Bob Christian
Greenie
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2018
- Messages
- 10
- Reaction score
- 42
- Golden Thread
- 0
- Location
- Maitland, Missouri
- Detector(s) used
- 3 different Garrets
1 Bounty Hunter
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
- #1
Thread Owner
Howdy there! I am Bob, an spry old geezer who has been around for a long time. I started metal detecting when I was a young man back in the 1960's. So I am new to this website but am old in metal detecting. My first detector was a Garrett BFO detector. It was a great old detector and, like an idiot, I sold it years ago and now wish I had it back. I recently purchased one similar to it over ebay so it brings back fond memories.
Most of you probably are too young to remember Karl von Muller (Miller) but he was a big time treasure hunter from the old days. He was a friend of mine when he was in Nebraska City. I used to go to his treasure shack detector store those long years ago. Karl was the real deal. He is gone now, God rest his soul. His "Treasure Hunters Manual" series of books are the best you can read on metal detecting and treasure hunting. and I am not just saying that because he was my friend but it is the truth. They are out of print now and they are hard to find, but when you can find them they bring a premium because they are the best manuals you can buy on the subject.
Well, I have 4 Garrett Detectors now and one Bounty Hunter Detector. Like golf clubs, I use each detector for a different purpose.
I have found some stuff in my time but I have seen first hand what running one's big mouth can do as far as losing what you find to greedy crooked lawyers, and unsavory government people, so I never tell if I find something BIG. I just keep it to myself. Now I don't mind opening my big mouth and sharing the little things I find, like a coin here and there and non historical artifacts etc. But I am an old believer that "even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he had learned to keep his mouth shut" and that's the truth.
I am a retired police officer and have know my share of famous lawmen and outlaws and at times gathered lots of intel from them on lost and hidden stuff they had heard about etc. Being a lawman and treasure hunting just kinda fits together. You listen to people talk about all kinds of things day in and day out for years and build up quite a library in you mind of treasure tails and things like that. Of course most of it is pure baloney but some of it is true. Karl was the one who talked about a fish not getting into trouble if he had kept his mouth shut and I have found that to be true over and over again.
Karl and most of my old treasure hunting buddies have gone to the big hunting field in the sky now so it is kinda lonely. Maybe I can make some new friends here.
Old geezer Bob Christian
Most of you probably are too young to remember Karl von Muller (Miller) but he was a big time treasure hunter from the old days. He was a friend of mine when he was in Nebraska City. I used to go to his treasure shack detector store those long years ago. Karl was the real deal. He is gone now, God rest his soul. His "Treasure Hunters Manual" series of books are the best you can read on metal detecting and treasure hunting. and I am not just saying that because he was my friend but it is the truth. They are out of print now and they are hard to find, but when you can find them they bring a premium because they are the best manuals you can buy on the subject.
Well, I have 4 Garrett Detectors now and one Bounty Hunter Detector. Like golf clubs, I use each detector for a different purpose.
I have found some stuff in my time but I have seen first hand what running one's big mouth can do as far as losing what you find to greedy crooked lawyers, and unsavory government people, so I never tell if I find something BIG. I just keep it to myself. Now I don't mind opening my big mouth and sharing the little things I find, like a coin here and there and non historical artifacts etc. But I am an old believer that "even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he had learned to keep his mouth shut" and that's the truth.
I am a retired police officer and have know my share of famous lawmen and outlaws and at times gathered lots of intel from them on lost and hidden stuff they had heard about etc. Being a lawman and treasure hunting just kinda fits together. You listen to people talk about all kinds of things day in and day out for years and build up quite a library in you mind of treasure tails and things like that. Of course most of it is pure baloney but some of it is true. Karl was the one who talked about a fish not getting into trouble if he had kept his mouth shut and I have found that to be true over and over again.
Karl and most of my old treasure hunting buddies have gone to the big hunting field in the sky now so it is kinda lonely. Maybe I can make some new friends here.
Old geezer Bob Christian
Welcome from NY ya old geezer.. I mean Bob 
What he said it first? lol
