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Silver Coins at Beautiful Old Kentucky Farms – E-Trac Live Digs with Audio

Silver, silver everywhere – live digs coinshooting silver on private property.  E-trac lessons for two-tone ferrous at beautiful places.   HD viewing mode recommended, I removed the fisheye effect, there’s lots of detail in the video. Detector sounds on 90% … Continue reading

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New Live Dig Video – 8 Silvers – 3 ringer and Lessons from the Bushes

Best in HD at Full Screen – enjoy!

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6 Silver Day at 1835 House

I decided to hit a local town and do some freestyling.  I drove around a bit in a historic area and ended up seeing a place with a beautiful big yard, dating from around 1830-1840.  I built up the nerve … Continue reading

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Odd Finds…. It’s So Hot in KY that the Mercury Dimes are Swelling Up!

During a short hour-long hunt in my recently discovered Mercury dime hotspot in Lexington (so far 12 removed from a 100′ x 100′ area) I pulled something interesting. My detector signaled a strange sort of mixed, confused reading.  After retrieving, … Continue reading

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Kentucky-fried Metal Detectorist or… WTF are you doing detecting in 103F heat?

Did some freestyling today and ended up at a 1853 farmhouse with a wonderful set of owners. Funny I always start out unsure about freestyling but seem to always land in a good spot .. As LONG AS I don’t … Continue reading

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A 9-Silver, 2-Trifecta Metal Detecting Hunt

I set out Saturday with several possible destinations in mind – ready to beg for permissions and possibly end up heading to my backup spots.   But the first location was the one – the property owner/decision maker was the … Continue reading

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1910s Pocket Spill, Some Silver and Plug Repair 101

Did a video of some of my hunting Father’s day weekend.    Ended up a 6 silver weekend with 3 Rosies, 2 Mercs and a Barber dime, and did live dig video on two of them.  This video is fun … Continue reading

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Hitting more Silver with the E-trac

This past weekend have done pretty well with the Silver – Rosie, Two Mercs and a Beautiful 1916 Barber.   I also got a mystery pendant I’m working to identify.  And a cool old container. Saturday I also pulled a 5-coin pocketspill … Continue reading

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2 live silver pocketspill digs and E-trac silver song

Three hunts captured including two with silver pocketspills.  First video showing the use of my new Lesche Sampson 31-T shovel – which I *love* … next time I’ll do better on wrap-up video and holding coins up to show viewers.

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Old Farmhouse Delivers a 5-silver day

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I love old farmhouses.  Somewhere East of Lexington I was granted permission to hunt an 1899 farmhouse near a highway.  The hunt didn’t quite turn out as I expected, the coins were a lot more modern than I’d hoped.  The … Continue reading

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