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  • 2012 In Review

    2012 In Review

    2012 was a good year for me with the GPX 5000. I dug hundreds of bullets, many buttons and other great relics, many first time finds and many at hunted out sites. I'm hoping for a better 2013. Thanks…

  • First Hunt of 2013

    First Hunt of 2013

    I started off the new year at an old spot using my GPX 5000 and sniffed out some more civil war relics with my new Double-D coil. I'm hoping this year is as good as the last! Buy Minelab GPX 5000 M…

  • 3 Cent Silver Find With My V3i

    3 Cent Silver Find With My V3i

    I was hunting a pretty hard hit civil war winter encampment with some of my hunting buddies in Stafford county VA. My one partner found a couple button backs in a small area and called over the rest…

  • CTX Pillages a rare Medieval Annular Brooch

    CTX Pillages a rare Medieval Annular Brooch

    Story by John Winter England and Scotland were uneasy neighbours in the Middle Ages, but I believe the situation has improved since those turbulent times. :-) Scottish detectorist Rob Fallen certainl…

  • Success on the Kalahari

    Success on the Kalahari

    I bought my first detector, a GPX 5000 in September 2012 and haven't had the chance to use it as I am always busy with my full time job. In December, I got it out from the cupboard and took it along…

  • Silver Spanish 2 Reale in Found in Pennsylvania, USA

    Silver Spanish 2 Reale in Found in Pennsylvania, USA

    I was just hunting my side yard here in south-western PA and my E-TRAC rang up a solid 12-46 and I dug up this coin that looks like a Spanish Reale. It weighs 6.2 grams and is about 1.3mm thick. No se…

  • Wedding Ring Lost and Returned with the M6

    Wedding Ring Lost and Returned with the M6

    Just a short story to say you can trust the White’s metal detectors to work. A friend of 15 yrs called and said he had lost his wedding ring that he has had for over 40 yrs. I responded by sayi…

  • E-TRAC Success

    E-TRAC Success

    I've been hunting with my E-TRAC since the middle of September 2013. My finds have gone way up in quality as well as quantity. I'm finding deeper targets and digging so much less trash. I try to get…

  • E-TRAC Sniffs Out My Oldest Coins

    E-TRAC Sniffs Out My Oldest Coins

    In the fall of 2012, I decided to hunt the yard of a house built in 1880 here in the town I live in. It was getting well into fall and winter was just around the corner here in Iowa. I bundled up, as…