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Thanks Rick. That was the last of the US silver coin categories, Trime, Mercury, seated, standing, walking and barber. I also finally found a few silver Roosevelts. Got a few silver Washingtons too. Still want to find a flying eagle and a few others, they're out there. 😀 it's really weird I found a Trime my first year... 🤔

Thanks Matt! I get out as much as I can, and yes, most of my permissions are close. I've been expanding though 😀 today's hunt was a 40 minute drive. I like showing finds, I'm blessed with places that have a pretty wide array of stuff covering the earliest history to present. Some of my permissions don't have anything new. I appreciate the encouragement, I always worry I'm putting too much up, but members seem to like it. 🙂 I try to be as honest as possible and describe the difficulty of detecting sometimes.

The tradition (a pretty successful one) is to take my wife out to eat if I find silver or gold. Gold gets the fancy place. It's so infrequent I'm not going broke yet 🤔

Thanks, it's what got me hooked. Found some Spanish silver pistareens the first time I went detecting in the farm field about 50 yards from my house. 😀 Even found some old musket balls and buttons in my yard. I had to walk a long way hearing nothing for that coin. 🙂 After a couple years of detecting these farms I'm getting to know where to look!

Sent ya what I use, it does give some crazy tones with interesting iron. Dug those two bits as a result. Notice the bullet too! It's around 50 cal. Please be careful with artillery shells, I'm pretty sure people still get blown up by them. I know it's happened at least once here in VA. 😳

It's not based on Relic, it's based on General for the moisture mitigation. Relic is great but eats battery. If you have dry or heavily mineralized soil I'm not sure it will work, hence the reluctance to share openly. 😀 It's a bit "avant garde".

Thanks, RVP. 👍 Shame about the date, but it's older than 1925, and newer than 1917 😀

Nice write up. 👍 The only one I have experience with is Tybee Island, I camped there in an RV park every year for the last 15 in April, and when I took up metal detecting a couple of years ago, the first thing I did was talk to the local police department. They said the entire beach, all 12 miles of it, is open season. 😀 I had a blast there! Got lots of great stuff. North and South Beach are the most popular, but finds are possible anywhere.

Nice looking Merc, glad the M-core is working out for you! 👍

Nice one, kac. 👍 Apparently these were minted in 1863 as pennies, and then the government banned them. A truly rare and cool Civil War find. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia30397.html

Looked at the weather this morning, it looked like the rain would hold off until afternoon. I grabbed my WS6 Master and gear and loaded the golf cart up, I thought I'd go hit a local spot I got some great finds in over a year ago. I know this field looks like all the others, 😀 but it's less than a mile from my house. It's a 200 acre farm that has given up some good stuff but should have been better had it not been bushwhacked by another detectorist who really didn't have permission. They didn't know there was anything in this field, there was a house here up to the 60s, and it's long gone. It's just a small hotspot that I dug a lot of great military buttons and other relics, mostly Victorian. I hunted around this spot for a while, got a 1918 wheat and a pretty cool Blue Bell jacket button, a really old one. Blue Bell ended up being a part of Wrangler, but I don't know when. Got to looking way back in the field, I really hadn't searched much there. There was next to nothing until I got in a wash, a dip in the field that runs into a ravine. I had a feeling something would turn up. I suddenly got a 90, dug my plug, and then it shot up to 95. I thought "oh great, a deep aluminum or steel can". 😵 However, this field doesn't have much trash at all... Well my feeling became reality. 🥳 My first Standing Liberty quarter! I know some of you probably find these a lot, but here it's a shocker 🤯 I've finally done it tho, Seated, Standing, Walking, and a Barber. Yay. Only took almost 3 years. Went back to the hotspot, dug a few more things, and it started raining. I was happy so I jumped in the cart, went back to the house, and took my wife out to lunch. 😀 Got a small spoon, a button back of some sort, very thin and broken, and a razor handle. Got silver! 🙂 Not much trash today.

Wow! You're starting to look like a VLF Hunter man, trash to finds is pretty even. 👍 😀 That's a lot of coins for this time of year, I went to a local beach and got .87. 🤣 not worth it. That ring looks really nice, seems to have some fancy hallmarks, so you probably knocked out of of the park there. Add two silvers and a ton of modern change, that's a lot of digging. 👍 I wonder what took a bite out of the heart, or is that by design?

That's a nice hunt. So sad Michelle lost her bunny pendant! 😀 And the pipe is a hoot, that one looks more for weed than crack, but I don't know much about either. 🤣 I'd only give those settings out for experienced D2 folks that can change them to suit, yeah, it's going to find everything, but you get a choice. It's really like running the Equinox flat out in all metal, but way more accurate. The only thing to play with is reactivity, even when it's trashy I don't go over 2. Sorry about the "bomb" sounds on shallow iron and aluminum. 🫣 Told ya you might want to turn iron volume down, but I'd say it is more than 75% sure on iron, and your trash shows that. 👍 I think it's pretty good with co-located non ferrous too. 🙂 Looks like you got some period buttons, and what the heck is that bulb looking thing on the top left? Awesome hunt Cap'n, and thanks for giving it a shot. 👍

https://www.ebay.com/itm/185643161995 Here's one, others are made in Ukraine. It'll probably take a while for someone in the USA to get on the bandwagon. 😡 I looked for one of those plastic bonnets they used to make for cat food cans, a clear one. I think they're passé. 😵

Ok y'all, and my hat is off to @parkgt. Low tide at the river, got up to almost 60 today. Went down to the river with the WS6 and the 9" to see if the cheap coax I got on Amazon would work without stripping it, but it didn't. Went back and stripped 31mm of insulation off each end, and cut the copper sheilding back. I stuffed one stripped end with the insulator still on under the puck using the handy slot in front. The rest goes through a hole I drilled in the Detecting Doodads adapter, and then down through the shaft, exiting at the coil. The CF lower for the 13" has an exit hole. The other end I shrink wrapped and zip tied over the transmitter bump. This is what it looked like before shrinkwrap: and after: It works great. You can see here the coil is about 2 feet underwater, and it's still transmitting. 👍I can't imagine it would fail no matter how deep the coil went. Wire length does not matter AFAIK, I ran just enough to reach the coil at a comfortable length, with slack for folding the coil. The wire slides out of the lower when it's shortened for charging. 🙂 Thanks also to @PimentoUK for the specifics.

Thanks Rick, I'm a little afraid to do much more than rinse them off. The other stuff is interesting, so why not share! 🙂

Heh if my wife didn't call it out sometimes I wouldn't know what somea this stuff is. 😀 Came up trying to think of a snappy title. 🤣 Rhymes anyway... 🤔 Definitely getting up there in tribe numbers, glad they're all 100 years old. They sorta make up for the lack of silver with that awesome green color. Hoping for a holy grail eventually. This farm seems to have it all, and there's still a bit more. 1600s to today. 100 acres all smack there, I'm dreading the 500 acre place I just picked up, that one has similar parking issues. Hoping the others that hit it left me something. If all they did was cherry pick the silver I'll be happy.

Welcome from the other side. I'm on the east coast. 😀 There are many "dark sides" of detecting to switch to, I started with Garrett and Minelab, and have gone rogue to the Deus 2. Can't get enough of fiddling with the lightest detector there is, God forbid your future photo becomes a reality. 😀 Love the Ansel Adams border and the sepia tones - very "Mad Max". 🤣 Good luck and happy hunting, hope to see some of your exploits. 🫣

Thanks VL 😀 I'm very grateful for the milder winter cycle we're in, the only real cold snap was right at Christmas when it got down to 9. Glad I had holiday cheer to spread instead of dirt. 😁 It's gotta be windy and in the low 30s or less all day to keep me in, or raining/snowing. I like to go the second day after a rain, most winter storms are followed by high winds this time of year (nor'easter) which dries the top, unless there is a frost overnight, then the top surface melts and gets muddy. I do have some standards 🙄 🤣

It's a killer, you have to park in the farthest point from where the finds are. Got an even bigger one coming soon! About 5 times larger. 😀 That distance is about a half mile, glad I still find stuff coming back. The big filigree stamped rosette was my last find of the day not too far from the truck.

Thanks! I love relic hunting, this year I have so many choices of places to go. To me it's preferable to beach hunting because the finds are so varied and interesting. Researching them is a great deal. Being new to the hobby, I still have a long list of stuff to find, I've found gold but no gold coins as yet. I've found as much gold jewelry in the fields as the beach so far. Still saving history one piece at a time. Beach hunting is great too, just a bit noisier and more people. I like finding jewelry for my wife and family, found a large Disney necklace my grand daughter wears all the time. I think I get a bit tired of the beach after the 10,000th time I get asked if I'm finding anything 🤪 Most hunting is over now so it's very peaceful in the fields, I don't need to go on the weekends so I generally don't see anyone.

Quite a haul! 👍 Congrats on the gold. That's a beach hunt for ya. Think some YouTuber blew up the action camera while detecting? Yikes... 😀

Now that's a find! 👍 Nice going. I am not familiar with the Legend, must have gone off like a bomb. 💥 Congrats on a rare one!

Thanks JCR. I like to show the odd stuff I find, forgot to post the trash and the larger stuff: I'm thinking the triangular shaped object is either a file or a knife. I dug the two large pieces of iron because the tones were interesting, knew they were iron.

Not a great day today, never got much over 45 degrees but the wind was light enough to go hunting. Went to the big farm again. I was headed to the distant tree line, I found a hotspot there where a house stood long before recent memory. On the way I did a little random hunting where the barns and paddocks were behind the house, silver was found there last couple of trips. All I got there today was a button and some kind of gold plated broach. The button surprised me, haven't found too many here but that was going to change. It's kind of large, either held a big glass stone or maybe a timepiece. Went over next to the house, and dug a ~1930s lipstick case and a 1937 Canada penny. The penny wasn't in great shape, but again an odd find. I headed along what I thought was the "road" in to where the house was, and got some early stuff, a Tombac in pretty bad shape and a shankless gold plated button with backmarks: Also a tiny ladle shaped bit. The other side is a bowl, no idea what it might be used for but it's very old. Finally got to the spot I wanted to concentrate on, and the finds kept coming! Got 3 IHP's, 1881, 1887, and 1895. At last some old coins! These pretty much give the era of this house, the new one was built in 1903. Here's the total haul today, a mixed bag of stuff, mostly Victorian: I even got a ~.50 caliber 3 ring bullet. Great double D buckle with a brass pin, first time I've found one with an intact pin. An old spoon with no monogram or makers mark, a couple overall buttons and a four hole. Probably the most interesting bits I dug today were these two filigree objects: neither appear to be buttons, just stamped decorations. Pretty good day! I was hoping for a Barber or seated coin, the era is right, but nothing stood out. Maybe the residents at the time were very careful of their silver. 😀