dig anything. I'm going back out after I finish shaking this can of spray paint 🥸 then I'm putting an old cooler with a light bulb in it upside down over the paint marks one by one. I don't care what the giant mouse said yesterday about spring . I tail snagged meself a root slayer shark and it B hungry......... 🏴‍☠️
  16. 🤯 I see the line already forming for this one. 👍 Is the rookie gonna hit that homer ? There's the hit. It's going.....going.......oops sold out ,. Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion !
  17. The 540 is an easier to use red Equinox . 😏
  18. I watched a detectormod video on LRLs today . It was a detector tech's opinion of them . He gave a nod to Detector/Prospector forums and that first line in Steve's opening post on this thread. I am returning that nod.
  19. Welcome aboard ! Boring is all a matter of perspective.🥸 There are even people that think prospecting and metal detecting are boring ! Don't be afraid to post your questions and comments . .
  20. Definitely keep reading , but don't hesitate asking yer questions it's the best way to get an answer ! And get up to speed with your detector , learning what they are trying to tell ya is the key to good finds , if you just keep upgrading you keep starting from square one and the only treasarrrr will be for the manufacturer's. ( General rule is 100 hours (if yer payin' attention) just to learn the easy words it's speakin' to ya ! ( some arrrrr easier than others ) .. Not saying you won't "get lucky " ( it has a different definition here than it did in the clubs I spent most of my life workin' in....) LOL😜 ! You already got some pay dirt level luck , you found the best place to learn ! I've been here over 3 years and I still haven't read half of what's already posted , just keeping up with the daily posts takes up some considerable time . Hope you finally become at one with that machine yer swingin' and start hearin' those 1776 ghosts..... Good Luck on yer next hunt ! 🏴‍☠️
  21. Welcome to the crew from uptah (frozen) camp redbluffed !
  22. Bydogged I hunt beaches for the same gimped up reasons. But a nice inland permission is too hard to pass up so , every once in a while try the turf even if just a little bit , might be your lucky day ! I only hit one beach this year. and only for a couple of hours ,,, got 2 silvers ! One was a big fat (gold plated 🙄) ring ! Take what ya get , or somebody else will....😜 I'm living at my permission now, a 150 yo fairgrounds with new depositors every 3rd week of August. My last good find ? a tac flashlight that lists for $ 35 See if ya can detect my Uptah Camp thread FMI . I'd post a pointy finger link but that's too easy for a real Son of the Beach , right ? 🥸
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