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  • Success All Around

    Success All Around

    I received my X-TERRA 705 over a month ago. I have read Diggers info over and over regarding the X-TERRA 705. Now I am ready. I arrived at a local park on Galveston Bay to be met by a group there det…

  • Vikings at the Gate of Paris

    Vikings at the Gate of Paris

    It has been a while, but finally I can put a story down here again after too long not searching. And only working, working. But all the waiting paid off. After a car drives 350 KM towards a spot, and…

  • 1864 Two Cent Piece

    1864 Two Cent Piece

    It began when I spotted an article in the local newspaper about an overnight fire that had destroyed a very old house in a nearby central Illinois town. I immediately called my friend and local White…

  • Radio Orphan Annie Decoder Pin

    Radio Orphan Annie Decoder Pin

    My friend and I have been hunting an old school house site that was in use from 1898 to 1965. We have found several old coins, but the most interesting finds are the relics that range from toy gun par…

  • Civil War Ohio State Seal Breastplate

    Civil War Ohio State Seal Breastplate

    During the fall and winter I like to hunt old home sites from the 1800's that are now in farm fields. We tend to find a lot of 1800's coins, buttons and relics where the farmers didn't even know that…

  • Silver on the Second Signal

    Silver on the Second Signal

    I took my brand new CTX 3030 out for its maiden voyage this Christmas eve. The first good signal was a colonial flat button, the second was a part of a Spanish Realle (piece of eight). How cool is th…

  • MXT Reunites Owner with Class Ring!

    MXT Reunites Owner with Class Ring!

    It was in March 2007 that I decided to purchase a White’s MXT detector. I already had a White’s Spectrum, but I had loaned it to an older fellow whom I later found out was very ill, possi…

  • Viking Age Coin

    Viking Age Coin

    Finally, my x-mas holiday has begun. I was home and ready to detect the fields next door to where I grew up. So I put on my little backpack, findbag and trash bag, and got to it. The field has a very…

  • MXt Well Built Machine

    MXt Well Built Machine

    My name is Raymond. I have never owned a White’s detector until this past year. I was talked into borrowing a White’s MXT after my machine broke. I noticed almost instantly that the MXT wa…