Fredneck

Oh absolutely.

Been swinging the GPX since it hit the market for CW relics and find that a 15" coil is perfect for the CW smalls and the CW bigs no matter if its made by Detech, Coiltek, or Minelab. Personally I've used all 3, including the Detech Spiral, but prefer the 15" Commander DD, it continues to amaze me. I use the 18" Commander at times as well for specific hunts.

Nice variety of finds and a great surprise with the Block A button. Also I believe the piece your referring as a heel plate looks more like an early musket butt plate, possibly a Brown Bess.

Rare to even see a 5500-D SL, especially for sale and in new condition, I had to grab it. Coil shows no use, like it went out to the backyard once, the sticker arm cuff cushions weren't put on. It was my first detector, purchased out of Sears catalog, if I remember correctly in 1990. Dug many great CW relics with this detector my first 2 years in the hobby until I moved on to the Eagle Spectrum in 92'. It cleaned up on a 20 acre virgin battle site, that later greater detectors struggled to find anything missed. Bought it just for nostalgia, but now after playing with it out back using the coils for my XLT, which seem to work perfectly fine with it, I can see this hitting the field with a 15" coil for some shell or hut hunting. After all, as a rookie I never used this machine to its full potential, and knowing what I know now after over 30 years of detecting. might as well try and have fun with it. Sold my original for $150 and snagged this one for $150 👍

Looks like the Eagle of the Army post Rev War 1780-1800. Nice finds, looks like a great spot.

Oh I see now, mistook it in pic #2. That's a good one, congrats !!

Nice !! Looks like what you have is a cut minnie, the Colt would have a solid base with no cavity. Need to go get my bullet fix, now that the ground has softened up.

Cool relic, likely a remnant of a colonial hoe, Here's a couple I found at an early site. I added one that looks similar to yours from Bill Dancy's artifact book.

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Great follow up 40 years later to a very cool relic cache !! Love this story.

Great that Garrett is making concentric coils, would love to have that 6" on the AT Gold. but I'll settle for a concentric when they bring out the Garrett/White's V4 😁

Mixed Mode is the setting your looking for, it's a hybrid All Metal/Disc mode and can give you the high tones you want while still achieving max depth of all metal mode. Standard MM is dual tone, accepted vdi's are high tone and rejected are low tone, or you could reverse that tone scenario. Runs much like a GPX, I call my XLT the GPX Jr 😀. You can also turn on Tone ID while in MM to get out of dual tone, and set accept and reject to your liking, while still remaining in an all metal mode. Simple start would be to just select Relic program and turn on Mixed mode, it will run 2 tone all metal. Enjoy.

Well if you can find a Jimmy Sierra 12" Hot Shot coil for sale, it's a great coil and folks rarely let them go. I know longer own one but ran them for years. Similar performance to the Super 12 with MXT.

6.59khz coils - Blue Max 4x6DD... Concetric - Bullseye 5.3 (5"), Royal 800 (8"), Stock 9.5, Blue Max, Maxima 1500 15" My 2 choices for CW relic hunting is the Stock 9.5 and the 15" Maxima, As for the small coils, the Bullseye 5.3 is the better performer hands down, but with the right tweaks the 9.5 can perform well on sites where a smaller coil is in need. Have fun with it, I sure do.

4 foot deep hole can get pretty damn exciting on an early colonial settlement, even better, in a Civil War camp.