Is metal detecting really just a hobby?

[Sandog]

Someone asked me if metal detecting was my hobby. Not sure how I answered at that moment, but it gave me pause to think that over. I'm sure it could tick all the boxes to qualify as a hobby. But would you call finding and returning precious items to folks a hobby? Or finding bits of history long buried? Every year I donate a baby bottle full of found coins to Care Net Baby Bottle Campaign. Hobby? I'll bet there is at least someone who does our kind of metal detecting as a living. Would you call Terry Soloman's efforts to help veterans through metal detecting just an extension of his hobby? So, just curious , would you call your metal detecting a hobby, and all that other stuff is merely coincidental, or do you call it something else?

 

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[DizzyDigger]

I would consider it a hobby. It's something you enjoy, and go and do in your free time.

Anybody trying to make a living at it likely eats a lot of ramen.

 

[Merf]

Someone asked me if metal detecting was my hobby. Not sure how I answered at that moment, but it gave me pause to think that over. I'm sure it could tick all the boxes to qualify as a hobby. But would you call finding and returning precious items to folks a hobby? Or finding bits of history long buried? Every year I donate a baby bottle full of found coins to Care Net Baby Bottle Campaign. Hobby? I'll bet there is at least someone who does our kind of metal detecting as a living. Would you call Terry Soloman's efforts to help veterans through metal detecting just an extension of his hobby? So, just curious , would you call your metal detecting a hobby, and all that other stuff is merely coincidental, or do you call it something else?

More of an addiction for me. I can’t stop.

 

[UnderMiner]

My metal detecting is definitely a hobby, it's actually the least profitable endeavor I engage in (when extrapolated for hours spent doing it versus the return I get in found treasure value). Let's face it, unless you get really lucky and find a treasure chest full of gold you're mostly just going to make a few dollars a day with spare change, but it's fun isn't it 😄👍

 

[Chilli]

Its a hobby, a passion, for some a profession and even an obsession.

 

[ToddsPoint]

It’s one of my many hobbies. Unfortunately my back is so messed up I can’t do it as much as I’d like. For me, having fun is a bunch of work anymore!😝

 

[Terry Soloman]

Metal detecting, for me, started as a medicine for my PTSD, and became a favorite and needed pass time. For millions it is indeed a hobby, for me it is salvation from racing thoughts, anxiety, and paralyzing depression. I turned my passion for detecting gold nuggets into a business that I ran for ten-years near Rich Hill, Arizona. I watched thousands of guests discover a new passion. I have now introduced metal detecting therapy to hundreds of combat veterans silently suffering from mental terrors brought on by combat. Metal Detecting helps, because it makes us focus on one thing - the message our machine is sending us. It gets us outside, moving, getting sun, not drinking, not sleeping, not sitting on the couch. Finding something once lost is exciting, fulfilling, and every so often profitable. Yes, metal detecting is a hobby, but it is also tool, balm, medicine. It is an escape from our everyday lives that many other hobbies will never provide.

 

[RGINN]

Well to me, since I don't have to clock in, get a weekly paycheck for it, and it ain't usually hard physical work, yeah it's a hobby. (My Dad would tell me that.) Plus it keeps me out of the bars. And if you find a location in an out of the way place where a long since closed bar was operating, it's worth checking out.

 

[Nathan W]

Yes a passion and a lifestyle

 

[ArfieBoy]

At this point in life it is for sure a hobby. Actually, I also used to write articles for the TH'ing magazines and that, too, was part of the hobby. So, yes, for me it is a hobby!

 

[BigWaveDave]

I think metal detecting is a sport.