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Metal detectors - 2/13/2004 12:14:18 AM    deepwoods   Posts: 334 Joined: 2/9/2004 Status: offline Hi everybody,as a new member I want to broach a topic that Im sure has been covered in the past-locating old dumps with metal detectors.I have a book by Adams somewhere in which he claims to have had outstanding success finding long buried dumps with no visible surface traces-including pontil age stuff and stoneware. Thoughts,experiences? J.D Post #: 1

RE: Metal detectors - 2/13/2004 5:17:19 PM    woody   Posts: 1674 Joined: 10/29/2002 From: Gilmanton, New Hampshire Status: online I NEVER go bottle digging without my metal detector. Esp. if I'm searching new areas where I'm not sure where the dump may be. I use a White's Spectrum XLT and it has more than paid for itself with some of the nice bottles that I have found with it. I have all three of John Adams bottle books and I couldn't agree with him more. Some of the earliest glass I have found has been with the help of my metal detector. _____________________________ Woody (in reply to deepwoods) Post #: 2

RE: Metal detectors - 2/13/2004 6:46:26 PM    Gunsmoke47 Posts: 1160 Joined: 12/29/2003 From: TEXAS Status: offline I agree with Woody 100%. I would not even have found this wonderful hobby of bottles had it not been for a metal detector. I, like Woody use a Whites XLT and it has been great! Most pits have buried cans with the bottles and the older pits have the cans of the leaded variety. This will give you a distinct signal with a little practice. You just have to hope some of those cans are close to the top! Kelley (in reply to deepwoods) Post #: 3

RE: Metal detectors - 2/13/2004 7:21:01 PM    deepwoods   Posts: 334 Joined: 2/9/2004 Status: offline Thanks for the info guys,so far Ive just been digging spots in heavily wooded areas where there is visible evidence-usually glass shards,stoneware fragments etc;with some success-this is an early settled area (western N.Y), but a lot of this area has been gone over with a fine-toothed comb since the 50s -(one older guy that I know sold off his collection-all dug for 10,000 in the 70s) but judgeing from what Ive found near the surface,I know theres gotta be a lot of stuff still buried...J.D (in reply to deepwoods) Post #: 4

RE: Metal detectors - 2/13/2004 9:32:31 PM    kendolbottles1black   Posts: 118 Joined: 1/9/2004 From: QLD AUSTRALIA Status: offline yep; they are a great invention i know a lot of guys use them around old farming areas because the farmers used to through any thing sharp or jagered down the holes so livestock would not get injured bottles and metal ; well thats my farming talk for the day take care ken (in reply to deepwoods) Post #: 5

RE: Metal detectors - 2/13/2004 10:25:02 PM    Pontiled   Posts: 411 Joined: 8/27/2003 Status: offline Well, I've got most of you beat by many years metal detecting sites! When I began metal-detecting, many years ago, you had the choices of either a military mine detector or a Metrotech metal detector, if you did not try to build one yourself! Then I moved up, using White's metal detectors or Garrett's metal detectors. Each one performed well under different conditions. I branched out and became a treasure hunter (fantastic time!), a bottle hunter, a coin shooter, and a relic hunter (Civil War) in Virginia. I even used the metal detectors for law enforcement in Arlington, Va. They can be great pieces for locating the dump site or, if there is no bottle dump, they can be used to provide a day of coin shooting! You can't beat them! Now, to get you really wound up, I bought my first truck with the money received from silver coins dug up and unloaded just 3 days before the Hunt brothers fiasco when silver and gold reached their peaks! That, my friends, was just plain dumb luck, but I did it! _____________________________ Mike Russell Author of: The Collector's Guide to Civil War Period Bottles and Jars -- Third Edition (in reply to deepwoods) Post #: 6

RE: Metal detectors - 3/8/2004 8:37:23 PM    mysonthedigger   Posts: 4 Joined: 3/8/2004 Status: offline Do you need a particularly good metal detector? Where do you look with the detector to best judge your digging spots? Thanks, Barbie (in reply to deepwoods) Post #: 7

RE: Metal detectors - 3/8/2004 11:15:20 PM    crozet86 Posts: 145 Joined: 2/17/2004 From: Charlottesville va. / Buena Vista Va. Status: offline Hi, I dont use mine much but when i do i try the back of the house along the woodlines.i also like to use it in suspicous looking ravines or creek banks.I just said to myself a few days ago that i needed to take mine along when im bottle digging.well, Happy hunting all! Eddie (in reply to deepwoods) Post #: 8

RE: Metal detectors - 3/8/2004 11:28:48 PM    IRISH   Posts: 1238 Joined: 11/23/2002 From: cockatoo Australia Status: offline I use an old Garret detector, it won't go down deep and it picks up Iron better than any other metal but it's what I've got and I still find a lot with it. The detector you need depends a lot on what you are going to do with it and your budget. Most of my Gold hunting is through digging shafts and the only spots I can be bothered coin shooting are the ones noone else has done and I don't do a lot anymore (to busy bottle digging ) so an old one is fine for me. If you want to work parks, find deep tips, detect goldfield's etc. you will need to spend a bit and get a good newer detector. (in reply to deepwoods) Post #: 9

RE: Metal detectors - 3/9/2004 2:11:28 AM    David E Dearden   Posts: 196 Joined: 7/16/2003 Status: offline I agree with Irish and I had a nice Whites and found many coins and jewlery with it, but it got to heavy for me so I use a Garrett GTA in the bush(anyway used to). And that is how I got into bottles. Got a little frosty on the ground and couldn't dig so went into woods where soil was not frosted. And that's where I found my first bottles and became adicted. _____________________________ David E Dearden (in reply to deepwoods) Post #: 10

RE: Metal detectors - 3/9/2004 1:09:11 PM    treasure rat   Posts: 46 Joined: 11/12/2003 Status: offline try and listen to rejected iron signals...your audio will break up on these signals..if you have an all metal pinpointing mode..once you find an area that gives iron signals that sound rejected..switch to the all metal mode to determine how big the area is...we find many pits this way...once you open up the area..you will see how well it works listening to junk targets. (in reply to deepwoods) Post #: 11

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