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Life has been so hectic the past few months that trying to find time for myself and metal detecting has been taking some serious strategic planning.  There’s been multiple weddings, wedding showers, birthday parties, family parties, just have to go even though I don’t want to parties, etc, etc… It’s been hard enough trying to …
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We attended the 3rd Annual Catskill Mountains Coin Shoot & Relic Hunt in Big Indian, NY, this past weekend, and I have to give the Nor’easters Metal Detecting Club a good dose of recognition here for putting on such a great event. There were 19 different sites to hunt, and it was very well organized. Descriptions …
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Pet Peeve:  How annoying is it when people refer to us as “He (or she) is a metal detector?”  Or, “Oh, You’re a metal detector?” Dear rest of the world who do not metal detect: We are Detectorist’s.  We are not the machine, we are the user’s of the machine.  Therefore, Detectorist’s. Listening to someone …
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There are two different versions of Nighthawking that I’ve come the be familiar with; the American version, and the UK version: The American version of Nighthawking is loosely defined as metal detecting in the evening or at night. The UK version of Nighthawking is metal detecting at night, for the purpose of plundering sites of …
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Since I ranted on about my troublesome VW problems, I feel it’s only fair that I divulge the outcome of the VW saga. The problem turned out to be the transmission, but thankfully, VW had extended the warranty to 100k on that particular transmission. Fortunately I had not gone over the 100k, but I did come …
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Oh, hey–it’s me. Yup, I’m still here. Thanks for all the emails and messages inquiring as to my whereabouts. I could say something smart like “Well, I’ve been out detecting”, but seriously, sometimes life intervenes, and I just can’t find the time to post as often as I would like. You’re probably wondering (or not) …
Continue reading Don’t Buy a VW if you Metal Detect or Not (Part 2) & Skunked at the BONE

Fortunately, most detectorists, follow and abide by a general set of ethics while in the field.  Occasionally though, There have been times in this hobby when my head just spins over someone’s’ total lack of respect for property, and the hobby. I have been volunteering my time, for several years, working to preserve the rights of …
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Wow, 2015 flew by fast! It started off slow and über cold, as I spent most of January & February hibernating on the couch under a blanket engrossed in season after season of Vampire Diaries. It was difficult for me because I’m not a TV person.  I wish I could revive my body’s former ability …
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Bucket List:  In Metal Detecting, a bucket list is a list of coveted, wished for, or cool items you hope to find during the upcoming season, or throughout your detecting career. I think everyone has had a bucket list at one at one time or another. Some have fulfilled their lists, and have moved on to …
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I’m in the middle of the forest this past Thursday evening, nighthawking a cellar hole with, my obsessed as I am, detecting buddy Scott. I’ve got part of a shoe buckle, a square pin & a neat old flat button in my pouch. He has a coin (type yet to be determined), and a nice …
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I went hunting a cellar hole site with an old detecting buddy a while back. It’s a site that we’ve hit hard in the past, and it wasn’t our site of choice, it was our site of necessity. We wanted to detect, yet were short on time. Driving an hour or more just wasn’t going …
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A while back I spent the day at Orchard Beach with Petrina Engelke, a German journalist based in New York who likes to write about inspiring people, especially women. We talked Metal Detecting of course, and I showed her what those folks she’s seen hunting the beaches do, and how we do it. The article …
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I’m a big fan of John Winter’s blog, and today he’s got a great article on a new, yet surprisingly simple product that I think all of us would find helpful in the field. Follow the link below to check it out:   http://www.johnwinter.net/jw/2015/09/coinpad-for-coinshooters/

If you ever wanted to build your own metal detector, detecting gear and accessories, or create your own unique artwork from relics–whether to save money, just for fun, or because you’re a do it yourself person, below are some links you might find helpful (or amusing).  

I was wondering which article to post, as I promised to delve into the archives to bring you a little bit of metal detecting humor.  Then I saw this pic posted on Facebook, and it reminded me of a humorous little article where I briefly mentioned having to choose between a guy or metal detecting. …
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Humor and metal detecting don’t seem to get together very often. Colonial shoe buckles, flat buttons and old coins just aren’t very funny. It’s kind of like trying to find the humor in cross country skiing–you know its there… somewhere, but you’ve really got to search for it.

It’s not very often that you get to detect empty fairgrounds, but that was us, as my partner and I–with great expectations, mind you–enthusiastically drove to meet the “Keymaster” at the gate to the empty fairgrounds.

I frequently search the web for interesting content and links to websites about metal detecting and history, and I’ve compiled a few of my recent favorites below.  Check them out–some of them are pretty cool–

How many times have you wished you had some type of holster to carry around your T-handle shovel? Don’t most of us walk around carrying it in our hand, or slung over our shoulder as we detect? It can be cumbersome, especially in the woods, or when walking or hiking long distances.

“I hope this publication can develop a shared language with metal detectorist’s and move us toward and ever increasing collaboration”.~Giovanna Peebles The March 2015 issue of the SAA Archaeological Record—the magazine of the Society of American Archaeology is now out. This month’s issue is a special thematic issue, all about archaeological practice on reality television (i.e. metal …
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It’s been a while since I’ve been doing regular posts on my blog.  The reason is simply hibernation.  Since Christmas I have been out detecting exactly 4 days–the three days following Christmas, while the ground was still unfrozen and the weather was mild, and then one brave outing to the beach in January. On the beach outing, …
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