Your first metal detector?

[DetecTom]

I want to see what kind of responses I get to this question- what was your first metal detector? (Pics welcome too) Let’s see what you got!

 

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[BLK HOLE]

Garrett Treasure Ace 300

 

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[PullTabPete]

I had a Radio Shack or Sears detector back in the late 70's as a kid, I don't remember finding silver for sure but know I found a few wheats. I bet the detector is still in my mother's attic, I'll have to go check one day.

Took the next 30 years off from detecting but glad to start back up around 2011, Wish I wouldn't have missed out on the 80's and 90's detecting now but nothing I can do about that now.

Pete

 

[eldorado]

My dad bought a Compass Yukon Nugget detector i think 1970? I believe he was suppose to use it , however I think I dominated it ,, Found so much stuff with that detector, because I used it,, at ten years old a fellow has time to do stuff like treasure hunting. I am 60 now and still have that detector,, it works just fine. Good topic

 

[Horst]

my first MD was a type of MD to find electric cables in a wall. I attached a threaded target arrowhead with ducktape to it. I could then screw it on my arrow and look for my lost arrows hiding usually 1" under the surface. By that time there were no pinpointers which would have made it easy. A Whites GMT followed then a SDC2300 and the Whites GMT I traded in for an Equinox 800.

 

[creskol]

Got my first detector just over 50 years ago...View attachment 1773967

My father built it from a Heathkit kit. He built the circuit board, wrapped the coil
on an empty 8" tape reel, and it had an on/off switch and a tuner.

My first was a Heathkit, too, I built in Electronics Class back in 1968.

 

[DetecTom]

These are all really great posts. I really appreciate hearing all about everyone’s first detectors. I had no idea there was so much variety over the years!

 

[AstralDruid]

Garrett Ace 250..

what a machine, i mean really.... just does what it is supposed to do, easy to use, durable...
Still going strong with a Nel DD added this year, is intruiging for my kids..

 

[ColonelDan]

Bought my first detector in 1970...a Jetco Mustang



I then made a huge upgrade to the Jetco Treasure Hawk

 

[gold tramp]

Whites 2 Db.... Been so long i think thats what it was called.

Gt.

 

[Waterbug]

White's Gold Master from Sears catalog in 1975

 

[Rad1sh]

Mine was the maroon whites coinmaster. I have since collected about 6 detectors. I think I am starting a herd.

 

[sprailroad]

A Garrett " A3B United States Gold Hunter ", bought it used, and did not have a clue about how to really use it. Four knobs, two of which were "10" turn for precise adj. of GB & Threshold, but that Garrett was the "hook", many years and 6 machines later, I'm still doing it.

 

[civilman1]

Whites Coinmaster 4000/D series

 

[Horst]

thank you for starting this interesting thread!!!!

 

[azdirtdigger]

First detector was a Tesoro Mayan I bought new 40+ years ago.

 

[A2coins]

Radio shack with the orange coil

 

[A2coins]

I bet back in the 70s if I used it more I could have found tons more silver with it then I do now with my Nox today

 

[Jason in Enid]

I bet back in the 70s if I used it more I could have found tons more silver with it then I do now with my Nox today

You and me both! If only we knew then what we know now!

 

[OBN]

1989 bought a White PI 1000 Treasuremaster..had it for 3 or 4 months, used maybe 4 times..family life had to sell...best target..trash.

2007/08..seen retirement coming...family grown up.......I'm single....MY time.........Minelab Explore XS and a Minelab Excalibur.

My first good target with either..a wheatie.

 

[CoinmasterIV]

<------ Whites Coinmaster IV.....1972. And I still have it to this very day! And it still works. :-)