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I read somewhere that there is some media in the Propointer AT that aids with "rattle" when it vibrates. 🤔

Thanks Colonel, It was another 7 mile hike over almost 8 hours, but I only searched about 3 acres in one spot. There are other productive places I could have gone but didn't want to spoil future hunts, it may be a full season before I can get back there, next crop will be corn. The coins were from previous hunts there, and yes, they were all finds of the day. I think I have personally found over 100 buttons there along with other interesting relics. It's my best permission by far, and was fairly hard won. 🙂

Thanks VL, It's hand size, about like a Barber scissor, about 2.5 inches long. The hole is about 1/32" or less and only about a quarter inch from the top to the side diagonally. It has always been in the shape it appears as. If it was straight I'd think it was a pistol barrel key. 🤔

You have seen the first coins coming from here, it's a 500 acre place so there have been quite a few. I wasn't able to get to this side of it until this past season, but some pretty good stuff like this came from there: 1798 Draped Bust large cent 1724 half Reale cob Another half Reale cob, just noticed it might be a 1720. It's been a busy season 😅

What a week, I hardly remember the last time I was out hunting. Been stuck inside by the dual nor'easter we had this week, it's still going. On Wednesday an EF1 tornado passed about 2 miles away, the only tornado in Virginia that day. It wrecked some houses and left a few miles of trees down, I could see and hear it from my porch. Yikes. Yesterday was supposed to be nice, but the second meandering low just kept throwing rain at us. It finally ended in the afternoon with this: A double rainbow that ended in the yard. No pot of gold 🙄 Today again was supposed to be nice, it started out that way anyway. I went to my biggest permission hoping to get some really old stuff. The cover crop has been killed and the bean stalks were knocked down a bit more, it hasn't been planted yet but soon will be. The rain has held things up. Today I was exclusively using the Deus 2 WS6 Master with the 11" coil for greater coverage, and my trusty version of Relic. I just bought the Deus "Lite" shaft to use with it, if I use the 9" coil the whole detector weighs 1.8 pounds. I have to say I really like the lighter shaft, if feels sturdy and comfortable. I have the 11" on the "CF" lower which is carbon fiber but doesn't look like it. There is no flex that I can feel. Got a good amount of really old stuff today, I concentrated on one small area: 6 buttons, a couple pieces of saddle decoration, and buckle bits of some very old buckles, all sadly broken as usual. One of the buttons is fancy with a "whorl" And this one is probably the most incredible cast Tombac I have ever found: I'm not sure whether that is a crop or sword the rider is holding. If anyone can tell me what this was used for I'd appreciate it, at first I thought it was part of a scissor but it has no joint, and has a hole drilled in one end diagonally to one side. Maybe some sort of candle lighter that holds a wick? By the end of the day it got cloudy with a really cold wind blowing. I hope it won't be long until things warm up. Not much trash as usual with Relic, mostly lead.

It's not going to be too impressive to you folks across the pond, but the first explorer to visit and later settle my part of the USA was Captain John Smith of the UK in 1606. He navigated the Chesapeake Bay and up the Potomac River. In 1607 he settled Jamestown in a peninsula of Virginia just below mine. I was in a farm very near the Potomac River last year and dug this half of a 1607 King James I hammered silver sixpence: Man I was shocked. I also dug these other items around it, it must have been from a subsequent exploration up the river. 3 buttons, some pewter shards, and a buckle. I reunited the halves of the buckle this year. It's possible to find older coins in the USA that were from shipwrecks or dropped by earlier Spanish explorers, but this is probably directly attributable to the first explorers of this area. I often wonder what happened then. 🤔

Wow, what a great Easter egg. 👍 What detector were you using?

Sometimes the sand just won't sift through the scoop, so I try to keep one with me, and regret it when I forget it. It's all about target retrieval time for me.

Nice stuff Swiftsword. Your can cover is from the S.S. Pierce Company of Boston, started in 1831. The can could have been for tea or cigars, he was a big grocer. The only half I've ever found was a '43, bravo! Be on the lookout for any Revere silver. 👍

Terrific tale and finds, JCR. That's a rare feat to get something with that much family juju. 🙂 Oh, to pay $680 for a new vehicle, especially a Superior Utility Coupe... 🤔

The easiest one is http://historicaerials.com They have many topographic maps and aerial photos. You can overlay current roads, and see where the old ones were. CalTopo has some historical topos and Lidar imagery.

Here ya go... But I think that's an Axiom. 🤔

Hey Palzynski, Have you looked into getting the newer carbon fiber XP lower? I looked up the part number "D03-B", and it's available in some places. It may not be as stiff as the Nokta lower, but it is an improvement, and will take the least amount of work to get it right. BTman does great mods, I'm just suggesting an easier path. I'm working on better ways to mount the 13" on other shafts myself. Remember it's all about pushing the coil to the bolt head side, and not doing stuff that bends the bolt. 🤔

I bought a used Tesoro Vaquero some time ago, and do like to use it now and again, as it does well with nails. However, I am not turned off at all by the "cell phone on a stick" but do hope not to see actual cell phones replace dedicated machines on a stick. 🙄 Apps are toys. The framework isn't there. Specialty miniaturization has always improved certain industries, I for one am glad to see that I don't have to lug a 5 pound box around to find history and valuable stuff. I think the power is there now to make Pulse Induction more popular again with lighter machines, and am cautiously excited to see what Garrett and others might bring soon. I do not fear having many options to adjust over a few potentiometers. The more I do this the more I see the need for control over the ever changing environments I visit each year, and not having to have one machine for each place makes my wife happy. 😏

Welcome Mikhail, Thanks for translating, most members have English as their primary language here. It must be difficult sometimes but you are doing well. 👍 I started metal detecting in 2021, and also now own a Deus II. I found gold my first year, a ring in back of my house on a hill, but I didn't know it was until I learned to test it from the good people here. I have found almost as many gold rings in the field as I have on beaches, but again thanks to what I have learned from people on this forum and my dedication to the hobby, the number gets greater every year. I also have not found a gold coin, not for lack of trying 😅 I live in one of the oldest English settlements in America, and expect to find one at least before I can't detect anymore, I retired from work in 2021 and detecting is my main hobby. I have already found about the oldest silver coin I will ever find. I'm just writing all this because we seem to have a similar interests, and I wish you the best of luck in your detecting and look forward to your input and questions in the future. 🍀

Yes, I think that is the reason most lower iron volume to 7. 👍 In a clean field I use Relic with many modifications, the 00-00 notch being the most important. I can tell most times that a target is aluminum, but do the same as you mostly.

Translation: Kind. I make tekkna based on 1st in such places. I don’t set the iron above 7, and it’s too noisy. Good luck

I have wondered why the people that created Tekkna would use a Frequency Addition program instead of basing it on a program like General. So I tried it, using many of the same parameters, and it wasn't good. I've used Tekkna on the day after a rainstorm, and it worked just fine. We don't get much snow here but we get a lot of rain this time of year, I usually wait until the second day to go out, but I have no problem using it when it is wet or dry. What specifically did you encounter when using Tekkna that caused you to not like it? I will say that varying reactivity in almost any program will produce similar results, but Tekkna gives less false signal on iron. It may be "witchcraft", but it is not a magic perfect program, if there is a lot of non ferrous undesirable junk (can slaw, pull tabs, bits of wire), it will identify it all as good by giving you a repeatable positive tone and ID. About the only thing you won't dig is iron if you hold yourself to only digging good repeatable tones and ID. A good trick even with Tekkna is to notch 00-00 like in Relic, it works even better with iron. Welcome to the forum! 🙂

Sorry about that! I had a DetectorPro and broke it, and the Ready Shovel that a bolt fell out of. 😅 Not the Hip Clip.

Here's a general site for the United States and some other countries can be found there as well: https://www.mdhtalk.org/maps/fp-map-regulations.htm Nothing is all that great, but this gives you some general guidelines.

Here's some general info: https://detecthistory.com/metal-detecting-laws-in-different-countries/ Just general guidelines, it's difficult to say what really goes on. Lots of rumors and speculation, some you can do just about whatever you want, others will throw you in jail just to get you to pay to get out. 😵 It will depend on where you are and who sees you 🤔

Welcome from Virginia. 👍 Do you have a detector or are you just starting to think about one? This is the best place to be.

Not especially, might give you a little more accuracy. When it's 10 points or more, I'm getting 75 at some of my places, it means a lot for the deep stuff. 🙂

Tried one of those, first time out one of the screws came apart and I lost half of it. Should have used Loctite on 'em. Sure was nice tho. Just do shoulder carry now. 🤔

Glad ya got out. 👍 Should be getting warmer soon. Even 65 degrees with winds up to 40 isn't fun, but 40°/40 is worse, don't think I could take that. 🤔