Good stuff Howard . If your digging those targets gold jewelry and gold coins are a possibility . I keep all brass , copper and lead to sell to Sims . It’s amazing how the $ pile up ! See you Saturday , with a raincoat it seems .
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I managed to find this silver broach in a local park that I’ve been over plenty of times before. This time I tried the 4kHz mode and it seems to cut out a lot of the chatter from mowed up cans that this spot is full of.
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Rippa find Dave ! Congrats .
Was pretty happy to find a complete powder flask last week.
And a dog tag that’s a hundred years older than the ones I’ve found on the beach.
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Well done getting a powder flask Dave , they don’t turn up to often . No sign of the top for it ? Nice old dog tag too .
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I found another half flask the other day. I previously found a top piece. It opens the flask for loading powder into a gun. A little trigger slides a small cover to open it. There are spring loaded designs as well.
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Nah, looks like Karl got it! Mine was squashed flat. I guess that’s why it got thrown away.
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You blokes are getting into some good stuff . Karl looks to have the sides from two different flasks there . Being thin brass they are nearly always squashed flat . The upper side of that powder gate is actually the part hidden in the powder flask . The trigger like piece underneath was spring loaded and there was also a spout as well . Most i have found have had the spout missing . My guess is that the spout sometimes became loose and unscrewed to become lost . Then the flask was pretty useless so was tossed . Also many flasks must have been thrown away as smokeless powder and cartridge ammunition overtook the muzzle loaders .
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I didn’t manage to find an old brass padlock in my first 2 years detecting but lately they are popping up everywhere!
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Maybe a cufflink if it’s small enough, but a bit of a strange one to be sure.
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For a pocket watch maybe ?
I thought maybe a lapel pin
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Wow, that really is in top condition, well done!
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A nice bonus from a pile of garden waste dumped in the bush… I don’t condone it but I will detect it from now on!
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Nice !! How did that find it’s way into garden waste i wonder ? Find that garden and detect it .
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Must have been dumping trash in the bush to save it from going to landfill 
Did an experiment with the equinox. Gold comes-up at 3-4 but without much depth. It can discriminate ferrous which is most of the junk found with expensive gold detectors. So would it save time looking for surface gold?
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