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  • BeachHunter 300 Finds Couples Lost Ring

    BeachHunter 300 Finds Couples Lost Ring

    Returning home to France from vacation, we stopped on the coast of Italy. I decided to take my BHID 300 with me in case I had a chance to do some detecting. We were in a town called Sanremo near the…

  • Finding the Deep, Heavy Rings!

    Finding the Deep, Heavy Rings!

    I am new to Minelab but no stranger to metal detecting, having used other brands for more than 10 years. Earlier this year I decided to try beach detecting due to the high cost of gold and invested i…

  • Golden Vespasianus

    Golden Vespasianus

    Hello everyone. I have done a wonderful find with my CTX3030. I really did not know what came over me. What a rush.A Gold (aureus) Vespasian 69-79 after CHR. Before and afterwards lots of silver (den…

  • Accidental Discovery

    Accidental Discovery

    On June 6, 2011, I went to the beach in Ventura California for a quick hunt in the wet sand with my E-TRAC. For an hour I worked on a beach cut that gave me a few corroded coins, pull tabs and a corr…

  • 1865 Civil War Camp

    1865 Civil War Camp

    Hi all, Christmas eve 2012 I went out for a couple of hours to a pounded CW site close to home. I had been over the area before with little results. Well armed with the E-TRAC in TTF mode I started f…

  • V3i Comes Through in Tough Ground

    V3i Comes Through in Tough Ground

    I went out today for a detecting fix. So I headed to a site that I hunted once before. The ground was like concrete and just too hard to dig. So I packed it up and went home. We are in need of some r…

  • Two Scoops Down

    Two Scoops Down

    The Excalibur II continues to impress me. I was working at a sanded in beach for a few hours and scooped up a nice 14k ring with three real diamonds, I also found a silver ring my daughter claimed rig…

  • 276 Grams in 1 Week

    276 Grams in 1 Week

    My name is Mamady Kamara. I found 276 grams in 1 week with my new GPX 5000. I used to own Minelab X-TERRA 705 Gold Pack. With profit made from gold finds with that machine I was able to purchase the G…

  • Minelab Kicks XP's Butt!

    Minelab Kicks XP's Butt!

    When I first got my E-TRAC, I had little hope, considering all the other detectors I had seen used. I purchased the E-TRAC near this last Christmas and was very anxious to see how it would perform in…