Bisquitlips
Jr. Member
- Feb 22, 2013
- 34
- 51
- Detector(s) used
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1970s - Garrett BFO
1980s - Whites 4000 Di
1990s - Bounty Hunter Tracker (Wife's)
Future - Likely an XP Deus (On the hunt.)
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I joined back in 2013, but due to some physical issues I was not in a position where I could enjoy getting out and running my detector.
Those issues should all be resolved after a complete hip replacement and two knee replacements. Just had the hip done three weeks ago and the knees will be replaced in July and October of this year.
In my younger years I was a miner in Arizona around the Globe area and became interested in metal detecting and gold mining. In those days I had a Garrett BFO and didn't find much with it due to a lot of mineralization in the ground where I lived so I pretty much stuck to gold panning and mineral specimen collecting. Several years later we moved to west Texas and I picked up a used Whites 4000Di. The first day I swung it I found a heavy 14K gold wedding band in my own back yard. Talk about inspiration!!! My wife and I loved going to some of the old abandoned places in the Midland area and found a lot of great things.
Here we are today and I am preparing to purchase my next detector and am researching them now. I figure that by the time I finish recuperating I should have enough information to make an intelligent decision.
Some of my other interests are numismatics (just finished my Dansco 7070 US Type Set in XF and above. Took me 35 years!), mineral specimens, hunting, firearms, and reloading, collecting writing instruments, timepieces, and ephemera (things like hand written vintage journals, civil war diaries, letters, etc.). That's enough....
Anyway, glad to be here guys and I hope to be a profitable member of this community!
My Compliments!
Richard
Those issues should all be resolved after a complete hip replacement and two knee replacements. Just had the hip done three weeks ago and the knees will be replaced in July and October of this year.
In my younger years I was a miner in Arizona around the Globe area and became interested in metal detecting and gold mining. In those days I had a Garrett BFO and didn't find much with it due to a lot of mineralization in the ground where I lived so I pretty much stuck to gold panning and mineral specimen collecting. Several years later we moved to west Texas and I picked up a used Whites 4000Di. The first day I swung it I found a heavy 14K gold wedding band in my own back yard. Talk about inspiration!!! My wife and I loved going to some of the old abandoned places in the Midland area and found a lot of great things.
Here we are today and I am preparing to purchase my next detector and am researching them now. I figure that by the time I finish recuperating I should have enough information to make an intelligent decision.
Some of my other interests are numismatics (just finished my Dansco 7070 US Type Set in XF and above. Took me 35 years!), mineral specimens, hunting, firearms, and reloading, collecting writing instruments, timepieces, and ephemera (things like hand written vintage journals, civil war diaries, letters, etc.). That's enough....
Anyway, glad to be here guys and I hope to be a profitable member of this community!
My Compliments!
Richard
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