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MXT deal

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desert

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Hello all,

I Live up here in the High Desert of California near Lancaster and I am getting ready to join the ranks of the MXT users but the local dealer suggested I wait until next week. Apparently Whites has a limted time deal where you purchase a detector on or after the 20th and send in ninety-nine dollars and get an assortment of goodies such as a pointer, bag, headphones etc. Anyone else hear of this deal? At any rate in the mean time I been checking out potential places to operate. Laugh if you want but I been using google earth to investigate and get an eagle eye view of my local area. In doing so I have located at least two abandoned trailer park areas and an abandaoned swimming pool. I figure an abandoned swimming pool area would have good potential. I have found numerous abandoned houses but leery about checking them without permission. I have no idea where to go to obtain permisiion. But it seems where the trailer parks were is open and fair game.

Desert
 
You will want to take advantage of the White's promotion for sure and it sounds like you have some nice places picked out to start hunting. Public property is usually fair game in most places but everything else is private property and someone owns it, permission should be secured before hunting. Good luck.
 
google earth is a great help in hunting empty lots!, I use the time line feature and go back in some cases were the lot still had the structures standing.:clapping:
congrats on the mxt purchase,you won't be disappointed!:thumbup:
 
No laughs here desert. I've used google earth to map out a bunch of spots myself and it has really paid off. Congrats on getting the MXT. Best decision I ever made also.
HH
Scott
 
Now see I never heard of the time line feature. I will have to check that out tonight. My wife is a local of the area and she says the trailer park in question was operational in the early to mid 70's, but she did not recall a pool. The entire place runs along an interstate and you cant tell or see any of this from the road as all is left is concrete foundations and the remains of utility connections. I mean you can see a couple shacks but had no clue there is a pool in rock throwing distance from the main road..lol I think it pays to use your computer to check things out. Being in the desert I have a long stretch of historic route 66 to explore. I havent even started and already found enough places to keep me busy for a while. I cant wai't...lol
 
Good luck when you get your MXT. You're going to love it! Welcome to the forum and it's nice you joined the team! HH, Nancy
 
time line this is ok in google earth. mine only goes back to 1994 blurry as all heck also.:ranting:
 
Google earth is a great research tool for sure, Here's another good satelite tool http://www.bing.com/maps/ I use bing maps a lot.
 
you have to decide what you want to find, if you are looking for coins, parks, playgrounds, or maybe trailer parks might be ok. but if you are like me i like to find things old and different---old tools, buckels, hindges or whatever. i live in nebraska and the most satifying places i go to i have to drive over 3 hours tp western part of the state. the old ranchers love to talk to you about the history of their property, they tell me about old homesteads and post offices and trading posts that were on that property. yes once in a while you find a old coin, but you find alot of old relics--tools, bullets, silverware,dishes, etc.. i have been detecting a old post office site in the sandhills for 3 years( 2 -3 days a year) and finding alot. these items are not worth nothing in$, but knowing that this post office closed in 1923, everything i dig up is at least over 85 years old. by the way there is no buidings here, it just a grove a trees in the middle of a cow pasture. the most fun is trying to figure out what i dug up, such as moving parts and morse code pieces. some of these places are along the pony express and wagon trails from the 1890's. i am new to this site but i can see i will enjoy it. mxt user only
 
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