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  • old stirrup in down town Lake Jackson, Texas

    old stirrup in down town Lake Jackson, Texas

    I joined a metal detecting club in Brazoria, tx. They had a hunt arranged with a company that had bought some old houses and ball fields from the 1940's. that were going to be demoed for a new food st…

  • Finding Gold with the SDC 2300

    Finding Gold with the SDC 2300

    I got out and did a little more prospecting with the SDC 2300, and got 3 more nuggets, total weight 2.5 grams. The more I use this detector the happier I am with it and its finding good gold for me. I…

  • 3 Hour Session With SDC 2300

    3 Hour Session With SDC 2300

    Just to be absolutely sure of my opinions/impressions/convictions of the SDC 2300. I went out for 3 hours to a new location not detected before with SDC and below are the results. I dug nothing but ob…

  • 5000 years old bronze axe head

    5000 years old bronze axe head

    Today after finding a 1863 Victorian penny, I then found a musket ball and a couple of modern coins, as I was walking back towards my home after one hours detecting, on my last signal of the day I beg…

  • One Summer Morning

    One Summer Morning

    One summer morning with my mate to do some metal detecting on some farm land we had permission for. We started to find stuff straight away. I found a loom weight at first, and some old pennies. The b…

  • Digging Out My Very First SDC Nugget

    Digging Out My Very First SDC Nugget

    I had the opportunity to do some testing yesterday with Minelab’s newest SDC 2300. I need to log more hours on the unit, but thus far I can say I am impressed. I took it to one of my old nugget…

  • Civil War Era Officers Button

    Civil War Era Officers Button

    I headed out for a much needed hunt with a buddy yesterday afternoon after work. He gained permission to hunt a large area that used to serve as a mission in the mid to late 1800’s. The ground…

  • M6 Sniffs Out a 1945 Quarter at 7 Inches!

    M6 Sniffs Out a 1945 Quarter at 7 Inches!

    My story is about this old place I have hunted many times with different detectors in Conroe Texas. It is an old spot where a TB Sanitarium used to sit. I thought the spot had long been hunted out be…