Looking for an Expert Part 2

[Huaquero]

As I explained in my previous post. "ALL EXPENSES PAID!". This means that anyone that may have the proper equipment(and experience)will have all the travel expenses paid. Food, lodging and supplies. If you "belive" you have the right equipment for this work and you have a "PAIR" please reply.

 

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[gleaner1]

Well yer in luck! Let's go! I may have the proper equipment (and experience). I "belive" I have the right equipment for this work. I have a "PAIR". Please, make this happen. PLEASE!!!! LMAO.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

As I explained in my previous post. "ALL EXPENSES PAID!". This means that anyone that may have the proper equipment(and experience)will have all the travel expenses paid. Food, lodging and supplies. If you "belive" you have the right equipment for this work and you have a "PAIR" please reply.

I took the challenge from some 1st generation employees of mine from Mexico. Once they learned my hobby was metal detecting, they opened up with all sorts of fabulous treasure stories from their villages in the Sierra Madres. And "if only we had metal detectors, we could be rich". Seemed that every cave had a treasure in it, with utterly certain first-hand proofs, stories, etc.. And on the surface, they all seemed bullet-proof (who was I to doubt them afterall?). So they paid my way, in an all-expense paid metal detecting trip, down to villages that dated back to the time of the conquistadors. And sure enough, every little village high up in the mountains had fabulous stories of "certain treasure in every ruin, and every cave". So for 3 weeks we knocked ourselves silly hunting and digging thousands of signals.

After awhile, my curiousity began to get the better of me though, so I asked my interprettors more info on these various leads we'd gone down there to pursue. And one by one they all fell apart. Became pretty clear that they were just legends and tales. Oh sure, they believe them to the hilt. But when you press them for the reasons why they think so, it's always something like "they saw a vision of the virgin mary", or "they saw smoke coming from a hole", or "there were sparkles coming from the ground", or "someone who told someone who told someone, who told someone....", etc.... And mind you, it's never that the treasure isn't there. It's always that it "must be deeper", haha

Had a fun time though. Great food. Good people. Found some coins back to the mid 1850s (individual coins, not caches).

My suggestion is to get a 2-box machine, and DON'T use a standard coin machine of ANY kind. (assuming you're looking for soda can sized or bigger objects). But I see from your other post that you've already tried that. So I suggest to you that either a) your chasing legends and superstitions, or b) you didn't use the detector right.

 

[golden sluice]

Red herrings

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Guess I don't have a pair, so I'm out!

 

[Terry Soloman]

Contact my ex-wife (#2), she still has my "pair."

 

[doc-d]

On the other hand, there is often much truth to these legends……the 2 box is a good idea……..

 

[Tom_in_CA]

really ?

On the other hand, there is often much truth to these legends…..

Really? Then what you ought to do is get yourself a bunch of treasure magazine from the 1960s and '70s. Each issue was FILLED with them. They all sort of sound like this:

"The dying miner drags himself into the wild west saloon. The lone survivor of an indian attack. As curious on-lookers gather around him, he spills the story of fabulous riches back at his claim [lost mine, payroll stage box, or .... fill-in-the-blank]. He gets carted off to the doctors to get bandaged up. But he passed away before being able to reclaim his riches. However before passing, he left these 3 clues ....[fill-in-the-blank] ...."

Now combine that with a cool picture of a miner posed next to his burro, and it must be gospel fact! They sold a lot of magazines with those stories. A buddy of mine submitted one of them (because you got paid $100 for accepted submissions), and it was entirely made up. But at the time, and still to this day, everyone believes them. Why? because the human psyche wants SO HARD to believe, "lest you be left out".