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From: wiz@xroads.UUCP (Mike Carter)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.misc
Subject: Re: Metal detecting revisited - hobby that pays for itself
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Date: 29 Aug 89 09:46:05 GMT
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Organization: Crossroads, Phoenix, AZ 85046
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RE: Searching for buried treasure!
 
Well..my personal experiences include finding a totally unusable and
completely rusted .22 calibre rifle (unknown make)...a flashlight
circa 1960 (you should have seen the battery!) and several coins
(present to as early as 1901) several tent pegs, piles of magnets
and an assortment of metallic objects that can only be described as
usefull for making bombs as shrapnel. The most valuable item found
has been an immaculate Buck Knife with a 6" blade. Someone even went to the
trouble of engraving (acid etch) "STING" in Gothic lettering on it.
I use the home-made version using an 11" coil. We search mostly around
camp-grounds.
Last year I sold the "wand" and have since regretted it!
 
	-Mike
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