Do you still have your 1st detector?

[Coin Digger]

My first was an Ebay made in China junk. It lasted all of a about a month before it went into the trash bin.
My 2nd one I still have and will never get rid of, Whites Classic 3.

 

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[davidtn]

I wish I did. I put together a Heathkit back in the 70's and found many a wheatback with it. I don't know what happened to that thing.

 

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[CivicDude]

got my 1st Metal Detecter tonight a whites COINMASTER 5000/d g.e.b need to find a batt for it

 

[Tom_in_CA]

civic dude, is your 5000d a "series 2"? (it will say on the side). If so, you've got a good machine, that in some environments, is still competitive. A bit of a "fast swing", but still an ok machine. If you have the original 5000d, you've got a bit of a dinasour. The disc. mode on that was TR. Very old-school, and quickly outclassed in the late '70s/early '80s at the advent of motion disc. The all-metal on the original 5000d was and is still current though: Manual VLF all-metal.

 

[Produce Guy]

; Yes mine was a Mustang,not sure who made it but it still does work.

 

[CivicDude]

Tom_in_CA no its not but it looks like its new just got back from radioshack battery holder now iam going to see if it works

its DEAD

 

[acehunter]

Yes I do. But I let my buddies use it. Still works good. Bounty Hunter.

 

[hotrod53]

No and I don't miss it. I had 2 Jetcos, a Whites 5000d/GEB, a cheepie that was my father in laws, a Tesoro Cutlass II that I still have, and a Tesoro Toltec 100 that I still use.

If I still had my Jetco I would be deaf! That constant tone drove me nuts although I did like the diamond ring with 13 diamonds that my wife still wears.

 

[dooley01]

bounty hunter 202 pioneer

 

[Digginman]

It was many years ago. I had one from Radio Shack, I bought it at a yard sale. Very cheap. Still, I probably dug more coins with that machine than any other I have owned. I dug everything that beeped, so alot of junk was found also.

DM

 

[labrat]

I still have my White's 66T. Bought about 1968 for around $200.00. BFO model. Found a bunch of junk at first. Then found a coin. Sounded different. Used a probe several times. Felt like it was a coin. Very excited. Dug up the coin and it was a 1944D Wheatie....with a bunch of scratches from my probing. Good coin to learn that lesson on.

 

[eldorado]

My first was a girl named amy,,,,,sigh....,,,,,,,,,oops. I mean my first detector was a compass my DAD bought for himself,, I quickly confiscated it, I still have it... it is a one knob unit, works very well... MY second detector I built from scratch, point to point wire and solder, it worked fine but I dont know what ever happen to it, Probably in the trash with my comic books, darn mom, and her clean house. I now own three others, and am waiting for my Whites M6 to arrive

 

[brokenarrow]

1st one was a Garrett 300. it was a good machine and i enjoyed using it , I just wasn't very proficient with it. But soon learned to master it and well the rest is history. It later became a gift to a good friend who wanted to start detecting. well worth every penny.

 

[hyperion]

My first was a Bounty Hunter Red Baron (RB5) that I purchased new in 1979. I picked up a White's 6000 DI Pro SL around 1994 and had it until this year. Picked up a used DFX and sold the 6000, but still have that RB5 ... lot's of memories tied to that red box on a stick.

 

[Seamuss]

Garrett Scorpion,bought in 1994.

 

[Seamuss]

i kinda have it. my brother borrowed it and now thinks its his!

Possession is nine tenth of the law.

 

[Ronzie]

I still have my first detector that I bought in July 1998.
A Garrett GTAx1000. It's done well but I'm now in the market to move up to a serious machine. I had never ever tried another machine until last week. Met another older gentleman at the park and he let me try his Whites XLT. Way better than my GTA. He was very knowledgeable and gave me some good advice on different units.

So soon I will decide between the Whites Spectra V³ or a Minelab E-Trac.

 

[Joe(TX)]

......A Garrett Sidewinder BFO in 1970.....went 50/50 on its purchase with my dad!!.........No discrimination although it went null on the old iron square nails.......sometimes we would dig all of the signals including those that made the detector go quiet.......

 

[Drudge]

Sold my Excalibur when i lost interest in the hobby over a year ago. Now im kicking myself but at the same time looking for new detector

 

[extractor]

Yup I still have it

 

[treasurehound]

I bought my first machine a White's 5000-D in 1979 and have been using it until recently when I upgraded it to a DFX 300 and love it. By the way the 5000-D still works great.