How long before...

[Montauk3]

Rant part 1

Any guesses as to how long it would take for your favorite beaches to be over run with
Everyone that has a detector? (Expert and novice)

I don’t think it would be too long if we give our locations along with the pictures of prime finds.

I am sure that there are some that froth at the mouth when they see some of the nice targets that we collect. They assume that if you found an 18k ring on Monday at so and so beach, they will find a 36k ring on Tuesday within 29 feet of where you found yours.

I am also sure that some would say that I’m a little too secretive about where I hunt. So be it! When I first joined T-Net, I naively gave my locations freely. NO MORE.

Rant part 2

Trash, we all know what trash looks like. Its pretty common. EVERONE finds trash and hopefully disposes of it properly.

Pulltabs, bottle caps, canslaw, plastic, hairpins, ETC. Come on folks, is it really necessary to post pictures of all the trash we find in every post on a treasure site?

Perhaps the site administrators will add a new category for trash only.

Rant over, for now.

Fire away, I’ve got my helmet on.

Ralph

 

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[Buried Crap NJ]

Ralph, I would think if you were so lucky to find a honey spot that no one else has ever found this would be true. I can't remember any time in the last few years I have gone hunting the beach and not seen 2 or 3 people swinging the coil. I been out in 11 degree weather 40 mpg gust this year to find 3 or 4 people braving the cold also. I believe with the media posting these finds in Europe of the millions of dollar range more people take on the hobby. But the beach is always changing and there is more than enough to go around and if i can't get to it I don't mind someone else to getting it.
About the trash thing I wonder about this also, i think it shows the ratio finds to trash well and maybe its there way of saying i just don't find good targets?? Good luck hunting. steve

 

[guzz1]

Or you get fed up all together and just stop Hunting all together Like I did sell all your stuff and forget about , Guzz1

 

[Jaws2]

I have been a serious fisherman my whole life and just like in fishing if you give your favorite spot away to one person, it won't be long before there won't be any fish to catch in that location. It's the same in medal detecting, if you give a favorite spot away you have to expect it to be just another spot in a short period of time. What do they say "Loss lips sink ships"



As far as what is shown in the pictures, I don't see a problem there.

 

[COTTON]

Or you get fed up all together and just stop Hunting all together Like I did sell all your stuff and forget about , Guzz1

Well look who came out of HIBERNATION!

 

[Sandman]

Everyone likes to find stuff, gold and sometimes junk when the good finds are few. There are only so many beaches where people visit for recreation and lose stuff. Digging is easier on the sand and their mainly are always open too detecting unlike city parks and such so everyone comes to the beaches.

I do not tell where I hunt or I try not too anyway. I try not to post pictures for a pat on the back. I know what I find and know the good comes with the bad. As for posting pictures of the trash I think it is a good thing too. Newbies have to know that the great finds also come with the trash. If they see we brought it home it implies that we didn't throw it back on the sand. It is a treasure too in a way. We are out there for fun, not just to find the gold rings................Somebody got my Meds?

 

[JP]

Or you get fed up all together and just stop Hunting all together Like I did sell all your stuff and forget about , Guzz1

Well look who came out of HIBERNATION!

Wow Cotton. I didn't know you looked that good...

It's funny how when you see one post about finding a little gold pinky ring on CWB, the next day there are 20 more hunters then usual. I guess everybody wants to find something, then again, who dosen't.

I guess it's like what Guzz told me, if the coil doesn't pass over, you aren't going to find it. To add to that quote, if it ain't there you aren't going to find it.

HH

 

[COTTON]

Ya.I had to find a new one this week How are you doing there my friend? I will send ya a pm.

 

[davest]

here's my .02. It's just after Christmas, alot of folks have seen us beachhunters out this summer and thought, "wow, if I had one of those, I'd be rich". So they get one as a present. Then they spend an hour or 8 digging clad and pulltabs, sparkler wires and tent stakes. It's not so much fun anymore and they put it aside and take up another hobby they watched someone else do.
Meanwhile the batteries go dead, the wife or husband isn't into sitting on the beach watching, or the kids break it and into the junk pile of the garage it goes.

Relax, if it was easy, the girls from the office would be out doing it.

It's like watching someone play some great electric guitar, looks pretty easy until your fingers start to bleed for the first time.

 

[JP]

here's my .02. It's just after Christmas, alot of folks have seen us beachhunters out this summer and thought, "wow, if I had one of those, I'd be rich". So they get one as a present. Then they spend an hour or 8 digging clad and pulltabs, sparkler wires and tent stakes. It's not so much fun anymore and they put it aside and take up another hobby they watched someone else do.
Meanwhile the batteries go dead, the wife or husband isn't into sitting on the beach watching, or the kids break it and into the junk pile of the garage it goes.

Relax, if it was easy, the girls from the office would be out doing it.

It's like watching someone play some great electric guitar, looks pretty easy until your fingers start to bleed for the first time.

Yes, you are correct. I love seeing on Ebay all of the "used only once" metal detectors. I bought a Sea Hunter II a few months ago for half the price new. The seller wasn't lying, he said that he bought it in June, used it once, set it aside, and was selling it in August. On the box there was the original shipping information from June. I know I've seen "almost new" in the box detectors for sale at antique stores from those that bought one, thought it would be easy, got tired of digging bobby pins and other "junk", and decided it wasn't like that commercial on TV.

They all forget, 90% of the fun is the possibility of finding something. One never knows when that one find will be something incredible. Incredible doesn't have to mean something valuable financially it could be something just neat to hold that someone lost in the past.

 

[erikk]

Rant part 1

Any guesses as to how long it would take for your favorite beaches to be over run with
Everyone that has a detector? (Expert and novice)

I don’t think it would be too long if we give our locations along with the pictures of prime finds.

I am sure that there are some that froth at the mouth when they see some of the nice targets that we collect. They assume that if you found an 18k ring on Monday at so and so beach, they will find a 36k ring on Tuesday within 29 feet of where you found yours.

I am also sure that some would say that I’m a little too secretive about where I hunt. So be it! When I first joined T-Net, I naively gave my locations freely. NO MORE.

Rant part 2

Trash, we all know what trash looks like. Its pretty common. EVERONE finds trash and hopefully disposes of it properly.

Pulltabs, bottle caps, canslaw, plastic, hairpins, ETC. Come on folks, is it really necessary to post pictures of all the trash we find in every post on a treasure site?

Perhaps the site administrators will add a new category for trash only.

Rant over, for now.

Fire away, I’ve got my helmet on.

Ralph

AGREE 100%

 

[JP]

I have a Rant part 3...

How many of you get tired of receiving an email that someone has posted a comment to an item. You click on it only to see the following comment:



just a not even one extra word with it. I can understand if it is something out of this world but I get notifications from items that were originally posted a year ago and someone new comes along and posts a

I know there is an option to cut off notifications but 99% of the time people update their posts or someone posts something useful on the same thread.

A couple of months ago I opened my email to find 10 (or more) emails that someone had posted a new comment to several items that I had commented on in the past. Everyone of them had just a

At least put a word or two, for example "nice find," and then add the

Oh well, I got to get back to work. I hope someone is out there finding something good.

 

[JP]

Just kidding...


I think it would be a good idea to add a trash category. I know I find my fair share of it.

 

[TheProf]

I gotta agree with DaveSt if it were easy everybody would be doing it. I see MD's at the beach I go to all the time I've never seen before and never see them again.

1.) They have no idea what they are doing, other that swinging a MD.
2.) After a day of finding 2 quarters, a dime and a matchbox car they realize this hobby ain't for them.
3.) It takes dedication, time, and perseverance to find the good stuff.
4.) All these things I learned when I first got mine, used it once didn't find squat and threw it back in the closet till I knew a hurricane was coming through, then didn't find anything then and gave up on the hobby. 20 years later I bought another MD, talked to other people who MD, dedicate an hour a day to research and 15 hours a week to hunting under any conditions.

So basically I don't feel threatened by any other MD. Only a handful are as dedicated as I am and I won't be able to get to all the spots in my hometown before I die I want to hunt, so one person doing it for one day is funny to me.

I agree with Sandman, I personally have politely stopped telling people who come up to me an ask what I have found, I gladly talk to them about the hobby but that is it.

I was out last week at a local park, finding silver coins and wheats every dig, and a guy comes up to me who lived across the street from the park and says he has a MD but never uses it. What do I say "go get it!" I am finding silver coins like crazy? I spend hours on research and he walks up and wants to take my hard work away? Not happening! I did tell him I never found anything laying on my couch.

So you definitely have to watch yourself, but nobody is a threat.

 

[GuerillaBill]

I was on the beach yesterday and had 3 different men come up to me and want to talk about metal detecting.

Each one of them told me they owned a metal detector, and had brought it out on the same beach I was on, but hadn't found anything, and lost interest in the hobby.

One person noticed I was using a Minelab, and he told me he had bought a minelab excalibur, used it just one, and put it in the closet.

I hear this same kind of story almost daily.

People tell me they bought a detector, used it once or twice, didn't find anything, so they give up the hobby.

I think this is very typical with those that jump into the hobby hoping to get rich.

Newbies like this on the beach don't really worry me.

But the pro's like Montauk3 do.

They have the best detectors, have the patience and experience needed to find the good stuff and are on the beaches just about every day.

And for their investment in time and skill, they get the rewards.

If anyone will clean a beach of targets, it will be guys who hit the same beach regularly and know what they are doing.

Regarding trash - for a while, I'd leave the bottle caps and pull tabs on the beach. But now, I pick up everything and throw it away when leaving the beach.

That way, I know I won't be digging that same bottle cap when I come back to the same beach again.

Bill

 

[Montauk3]

Hey Bill, flattery will get you anything. LOL

 

[davest]

yeah Bill, I hate diggin the same old pull tab or bottle cap time after time. That's what the trash pouch is for.

There's just a lot of folks that have a lot more money than sense.

 

[guzz1]

Guys and Gals I still have a metal detector ,,However I quit going for a while . I had the worst year ever in metal detecting in 2009 .I found 5 silver rings , 0 gold and I was out and worked the 3 beaches I normally go to 4 days a week, I would see more and more new metal detectorist out there each time i would go out to hunt,, I just feel the more folks you have out there swinging, your percentages go down and thats what happen in 2009 for me . I just got tired of wasting my time and being let down,,,, I might start going again here in future ,, Its great hobby and it is fun , and yea you never know when your gonna hit 777 ,,but i feel right know the odds about the same as going to the casino ,, Happy New Year to all my good friends here at T net I wish you all Good luck and good fortune for 2010,,, GUZZ1

 

[Surfdigger]

This is my take on it....I agree with you folks that say that the casual (oh I have to get me one uh dem things sometime) hunters or "skimmers" as I like to call them, will never be any serious competition to the avid hunters among us. As for the so called "pros" out there....I don't really worry about them either cause lets face it guys and girls......they don't need to lurk on here waiting to see a picture of a find or a location to find a place to hunt....they are already out there finding the good stuff based on their own merit ie. learning how to read a beach, knowing what conditions to look for etc.....I see this topic come up here from time to time and all I can say is just hang in there....things will get better....just keep doing what you are doing and stop worrying about the other guy.....JMHO....HH....Brian

 

[Hangingfor8]

#1 Cotton I love the new pic. You got me to do a second take.lol
#2 I have notice more and more people on my favorite spots. On one hand I'm glad more people are enjoying our sport because that means we'll have more say in the public, but it really does suck sharing. Oh well thats life.
#3 Sorry I had to do. Good luck every one.