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Got out for a couple hours yesterday afternoon! First time out with the garrett gta 1000! Found some stuff and had a good time! It seems like a simple detector but I have much to learn about it 
Any metal detectorists here?
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Got this in the mail yesterday! Pretty excited about it. A fisher 1266x . Got a deal on it as it needs a battery box repair. Looks like an easy fix. Then it will be back up and running. My first time trying an analog machine that is tone only. I've heard these have a pretty good reputation so I'm excited to give it a try .
Tinkered with it last night. Got some corrosion removed, bad parts removed, and rigged it so it could be tested. Works great! Also already have the parts for the repair ordered.
. Got a deal on it as it needs a battery box repair. Looks like an easy fix. Then it will be back up and running. My first time trying an analog machine that is tone only. I've heard these have a pretty good reputation so I'm excited to give it a try .Tinkered with it last night. Got some corrosion removed, bad parts removed, and rigged it so it could be tested. Works great! Also already have the parts for the repair ordered.
Got this in the mail yesterday! Pretty excited about it. A fisher 1266x
Tinkered with it last night. Got some corrosion removed, bad parts removed, and rigged it so it could be tested. Works great! Also already have the parts for the repair ordered.
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My detectorist friend was an audible only guy.
A tip that he gave me that I thought I wouldn't mention,
because nobody else does it,
is to detach the box from the rod and attach the box to your belt.
Even if the reason for calling quitting time
is never the weight of the box,
on some subconscious level
the weight of the box on the rod
factors into it.
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Haha nice! That green garrett detector you can slide the battery box off the back and it has a belt clip
. Probably going to leave it on the rod though. That weight towards the back seems to help balance out the swing with a larger coil. Interesting stuff.He used to swing it pretty quickly in 180 degree arcsHaha nice! That green garrett detector you can slide the battery box off the back and it has a belt clip
and he liked to cover a lot of ground rapidly.
All of the information, is in the sound.
The visual representation is that of the sound signal.
If you ever really get into it,
where you're spending a lot of time doing it
and researching your hunting areas,
remember the belt clip.
Also, he was into maxing out his batteries.
Headphones use less power than the box speaker.
Headphones use less power than the box speaker.
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Definitely
. I'm a fan of headphones. Don't want to bother people around me with too much beeping haha.- Thread starter
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Added a teknetics omega 8500 to the stable. Pretty good deal I thought. Came with an 11in dd coil, a 4in concentric coil, the rain cover, and a tek point pinpointer. Poked around a littl yesterday with the tiny 4in coil and found a few things in the yard. Pretty amazing to have pulled them out of the bed of iron around the house. Especially when I've ran all my detectors over it a ton lol.
Found a gold rush era axe head.
A lot of times,
old axes like that are peened on the back from being hammered like wedges.
old axes like that are peened on the back from being hammered like wedges.
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Very cool! I hope to find an axe head someday when out detecting.
I got out thia afternoon and found a bunch of coins in a local park
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Hi I'm Mark and I'm addicted to metal detecting lol. New detector delivered today. The nokta makro legend pro pack. Super awesome detector!
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The legend works great! Found a good many coins at my local park this afternoon .
Also got this teknetics patriot in the mail yesterday. Good looking and performing detector
.Also got this teknetics patriot in the mail yesterday. Good looking and performing detector
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Found a bunch of coins on my first trip to the park with the legend. Also found a couple things yesterday at my grandmas but no coins. Looks like an old toy derringer cap gun.
Then I added some grip tape over the foam on a few of my detectors. I like it! Cheap but nice upgrade to the foam.
Then I added some grip tape over the foam on a few of my detectors. I like it! Cheap but nice upgrade to the foam.
I had a cap gun like that when I was a kid.
+1 and I think most of you posting your finds on here would really enjoy the series. We are not detectorists but we found the shows most entertaining. But then we really enjoy British humor!
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Nice! This is the second cap gun I have found on the same hill haha. Must have been a little kid play site.
Here is the first one I found last year.
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Finds from yesterday afternoons detecting trip at the park. Still finding loads if coins. Enough crunchy zinc pennies to make you sick of them. Also found some random tidbits and some small jewelry. Nothing marked but it was a nice change from crunchy pennies haha. There has to be some more interesting jewelry hidden somewhere. Have a good time regardless.
Detector: teknetics patriot with nel thunder coil (14.5inx 10.5in)
Pinpointer: teknetics tek-point
Detector: teknetics patriot with nel thunder coil (14.5inx 10.5in)
Pinpointer: teknetics tek-point
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Finds from todays detecting trip. Found some wheat cents, some foreign coins, and some other neat stuff!
I recently bought a Minelab Equinox 600.
