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To Join Click Here...Leave your name, screen name, phone, and detector you are using.
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Greetings, and welcome to the Bronx Explorer's Treasure Hunting Club's Page.
In 1978, I began a fantastic journey into the world of Metal detecting with my Brother Eddie. He had bought a low end detector, didn't cost much and didn't do much either, but it worked......
In time we began to find coins, rings, and a lot of junk, in time my brother went out and bought a Red Baron made by The Bounty Hunters company.
It was a fairly good machine and one of our best finds was a 1945 Walking Liberty half dollar in Central Park; at Coney Island we found lots of wheaties and rings.
Many years rolled by and we decided to go out one day, and I was noticing that my brother Eddie was not looking like himself as of late. In 1988, my brother Eddie pass away. Here was a Brother, a Friend, and a Pal that would help me out of any problem(s) that I would have and in return I would do the same for him if i could.
It is now July 2000, and I decided to go back to treasure hunting last July 1999 nearly a year ago. I was using the Bounty Hunter Land Star. The picture above shows what I have found in the last year, mostly in Pelham Bay Park...all Areas including Orchard beach. I now own a Mindlab Explorer XS, the meanest, badest machine out here for now.
Update; It's December 22, 2001. I worked the beach all summer with much success. I found some very nice pieces this summer. In all, 80 gold rings, 15 silver rings, 11 pendants, 3 bracelets....and of course my share of subawy tokens, watches, paper money, and about 450.00 in coins. Just saw Tito at the beach today, he also did pretty good this year.
Update; it's March 24, 2002. Well, the winter is on it's way out, yeah right, what winter! All in All, this was a very productive winter for me as I huntered Rye, Coney Island, and of course the jewel of the Bronx, Orchard Beach. I picked up 15 Gold Rings, 3 bracelets, 2 pendants, 2 medallions, and a few silver coins. I finally can add this 1942 Standing Liberty in nice condition to my collection, she was right on top, on edge...could not believe it. right next to her was a Mercury dime, also 1942 in very good condition.
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LET ME TELL YOU A LITTLE ABOUT MYSELF, and the MindLab Explorer XS
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I consider myself an historian......and a explorer. I'm very much interested in the Civil War, the American Indian, the Pyramids to name a few, but I happened on to E-Bay where one can buy many different items in an auction setting.
While there, I noticed this catagory....on Civil War relics. So I logged on, became a member, and the rest is history. I could not believe what people are taking out of the ground...A long time ago I had asked a friend if one could find such relics pertaining to the Civil War? he said no, "That all metals were taken out of the ground at the end of the battles" and this is not true.......so before I continue....
My advice to anyone interested in finding relics of any histroical value, first, you must do your research...it saves time....and you'll work a lot less....and have more fun digging up what you will find.
Another word of advice is that you shop around for your detector, just don't buy any type or from any company that are making all these promises about features. Again...research, what type of hunting are you going to be doing. There're many different types of detectors out there, and remember by the next year they will have already have come out with a new one, like computer companies have been doing with computers.
Remember, promises are made to be broken, or shall we say, "Improved on" I'm already waiting for the New Explorer XS II to come out, see what I mean!!!
I can't stress this point enough, if you are a beginner, start with a simple machine, this way you can learn the ropes so to speak and you'll get to know what sounds or pitches to listen for when you are out in the field. Who knows, you may not like the sport.
I did exactly that....I bought a tracker IV Bounty Hunter, and after a two months, I up graded to a Land Star. It's a professional model and a fine machine for the money at about 400.00 to 450.00 dollars.
As I said before, I up-graded to the Explorer SX, because, Lets face it, if you can have a machine that will identify what is under the ground, and or reject all the junk with a pre-set learning mode, which would you rather have.
I had read about a field test about the Mindlab Explorer XS Detector ....it said, the sites where you are coin shooting or relic hunting now or in the past will becomes like a virgin site again. When I'm at the beach, I'm may find two to three rings.
The MineLab electronics people have put together a fantastic machine, it's the Explorer XS. However, the Explorer XS in Its quick start mode is like all the others, with the exception that
its depth can go as deep as 20".
Now, in the advanced mode is where this detector surpasses all other detectors, and it does take some getting used to the hum and tones instead of the beeps, but it's well worth it. The estimated time to learn in quick-mode, before going into the advanced mode is forty hours.
If you would like to enter a monthly sweepstakes where a detector with the latess features is up for graps....go ahead and visit The Lost Treasures Site at the bottom of this page. There you'll also find stories, tips, manufactures of the top of the line detectors to choose from. There are also Links to many personal pages of people out there that know what they are talking about when it comes to treasure hunting and metal detectors. So, get out there and uncover some historical item thats been sleeping under the ground, who knows we may bump into each other out there one day......and remember, I found it...it's mine.
Remember folks, equipment is of the up most importance in treasure hunting....spend a couple of bucks for the best, and you'll always have good results.
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