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                        <title>Clean sweep</title>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Beepin&#039; About With Tom Ivines 

This Way for a Clean Sweep

Living in Florida has its advantages. There are miles and miles of beaches with miles and miles of people on them. Most of the...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Beepin' About With Tom Ivines 

This Way for a Clean Sweep

Living in Florida has its advantages. There are miles and miles of beaches with miles and miles of people on them. Most of these people have everything on their minds but their jewelry. What a gold mine! But you do not have to live in Florida to hunt beaches. There are beaches everywhere. To take advantage of all the goodies lost on a beach, a little strategy is needed. Obviously, hunting among the thousands of sunbathers is difficult and even sometimes irritating, especially to them! It is an intrusion into their privacy. I mean, how would you like it if someone snuck up on you swinging a disk on a stick, flicking sand and blocking your sunlight? And, what if your wife was lying there beside you, barely clad in a teensy-weensy bikini?. . .
   "No, buddy, I'm not gawking at your wife!. . . No, no, please don't throw sand in my face!. . Agh! Cough, choke gag, gag!"
   See what I mean? Better to hunt the beach when all the people are gone.
   During the warm months the best time to hunt the beaches are on weekdays after 5:00 in the afternoon. Most people have either left the beach for the day, or are leaving. Now, that gives you almost three hours of prime-time hunting before the sun goes down, and too, it is not so hot!
  In the winter months and when not too cold, anytime is good. Seldom are  the beaches crowded in the winter. And so what if you have to wear a jacket? If you can have the beach all to yourself it is to your advantage, and again, it is not so hot!
  The preferable time to get to the beach is at tow tide because most jewelry is found just in or at the water's edge. If you can get to the beach on a weekday at around 5:00 p.m. and have a low tide, then the hunting is going to be good. I always try to pick the days that have an offshore wind and low tide together. That way you can swing your metal detector over prime areas where most people frolic in the water and still hunt on land. . . Well, yes, you can find things up on the beach, too, but the gold in abundance is where the people congregate in the water.
   If you are a beach hunter, you will undoubtedly have a water scoop. Dragging it on the sand while hunting will mark the territory you have already hunted. I find that hunting up and down the beach incline, perpendicular to the shore, is more advantageous than hunting parallel to the shore. That way you are more likely to cover areas you would otherwise miss. Walking distances up or down the beach can cause you to walk a swath you did or did not cover. . . Hmm. Which way is up the beach and which way is down the beach, anyway?
  Yeah, yeah, I know. The first instinct is to head right for those spots you think are the hottest, but don't worry, the stuff is not going anywhere, that is, unless you have a gazillion TH'ers on the beach with you. Otherwise, it is better to cover a small area thoroughly than a large area sparsely. Catch my drift? And it pays to go slow. Slow is better.
   Let your coil overlap so you will know you are not missing any of those deep targets. Satisfy yourself there is nothing left to be found where you have hunted. If not too trashy, hunt in "all metal" and dig all repeatable targets. The best treasures come in small tones. Jewelry seldom knocks your ears off when the coil passes over them like coins. Gold will generally sound like trash on most detectors, usually in the pull tab range.
   You are going to dig trash inevitably, so get used to it and put it in your pouch to be discarded into the litter barrel later. Not only are you going to do yourself a favor, you are doing everyone else a favor, too. Not only will the beach be a better place to frolic and lose jewelry, it will also be an easier place to hunt next time without all the junk. From then on most targets will be good ones.
   As a final note, unless you only have one day, do not try to cover the whole beach at once. Keep coming back repeatedly, eventually covering it all. Then you can start all over. And by all means, have a "beeping" fun time!]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Robert Ellis</title>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2015 15:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[BONE 20 2nd Place, Robert Ellis
My White XLT meter read 78 “maybe a large cent,” I said to myself.  Even though this late 1700’s home site had been stingy with giving up colonial artifacts,...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[BONE 20 2nd Place, Robert Ellis
My White XLT meter read 78 “maybe a large cent,” I said to myself.  Even though this late 1700’s home site had been stingy with giving up colonial artifacts, a large cent was recovered a few months ago.  The detectors depth meter read one inch so I pin pointed it with my Garrett Pro probe.  From the small plug I could see a large cent object.  After carefully removing the clinging dirt from the disc all I could see was a large eagle.  A little disappointed it wasn’t a large cent, I brought the object closer to my eyes to see if I could read what appeared to be lettering above the eagle.  “WAR OF 1861,” the words rang through my head and a big smile appeared on my face followed by a vocal “WOW.”  I knew I had in my hand a Civil War “Dog Tag,” I immediately turned it over hoping to read the soldiers name, hoping it would be a former owner of the property I was detecting on.  I could see some lettering, but the disc would have to be cleaned a little before I knew more.
The quick ID of the object was possible because about 15 years earlier I had recovered my first Civil War “Dog Tag” followed by lots of internet research on the subject.  A Civil War “Dog Tag” is an identification disc, many of which are about the size of a large cent with a pre-stamped image on the front with the words WAR OF 1861. On the back of the tag are usually the soldiers name, company, regiment, hometown and state.
After cleaning my new found dog tag, the lettering on the back revealed the disc belonged to Jacob Irving Whittemore, Company E 15th regiment from Manchester, NH.  It’s so cool to just find out that much. But with some internet research you can find out so much more.  My guy was born Nov. 3, 1838 to Robert Parker Whittemore and Hannah J. Cheney.  He enlisted Sept. 25, 1862 and was mustered in on Oct. 15, 1862 as a private.  He was wounded in the foot on May 27, 1863 at Port Hudson, LA and was mustered out Aug. 13, 1863.  There are even regimental histories on the internet that tell you when and where the soldier went.  I detected the dog tag in East Windsor, CT so I plan on trying to find out if he ever lived in that area.
Because of the information that the Civil War “Dog Tags” can lead you to, they are highly collectable with a dollar value from one hundred dollars to thousands depending on the condition and who the dog tag belonged to.
I consider this Civil War “Dog Tag” as one of my top ten lifetime finds.  I’m thankful that we have the internet to do the research to make it more meaningful.
Happy Hunting
Bob Ellis]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>Pharaoh!</title>
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                        <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2015 18:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[I found this cool Pharaoh pin today along with another rosie and a few wheats!]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I found this cool Pharaoh pin today along with another rosie and a few wheats!


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