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                 I suppose that I am relatively new to serious metal detecting. Many many years ago I purchased an old army mine detector; long before metal detecting became a popular past time. I thought that maybe I could unearth some historic artifacts, but never did get the darn thing to work. When the kids were young I bought a cheap detector from a junk shop but only ever found nuts and bolts, an old horse shoe, and a brass .303 shell case.

                 When I retired at 65, I decided to buy myself a decent detector for working wet sand on UK beaches. Dolled out £229.99 for a C-Scope CS4PI and found that it would pick up a gents gold wedding ring at one foot under damp sand; a real doozy.

                  Recently found out that the beach I work regular was landmined in 1940. Demined and cleared for public use after WW2. Sigh of relief; until I read that when they cleared one beach in Southern England ther were 85 mine unaccounted for! Shucks; now what did I do with that old mine detector!    

                                             Chris            
                

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Thank you for the warm welcome. New Mechico? What was wrong  with the old Mechico?   :

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Have seen it on UK tv; wet backs and all that. Me thinks that I will stay away from that border. I have enough problems with UK borders; the place is falling apart. The Scots and the Welsh don't love us any more and want to leave the union. Mmmm that sounds familiar! I don't think that we will have a civil war though.

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Hi Rae,
          thanks for the warm welcome. Are there many Brits in here?

                                         Chris

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             Sadly I haven't made any fantastic finds yet. It turned out that the beach I have been detecting most was used for target practice by the USAF and RAF during WW2. I have been turning up plenty of .303, 50cal, and 20mm projectiles. I have now discovered the target zone and flight path for the fighters and avoid that area. Other than that it's scrap iron, broken glass and a few decimal coins.
             Moved to an other beach last week and turned up a 1900 Victorian copper penny. The darned thing was as black as the ace of spades and looked like it had been in the sands for over 90yrs. What is detecting like in New Jersey? I read about a guy last week who took home a civil war cannon ball and started working on it in his front drive. The darned thing blew up and killed him! After all those years; who would have thought it?

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