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Welcome aboard grumpy ! The brothers of the GPX crew here have all the info you seek.. You'll get up to speed on the 5000 , no problemo. Phrunt linked a good clue vid above . "You have questions , we have answers. " was the Radio Shack motto but I could easily ask questions they had no clue on and they sure sold crap detectors 🙄 and yes , it was my first one ! 🤩 a Discovery 2 .discontinued ~50 years ago . with good reason. I still have it and it goes beep , but nothing else works except the on/off switch. Real answers from real experts here real free clues included.🥸. My best friend is a grumpy too. He has 6 yo twin grandkids ,and they just figured out why they've been calling him grumpy 🤔 ...LOL

George Waldo ? Naaaaah , bet you can't find him either ! 😜 What settings were you using ? Try adjusting your recovery speed # ...... I did spot some broken old coins , but I think you should throw them back and let 'em grow up into something spendable ! 🥸 ALSO , Ya might be in trouble if a game warden spots them shorts ! They're called Cut Pistareenes huh ? But not one was bleeding ! ,,,and were you looking in a latrine ? Is that a good spot to look for them pisston thingies ? Thx for the pointy finger , I'll check there later. Too bad you skunked on this one , better luck next hunt . I hope you find a fully grown one next time !

sohN I suppose you're right . My clad quarter is worth 25 of those zincolns , maybe 30 ? And I only had to dig a few holes into a giant dirtcicle too ! Thx for pointing that out. I feel better now. The half pull tab and foil ball is nothing compared to your junk though . 🤗!

O TAY ! 11 silvers and a gold topper ! Another 5# of coins , (those must really be adding up !) You didn't make me look so bad today though. The others beat you to it this time ! 😏 And somehow I got a clad quarter, a pull tab. And a ball of foil that was actually a nickel ! Until I scraped down to it and found the foil..

Another nice sandbox hunt !👍 🥸 I think I saw a pocket knife on the right side of the junk pic ?

Nice finds post , I'm out of Oh My's so I'll just stare and drool ! 😳

🤯 I'm humbled by the finds pics this morning. Now I'm gonna take my frozen 2006 quarter and go sit on a snow pile and cry ! 😩 NICE SHOW , tha lucky bunchaya ! 👍🤩 Now get back out there and work on what you're gonna do for ENCORE ! I'm waitin' on the sun.....but I'm lucky too, I could be holding an icicle .🥶

Good luck Toad ! Hope the rain holds off till you give it a good going over. OOOie !🥸 I bet there was a diving float platform and keep an eye out for overhanging rope swing branches.

Impressive ! weather and finds. You have found some good ground to hunt by the looks of those pics !

Found 'em ! 🥸

Nice one George ! 1818 1848 ? well 1800s ! 👍 Worth a big smile all the way home any day. Half penny pics plz.

Quite common ? Do you mean like pull tabs ??? arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh yer killin' me up here ! ! 😯 That's a NICE one though !

George If I come visit , will you rub my head for luck ?????

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 ! )

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.

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 . 🤯!

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.

The junk you dig is better than the junk I dig . 😜 I look at a scratched coin as leaving my mark on history . 🤔

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 ! 😎

Welcome to the crew hbrown ! 🥸 Where do ya like to go out swingin' and what are ya using for toys ?

5.5 OZT ! 🤯 Oh My Goshk ! That's gonna equal a LOT of spinachk ! 🏴‍☠️ 🤑

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 ???

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

Arrrr nother one !🤯 W. T. G. 21 ID on a Nox 600 ? Guess my zincoln total will be higher this year ...🥸

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......... 🏴‍☠️