A cold wind was blowing from the north as I entered the sea at 6:45 am. The sun was just peeping above the horizon. The usual morning joggers and a few worse for wear young things still coming out of the night clubs disturbed the tranquillity of the fresh air.

I stepped into the sea and shivered as I was wearing a shortie wet suit. I made my familiar start off down the shore line up to my waist in water. The CTX 3030 chirping every now and again.

I was hunting a peach orchard at an old house place this past weekend with my CTX 3030 when I had the best coin hunting find of my life, so far.

The grass was about knee deep in the 70+ acre pasture and the nails and other iron pieces in the ground were causing quite a few nulls when I got that nice high pitch. I cut a huge plug to the full depth of my shovel and when I lifted it out and dropped it on the ground two silver dollars fell off the bottom of the plug.

I've been using Minelab detectors for many years and they never stop amazing me! Back in 2009, my X-TERRA 50 found me a New England Oak tree coin, a find of a lifetime.

Recently, I purchased a Safari and took it to a farm I've searched year after year and the finds are few and far between.

Today I set out to try and find a new permission, but unfortunately... or fortunately as it turned out, every farm I called at was deserted.

So I decided to try my luck at one of my old permissions that has produced several nice finds in the past, but I rarely visit now as I grid searched it with the E-TRAC till there where almost no signals left.

Received my brand new CTX 3030 on Tuesday and had a 1 day detecting rally booked for Sunday, I had been detecting for about an hour with no finds only a few bits of junk when I suddenly had a really clear loud signal.

You just got to love the FBS Minelab offers on some detectors. My Safari keeps on giving and giving.

One hot spot I found was great one day, then nothing a couple of days later. Then a few more days pass, I go back then wham, these nice rings and chains!

The Figaro chain is 17 grams, while the other two are 4.5 grams and will not show up on other detectors.

Safari prevails!

Ralph - NJ, USA

Hit the bay again today.

Things started out a little slow and I move east they start to pick up slowly. The day ended up being another great spin – I like it.

As I was getting ready to leave the fast man stopped by and we compared some finds – man oh man he hit a nice 12K fat yellow ticket today.

A few years ago, during the banking crisis, a person was given some very poor advice. He was told that ‘if a bank went bust, anything in a deposit box would be lost’. Unfortunately he believed this and immediately withdrew his valuables. He then had an idea. If he buried some of the valuables in his mother in laws garden they would be safe and easily recovered when required. A good plan with only one slight drawback! It is necessary remember precisely where the object was buried. This is where I come in.

My silver steak is alive and well. The CTX 3030 hammered on this ring! The machine is super stable and a joy to use!

schill13 - AL, USA

We have used our E-TRACs in many settings, parks, private homes and other venues. One of our favorite places is in farm fields where old houses, schools or churches once stood. If you have not tried this I heartily recommend you giving it a try. On this day we had hunted one field and did not find much, so we went out to check another site I had found on the 1874 map and I could see the brick in the field from the car.