"Jim Sewell"  wrote in message 
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> Anybody out there still ???
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> Anybody detecting anymore ?
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> Anybody found anything lately ???
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I hunt most every day here in the states. I am a beginner and use a old 
RadioShack (bounty hunter I think) and am having fun. Not any rings yet but 
feel I need to get a better machine with some digital notching to get a 
better chance at jewelry. I did find one Disney Tinkerbelle earring that 
looks to be silver. Lots of clad and coppers no real old stuff yet. Am 
looking at the Garrett ACE 250 or the GTP 1350 as possible upgrades. That's 
about it from other the pond.
Jim

Did a number of well worked-out sites yesterday with my Explorer XS,
did quite well - four Henry 8th  hammered groats and a sixpence.
Then came a nice Roman dragonesque brooch and a fantail one to boot.
But it was the Catuvellauni gold stater that really made my day!

Wish there was a metal detecting user group for us good folks over here in 
the states.   Maybe I aught to try and create one.

I live in Florida on the Gulf (west-central) coast.  The Gulf water is too 
warm to shrink the body parts, so rings don't fall off as easily as on the 
ocean coasts.   Sure, we probably have Spanish gold all up and down the gulf 
coast, but not where I am wading.    The state is too young to have the 
ancient coins I read you guys are dredging up.  Stater envy, no doubt.   The 
native folk probably bartered with mostly oysters and rattlesnake meat.   No 
coin.   The folks who settled here didn't have much coin, either.   Citrus 
farmers, lumbermen, fishermen, shellfishers, phosphate miners, alligators, 
gun runners, moonshiners, submerged land speculators, and more recently drug 
runners, Walt Disney; and every young Cuban with a dream, 15 friends, and 
any craft which might be lucky enough to float for a day or three while 
pushed by a gentle, southern, following wind.   Still, no coin.

The Northeastern states have good Atlantic cold water recreation areas 
giving up old class rings, wedding rings and colonial coin by the pocket 
full.

The Northwest has Pacific colder water, placer gold and nuggets, old gold 
rush era ghost towns to locate and search, and 1849er prospector's trails to 
look below for the remains of less than sure-footed, overloaded pack mules 
which failed to return with their owner's hard won annual bounty.

The Florida west coast has Atlantic cold water and more wrecks, St. 
Augustine, Daytona Beach, but it all is a day of hard driving and two tanks 
of gas away.

Maybe I am just not thinking like lost gold.   If I were a pirate's treasure 
chest, where would I be?   Only Mel Fisher knows, and he is keeping the 
coordinates to himself.

There is just so much clad a playground area is going to give up.

OK, I can dive around any bridge and pull out 10 or 20 stolen handguns in 
various stages of decomposition.    I can find stolen cars left over from 
joyrides in the bottom of the Hillsborough River near any bridge, not to 
mention the junk dropped in our old sinkholes.    Let's not forget the 
unexploded ordinances along the shoreline off Apollo Beach where the 
military staged live ammo bombing practice during WWII, before developers 
built the fine communities for retiring snow birds right next to said buried 
live, unstable hi-explosives.    Life is not without adventure.    Other 
than for the soulless developers, it just doesn't have the cash payoff of 
found gold.     Not yet.

I could move, but did I mention the warm gulf beaches, sunny days and fine 
fishing?     Only an occasional hurricane to keep your head up for.   Maybe 
one will pass through and help me locate one of those buried treasure 
chests.

Greybeard


"Theo"  wrote in message 
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> Did a number of well worked-out sites yesterday with my Explorer XS,
> did quite well - four Henry 8th  hammered groats and a sixpence.
> Then came a nice Roman dragonesque brooch and a fantail one to boot.
> But it was the Catuvellauni gold stater that really made my day!
>
>
>
>
>

We have a lot of fun on our forum...http://www.mdparadise.net go there
and pick the forum link. We would love to have some detectorists from
the UK too!

I spend a lot of time on the East coast of Florida. Daytona feels like
home to me:-) Big beach but it takes a lot of detecting to find
anything with so many others out there working the same area.

Ben



On Wed, 14 May 2008 03:58:17 GMT, "Greybeard"  wrote:

>Wish there was a metal detecting user group for us good folks over here in 
>the states.   Maybe I aught to try and create one.
>
>I live in Florida on the Gulf (west-central) coast.  The Gulf water is too 
>warm to shrink the body parts, so rings don't fall off as easily as on the 
>ocean coasts.   Sure, we probably have Spanish gold all up and down the gulf 
>