Doc Bach

Even better....Very nice find!

Have too agree with Strick, gotta love that Hoochie Coochie gal!

It could very possibly be yet another exceptionaly rare and previously unrecorded specimen of leaverite?

Here are a few examples.A popular pastime back in the day but still being made today.

I do believe that is the finest collection of ring pulls that I have ever seen Strick.

Good luck with that one, and you're not alone. A lot of detectorist including me have been aware of and strugglin to change that habit for decades cheers!

Good stuff Erik....I'm surprised that your built in radar didn't start beeping sooner on that hot spot.

That's a fine grouping of clean nickels that you have in your display even minus the elusive three legged buff that you parted with.What you need to find now is a Hobo nickel to highlight the collection.

One cannot praise the D2 enough in my opinion.That being said there is still a whole lot to like about the Deus 1 with the white coils and their higher frequencies.Not just for the prospector but for relic hunters as well.The round 9 at 54 KHz and the elliptical running between 70 and 80 KHz is still my go to weapon of choice on many hunts.It seems like most Deus users have kind of forgotten about the benefits of those single higher frequencies.

Probably so for the ones like myself. You know the type.... The ones that are a bit too cagey or shy about formerly introducing themselves.

Welcome to the forum you live in a great area for for all of your passions or addictions depending on how one looks at it.In addition to the gold their are many fine western relics and antique bottles still to be found in your area.Former and still recovering twenty year Steelhead bum who wintered in Brookings.

One mans treasure is another mans clad.

Great hunt with some very early finds.It's good to see that there others out there beside myself(on occassion)that are still swinging a Garrett AT.

Pleasant thoughts, although probably just wishful thinking? But on the other hand, nothing at all wrong with positive thinking....And cheers to you if that is correct.Definitely a different angle to a somewhat frustrating topic and situation for most.

Howdy JCR I have been wanting to try a new and diffirent approach to cleaning up some recently dug flower and military buttons that still retain considerable gilt.Did you settle on and can you recommend any particular brand of Navel/Aluminum jelly? Any advice would be appreciated thanks, DB.

Thanks for posting that information.You have helped me decide that my next pointer will be either the Teknetics Tek-Point or Fisher F-Pulse.

Very judicious responce Gerry to my usual less than diplomatic opinion.

I've found the two that I have had for years now to be virtualy bullet proof original A\T and Z-LYNK.That said they can be temperamental at times and like you I have pulled the battery out and replaced it. And sometimes I do the long press and cycle through the settings to get it to settle down and also try to G B it.I hate to say it but it could be a build quality issue and maybe Garrett quietly outsourced their manufacturing to Malaysia? (sorry I couldn't resist)

Piss poor isn't it.

Back in the glory days (early to mid 1970's) when draft beer was 35 cents per glass at the local small town watering holes where I grew up.No problemo it never had a chance to pile up.Nowadays I suppose that one could try to run it through a Constar machine at a percentage of course.Not to be pretentious but I only hunt relic sites anymore so I rarely find much of it.

Howdy CoinShooter.Man oh man I really like that watch fob! Did you clean it up or did it come out of the ground that shinny? I'm one of those peculiar cats that has always liked to wear things that I have found throughout my lifetime on my person and clothing.I would surely and proudly be sporting that fob around my fellow fishing fanatics on the river and at tackle shows, that's an outstanding piece in my book.

Different peoples and cultures have a vast difference of opinion of about what hard work actually is, enough said.But to be fair there is a flip side to that coin....When it comes down to brass tacks with xp quality is better than quantity.

Those Browns are ferocious predators and notorious for attacking and eating just about anything that they see and can catch.Would not be surprised if they had Rainbows in their stomachs. I have caught the sea run version in the Trinity River here in Northern California and their bellies were full of Salmon and Steelhead Smolts so many that they were regurgitating them.Anyway very nice fish!

Good point JCR, no pun intended.The obsidian from the local volcano where I find a lot of my Points,Blades,Scrapers,Drills and so forth, most commonly comes in different shades and grades of black.Ranging from a very fragile and glossy transparent type to a very dense and hard Jett black grade. .And then there is the more rare and desireable yet seldom seem grey and opaque variety, very similar to Colonel Dans exceptional piece.

Breaking news! The freakin Manticore boat sunk like the Titanic six months ago! Can you say FML?