Irish9
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Location: Mount Burnett
Detector Used: Minelab Explorer II
Oldest find: 1798 Sixpence, undated Chinese from the 1500's
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Hi Folks, Thought I'd say G'day, new to this site, it seems a lot more friendly than a few detecting sites I've looked at so thought I'd join. Been detecting since I was around 15, now 31 so it's been a while  . Main interest (other than Gold) is collecting Cricket buckles, also am a mad collector of bottles. |
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« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2010, 11:30 » |
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Gday Irish,
Welcome aboard.
A very friendly site it is too.
You sure have a lot of experience and some very old finds
Someone like you could be of help of the many new comers.
Looking forward to seeing some of your finds in the "gallery" and "adventures".
Croweater
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« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2010, 12:21 » |
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Hi Irish
Welcome to the forum.... Lots of nice people here - many with years of experience.
Show us your finds soon...
Cheers
Snoopy
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Cavo quod vos vadum reperio
Dig and you shall find...
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Findem
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Location: Northern NSW
Detector Used: Bounty Hunter Quick Draw 11
Oldest find: 1816 shilling
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« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2010, 13:34 » |
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Hi Irish
Good to have you along. I've always found that collecting bottles and metal detecting go well together. I'm also into gem fossicking, and I guess that quite a few forum members would be too. Hope to see some pics of good finds up here before long.
Findem
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Irish9
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Location: Mount Burnett
Detector Used: Minelab Explorer II
Oldest find: 1798 Sixpence, undated Chinese from the 1500's
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« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2010, 15:24 » |
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Thanks for the welcome folks, I see a few names on here that also post on the bottle forum so must be a few that share the interests.
I also dig for gems and minerals, we get Sapphires, Zircon and Topaz along with a little bit of Gold on the property here.
Will post a few photo's shortly...
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« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2010, 21:01 » |
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Hi, Irish9. Wellcome to our forum.
Looking forward to reading youe exploits.
Happy Hunting.
Gemangi.
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max fusco
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Detector Used: minelab SD2100, GC-10 discriminator BH tracker iv
Oldest find: 1943 half penny
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Balf
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Location: Gippsland , Victoria, Australia
Detector Used: E-Trac & Garrett Pro Pinpointer
Oldest find: Qing Dynasty 18th Century Chinese Coin.
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"Low & Slow & Off we go!"
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« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2010, 12:34 » |
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Welcome Irish.......how's the bottle hunting going?................Balf
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bigpud
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Detector Used: X-terra 705,Garrett Pro-Pointer.
Oldest find: 1913 Penny
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« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2010, 19:43 » |
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Hi Irish, I am new to site too guys and gals here a real wealth of knowledge. I love bottles to mate not only the rum kind either  good hunting. |
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"Finding treasure M/Detecting and beer makes you feel the way you should feel without Finding treasure M/Detecting and beer"
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Bazza
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« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2010, 20:44 » |
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A warm welcome Irish
I got into metal detecting because of my bottle hunting obsession, a great way to find old mine camps.
I found my first untouched Bottle cache when I was 14, my mate Benno and I used to hunt tiger snakes for their skins (tanned and sold them).
We stopped by a newly made dam looking for our prey, and we noticed a lot of glass shards on the surface nearby, we ducked home grabbed a couple of spades and unearthed over a 300 pre 2nd world war bottles, like codds and old blown gin bottles.
The land owner wasn't too pleased with us and booted us off his property, he continued what we started.
I'm sure you have plenty of those stories too.
Cheers
Bazza
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