Do you still have your 1st detector?

[Coin Digger]

My first was an Ebay made in China junk. It lasted all of a about a month before it went into the trash bin.
My 2nd one I still have and will never get rid of, Whites Classic 3.

 

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[Jazdo]

Yes I do.. a Tesoro Inca my Grandad bought for me out of Classifieds
back in 1985 or so. Found many coins with it, and still use it.

 

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[Shortstack]

I don't have my "technically" first detector, a Jetco. expensive toy. But, I DO have my first real detector; a White's Coinmaster I with discriminator. Bought new sometime around 1974ish. Still works, but it lives in my closet while my Tesoro Bandido II and DeLeon do the work.

 

[Cobalt*Blue]

I still have my old BH Tracker IV and, in fact, I just bought a 4" coil for it so its now seeing use again. hh blue

 

[Tompy]

First one was a Radio shack kit that required my dad to solder wires. The coil was a square of silicon as i recall. Mid Seventies - Long Gone

Second was a C&G Bobcat. Gone

 

[Treasure finder]

Yes a Gardiner 190C with the 11 inch and the 30 inch loops. In 1976 or thereabouts I found
a 1942 Walking Liberty half dollar at 7 inches while in pulltab eliminate. Gardiner claimed it
was the first pulltab eliminator on the market. I know I found a whole bunch of quarters with
it at a city fair area that was littered with pulltabs. I was thrilled.
Rich

 

[j.n.]

I have owned 5 detectors, the first I swapped for in the late fifties. It was a tubed detector and a bear to keep adjusted and use. The next was a two box pipe and cable locator which would go deep but not one to use for coins. After that I bought a Mustang detector for 29 dollars new. This was the one I had the most fun with, it was only good for 3 to 4 inches but I think I that I found more with this detector. A Tesoro Lynx, I think, was my next detector but it was stolen from the storage shed on my from my placer claim near Wickenburg. The last one is a Bounty Hunter which gets very little use because I am old, fat and have a bad leg. I still have all of these detectors except the one that was stolen.

 

[Jeep]

Yup and still using it weekly

Now if I can just figure out out to get this and the jeep in the grave with me

 

[LJHanley06]

My first detector was the Fischer 552D. I really liked that one. I sold it to a buddy of mine when I got married.

I recently purchased a White's 6000D at a local Gun show. It was a godd detector in it's day...I found 37 cents today. I just don't care much for diggin deep. I have a broken back so I don't get out much.

 

[oneeye]

Yes. White's 6000 Di Pro

 

[AUDuke]

My first one was a Detectron in 1961, its long gone.

 

[scratcher]

Here was my first beauty from way back...

 

[scruggs]

NO. I HAVE GONE THRU 4 IN THE LAST 20 YEARS.

 

[Silver crazy]

A cheap Radioshack machine. Didn't find much with it but still got it

 

[timo]

My first detector was a C & G technology Bob Cat and I still use it .

 

[Zephyr]

Dragged out our old EICO TH-30 the other day. Only needed a new 9v battery clip to fix it. The speaker wasn't very loud, but the earphones to the niece's iPod fit it. Works perfect for being 35-40 years old. Better than our other one (a Red Baron )

 

[elpiochnb4]

I dont even have my first one yet

 

[Zectron2348]

1970s, I believe it was a Bounty Hunter TR-840 which I soon replaced with the old red Bounty Hunter "Red Baron". Great machines, ....... wish I still had them both.

 

[honda1]

still have the old whites , & works it will still get coins, 3900 dx pro, & still use it.