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Whites Treasure Stories
One day I was searching a desolate beach in Cape Cod, MA. just me, a sand scoop and my Whites MXT that I had been using for two years, when I found my best treasure. I had been out for about a half hour and the beach was really sandy because a storm had just passed. I got a good signal and found, buried about an inch down, a 1.74 carat diamond ring. 
Rebecca E. of a friend and customer of our own "Super Treasure Hunter" Wanda surprised us all when she visited the Kellyco Showroom recently and displayed her recent beach finds. Rebecca decided after having some unfortunate experiences (nothing worth digging for) with a low-end junker detector, that she would finally get a decent metal detector. I guess Wanda helped her make one heck of a great metal detector decision.. 
Along Grants Creek two brothers were massacred by Indians and their gold was stolen. It has never been found and could be buried along the creek, which is down the road from my house. I have often detected in that rea and found some silver from the 1900's, which you can see in the attached photos. Thanks to Kellyco, these were all found with my Whites DFX - the best machine I have ever owned. It came with a great package; Bullseye Pinpointer, and Kellyco digging gear that I am still using after two years and looks brand new!
I was so far from help, driving an Isuzu 4x4 into grass over a foot deep when I began to have ignition problems. I had to remove the points and wouldn't you know it, I lost the little screw that held the things all together. It was a bummer of the worst kind, and both me and that screw were no where to be found by anyone.
It took me a few days of trying before I finally figured out that I should get off the desert floor and up into the dry washes of the mountains. Now I pretty much avoid areas where humans can live or camp, so if something “beeps” I know it is worth diggin’ for. And for me, that is in the dry washes. If you get down lower most of the targets are foil, and while I did find an old bullet one time.
I found it using my Whites MXT with the 5" excelarator coil, found in London, Ontario Canada, about 4" deep. the ground is infested with well rusted iron and a lot of nails I usually get 2-3 in in every scoop of my digger. the MXT with 5" excelarator coil is great at separating trash.
Well I am impressed with this 8" DD Excelerator coil. I was hunting in a "hunted out" park that has its fair share of trash. I found that even though this coil is bigger than I normally use is high trash areas, I was still able to get great target separation and recover some coins out of the trash. VDI numbers were accurate as was the depth readings. I was running my White's MXT's gain at +2 and the detector was reasonably stable and quiet. What I liked best about the coil was its detection depth.
When I put the 6" excelereator on my DFX and was doing some testing I got this signal right next to a piece of metal(I always missed it with the large stock coils). It was a small gold ring! I couldn't believe it!! Now I am convinced about these small DD coils. They are great in trash!
I could not believe that all of this was left behind by me and everyone else using all different brand names of metal detectors. The 6" Excelerator coil is hot, hot, hot! Every site that I go to now with this coil I know that I will find something - coins or some objects - left behind by some others.
This coil is an excellent choice for open field hunting and even in high trash areas.
I have only used it for about 6 or 7 hours but in that time I found that I was able to detect deep targets as I dug several targets that were in the 8 to 9 inch range. I feel that the coil is capable of getting down deeper. Pinpointing with this coil is a snap.
I recovered this beautiful women's silver bracelet with what I believe to be Mother of Pearl stones all the way around it. It is very heavy and is marked .925. I walked over to my wife to do a little bragging and held it out for her to see. Well she scooped it out of my hand faster than I could say " Hey Honey look what I found." I think she likes it. It is going to be a great summer for metal detecting.
I thought you might like to see a photo of a 14K gold ring with 8 diamonds that I recovered this 4th of July. I went to a park that had a couple of ball diamonds. I was swinging my White's MXT in left field when I got a solid 14 VDI reading on the display.I dug the target and imagine my surprise when this beautiful gold ring with 8 diamonds popped out of the hole. This is my second gold ring with diamonds in two days. I guess I am pretty lucky. 
Today my wife and I went metal detecting. We went to a park that has produced some nice finds in the past and today it would produce again. My wife dug this very nice women's 10K gold ring that has 10 diamonds. Needless to say, she was thrilled with her find. She was using her White's MXT with her favorite search coil, the Excelerator 4.5x7 DD. She got a solid 10-12 VDI reading at 4 inches down.
Although I've been detecting a long time and owned lots of metal detectors, I had never owned a DFX.
When it arrived last week from JW at Kellyco, I read the manual, watched the DVD and re-read the manual. I have been using the Super 12 coil quite a bit on my MXT and decided that was the coil for the DFX's "maiden voyage". I took the detector out to my coin garden and familiarized myself with the settings and the sounds. I immediately noticed how the audio tone of the DFX reminded me of my XLPro.
I think Whites Metal Detectors, hands down, are the best in the world, especially, the DFX. I Have had mine about six months and a month ago I was scanning with my DFX, in a park near my home in Dixon, California. The place in the park where I was detecting use to have a really old three story house on part of the park grounds. I was over by some huge black walnut trees, when I received a super strong signal indicating silver.
After a few outings to the Local beaches and finding nothing but pop tops I decided to give my neighborhood park and lake a try. I found about $2.00 in change the first day looking around the swings where kids play and a silver eagle near by where the parents sit on a bench to watch the kids play. Well, to make a long story short.
I can say that my White's MXT with 6" Excelerator was on fire this weekend. I hit a few tot lots and parks and I did pretty good. My favorite finds were the dollar coins, the Kennedy half and the 25" 14K gold chain. Like I said we had a great weekend. 
I was shocked when the first week with my DFX I was getting a 17+ VDI in the stone foundation. I moved a few rocks from the wall and there sitting nicely protected from the elements was this 1777 USA Continental Army General Service enlisted soldier's button. 
I had only made a few sweeps of my coil when I located two targets within inches of each other. One target read a quarter and the other read a dime. I dug both targets and recovered two silver coins, a 1942 quarter and a 1934 Mercury dime. I don't dig a lot of silver coins so I was pretty excited. The 6" DD Excelerator search coil never ceases to amaze me.
I am really tickled with my new 10 X 14 DD Excelerator searchcoil. When the coil arrived I mounted it on my White's MXT and I was happy to see that the detector had a good balance with the big coil mounted. I got a chance to put the coil through its paces for a couple hours or so this weekend at a school near my home. I found that it pinpointed right on the money, VDI numbers were accurate and I was able to run the gain near max without any noticeable chatter.
However, two block down the street from my home address is a small park that has been there since the Mid 70's. It has a playground for kids with Swings and Slides plus a covered pavilion with a grill. I guess over the years many people have been the this park and dropped coins plus other things. The photo below is what I been able to detect with my new M6 on 4 Outings now at the park.
See What Lawrenzo FOUND: While field testing the NEW 14"
EXcelerator Searchcoil for his White's DFX,Lawrenzo unearthed hundreds of valuables. Rings, coins, tokens,
watches - you name it, he found it! 
There seemed to be nothing but trash around the trees. Then I got a good hit! I dug down about 3 inches and found some silver coins and the 5 dollar gold coin. What a surprise! The coins were in an old leather sack that fell apart when I picked it up.
When I returned, I re scanned the area and confirmed the target to be at a depth of 6 inches. Before I dug, I advanced the Gain to +4 and raised the coil as I swept over the target. I was able to clearly hear the audio response, as well as a consistent VDI reading with the coil sweeping 7 inches above the ground. Anxious to see what I had missed so many times before, I cut the sod from around the target location.
My new White's Classic 5ID is great! Just look at all my finds. Rings, coins, jewelry, relics... I have found a good assortment of just about everything. Special thanks to your White's man - JW for his help with my purchase.
"A Day with Fabian"
I accumulated $37 in quarters and enough pennies, dimes and nickels to fill two coffee cups. I also found ten rings and some other treasure.
The top one is an Avon ring and the bottom one is a Black Hills Gold 10K ring. I found these along with the usual clad and junk. I was using my MXT and my new 6" DD Excelerator search coil. I just can't say enough about this awesome little coil.
During my hunt I began to notice that some of the coins I was digging up were pre-82 penny's, 1965 quarter, 1953 nickel and 1965 and 1966 dimes. I had been hunting pretty fast, but after seeing the dates on these coins I slowed down. I had just recovered 3 pre-82 pennies and before moving on.
Standing on the boardwalk overlooking the beach, I noticed that ocean waves were pushing water almost up to the steps leading to the beach. That meant that the tide would be pulling out some of the top sand, exposing more targets and hopefully allowing the detector signals to penetrate deeper. And I proved to be right. 
This sounded like a job for my White's DFX. I knew the general area where the ring was lost so, before I searched, I reviewed the manual to see what displays I should expect. Within 5 minutes I hit what turned out to be the ring. I pinpointed it and as I got my Gator Digger out to start digging, I caught a glimpse of the ring. It was partially sticking out of the dirt/grass.
I headed for the park to dig up a present.LOL Well it didn't take long swinging my MXT with 6" Excelerator. I got a strong steady 10-12 VDI at 3 inch's. I recovered a nice gold ring which has a ruby and diamonds. I took the ring home to my wife and she loved it, and it fit her to boot, but I have the feeling I am not going to get off that easy for Mother's day. Hallmarked and 10K. D.A in Idaho.
Most of my finds were a first for me. Included, are my favorites, such as the cameo brooch estimated to be about 150 years old, 2 silver Mercury dimes, V nickels both 1904, 2 indian head pennies 1901 and 1897 and a gorgeous standing liberty quarter with no date. Many items were found together on the same day. (WAAHOOO!) I was hoping to find 2 of the liberty quarters on the same day too, but I guess my doubles streak had to end sooner or later.
Perhaps one of the most interesting topics debated in Judaic numismatics is the uncertainty surrounding the origin of the origin of the 1927 Historic Holy land Coin, sometimes referred to as the "Souvenir Mil." The true story about why this particular item was made has never been known with a high degree of certainty.
I was running in the coin and jewelry program with tone ID on and was hoping to dig another gold ring but just dug the trash I included in the photo, digging through sod and hard dirt is a nasty chore! I managed o find some clad at the usual shallow depths for the next 1/2 hour and then I got a sweet silver tone, which turned up the silver ring which was 6 inches deep on the meter and had a chunk of aluminum right above it! 
It was still early, so we continued to detect for another hour or so and another WOW, in fact, two Wow's. I found 2 diamond necklace solitaires! Surprisingly, not many coins and no one else was detecting in the park area. The White's Classic 5ID was an excellent choice.
I was hunting with the White's MXT finding a lot of old nails along with beer cans and shell casings. I then got a weird tone I could not figure out. So, of course, I dug it up at about 15" deep and much to my surprise, it was like a time capsule.
About 3 weeks ago I upgraded to the DFX and my finds so far have been great - the best being 2 Silver Dollars dated 1922 and 1924. I found both of them in the same hole near a local beach that I've seen people detecting before.
I have attached a couple pictures of some Spring 2004 finds from one of my favorite sites. You will see quite a variety of coins from Seated and Barber silver to Indian Cents and Shield and V Liberty nickels. This area was used as an old picnic ground years ago, but it is now just a corn field. Makes for an interesting spring each year as the farmer tills the soil and churns up coins from generations past.
I knew accurately what was under the search coil. As I mentioned when my picture was taken, "For me the Beach Hunter ID is the answer for beach hunting. This detector proved its worth to me by locating 2 gold rings and a 1918 Silver Dollar the first time out!" 
I
just wanted to write in and thank KELLYCO for selling me some
outstanding machines. I
bought a White's DFX and a Beach Hunter ID from you folks along
with a bunch of accessories. I found some coins and many bottle
caps before a loud sounding of my Beach Hunter ID grabbed my
attention. The machine indicated...