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  • Good Start to the Month

    Good Start to the Month

    After last month finding a ounce with the GPX 5000 I had started this month (May) off in a good way. I found a little run of gold which had a 4 gram nugget mixed in with them. In 3 days I had picked…

  • A Couple Thousand Dollars Worth of Coins

    A Couple Thousand Dollars Worth of Coins

    I headed out to an older part of town this week to investigate a sidewalk tear out my wife and I had seen the night before. I knew the E-TRAC was going to love this spot so first thing the next morni…

  • A Nice Silver Pocket Spill

    A Nice Silver Pocket Spill

    Every day we are able to have a co-worker and I go out during lunch to metal detect for about 45 minutes or so around town. We are very limited due to the time we have but it's better than spending t…

  • Preserving World War II History

    Preserving World War II History

    Gusap in the beautiful Ramu Valley of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a service town for the growing and refining of sugar by Ramu Agri Industries (RAI). During World War 2 it was one of a number of airfie…

  • Killer on Coins

    Killer on Coins

    I would just like to say Minelab will always be in my stable. I have been a white detector person for a long time. I almost bought a v3i until I heard it was complicated and had problems. I hardly ev…

  • E-TRAC Finds Gold Nugget

    E-TRAC Finds Gold Nugget

    The scene is: I’m hunting in a spot I’ve hunted in many times before. Because of all the time I’ve spent here, I’ve conditioned myself to ignore a lot of signals, because of t…

  • First 3 Days Out With My New VX3

    First 3 Days Out With My New VX3

    The day I bought my VX3 I took it out to try it. The very first target I dug was a '43 mercury dime! I was like wow! Then within 10 minutes after that I dug a walking liberty half dollar, and by the e…

  • A Happy Balance

    A Happy Balance

    I enjoy posting videos, reading forums and making new friends in the Detecting Hobby. Having said that, it upsets me when I see users of other metal detectors talking down on Minelab products and mak…

  • E-TRAC Finds 200-Year Old piece of History

    E-TRAC Finds 200-Year Old piece of History

    I was hunting a spot where I had been told was an old war of 1812 area of Ontario on a friend's property. I had just purchased my E-TRAC the week before. The day after I bought it I started finding s…