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Thanks! 🙂 I have only SteveG to thank otherwise. 🏆 He makes a heckuva shaft for detectors. Using zip ties is a double edge sword, they hold stuff nicely and in my experience don't wear out too fast, so that's great. Notice the tie on the control unit as well. Just made it. The bad part is that going water hunting introduces fine silt into everything, so cleaning it all afterward is a nightmare. That is why I go to my local Ace and get a bag of 100 zip ties. 🤣 8" light duty black. Here a bag is $3.89.

I just installed the waveguide for water detecting tomorrow, looks like this, decided to run it through the shaft and zip tie it. Thought people might like to see how this option works on the SteveG CF shaft.

Well that saves me some time! 😀Thanks for updating us. 👍 I can imagine the transmit distance gets pretty close when fully submerged.

Here are some others, specifically sized for detectors: https://www.amazon.com/Snake-Skinz-Sleeves-Detectors-Americano/dp/B08BG5L32S I like yours better because they are more easily removed. 👍

They are. Thought that was one of those "Snake Skins".

Cool to see you using a discriminating SMF detector and getting results like that. That's a real jump for joy to find a CC coin! 🥳 Is the CC above or below the wreath, hurry up before GB gets here 😀 You might get spoiled not digging so much trash and getting great results, but I'm sure the PI would have gone deeper. I'm hoping to get to a river beach soon myself to test out the D2. Excellent hunt! 👍 As usual.

I regard tungsten carbide rings to be the payoff for fuel and parking if I don't find anything better 😏 and do the same thing, give them away. About the most expensive one I've found was about $250.

Couldn't find anything in the usual searches, but I keep thinking awl or leather punch of some sort. It does resemble an old soldering iron tho. 🤔

Nice, even got a date on the token. 👍 Odd that even then they had to be told where the seat was... 😏 🤣 Great hunt!

I'm thinking that this might be "good enough" if brought all the way up to the top shaft inside. 🤔 Might try that. I did get the SteveG shaft with the holes for the wire, but they are still good for fast filling the tube when immersed. 👍

Thanks Cap'n! I find so many of them I pretty much only keep the good ones in a box of stuff too big for Riker cases. 😀 I'm thinking it was probably a veterinarian too, there was a lot of activity with horses in this field. Probably about 100 buttons and various studs and horse tack pieces have been found. Could have been racing but we haven't found the cash drawer yet! Could also have been shows. La Niña is alive and well here, we only had one cold snap at Christmas and have not as yet had snow. Might do some river hunting this week at an extreme low tide to test the 13". Looks like the 13s are trickling out again. Check your mailbox, I'll be sending it to ya. Rather do it that way than post it. 🙂

I should have known that, having lived in Victorian houses with those very glass doorknobs. 🤦‍♂️ Thanks again JCR! 😀

Anywhere from the 1850s to about the 1920s. Could be a fuel syringe.

Got out for a bit yesterday to see what I could find on some places I've hit hard locally. Started out fairly warm, but late the wind came up and that was the end of T-shirt hunting this week! 😵 The first place I went was this spot on the big plantation where a house once stood, it's grassy and full of trash. It rained the day before so I really didn't want to get all muddy, walking in grass is damp but better. 😀 I used the WS6 Master rig with both my relic program and a version of Silver Slayer that only finds objects ID'ing from 87-99, as you only get one notch. I hunted around here for an hour or so, got lots of high tones but they were mostly aluminum bottle caps and whole beer cans. Ended up with 5 coins, all modern. No Zincolns though! Next I've been meaning to hunt this field right near the old house that was built around 1740. I had been told that it was heavily hunted before, so I didn't expect much. Only spent about 45 minutes here, nothing but can slaw and deep cans. This time I used the 13", but the grass was kinda high for swinging the big coil. Finally went out to the big field and hacked around randomly. Here's the take: There I got the big D buckle, 4 buttons, some kind of knob, a buckle fragment and a very old syringe top, by far one of the odd finds so far. The buttons were one ball button, one two flat, medium and small, and the top part of a two piece that looks like a rose: The knob was a 93, and one of the stranger objects I've found: it has a square hole on the small end and a set screw hole. Very heavy brass. Last is the syringe top, kinda weird to find one this old! I had to be really careful cleaning it up. Trash was less than a handful in this field. Old pocket knife end and the usual metal junk, pistol and buck balls. Not even a handful. The relic program I'm using is pretty successful, if a few of you more experienced people are bored enough to want to try it, let me know. I doubt it will be great for mineralized areas, but in fairly clean farm hunting it is a killer. I'd like to get some impressions! Notice I dig almost no iron, the discrimination makes it stay where it should be for the most part. It is an "all metal" program using full tones, it will really sound off when you hit shallow targets, and reactivity is so low that you will have to investigate every medium to high "blip" you hear. 🙂

Took mine off, been using the Detecting Doodads rig on my stock Deus 2 shaft, it also holds the WS6 module. SteveG's CF shaft comes with a similar locking rig that holds it as good or better, so I retired the tether. Looked everywhere for ya Carolina, can't find it for sale. 😵

Definitely a blank, got some info on the headstamp: ADI Australian Defence Industries (1991–1993; 1994–present) – Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (1991–1993) / Benalla, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (1994–present). Moved from Footscray to Benalla in 1994. Became privatized as Thales Australia (a division of the French firm Thales Defense) in 2006. Probably from that exercise. 👍 Cool butterfly bottle opener!

Thanks Strick, as usual another great video from Rattlehead. I like his no nonsense approach. 👍 On the D2 I tend to use General rather than fast, my soil is a lot wetter than that stuff. 😀 I too run reactivity low, and investigate any blip I get. I also run a custom disc and no notch, so I rarely get fooled by iron, but those old nails... 🙄 It's great to know the D2 holds its own, doubt I'll be needing another detector any time soon. 🙂

Yeah they're not exactly safe. Used to have a carbide cannon when I was a kid, the Big Bang™. You could really annoy your neighbors with that one, and the cops couldn't touch you. 🤣 You can still buy them! 😀 https://www.bigbangcannons.com

Probably they'd be more interested in the firecrackers here 🤔 🤫

This is a heavy duty boating community. 🤔 Could be. Down at the river I find copper nails everywhere.

Everytime I come home from detecting, he checks all my gear out like it's his. 🤣

That's karma. 😀 Strick got some when he trained somebody on the beach. 🤣

Well damf you ain't right! 😀 Just took a toothbrush and water to mine, here's the result. I'm thinking button hole fastener for something? My dog wants to know. 🤣

Dunno, it was attached to something else that was metal plate: I'm thinking some kind of horse tack. That's not cloth under the fastener, obviously took a lot of force to snap it off. It's real heavy. The nail is copper, it gave the same ID as a wheat penny. This field is part of the large plantation I've been hunting, didn't feel like going too far from home yesterday 😀

Probably Templar... I also got another hammered Roman pulltab! 🤔