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12-29-2007, 8:37 AM C-17A Joined on 01-30-2006 Posts 374 MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! Greetings Detectorists, Well, I took my White's MXT out twice again in the last 2 days for about 5 total hours............went to a elementary school in downtown Newport. I am quite sure this place had not been detected in years....if ever. First day by myself and 2nd day with a buddy, to help detect and dig. I wanted to introduce him to metal detecting, and man was he not disappointed! We found coin after coin.......all totalled up about $15 for about 350 coins. Must have found almost 200 pennies...........and 17 quarters and a mix of dimes and nickels. That is a lot of digging in the wet tree bark! I have got to say this MXT was about 95% accurate again when it said a penny, dime or quarter. As to the "all around" display of "5 cents/ring"..........well, that seems to be the VDI range for most junk too.......pull tabs, aluminum eraser bands on pencils, misc metal. Did find one gold annodized aluminum kid's ring...........and when I saw it in the screen I thought "whoo whee!".........but upon closer inspection saw it was aluminum. I'll find gold some other day. Went to the beach for 2 hours until dark. Totally different environment. Only found 4 corroded copper/zinc pennies, a quarter, some rusty metal chunks and nothing else. Have got to learn how to find jewelry in heavy wet sand! The beach was boredom with a few exciting finds....the playground was excitement every minute! Anyways, my MXT is a great coin shooter! Still need to try out the relic and prospecting modes. Anyone have any great advice on prospecting for gold nuggets? I hope to take my MXT to Colorado this Summer to look for nuggets where I sluice. The area has fine gold, so anything there might be very small.... Happy detecting! Randy    Report

12-29-2007, 10:46 AM Buck Joined on 01-28-2006 Oklahoma Posts 438 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! Randy how much of that was silver that you found.......Buck Be sure your right, Then go ahead...Davy Crockett    Report

12-29-2007, 1:33 PM C-17A Joined on 01-30-2006 Posts 374 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! Buck, Sadly, I have yet to find my first silver coin...... I did find a nice 1927 & good 1944 Lincoln wheat back pennies and to date have found good condition 1939, 1940 and 2 1941 nickels. Elementary school playgrounds probably aren't the best locations for old silver coins. Will try to find some older locations to detect sooooon. randy    Report

12-30-2007, 11:29 AM Buck Joined on 01-28-2006 Oklahoma Posts 438 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! Randy every one hunts the schools... One place you can find silver dimes are at old close lines or where they used to be. Get permission to hunt some of the older houses. If you dont see the old line ask the land owner if they know where it was. Mothers used to hang jeans up side down to dry and the coin most often caught in the pocket was the dime. As the blue jeans began to dry and flap in the wind the coins would fall out. I have been coin shooting since the late 60's and have found many silver dimes at close lines. Buck Be sure your right, Then go ahead...Davy Crockett    Report

12-30-2007, 12:16 PM twig/al Joined on 01-24-2006 Gadsden, Alabama Posts 4,627 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! Buck, Great tip!!! Another place is around old fences and barns... As some of the older people didn't trust banks and would bury their money in glass jars!!! twig/al Alabama Prospecting Supply www.alabamaprospectingsupply.com Email: tom@alabamaprospectingsupply.com Southeast Treasure Hunters Forum www.southeasttreasurehunters.com    Report

12-30-2007, 2:39 PM Buck Joined on 01-28-2006 Oklahoma Posts 438 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! Yup your right Twig... Chicken Pens also as the chickens scratching all the time coverd the cashe site pretty well. And to the Out house. Often would hang the valubales from a cord down in side. They thought no one would look there... Now lots of folks used the old prince albert cans for there stash. that means ya gonna have to dig all targets if ya want to find it. Buck Be sure your right, Then go ahead...Davy Crockett    Report

12-30-2007, 3:03 PM Gold seeker Joined on 06-03-2006 Bluffton South Carolina Posts 475 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! Buck, Tommy GREAT tips, I can wait to get a detector, going to get a MXT, and go get me some treasure! Randy, enjoy reading about your finds, good luck on your treasure hunt! Skip Email: den7cubs"at"hargray.com Seek and Ye Shall Find, and when you find It thank GOD!!! Treat the Earth well It was not given to you by your Parents, It was loaned to you by your Children.    Report

12-30-2007, 5:11 PM socalgold Joined on 01-25-2006 Fighting for Miners Rights & Our Civil Liberties Posts 2,006 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! Skip, look in the photos section and see some more of what an MXT can find. I Love My Country It's the government I'm Afraid OF    Report

12-30-2007, 6:24 PM Gold seeker Joined on 06-03-2006 Bluffton South Carolina Posts 475 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! socalgold, I looked at that picture the other day, that a lot of "treasure", can't wait to find me a big pile of treasure! The first place I going to look is about 30 miles away, my son lives in a small town here in S.C. and Sherman marched right thru there on his way to Savanna Ga, in the Civil War, and there has been a few nice finds in that area! Skip Email: den7cubs"at"hargray.com Seek and Ye Shall Find, and when you find It thank GOD!!! Treat the Earth well It was not given to you by your Parents, It was loaned to you by your Children.    Report

12-30-2007, 10:05 PM Gold seeker Joined on 06-03-2006 Bluffton South Carolina Posts 475 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! Check out what this guy found with his MXT! http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,32585.0.html Skip Email: den7cubs"at"hargray.com Seek and Ye Shall Find, and when you find It thank GOD!!! Treat the Earth well It was not given to you by your Parents, It was loaned to you by your Children.    Report

12-31-2007, 12:45 AM twig/al Joined on 01-24-2006 Gadsden, Alabama Posts 4,627 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! C-17A, Keep looking, you will find that first silver coin before long!!! twig/al Alabama Prospecting Supply www.alabamaprospectingsupply.com Email: tom@alabamaprospectingsupply.com Southeast Treasure Hunters Forum www.southeasttreasurehunters.com    Report

12-31-2007, 6:37 AM shellyrat Joined on 05-30-2007 kentucky Posts 176 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! you all are lucky . Around here they have passed local laws where you cant hunt the schools or local parks. I think all the walmart metal detetorests have taken it away from us. They dont know how to fill in their holes. It looks like a gopher forest when they are done. So it is ruiened for those of us who know how to behave. Kathy C in ky Life is what happens while your busy making other plans !    Report

12-31-2007, 7:41 AM admin Joined on 01-02-2006 Valdosta GA Posts 923 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! Amazing work Randy! I but you and your partner were wooped after all that digging and a good nights rest was well welcomed. Don't fret over the illusive sivler coin. It will come. I had probably dug close to $40.00 in coins (mainly pennies) over 2 years before I found my first silver dime. Since I got the proverbial monkey off my back I have found several dimes, a couple of quartes and one half dollar. Strange but it has also worked the same with rings. I worked and worked the beaches in Charleston looking for rings and never found one. Several ear rings, but no rings. I found a nice silver ring on base in the old housing area and since have found 6 more silver rings. Last one came from Westbrooke School here in GA under the old bleachers that have been removed. That school has been hit several times in the past and I couldn't find anything but trash with the factory coil. I switched over to a 12" coil and started finding coins up to 9 inches deep. The larger coil works great but it sure does pick up a pile of trash. In fact, it loves an old beer can at 12" deep and it reads just like a coin so of course, I gotta dig em and much to my chagrin it is always an old can. No buried treasure yet. Buck, Great advice on the close lines. I see a few outside the window and most of these houses were built in the early 60's so I guess it's time to go knock on a few doors and walk a few back yards. I have a friend who was beepin an old out house and dug up an old rusted up revolver. Guess that fella had a few too many drinks and hadn't realized it had fallen out. Great finds everyone and keep the finds coming. Brian Keeper of the Gold Grubbin' Nut House For Gold panning Concentrates go to http://www.goldgrubbin.com/wst_page5.php    Report

12-31-2007, 2:00 PM ghost Joined on 03-17-2006 Marksville, LA 71351 Posts 473 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! Shellyrat, Don't be so quick to condemn those of us who cannot afford a couple of thousand dollars for a metal detector. Some of the areas that I have been to that were trashed the worst were left that way by people with Whites, Minelabs, Tesoros, Garrets and other high priced detectors. They have a lot less regard for the way they leave a piece of property than some working stiff who has to take care of his own property. What somebody can afford for equipment is not an indicator of their charactor. By the way, my Bounty Hunter has outperformed some of the high priced models when it got down to in field conditions rather than a laboratory. Paul Prospector and small scale miner (so far)    Report

12-31-2007, 2:27 PM socalgold Joined on 01-25-2006 Fighting for Miners Rights & Our Civil Liberties Posts 2,006 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! Paul, I agree that the detector doesn't define the character of the user. It doesn't take many to ruin it for the rest of us, but then again its like that with everything. I prefer the MXT as it does what I want the best and its not that high priced. Paid about the same for my goldbug2. I Love My Country It's the government I'm Afraid OF    Report

01-01-2008, 5:33 AM Bobg Joined on 12-15-2006 Supply NC Posts 380 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! I've seen it so many times, people messing up, not properly filling holes and ruining the hobby. It's done by people with all grades of detectors. The guys I hunt with won't permit it to go on. If we spot someone doing it, they'll be advised as to how to properly protect our hobby. If it's been done before we hit an area, we'll go on and fix it as we hunt. Alot like picking up trash from previous campers. Making it look better than when you got there.    Report

01-01-2008, 3:49 PM shellyrat Joined on 05-30-2007 kentucky Posts 176 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! whoaaaaaaaa. I never condemed the detectors It is the people using them around my area. I am one of those walmart bounty hunters owners I cant afford the whites I want either.. After one christmas when they first started carring the detectors at walmarts is when the damage was done. Thats when the city council passed the ordinance against them. My husband has a very old compass and had hunted the schools for years with no problems till the walmart incident. I never downgraded the instrument. Only the users that have ruined it for the rest of us. Kathy c in ky Life is what happens while your busy making other plans !    Report

01-03-2008, 2:03 PM ghost Joined on 03-17-2006 Marksville, LA 71351 Posts 473 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! I didn't say you were downing the detectors. If you have a Bounty Hunter, you know what a great machine it is. I only meant that it isn't usually the hard working people that mess up these places. It's more likely to be the ones that think that because they are part of the "upper class" the rules don't apply to them. I've seen that personally across this country from Arizona to Georgia. If I remember correctly there was a big resurgence in metal detecting about the time Wal-Mart started carrying the Bounty Hunters (the models of which were made exclusively for them). Paul Prospector and small scale miner (so far)    Report

01-03-2008, 2:32 PM woodchuck Joined on 04-12-2007 Central NY Posts 67 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! I have a Bounty Hunter. I bought it at Radio Shack. I think it works great at finding coins. It is pretty accurate when it comes to telling what it is, and how far down. Once you get used to the signals it is a pretty good machine for the money. I have found that a lot of times, a penny will give a more valuable signal when waved left to right, but while pin-pointing, I will also wave forward to backward, this usually is when it signals 1c. If it signals 5,10, 25, or higher both ways while pin-pointing, it is very accurate.I have not really tried it for anything other than coins yet, but that will change..It was warm enough to go out last week. I went to a couple of local schools. I found just under $4.00 in various coins..    Report

01-03-2008, 2:56 PM Dixiedredger Joined on 11-18-2006 Charlotte, NC Posts 897 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! One thing I have seen in all my hobbies.... There are sorry people in all of them.... it does not matter if he's swinging a $3000 detector or a $90 detector... money don't change sorry! Sorry comes in all clases. I've known folks who barely afford to eat because of their dredge payments... and they wouldn't even throw cigarette butt on the ground on someones property... and I've known doctors who would leave their trash for someone else to pick up. I've been doin' so much, with with so little, for so long.... I can do almost anything, with nothing!!!! WWW.dixieprospector.com    Report

01-03-2008, 5:25 PM shellyrat Joined on 05-30-2007 kentucky Posts 176 Re: MXT knocks'em dead.........again..........over 350 coins in 2 days! Ok ghost, I didnt want you thinking I was downing anyone or thing in particular. My poor hubby was super po'd at the idots who did that. He only used a screw driver to probe and always covered what he dug. Then bam he has no where to go local. Darn shame. Kathy c in ky Life is what happens while your busy making other plans !    Report