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  • Helping Friends

    Helping Friends

    I don't know how much of a treasure story this is but I am proud of my Minelab X-Terra 705. I had a friend of mine call me with an unusual problem. I live in Wilkes Barre, Pa and my friend lives in Ku…

  • Victorian Water Pipe

    Victorian Water Pipe

    We spent Christmas at my daughter's in Colchester. I took my detector hoping to do a bit of beach detecting. A friend of hers asked if I would try to find an old Victorian water pipe which used to fee…

  • Gold in the Sand

    Gold in the Sand

    My new CXT 3030 turned up and I could not wait to get it set up and get down to the beach. Well off I went, the tide was on its way out so I started to detect just above the water mark. I had it in t…

  • German Potato Field Finds

    German Potato Field Finds

    When I was stationed at Ramstein AFB as a medic I befriended a German Ambulance driver named Mr Merkel. On the night shift awaiting emergency calls we talked about Germany history and sites. I told Mr…

  • No Giving Up

    No Giving Up

    I made a deal with myself that I wasn't allowed to leave the beach until I had found either $40 clad or 4 gold/silver rings. I was a bit worried about it actually but within 4 hours I had about 6400 y…

  • New E-TRAC Opened Up My World... We are in Love

    New E-TRAC Opened Up My World... We are in Love

    I recently purchased an E-TRAC. Prior I had a safari and a X-TERRA 705. I ended up hunting a local park that I have hunted many times... but wow... THIS MACHINE KILLS IT. In one week of use (learning…

  • Ancient Finds From Japan

    Ancient Finds From Japan

    Went detecting along another old mountain path that runs from Bishamon Temple to Nanzenji Temple in Kyoto. I wasn't expecting to find much but figured that if I did hit something it was going to be o…

  • I Thought I was in a Dream

    I Thought I was in a Dream

    I had been finding hammered coins for the last 3 days, and I had been out with friends, they had had enough and were on their way home. I was still wanting to detect and get a hammered coin for the f…

  • First Detection

    First Detection

    Hi everybody, I bought a X-TERRA 705 this winter and waited till last week to use it because in Quebec, winter has been cold and snowy. I had never used a metal detector before, except 30 years ago, w…