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1st day with my new gold bug
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Posted : Sunday, 26 February 2012 3:41:19 PM(UTC)
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well to be honest only had it about 5 hours.gave it a whirl in back yard under cloths line ect.dig every target

old 1c coin few pull tabs n caps. a hinge few peg springs plus a tally of 24.20$ current currency and 3 .22 shells

brouht it for gold hunting but just muckin round at home geting use to it
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Posted : Sunday, 26 February 2012 6:11:33 PM(UTC)
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Hold On. Did you find 24$ just at your back yard?!!!!
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Posted : Sunday, 26 February 2012 6:23:48 PM(UTC)
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That's pretty good going on the goldiesfor the time you have had the machine. I was lucky in my back yard and found $4 in goldies, from what the neighbours tell me there has been a bunch of people through, gotta love rentals! The downside is there are literally hundreds of old metal savlon and toothpaste tubes around the place oh yes and it seems in places they have tried to make a gravel drive way with beer bottle caps.
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Posted : Sunday, 26 February 2012 6:26:49 PM(UTC)
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That's pretty good going on the goldiesfor the time you have had the machine. I was lucky in my back yard and found $4 in goldies, from what the neighbours tell me there has been a bunch of people through, gotta love rentals! The downside is there are literally hundreds of old metal savlon and toothpaste tubes around the place oh yes and it seems in places they have tried to make a gravel drive way with beer bottle caps.



Ha ha.....Thanks to the scarfies I guess. :)

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chchfossiker  
Posted : Sunday, 26 February 2012 6:38:15 PM(UTC)
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Hold On. Did you find 24$ just at your back yard?!!!!


yep around 18 bucks under the clothes line and the rest around my lawn
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Posted : Sunday, 26 February 2012 7:08:30 PM(UTC)
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Hold On. Did you find 24$ just at your back yard?!!!!


yep around 18 bucks under the clothes line and the rest around my lawn




That's pretty damn good!
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Posted : Sunday, 26 February 2012 10:14:10 PM(UTC)
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I might have to have another crack at my back yard ... I think it was laid on a bed of nails.
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Posted : Sunday, 26 February 2012 10:32:35 PM(UTC)
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I might have to have another crack at my back yard ... I think it was laid on a bed of nails.


yea i got a hand full of nails and bottle caps out of my yard today
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Posted : Sunday, 26 February 2012 11:33:16 PM(UTC)
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if i had of known you were going to use it today CHCH i would of invited you along with me and robert after you picked it up at my place..hahaha
we hit the beach and had no luck then went to a park close by and with in the first 15 minutes i had 3 silver coins all within the same area...a 1933 thruence a 1933 shilling and a 1934 sixpence.. and then the normal coins after that..lol...robert got 1 silver as well..

but that is a bloody good find on your first day and in your own yard to boot..lol..so you will be getting use to that solid 79 signal..hahahaha

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Posted : Monday, 27 February 2012 8:50:36 AM(UTC)
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if i had of known you were going to use it today CHCH i would of invited you along with me and robert after you picked it up at my place..hahaha
we hit the beach and had no luck then went to a park close by and with in the first 15 minutes i had 3 silver coins all within the same area...a 1933 thruence a 1933 shilling and a 1934 sixpence.. and then the normal coins after that..lol...robert got 1 silver as well..

but that is a bloody good find on your first day and in your own yard to boot..lol..so you will be getting use to that solid 79 signal..hahahaha



well done on the silvers poohbear
i wasnt playing on using for the hole day but got it set up read the manual then just went and dug every target in my yard.even after only 5 or 6 hours i was at maby 50-60 percent acurite on guesing weather target was coin nail or rubbish.then last nite went back and read manual again and robert was right it made so much more sense and things kind of went click in my mind.

huge learning curve and got so much to learn but glad im geting the hang of it and what it all about.hopefully good things to come
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Posted : Monday, 27 February 2012 9:51:39 PM(UTC)
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Welldone! Good lot of finds for under the clothes line alright!

*Wonders if Robert has enough orders yet to put thru another order*

Im still keen to get a Goldbug Pro version ;)
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Posted : Monday, 27 February 2012 10:33:42 PM(UTC)
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ash the GB pro will be here in a week or so
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