Terry Barnhart's 2010 Finds

These are the finds of my friend,Terry Barnhart (Goes4ever on the online forums). He was a Minelab X-Terra 70 wizard, but upgraded to the Minelab E-Trac this year. I think his finds, all made near his home in Van Wert, Ohio and even at sites he thought he had hunted out with the X-Terra are a phenomenal example of what someone can find in Ohio with the right equipment and the right mindset. He met and surpassed many of his detecting goals for the year, over 100 Indian Head cents, over 100 silver coins including two Seated Liberty and a gold class ring and a wide variety of relics.

Terry said, "I had the X-terra 70 for about a year and a half and my local Minelab dealer told me I'd do better with an E-Trac. I thought he was nuts, how could I do better? I was doing exceptionally well

with the X-terra and thought the upgrade would be a waste of money. But come tax time this year the wife told me to go ahead and get the E-Trac. So I did, and I have NEVER looked back, it is an amazing machine and I wish I had gotten it a year earlier!

The number one thing I think I do better with the E-Trac over the X-terra is finding coins in heavy iron, this machine in TTF (two tone ferrous) is literally KILLER, no coins are safe with the E-Trac in your hands! I hunt fields and old farms most all the time, so I needed a machine that could find stuff in heavy iron and the E-Trac is THE machine just for that! It is amazing on deep coins, and for me it is an Indian cent magnet."

Terry now has his own website http://www.goes4ever.com

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