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Evening all, just a quick wee round up of an enjoyable hunt with Markrocooper tonight (nice to finally meet up with you Mark). Basically a site that had an old house on it... or at least it did this morning. Very small area with excavator and misc items covering about a third of it.
As expected lots and lots of nails, and general junk everywhere which made things challenging to say the least.
We were forced to move on when my pro pointer and lights died basically within seconds of one another........good thing as I think we were both getting sick of digging nails. Best find I think was the Bermuda triangle thing.
Happy hunting Iggy

I will make some time awesome thanks N8

very well put together i dont think i could do that.

"Road trip with N8".... Awesome.
Unlike the road trip in my last post this would be real and actually happen! (Hope I didn't mislead anybody just wanted to see if this photo bucket thing would work)
The excitement of the upcoming event soon turned to panic as it dawned on me that I had to find somewhere worthy. Shouldn't be a problem I initially thought (talking to myself outloud).....but then a flashback of our last get together suddenly entered my mind. No way is that going to happen again, this time I needed to find some good ground and fast as the weekend was days away. After much thought and a brutal elimination process site W was chosen.



Saturday morning arrived and so did N8 we threw our gear in the van and off we went..... The day was a pearler, it took an hour or so to arrive at destination W and most of the way I was busy talking this place up and going on about its history, I had my fingers crossed it wasn't going to disappoint.

Pulled up, had a quick chat to a couple of locals and within minutes we were off swinging........ moments later.



Cool, bit of silver.....promising start. After lunch I thought I'd try the creek out for a change of scenery but soon aborted and went back to plan A.

Plenty of targets that's for sure, lots of junk as well.



I was amazed at how little N8 dug in the way of trash........ You can't beat experience !
I really was hopeful of a ring or some awesome old relic, but it wasn't to be.
Four coin spills for me.



Keep an eye out N8 pulled a couple of sweet finds.
The results after a lot of digging........
1 Florin 1 Shilling 8 Sixpence 8 thrups 3 UK pennies one half etc



A very enjoyable day out in the sun, great to catch up again N8. We will get the jewlery next time :)
Cheers Iggy

Hi all, I was working up in Central this week so took the F4 for a ride. Managed to get a couple of quick evening hunts in.



Both nights were very mild and I really should have stuck with it a bit longer.





Thought I would have pulled a couple of foreign coins, but I guess if I had spent more time swinging the coil I just may have.

Next hunt was a bit closer to home.



A wee bit of bush bashing produced the following.





Would have been a nice peice of jewlery when it was a bit younger and not buried.
Until next time good luck out there Iggy

Yes good fun in the bush, the vines start to take there toll after a while but if it was easy........
Yes one of Andrés scoops, great scoop (first I have owned used so can't compare to anything else)
I am having a bit of trouble in the murky shark infested waters locating targets but I guess practice practice and more practice. I am going to try a couple of plastic garden stakes to help pin point my targets.

try pinpointing your coil and move the scoop in from the back you can feel and hear when the scoop is in position right next to the coil it a good tech" when its murky.

Hello all went on a nice little stroll a week or so back in the Dunedin bushes.



Well stroll might be the wrong choice of words really....after moving on from the local ,?$&?,.' spot ( some interesting remains left behind here from the young ones let me assure you)



I traversed a couple...... Well best described as cliffs, to then find an old leather bag lurking under an old beach tree. Mmmmm bag empty, but I did unearth the three condom lids and the other lids/containers all in a two foot radius.



So it looks like a party of different sorts happened on the lower terraces at one time.





Happy hunting all Iggy

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You seem to have good days- with me it's more of silver signal... Yes it's a ring... Aluminium. That's why I need the F2. Does the 11" help? I might think in waiting a little while more for the f4. If I save long enough I will be able to get the F2 in January. So i can use the f2s spendies and then get the F4.

Yeah- the f22 looks really nice. Probably should get the f2 and use its spendies for the f4- then f22 and so on. Mudwingle has a nice deal but it's out of my budget for the current time.