What Are We, Anyway?

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Dan Hughes

Dan Hughes

Sr. Member
Aug 26, 2008
472
71
Champaign, IL
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Several

coin_diver

Full Member
Oct 3, 2003
141
20
Syracuse, ny
Detector(s) used
AT Pro, xl500 (27 yrs) XLT (17 yrs)
Primary Interest:
Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
I use the term " Avocational Archaeologist" as it usually just gets a blank stare and "Oh" as a response. Play their game.
 

Frankn

Gold Member
Mar 21, 2010
8,711
2,988
Maryland
Detector(s) used
XLT , surfmaster PI , HAYS 2Box , VIBRA-TECTOR
Lets get real about this! We are actually a group of DREAMERS! The strange part is some of the dreams actually come true!!!! Frank
 

deepskyal

Bronze Member
Aug 17, 2007
1,926
61
Natrona Heights, Pa.
Detector(s) used
White's Coinmaster 6000 Di Series 3, Minelab Eq 600
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
I'm a "Past-Finder".
I like the old foundations and overgrown places that once were our past. Historian/amateur archaeologist. :thumbsup:

Al
 

mrwilburino

Hero Member
May 7, 2010
680
617
Northern Ohio
Detector(s) used
Fisher, Teknetics, Minelab, XP
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
I say that I am a research and recovery expert specializing in the discovery and retrieval of valuable historical artifacts.
My wife says that I am a nerd with a metal detector.
Tomato…….To-mah-to.
 

Oroblanco

Gold Member
Jan 21, 2005
7,837
9,821
DAKOTA TERRITORY
Detector(s) used
Tesoro Lobo Supertraq, (95%) Garrett Scorpion (5%)
I'm a - what? What should we call ourselves?

You are all treasure hunters, as am I. All the rest is just name games, like calling shell shock "post traumatic stress syndrome" lets not fool ourselves when the name really fits as treasure hunters. Metal detectors are only one tool in the toolbox so saying a "detectorist" is excluding all the other methods (including the naked eyeball) so is inaccurate Likewise with all the other fields within the treasure hunting vocation, metallurgy, historical research, even satellite imagery - just parts of the whole.

Oroblanco

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N.J.THer

Silver Member
Nov 16, 2006
3,282
238
Middlesex County, New Jersey
🥇 Banner finds
1
Detector(s) used
Whites DFX w/ Sunray DX-1 probe and Minelab Excalibur 1000, Whites TRX Pinpointer
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
It depends on who my audience is as to what I call myself.

NJ
 

Nevada Coyote

Jr. Member
Oct 20, 2009
58
4
Yerington, Nevada
Detector(s) used
Bounty Gold Digger, Fisher Gold Bug.
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
In truth I am a lesbian, I like women, on the other hand I like using my metal detector, so that make me a.............person that likes women and metal detectors.
Metal detecting is fun and keeps you outdoors and in shape. Anyway it doesn't matter what we are called.
Nevada Coyote
 

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