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Bill W.
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I justed want to say hello to everyone. I frequent many of the other forums on the net and only recently found out about this one... go figure. I live in Western Pennsylvania. I started out on a BH101. Two weeks later I bought a BH Land Ranger which served me well until I started hunting old sites. Then I bought a Minelab Explorer. I have owned various machines ever since but have kept my Explorer because it seems to suit me very well. I own the 5 & 15 inch coils for my Explorer. I also own a Fisher 3D with 8, 10.5 and 12.5 coils. I just bought a Nautilus IIB with 6, 10.5 and 15 inch coils. You can never own too many detectors... 
I have some other machines in between but like the current arsenal very well. I have had the Explorer for 4+ years.
I mainly hunt old one room schools, old homes and foundations in the spring and fall. In the summer, when it's hard to detect those type of sites because of weeds, etc. I hunt parks and whatever else I can still find and hunt. I hunt mostly on the weekends but am an avid detectorist and rarely miss a weekend to get out and swing the coil. Last year I found 79 silver coins, 39 Indian Head pennies and various misc. coins like large cents, flying eagles, etc. My favorite coin was found in 2003 and was a 1786 Colonial Conneticut Copper. That year I found my second favorite coin and it was a 1906 Barber Half. Last year's favorite coin was a 1856 seated half dime found on January 1...
Like I said, I am an avid detectorist and I hunt unless the ground is frozen... and that is saying something in PA! This week I was on vacation and hunted on Monday and found a 1876 seated dime, 1880 IH, some wheaties and some clad from a hunted hard park. It was an unusually warm day here at about 60 degrees on Monday. Yesterday I headed back to the same site and it was 26 degrees with the wind blowing.... brrr! But, the ground wasn't frozen..
I dug a 1923 Merc, 1888 IH, some wheaties, and some more clad. I have hunted the site that was mentioned on page 52 of the this months Western-Eastern magazine. I dug an 1876 seated quarter at this site plus various barber dimes and IHs... I am not much of a clad person and don't keep track of any clad totals. Enough about me.
-Bill
PS I did NOT put the scratch on the seated dime... the camera makes it look ALOT worse! I can only see those scratches when I tilt the coin. Must be from being in the soil around rocks. It's one of the worst coins I have dug that shows those faint scratches. Maybe the age... who knows. HH!
I have some other machines in between but like the current arsenal very well. I have had the Explorer for 4+ years.I mainly hunt old one room schools, old homes and foundations in the spring and fall. In the summer, when it's hard to detect those type of sites because of weeds, etc. I hunt parks and whatever else I can still find and hunt. I hunt mostly on the weekends but am an avid detectorist and rarely miss a weekend to get out and swing the coil. Last year I found 79 silver coins, 39 Indian Head pennies and various misc. coins like large cents, flying eagles, etc. My favorite coin was found in 2003 and was a 1786 Colonial Conneticut Copper. That year I found my second favorite coin and it was a 1906 Barber Half. Last year's favorite coin was a 1856 seated half dime found on January 1...
Like I said, I am an avid detectorist and I hunt unless the ground is frozen... and that is saying something in PA! This week I was on vacation and hunted on Monday and found a 1876 seated dime, 1880 IH, some wheaties and some clad from a hunted hard park. It was an unusually warm day here at about 60 degrees on Monday. Yesterday I headed back to the same site and it was 26 degrees with the wind blowing.... brrr! But, the ground wasn't frozen..
I dug a 1923 Merc, 1888 IH, some wheaties, and some more clad. I have hunted the site that was mentioned on page 52 of the this months Western-Eastern magazine. I dug an 1876 seated quarter at this site plus various barber dimes and IHs... I am not much of a clad person and don't keep track of any clad totals. Enough about me.-Bill
PS I did NOT put the scratch on the seated dime... the camera makes it look ALOT worse! I can only see those scratches when I tilt the coin. Must be from being in the soil around rocks. It's one of the worst coins I have dug that shows those faint scratches. Maybe the age... who knows. HH!
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