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Hi Shaun and welcome. Great to hear from you, i like your choice of weapon a Garrett AT PRO. I venture to get get one myself one day but for now i'll stick with my faithful 350 which i believe is totally awesome.
Heaps of advice hear on the site as you will see. The best i can give is hunt in all metal mode when starting out and dig just about everything. Its a sure way to learn. I always hunt in this mode and i dig everything but the iron signals usually. Every now and then i will dig iron just to see whats going on especially at the beach.
Stay tuned will be good to see some of your finds in time.

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Edited by user Wednesday, 25 November 2015 5:20:11 PM(UTC)  | Reason: HDGD (High Definition Gold Disorder)

The Minelab SDC 2300 waterproof. Tee Hee.

MK

To all those searching for those buried American wwii vehicles here in NZ, there arent many left.

Been chatting to someone today who's job back in the day was to destroy them vehicles by cutting them up for scrap metal. He literary destroyed hundreds of them.
Some of them were buried but redug up for disposal.
Amongst some of the vehicles were Damler transport cars, a hudson transport car, heaps of tanks, bren gun carriers and bren guns themselves. He also disposed of an old wwi tank surprisingly which he said was lined with sheeps wool because bullets can't penetrate the wool.

What a job that would have been and what a shame.



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Edited by user Wednesday, 25 November 2015 5:14:44 PM(UTC)  | Reason: I made this story up, just a theory.

I knew where there were all the not easily recycled bits of a few Curtis PT-50 fighters and if you count up the pontoons bits of at least 20 flying boats.
Pointed a few of the right sort of people the right way over the years but the answer from the land owner was always the same.
Last I heard he had used them to fill in a gully and was driving a bulldozer over them before capping the gully with clay.
Bloody shame but nothing I could do as I only knew about them because as kids we didn't really care about fences.

Edited by user Wednesday, 25 November 2015 10:28:20 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Jeez just been google Earth street viewing the old playgrounds of my childhood and found out that the old WW1 german machine gun is gone from the playground up north and the old bren carrier in the playground in the central north Island town looks like its gone too. Victims of the pc-no war toys lobby I guess.
Man I shot some rounds out of that old machine gun.
Hope it got saved and wasn't scrapped.

That Mig(?) still on the side of the road at Pokeno?

Haven't been down that way for decades.

Scary machines, check this vid out.
https://youtu.be/CsF4WBNXl0s

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Beach detecting American style.

https://youtu.be/36A3TAggQeU

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La Spanish Galleon

A 1500's Spanish Galleon you say - and here in New Zealand, what evidence do you have.
Nothing to show, but i do know of a story from an old timer i met recently and it's on his family land that the find was found. He hung out with the pioneers of the ones who were willing to dig up New Zealand for it's history although it's highly unlikely you will ever see it - in the near future.
I need to go and see him properly but i will need a day at least to chew the fat.

Ok, the Galleon, its on the west coast of Northland buried 53 feet under the mud. It has all its cannons on board and drill samples pulled Teek wood from the decks. An expensive ultrasound from Australia (may have been aerial, not sure) showed it as their and there are pics to see.

Back in the day tall ships went up this estuary on the west coast of NZ and off-loaded cargo at a large jetty which has all since perished away. At some stage one of them sunk to the bottom of this estuary. How was it found then? - simple - by persons searching for swamp logs like Kauri.

It was later said by the Spanish government that a fleet of Spanish ships left Spain around 1538, the same date that the Galleon find was dated.


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