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To: jerod

All I ever find with my metal detector is old beer pull tabs, rusty nails and occasionally a coin much deteriorated in our acid soils................


5 posted on 11/28/2025 5:17:13 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

“ All I ever find with my metal detector is old beer pull tabs, rusty nails and occasionally a coin”
I have found so many grommets, aluminum and brass. They must have used grommets on lots of stuff. Thinking tarps and tents.


6 posted on 11/28/2025 5:24:26 PM PST by 9422WMR
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To: Red Badger
All I ever find with my metal detector is old beer pull tabs, rusty nails and occasionally a coin much deteriorated in our acid soils

Oddly in central Texas our soil are mostly basic and preserve coins and metals well. Unfortunately their are not great buried treasure of the Spanish here. Most treasures are simply those of homesteaders and not much.

14 posted on 11/28/2025 10:25:24 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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