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  • Copper Worth Dancing About

    Copper Worth Dancing About

    What was I thinking? Oh yeah. Hello my name is Paul and I'm an MD'ing addict!! It was 100+ yesterday. But recently at a family get together a family member was talking about always enjoying seeing an…

  • One of the Best Adventures to Date

    One of the Best Adventures to Date

    I answered a call from Gerry around dinner time. He asked if I wanted to go with him and a few friends detecting an old mining town. I knew I really couldn’t go, work was piling up, deadlines w…

  • Not Bad for a Quick Hunt

    Not Bad for a Quick Hunt

    Here in April I saw the weather report was calling for a sunny day in the 70's so I took my new E-TRAC to work today. On the way home I stopped at a nearby dog park which has a farm house dating back…

  • A New Milestone For My E-TRAC

    A New Milestone For My E-TRAC

    I hunt for civil war relics in Virginia. I've been doing it for ten years. I have around five places I mainly hunt. I used a White's Dfx for the first seven, then I purchased a Tdi. Now I'm not sayin…

  • Jewellery Rescue

    Jewellery Rescue

    Jewellery Rescue is an Australian wide network of amateur and pro detectorists dedicated to the search and return of lost peoples jewellery for a modest fee. The E-TRAC being my preferred search prim…

  • Never Thought it Would be This Great

    Never Thought it Would be This Great

    I can't believe it! I found another silver today. I never actually thought it would be this great. I thought it was going to be better, but not like this. I used my old detector for 2.5 years. I foun…

  • Colonial Field Homesite Gives Up the Goods

    Colonial Field Homesite Gives Up the Goods

    After two weeks of tracking down the owners of the site, I finally obtained permission to metal detect some farm fields that once had dwellings from colonial days. There is still corn stubble in the…

  • Restoring 65 Years of Memories

    Restoring 65 Years of Memories

    I and fellow Dayton Digger Tom Johnson were called out to see if we could find a lost wedding ring. The gentleman had lost it; he believed in his garden plot two years before and after much fruitless…

  • Badge Of Success

    Badge Of Success

    As the year winds down, I was 1 away today from my goal of finding 30 silver coins for the year. I decided to head out about 40 minutes from my home, to a park in an old town that was established in…