How long detecting?

[Ty]

43 years, or March 1966 and still enjoy every minute of it.

Ty

 

[phantomfinder]

15 years

 

[Arid-Zone-A-seeker]

I have been detecting for about 12 years pretty steady, but I started back in 1974 with a Radio Shack detector in colo. Got married and had kids, it seamed that their was just something else going on then.
After a while the family got together and got me a Bounty Hunter Pioneer, You know it has been a great machine!
Now I want a new Gold detector to get to the desert in the winter time!

 

[Monkeywrangler2]

Seems like alot of new people posting in this forum.

Yep, and I'm one of 'em.

 

[ringfinder]

I've been metal detecting since 1983 for 27 years. I bought a metal detector to hunt for nails, guns, horseshoes, bullets and anything else people put in or on trees. My neighbor and I ran a circa 1910 saw mill. Let me tell you when you hit one of the mentions items above, they really tear up a saw blade. I'm talking a blade with replaceable teeth. Each Saw blade tooth cost at that time $23 and if for example you hit a nail, it would usually mess up 10 to 12 teeth.

After those younger and dumber days, I started detecting old picnic area's that farmers would tell be about at the local coffee shop. I still hunt those same sites today. Boy what the old timers taught and told me has been invaluable all these years.

My partner and I still get out a least once a week, maybe more in cooler weather, like everyday. LOL I like to relic hunt the best. Hunting for a old one room school house or church that no longer stands and finding the treasure left behind, gives me the greatest thrill.

Lately I have been fortunate enough to be able to hunt some Civil War Winter camps in Virginia. Now you talk about a thrill, to hold an item that a soldier lost some 140 years ago, it doesn't get any better than that.

Thanks for the question. HH, Ringfinder

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Purchased a Relco Pacesetter metal detector while stationed in Germany in 1977. Machine was a piece of junk. I kick myself thinking on all the great stuff I missed because of that lousy machine. Imagine living in barracks built for the German Army before WWI and all the goodies that must have been in the ground. I didn't go detecting again until 1985 when I rented a Whites Coinmaster for the weekend. I watched my wife metal detect a 1885 Morgan silver dollar while I dug it up. I was hooked, she was not!

 

[ringfinder]

I know how you feel, I was stationed at Kelly Barracks near Stuttgart,Germany in the late '60's. That post was a German Panzer post. Rumor was that there were German tanks buried underground in the tunnels that were under the post. I would love to have detected that place. It actually is still in use today, but some of the post isn't the way it was when I was stationed there.

I thought you might have been in Germany when I saw you picture of the Army cloth badge.

HH,Ringfinder

Purchased a Relco Pacesetter metal detector while stationed in Germany in 1977. Machine was a piece of junk. I kick myself thinking on all the great stuff I missed because of that lousy machine. Imagine living in barracks built for the German Army before WWI and all the goodies that must have been in the ground. I didn't go detecting again until 1985 when I rented a Whites Coinmaster for the weekend. I watched my wife metal detect a 1885 Morgan silver dollar while I dug it up. I was hooked, she was not!

 

[Adventure Wolf]

I've been doing this for about four years now. I'm having fun doing it.

 

[ringfinder]

43 years, or March 1966 and still enjoy every minute of it.

Ty

Hey Ty, is that a Model "T" in your picture. If so, you should see my neighbors barn, he has 10 T's and is working on another one. He also rebuilds the motor's for Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich. Every year they send him the motors for rebuild and he sends them back before the next season starts for the new year.

About once a year the club he belongs to has a drive. Usually around 100 Model T's make the drive.

HH, Ringfinder

 

[Ty]

I'm not sure that the car is a "T", I think not. If I recall, it was
on this website some place. It was probably from the collection
that was displayed at the Imperial Palace Casino in both Vegas
and in Biloxi, MS. I have not visited either casino in several years
so I don't know if those are on display.

I would love to see the collection you mention. A "T" roadster
would make an ideal treasure wagon.

HH,
Ty

 

[dogpound]

got my detector 17 yrs. ago.....took a break for a while (busy working, got married) then got back into it and upgraded my machine

 

[W6PEA]

Not long enough

 

[goodtimecharlie]

I've been detecting well over thirty years. It's more of an obsession than a hobby with me. I love seeing what coming next wither it's in the dirt or in my scoop.

 

[Noreiga]

Around 30 years..