Newbie shares a conversation with a dectorist and another newbie question.

[Chops]

About a decade ago, I was riding my balloon tired cruiser along and chanced to stop for a bottle of water. As I imbibed, I noted the gentleman next to me was holding a metal detector, to which I inquired.

"Guess how old I am," he replied. Startled, I gave him a brief assessment, and said, "well, sir, you look to be a very fit sixty, if I may say."

"No," says he, "I am 100. I spend my free time looking for coins in the park, every morning, before the sun gets too hot. If you don't run, you rust. The sofa is a deadly enemy."

Almost falling of my bike, we continued to chat, and he additionally remarked that he typically recovered $40 to $60 every morning, for his labors.

Question: in the era of plastic money is this still viable? Does anyone else in here detect in parks?

I will also confess, the more I read these pages, the more I am inclined to become one of you. I will start in parks. You people impress me.

Question

 

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[crashbandicoot]

About a decade ago, I was riding my balloon tired cruiser along and chanced to stop for a bottle of water. As I imbibed, I noted the gentleman next to me was holding a metal detector, to which I inquired.

"Guess how old I am," he replied. Startled, I gave him a brief assessment, and said, "well, sir, you look to be a very fit sixty, if I may say."

"No," says he, "I am 100. I spend my free time looking for coins in the park, every morning, before the sun gets too hot. If you don't run, you rust. The sofa is a deadly enemy."

Almost falling of my bike, we continued to chat, and he additionally remarked that he typically recovered $40 to $60 every morning, for his labors.

Question: in the era of plastic money is this still viable? Does anyone else in here detect in parks?

I will also confess, the more I read these pages, the more I am inclined to become one of you. I will start in parks. You people impress me.

Question

The old threads contain a wealth of information,take the time to go back and read through them,choose your forum and click on the oldest then read forward. I will fully agree that lack of physical and mental exercise is deadly! On that note,I,ve got to get back to my daily regimen of walking and enjoying the outdoors.I can feel the deterioration in my physical well being.I,m 70.

 

[Chops]

The old threads contain a wealth of information,take the time to go back and read through them,choose your forum and click on the oldest then read forward. I will fully agree that lack of physical and mental exercise is deadly! On that note,I,ve got to get back to my daily regimen of walking and enjoying the outdoors.I can feel the deterioration in my physical well being.I,m 70.

Thanks

 

[ticndig]

he additionally remarked that he typically recovered $40 to $60 every morning, for his labor

I call BS on that statement

 

[Chops]

Rotten old centurian.

 

[Zincoln Miner]

Do not get into MDing for riches, but for the adventure. Even if you just detect mundane places.

 

[eman1000]

If your asking if it was possible that he could recover that much in one morning let alone on multiple mornings then I the answer is no. I have a spot that I hunt every week and as far as I'm told I'm the only one that hunts it. There are regularly 300-500 people at this location every weekend and there are concession stands. Over the course of a few months I will collect $40-60 dollars during my lunch breaks. Assuming he is hunting for 3-4 hours straight then my personal best rarely exceeds $4-6 dollars on average on sites that are getting replenished. I suppose if your in a really busy large city it might be possible to double that number but realistically even digging only Dimes and Quarters you'd be hard pressed to hit $20 in a single day. ** I can't recall a day that I pulled $10 dollars out ever without hunting for a full 8 hours. - Maybe there are beach hunters or spring break / concert communities that do much better.

 

[pepperj]

We have $1 and $2 coins so it adds up now for the coin shooters.
Australia has the $5 coin
The OP didn't state where he is located.
Though there's a lot of truth to the man's statement
The couch will kill ya quick
I'd rather burn out than rust out myself.

 

[pepperj]

Rotten old centurian.

Query: Did he have that Old Man Smell to him?

 

[pepperj]

I was riding my balloon tired cruiser along and chanced to stop for a bottle of water. As I imbibed

Question: in the era of plastic money is this still viable? Does anyone else in here detect in parks?

Ballon tires
imbibed
Plastic money

I'm thinking the OP is not NA based as these terms aren't used commonly.

 

[Palmetto Digger]

About a decade ago, I was riding my balloon tired cruiser along and chanced to stop for a bottle of water. As I imbibed, I noted the gentleman next to me was holding a metal detector, to which I inquired.

"Guess how old I am," he replied. Startled, I gave him a brief assessment, and said, "well, sir, you look to be a very fit sixty, if I may say."

"No," says he, "I am 100. I spend my free time looking for coins in the park, every morning, before the sun gets too hot. If you don't run, you rust. The sofa is a deadly enemy."

Almost falling of my bike, we continued to chat, and he additionally remarked that he typically recovered $40 to $60 every morning, for his labors.

Question: in the era of plastic money is this still viable? Does anyone else in here detect in parks?

I will also confess, the more I read these pages, the more I am inclined to become one of you. I will start in parks. You people impress me.

Question

I learned early on in my career as a "Historic and Cultural Artifact Recovery Specialist" that I was giving away potentially great hunting sites when I would ask if they thought the area was picked clean. I asked one older gentleman (dirty, rotten, scoundrel) about an area I found researching old maps. He said I "shouldn't waste my time. People picked all the good stuff out of that ground years ago". Luckily I decided that I had spent too much time researching and decided to give the place a shot. In less than half an hour, I pulled a beautifully preserved Confederate Veterans Reunion Medal. Best thing I've ever found. I've made a tradition out of searching the same area at a major university every several years. I know for a fact that it gets a lot of detector traffic and has for decades, yet every time I've gone back, I've landed a few very early Wheaties and I usually leave with two pockets full of muddy clad coins. Charles Garret wrote that there's no way any place has been searched out. he could be right, but you have to remember that Chuck wants to sell you a detector. The last thing you'll hear anyone in the Garret family go around saying is that all the good stuff is gone. Then again, if you're incredibly thorough, use a grid system, and cover the same areas from multiple directions, you have a good chance of finding something someone else missed. There are lots and lots of variables that we can't control, but, if you watch maybe 7 out of 8 detectorists doing their thing, you'll see what appears to be a confused crazy person with an odd machine in his hands going this way and that way, never staying in the same area long enough to claim they thoroughly searched it. There are plenty of great things out there to uncover. If you're in 7th grade, do it to get rich. That's why I got into the game. If you're an adult, do it for everything BUT getting rich. Exercise, tranquility, the chance to be mugged, fellowship. THAT's why we do it.

 

[crashbandicoot]

The chance to practice your marksmanship skills on muggers!

 

[Zincoln Miner]

The chance to practice your marksmanship skills on muggers!

Not all places are so rational. Then again there's safer places than others for a reason.

 

[crashbandicoot]

Not all places are so rational. Then again there's safer places than others for a reason.

Small town,small police dept.,not many muggers here.Because the muggees tend to target practice on the muggers.Police don,t mind too much,especially if you only wing them a bit.

 

[Zincoln Miner]

Small town,small police dept.,not many muggers here.Because the muggees tend to target practice on the muggers.Police don,t mind too much,especially if you only wing them a bit.