Chuck Wilder
Newbie
- Sep 21, 2016
- 2
- 7
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Hi, fellow enthusiasts,
I am at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, with the US Army, but packing for retirement to the Manchester, New Hampshire, USA area. I have not used my detectors for several years, as I was obsessed first with orchid culture and since then with malacology - well, with collecting sea shells. I need to simplify and condense my household, and am returning to detecting as my primary hobby, partly to condense my hobby life and largely because I have missed detecting, very much. I detected primarily in the Republic of Korea, primarily in Bupyong, between Seoul and Incheon, where the Japanese had brought, by rail, shipments of all kinds of metal, to smelt and re-use it. My oldest coin dig from there is one Chinese Pan Liang, 220 BC. I also hunted, only a couple of times, Haeundae Beach, Busan, Korea, visited by up to half a million (yes, literally) Koreans each of the last few days of each short summer.
I have my old White's Spectrum and slightly newer Minelab Excalibur 800 and Explorer. I very recently bought but have not even yet taken from the box a new Excalibur II.
I am anxious to review comparison tests of the effectiveness of some "top" discriminating detectors, such as the Minelab CTX 3030, and would appreciate your advice regarding selection of one of those. I expect to use one primarily for dry-land relic and coin hunting, but shallow water-proofing may be very useful in junky areas that might drive me mad via the Excal II. Thanks for allowing me to join and thanks for any advice and/or companionship you may provide me.
Chuck
I am at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, with the US Army, but packing for retirement to the Manchester, New Hampshire, USA area. I have not used my detectors for several years, as I was obsessed first with orchid culture and since then with malacology - well, with collecting sea shells. I need to simplify and condense my household, and am returning to detecting as my primary hobby, partly to condense my hobby life and largely because I have missed detecting, very much. I detected primarily in the Republic of Korea, primarily in Bupyong, between Seoul and Incheon, where the Japanese had brought, by rail, shipments of all kinds of metal, to smelt and re-use it. My oldest coin dig from there is one Chinese Pan Liang, 220 BC. I also hunted, only a couple of times, Haeundae Beach, Busan, Korea, visited by up to half a million (yes, literally) Koreans each of the last few days of each short summer.
I have my old White's Spectrum and slightly newer Minelab Excalibur 800 and Explorer. I very recently bought but have not even yet taken from the box a new Excalibur II.
I am anxious to review comparison tests of the effectiveness of some "top" discriminating detectors, such as the Minelab CTX 3030, and would appreciate your advice regarding selection of one of those. I expect to use one primarily for dry-land relic and coin hunting, but shallow water-proofing may be very useful in junky areas that might drive me mad via the Excal II. Thanks for allowing me to join and thanks for any advice and/or companionship you may provide me.
Chuck
