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Super Sniper Shines Again With a Great Find

David53

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While detecting with a Garrett AT Pro and using a Super Sniper Search Coil, a target ID of 70 appeared on the display screen and after digging less than an inch into the soil, I recovered a Freshman Drill Team Corps Metal. "The Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets (often The Fightin' Texas Aggie Corps of Cadets, The Corps of Cadets, or simply the Corps) is a student military organization at Texas A&M University. Established with the University in 1876, it is the oldest student organization on campus."; (Wikipedia)
I showed the metal to a current member of the Texas A&M Corps and he said that the metal appeared to be very old. He also indicated it is rare because very few Corps Members have these types metals. I will be returning it to the Texas A&M Corps on Tuesday, April 25, 2017. Hopefully, the Corps personnel will be able to locate the rightful owner, but If that is not possible, then the Corps will display it in their museum located on the Texas A&M Campus in College Station, Texas
 
That is a very unique find! And very admirable that you are giving it the their
Museum for display.....good for you!
HH
 
Thank you for your kind words. I see you have been detecting for many years.

I was wondering if you ever got to a site that you thought may have been hunted out and then decided to search and remove as much IRON from that site as possible. Then detected the site as usual and once again made fantastic finds because there was much less iron around to mask out the good finds. I performed some air tests for both an AT Pro, a Minelab CTX 3030, and a Tesoro Lobo using gold rings along with screws. As long as the screws were a few fingers away from the gold rings, I had no problems pick up the rings, but if I placed the screws and gold rings together none of the detectors I tested could detect the rings. Even when I placed the rings and screws right up against the detector coils, I only was able to hear a loud popping static type noise.
I also found out some pull tabs now have iron in them, which is also lessening our chances for making good finds. I know it won't be easy, but I plan to start removing lots of iron trash where I detect by using my detectors as well as Earth Magnets.
 
I sometimes take 2 metal detectors with me on relic hunts....one with the sniper coil and one with the standard coil.
 
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