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  • The Best Find Ever For Me

    The Best Find Ever For Me

    Hi there all, well I have only had my detector for a few months and still learning to use it, now learning even faster now I have the bug for it. I have found a 1930 penny that I found to be a forgott…

  • This One was About More Than the Finds!

    This One was About More Than the Finds!

    Between snow, freezing rain, wind, or just the demands of the daily grind, getting time to go digging is a commodity. Especially getting to dig with my father in law. Virginia's winter often has a fu…

  • GMT Holds its Own in Idaho

    GMT Holds its Own in Idaho

    A couple weeks ago, I went to see my Daughter and Family in Boise, ID. Not much for me to do, sense my son-in-law and daughter work. On Sunday my Daughter (Cindy) and I went to Boise basin, where she…

  • Never Had So Much Fun

    Never Had So Much Fun

    I was sitting in my living room and it suddenly dawned on me what an amazing machine the E-TRAC really is. I have owned it for about two months now and as I learn more about the machine the more resp…

  • A Deadly Combination

    A Deadly Combination

    I was detecting an area close to Stanton ,AZ using my GPX 5000 with 8" Minelab Commander coil. I had been finding sub Gram pieces all morning, I was working some decomposing bedrock, and got a faint s…

  • The Extreme Versatility of the Commander 15 x 12 Mono

    The Extreme Versatility of the Commander 15 x 12 Mono

    After using a Minelab GPX 5000, the above photo was set up and taken using a march fly as a measuring stick to show the extreme capabilities of the Commander 15 x 12 Mono coil and what it is capable…

  • New Coil, New Finds

    New Coil, New Finds

    I got an early Christmas present from my wife a 12x15 Double-D coil for my GPX 5000 and went to a spot that's been real good to me and it really amazed me by it performance with these civil war finds,…

  • Richard 111 Long Cross Silver Hammered Groat 1483-1485

    Richard 111 Long Cross Silver Hammered Groat 1483-1485

    Hi my name is Colin and I live in Halifax, West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. I am a member of the Yorkshire Searchers Metal Detecting Club, and have been a keen metal detectorist since 1990. On S…

  • Winner So Far!

    Winner So Far!

    Yesterday I got a call from a lady that lost her engagement ring in a communal garden a week ago. In the meantime we have experienced torrential downpours on almost a daily basis. She told me that sh…