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Hi everyone decided to join a forum for the first time since I?ve been hunting starting in 1990.  Usually a lone wolf in the hobby, decided to join a forum for my first time, maybe I?m starting to slow down and want to talk more about our hobby.  I have always used Garrett, but have purchased and tried the Minelab xterra 50 when they first came out.  I live in Iowa, and enjoy the ghost town and abandon farms to hunt.  Just want to say hi and  hope to learn and enjoy our hobby with other hobbyist.

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Howdy, Highlander.   Welcome to THunting.com.  You've made a good choice---we've got lot's of good folks here who enjoy all aspects of the hobby.  We're looking forward to hearing from you.

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« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2011, 08:41:28 pm »
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Glad  to have ya, Garretts is good, and nothin wrong with Minelab either, stick around Welcome

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« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2011, 09:41:19 pm »
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Iowa is a State rich in "X" marks the spot treasure hunding.  Being from Iowa you know this, but some of our friends don't.  You have a lifetime of hunting ahead of you with many adventures and finds to share.  So welcome aboard and don't be a stranger.

For others who are reading this and do not understand the Iowa "X" marks the spot, I will explain.  Iowa farm land is in a grid pattern, sections.  These sections are 1 square mile of land.  In these 640 acres there are 4 old homesteads, or 160 acre plots.  Back in the day that was how it was.  Today Iowa farms are in the hundreds and even thousands of acres.  Those old farmsteads were consumed into these mega farms.  But these old farmsteads are easily spotted, usually by a group of trees that surrounded the old house.  "X" marks the spot.  It is easy to get permission to use a metal detector and no one I know walked away empty handed.

I am sure you have driven down a road in Iowa, or seen it on TV, a crop of trees in the middle of a corn field, no building just trees.  These are the honey holes of metal detecting in Iowa.  Sometimes there are buildings still on the old homstead.  Caution is the word here.  I have went through a floor myself and it does not feel good.

The spring is the best time to hit these areas for many reasons.  So if you are looking for a spring fling of your own I would look into a few weeks in Iowa.

Again, WELCOME!
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P.S. Sorry there buddy but I had to share.

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« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2011, 11:03:16 pm »
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Thanks for the welcome you all, Iowa is an X marks the spot.  I have walked down main streets of ghost towns no longer there holding a picture in my hands reading the landscape and locating old closed down mines.  Hunted out of sight, grave yards, homesteads, churches, schools, old stagecoach stations, and Indian sites.  Iowa is truly a treasure hunter?s paradise.  Not many treasure hunters in Iowa, which allows for great finds.  I live in Knoxville, where the Veterans Hospital has just closed down, hum!  When Fort Des Moines closed metal detecting was ok, I am not sure about this location, I am researching.
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 Hello Highlander, and   Welcome From Tennessee !!

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« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2011, 09:09:52 am »
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Welcome from New Mexico.

Sounds like you have some work cut out for ya.

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« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2011, 02:16:35 pm »
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Ciao from Italy Wink

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