average age of detectorist

[d2]

Be 59 the 28th of this month. First time I went was in 1966 best I remember, I was 8. Been metal detecting hard for the last 20+ years...d2

 

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[sprailroad]

64, Started around 1990 I think. And the computer generation? Ya, It's to hard, they don't find all the "good stuff" the first day, and they actually have to get down to dig! It's not fair!

 

[treasuresalvor]

Almost 41, was 7 in the picture (cool dude huh?).

 

[fistfulladirt]

54, started about 1973 with a Jetco Mustang.

 

[Brian Finder]

I am going to turn 62 and will restart after about 20 years. Seen my old Radio Shack Discovery 2 in the garage. Cleaned it up
and ready to use it this spring.

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

I'm 47. When visiting my grandfather at the beach 40 years ago, he gave me his old detector. We walked the beach and my first target was a big chunky gold ring. He had a big smile on his face as he had planted it for me to find. He was a jokester. I used it for about a week and the battery died and it was a big unusual and expensive battery for an 8 yr old so the detector went in the closet. I "started up" again a year ago and did the same gold ring trick to my 8yr old daughter on the beach. I guess I'm a jokester too!

 

[dsdigger]

I'm 57. Can't remember exactly when I started but the unit that Treasuresalvor is holding in his 7yr old pic looks very similar to my first unit with a meter-type readout that jumped over metallic objects. You dug when it went high and ignored the small jumps, or at least that's what I did after my Dad and I ran around the yard and the local park digging holes and lots of pulltabs/beavertails. Wonder what I might have found if I had dug them all Have detected on and off since the early 1990's and really gotten back into it more recently.

 

[Stretch Da Truth]

45 & just getting started. My son is 12 and just getting started as well.
Had an old detector way back from Radio Shack. It was a piece of junk but I think we had fun with it. Don't believe we ever found anything but when I was a kid, everything was fun! Why? Because you made it fun!

 

[FindersKeepers74]

I will be 43 at the end of March. Haven't started detecting yet but my first detector will be my birthday present to myself.

 

[basssmann]

HI, I'm 65, but, youngatheart.... 27th year detecting, you learn something new, every time you go out... a foot of snow here, in the catskill mountains, in NY now...

 

[DannyB.]

Turned 42 in December.. still got my first rig.. don't remember how old I was; maybe 10.

 

[keg11v]

25 years old here.

 

[Pacific_Searcher]

42 years old been collecting coins since High school got my first detector a year ago.

 

[taz42o]

I'm 75 and still swinging, been at it around 25 years.
luvsdux

Still swinging at 75 and have the energy to go metal detecting too!?

 

[shiro-san]

I'm 34

 

[whammy]

Man oh man there sure are a lot of whippersnappers out there. I'm old, 73, so I can say that. Been detecting for about 30 some years. All you youngsters out there have lots of time left for detecting. Good luck to you all.

 

[Rawhide]

My teenage son and me hunt all the time. There is about 40 years between the two of us.

 

[red fox bob]

Started detecting 3 years ago,I'll turn 70 in 10 days.My only regreat is I did'nt start detecting 40 years ago.

 

[Stretch Da Truth]

Turned 42 in December.. still got my first rig.. don't remember how old I was; maybe 10.


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That's sweet! I think my old Radio Shack unit looked something like that!

 

[victhedog]

going on 56
started in my twenties