#1 Individual Scorer - for Team Bounty Hunter

#2 Individual Scorer for Team Bounty Hunter

I had been using the T2 for, about a year and a half. It was living up to all of the comments I had heard about making my old hunting spots become new again, by finding deeper targets that other detectors had missed. I had heard that the new T2 LTD was even better. So for the up coming GNRS, I took advantage of the opportunity to get a new T2 LTD to use at the hunt. In the weeks before the hunt, I only managed to get out relic hunting maybe 6 times to test out the new LTD, but in that short time, I was convinced that all the hype about this "new and improved" version of the T2 was also right on target. I dug several bullets from some amazing depths in some well hunted sites.

So at the GNRS, I chose to start hunting in an area where I had left off the year before. Even though I knew that this little picket post had been pounded very hard before, I also knew that the new LTD had the capability to find anything that might have been left there. It wasn't long before my hunch started to pay off. In amongst the scattered iron signals, I soon heard a sweet positive signal. Digging down, I soon found a very deep brass asjustment hook. Then beside it, a deep, but very small rain poncho grommet. Then a small flat button, and some pieces of camp lead. In just over an hour, I had several good relics, and a good start on my "point total". I started searching along a fire lane that had been cut through the woods, and got a really nice signal reading 84 on the target ID. I thought I might have a seated dime here. I dug down about 8 inches, and the signal was deeper in the bottom. I took out another shovel full of dirt, and then saw something round in the bottom of the hole. A button..!! Now that's more like it, but what kind is it I thought. After carefully brushing away the dirt, I began to see the faint outline of....a palmetto tree..!! I needed to see no more. I knew I had found what I was looking for on this hunt. I had traveled to SC, and now had found my first SC button. It wasn't until later that evening that I found out just how good of a button I had found. Pouring over the "button books", there was nothing exactly like this one to be found. Wow, a previously unknown and unlisted variety. As deeply as it was buried, I could see how others might have missed it, but the T2 LTD in boost mode had made it sound like it was only 2-4 inches down.

I stayed in that small area (about a half an acre) all day, and by quitting time, I had sored 32 points, or 32 relics, and that is not including about 25 small to medium pieces of camp lead, and a number of .22 leads, .22 shell casings, and shotgun shells. It DID include several Williams cleaners and 3-ringers, brass rivets, grommets, P-caps, flat buttons and button backs, a brass harness buckle and a scabbard tip. That's not a bad result for hunting in a spot that was considered to be "well hunted". In fact, that result, added to my second day total was enough for me to be the second top point scorer on our winning team, and tie for second place over-all in individual finds out of 182 hunters. Take it from me.... the new T2 LTD ROCKS..!!

Duane Caldwell
AKA...Buzzardjaws

GNRS 4th Place Best Find with the new T2 LTD.

I was hunting in a spot that had produced some good relics in the past, but had been hunted hard. However, I just knew that the new T2 LTD had the capability to find anything that others might have missed. I was not disappointed. Among the 32 relics I dug in this one small area, was this currently unknown and unlisted SC button. Dug at a depth of greater than 8 inches, the T2 made it sound like it was only 2-4 inches deep. It was good enough to be judged as the 4th best relic of the GNRS in the "top finds" category. The next day, I returned and found a second identical button back. Both are proudly displayed together.

"Buzz" Caldwell