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  • E-TRAC Scores 112 Silver Coins in 17 Days!

    E-TRAC Scores 112 Silver Coins in 17 Days!

    I had business in an unfamiliar town, and researched potential places to detect while I was there. I threw my E-TRAC and gear in the car, and headed off. The first site on my list was closed, and whe…

  • Minelab Magic

    Minelab Magic

    Thanks for the certificate, cap, and bottle opener much appreciated. The results are from two hunts down at a local beach. It was a cool afternoon so I decided to put in an hour and a half. Sometimes…

  • Making the Club Proud

    Making the Club Proud

    This was another Sunday dig with timeline MDC from Birmingham. Went for a dig in Shrewsbury with 50 members. After two hours of detecting I was fed up, no coin, no artifact. Nothing except a few piec…

  • One Kilogram of Gold

    One Kilogram of Gold

    A few years ago, during the banking crisis, a person was given some very poor advice. He was told that ‘if a bank went bust, anything in a deposit box would be lost’. Unfortunately he bel…

  • Minelab Excalibur II Pays For Itself

    Minelab Excalibur II Pays For Itself

    Just a couple of lines and photos from last week's trip to Spain. The Excalibur II was amazing, knocking out all the hair clips and the small cent coins which are a pest. All in all a great week, than…

  • Some Good Karma

    Some Good Karma

    It was a beautiful day so I spent the morning hunting in my favorite park. The park maintenance crew recently cleared the undergrowth out of a very old section of the park where I've found dozens of…

  • My Biggest Nugget

    My Biggest Nugget

    I was told by my friends to buy the Minelab GPX 5000 machine and I am so happy that I bought my Minelab GPX 5000. I have been looking for gold in the fields for many years and have never been lucky t…

  • X-TERRA 705 Hits Nice Gold Ring From the Saltwater Rocks

    X-TERRA 705 Hits Nice Gold Ring From the Saltwater Rocks

    I was testing out a new X-TERRA 6" Double-D - 19.75kHz coil I just received from my friend Kevin (neswiper) and while testing in the rocky area on the Chesapeake bay the new coil was able to find a n…

  • New to the X-TERRA 705

    New to the X-TERRA 705

    I have used an old cheap detector, on and off, for a few years with virtually no joy. But after reading the success stories on the Minelab site, I decided to give detecting a proper try and purchased…