How a dumpster got me into metal detecting...

[Delpirt]

While working with a buddy opening a new business I went to the dumpster to toss out some stuff left behind by previous tenants and discovered they had tossed out all kinds of stuff I wouldn't have thrown out. Among the items in the dumpster was an old laptop computer. Nothing fancy but it still worked fine when I plugged it in. I brought it home where it sat for awhile until one day I see a post on Craigslist where a guy is wanting to trade his MD for a laptop. It was nothing fancy, a Bounty Hunter Tracker IV, but I've been wanting to get an MD for awhile now. Perfect trade for a laptop I would probably have never used!

So here I am a few weeks later and totally hooked!

 

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[old digger]

WELCOME! and Good Luck in your metal detecting future!

 

[Delpirt]

Thanks old digger!

On a side note, I grew up in Helena! I sure do miss Big Sky Country sometimes!

 

[old digger]

Sure wished I lived a little closer to the Helena and the western area. More opportunity for some gold detecting. And chances to check out some of the old mining camps.

 

[Delpirt]

Not sure exactly where we found it, but when I was a kid my buddy and I found an old mine while playing soldiers up in the hills. There was still lots of cool stuff laying about. We found a lantern and mining car but were too scared to go into the entrance of the mine. Sure wish I could go back there now!

 

[cyberdan]

too scared to go into the entrance of the mine. Sure wish I could go back there now!

Good thing you didn't go in or you might not be here to post your adventures.
I live in SoCA and live 10 miles from Disneyland so it is hard to believe but there are old abandoned silver mines pretty close. people (adults) have been known to go in and never come out, on their own.

 

[Critical Recovery]

Don't let anyone dissuade you about your machine.

My first machine was a Sharpshooter2 and I SWEAR that thing was psychic.

Are there better out there? Sure. But if I were a nice crisp Standing Liberty Quarter or a Buffalo Nickel I would be more afraid of the guy who has a bounty hunter and KNOWS his machine than somebody with a 2,000.00 "wonder" and is too lazy to learn it.

 

[Delpirt]

Good thing you didn't go in or you might not be here to post your adventures.
I live in SoCA and live 10 miles from Disneyland so it is hard to believe but there are old abandoned silver mines pretty close. people (adults) have been known to go in and never come out, on their own.

It's like they say, curiosity killed the cat. All the thoughts of gold nuggets or lost treasure were not strong enough to convince a couple of kids that it was worth the risk of ghosts, bears, or cave-ins in that creepy old mine.

 

[allen]

Good deal !