detecting in the southern california forest with my e-trac hits gold twice!

pistol perfect

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Let me just start like this... I purchased an e-trac about 2 weeks ago and pulled my hair out the first day! I did not understand the machine at all! I have owned whites machines my entire 3 years detecting. I did not like the e-trac so I put it in the closet for a few days and kept on detecting with my prizm and mxt. I then read on a thread post when learning a minelab machine you need to lock your other detectors in a closet and forget about them for 6 months! so I got the e-trac back out and started watching youtube videos and learning! so I was in the forest detecting a hillside digging every sharp and repeating signal. in 2 hours I only dug about 1 dollar in clad and lots of trash! Then I got a signal that hit on the far left side of the screen on the e-trac. I started moving some dirt around with my pinpointer and noticed it was just a gum wrapper 1/2 inch down. I started detecting again and got the same signal that hits on the left side of the screen. 1 foot away from the gum wrapper. I was thinking about not investigating it but I did for some reason? I just moved the top surface dirt away with the tip of my hand shovel and seen a chrome looking ring I cleaned it with my hands and seen the 10k stamp. I was pretty excited! 6 feet away I get the same signal! I just moved the top of the dirt away maybe 1 inch and found its matching twin! with same stamp! I could not believe it!!!! I have no idea how they got in a forest must have been from people playing in the snow??? it was right next to a nature trail so who knows??? I sure do love this e-trac now!! I have a lot to learn still and I do believe it was luck!!!!
 

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Shark27

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Awesome Finds! Forest hunting in So Cal, nice.

Shark27
 

Roland58

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Exquisite recovery! Luck or no, you did good!!
 

Chug And Red

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Sweet love the Gold!!! It took a little bit to see one in the first pic Chug And Red!!! Congrats on the Set !!!!! ;D ;D ;D :hello2: :hello2: :hello2:
 

Eric Willoughby

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Jun 4, 2009
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It looks to be a matching engagement/wedding set! Most excellent! You can never go wrong digging all the signals, there are too many variables involved with the items, soil, mineralization, moisture, postions, ect to just assume that we can tune our machines to accept only "the good stuff". No machine is that accurate, dig all signals. You two-ring find proves that! :thumbsup:
 

eagleforce

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:icon_thumleft:Wow , that's crazy way up there in the mountains. Good stuff can be anywhere! Keep on diggin!
 

desertfox

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Apr 16, 2007
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There has to be one unhappy lady running around. Congrats on the New Detector and a nice set of 10K rings.

HH
 

chkn

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Apr 12, 2010
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Well it's interesting you found an old thimble, any signs of an old homestead? How odd to find the set way out there. Do you think it's old? :coffee2:
 

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pistol perfect

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chkn said:
Well it's interesting you found an old thimble, any signs of an old homestead? How odd to find the set way out there. Do you think it's old? :coffee2:

its a old shotgun shell. It looks like a thimble though!!
 

MKnTenn

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Thats awesome, I almost didn't dig a pulltab signal once, went back dug it and it was a nice gold band. HH
 

snake pit

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kentucky
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nice rings
what year are the coins, and what is that big circular thing besides the old shotgun shot. :headbang: :icon_thumright:
 

creeper71

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Dec 5, 2007
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Cap'n Crunch said:
It looks to be a matching engagement/wedding set! Most excellent! You can never go wrong digging all the signals, there are too many variables involved with the items, soil, mineralization, moisture, postions, ect to just assume that we can tune our machines to accept only "the good stuff". No machine is that accurate, dig all signals. You two-ring find proves that! :thumbsup:
I was going to say the exact same thing as what is Hightlighted above
 

Wldbil

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May 10, 2010
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Now that is a great way to break in a new machine. Congrats on the set. :icon_thumright:
 

augusthog

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Cap'n Crunch said:
It looks to be a matching engagement/wedding set! Most excellent! You can never go wrong digging all the signals, there are too many variables involved with the items, soil, mineralization, moisture, postions, ect to just assume that we can tune our machines to accept only "the good stuff". No machine is that accurate, dig all signals. You two-ring find proves that! :thumbsup:
I agree with the good Captian!
Groovy golds ya got there :hello2:
 

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