First time detecting!

[live2crochet]

In the past this forum has helped Identify metal objects that I find in my travels without a detector. My boyfriend and I are always buying stuff for cheap and if we are lucky, we find metal.
So my first find of the day was a metal detector off of Facebook Marketplace for $5! Don’t laugh but it is a Bounty Hunter Fun Finder that runs on two 9 volt batteries. I never really expected it to work. Saw the directions, didn’t read them, went in my front yard near the road and down the sides of the driveway to just see what it does. Here are my finds. I still can’t believe it worked and I paid $5. I am hooked!

A tourist penny from Myrtle Square Mall, South Carolina, dated between 1975 and 1983
2007 penny and scrap, but it works.

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Agony and Death on a Gold Rush Steamer: The Disastrous Sinking of the Side-Wheeler Yankee Blade - Grab it through Amazon!

[Professor of Engineering]

Congrats on the new machine! You know, once you are "hooked" many more machines will fill your home!

Good Luck on your new hobby!

 

[fyrffytr1]

Looks like you are going to have to change your screen name now!

 

[Indian Steve]

This is a warning! Get rid of the detector now and drink as much as it takes to forget anything about metal detecting before you end up like the rest of us.

 

[Greastart]

Welcome to TNet! Congrats on your newest addiction. It only get better from here.

You did better with your Fun Finder on your first hunt than I did with my AT Pro! Nice work.

Please keep posting your finds! Have Fun

Grease

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Billieg]

This is a warning! Get rid of the detector now and drink as much as it takes to forget anything about metal detecting before you end up like the rest of us.

Yep, good advice.... that $5 will turn into $500 then $1500 and it never ends....

 

[Ace300]

wow that's cool. I live near myrtle. lol...

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on your first finds. Now, its time to clear the spare bedroom out and make room for all of your future display cases !

 

[secondstar]

Welcome! Congratulations on your first finds, it's an addicting hobby for sure!

 

[SD51]

Welcome to T-Net and Congrats on your finds! I bet your detector goes deeper than the ones we used in the 70's. If you start digging the older style of pulltabs, keep digging and removing them because they will read about the same as gold rings and jewelry!

 

[Joe-Dirt]

I got that same detector for my son about 8 years ago. I think I used it more than him, then I bought the ATpro, then the Zlink set up, then the ATmax, then 15” coil, the a 13” coil, then a 5x8 coil, the the SS coil, then the equinox 600, then the wireless minelab head phones, but before all that stuff was a $100 shovel, pin pointers, Lesche diggers, knee pads, a knapsack sack for all my expensive s***. And after all that I have 3 very big bottles of clad coins, a much smaller box of silver and gold jewelry and a bunch of assorted wheat cents, silver coins and useless doodads and my wrist always hurts.
LETS GO DIGGIN’ (-:

 

[washingtonian]

That was a good deal for $5. I think those things are usually $40-$60 new. If you find a good site and start turning up old coins, you are going to be absolutely hooked. I started with a cheap bounty hunter 14 years ago.

 

[RVRoamer73]

Wtg! Keep at it and have fun. Congrats on your first finds.

 

[Ace300]

Awesome..
Do you have any suggestions on other locations besides the beach?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Nice to meet you.

 

[Hillbilly Prince]

I thought only guys didn't read directions