What Will Metal Detecting Be Like 20 Years From Now ???

[E-Trac-Ohio]

I was thinking about what our hobby will be like in the future ?
Please post any thoughts that you have.

(1) - Future technology has finally produced a detector that can tell Gold from Pop Tops.
(2) - They stopped minting Pennies because they cost ( 9 ) Cents a piece to produce.
Finding copper Cents will be like finding Wheat Cents today.
Digging a Copper Cent is pretty good because most the Zincs Cents have rotted away.
(3) - Any Sliver coin will be a Banner find.
(4) - Remote control detectors will hunt a site while you sit in your car.

Good Hunting !

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Some guy with a metal detector finds a rusty nail on season 29 of "The Curse of Oak Island" and they hype it as the team being very close to finding a treasure chest. Won't be long now before they hit it big! Lol!

 

[pulltabfelix]

I was thinking about what our hobby will be like in the future ?
Please post any thoughts that you have.

(1) - Future technology has finally produced a detector that can tell Gold from Pop Tops.
(2) - They stopped minting Pennies because they cost ( 9 ) Cents a piece to produce.
Finding copper Cents will be like finding Wheat Cents today.
Digging a Copper Cent is pretty good because most the Zincs Cents have rotted away.
(3) - Any Sliver coin will be a Banner find.
(4) - Remote control detectors will hunt a site while you sit in your car.

Good Hunting !

Some of us may be still happily using our Etracs and CTX3030's. Actually Zinc pennies my be so rare that we will love to find a good one. I think metal detecting technology will be merged with drone technology. The drones will fly over an area and paint spray round marks on good target areas and you will just follow the drone and dig. Pinpointers will show you on a screen exactly where and how deep your target is located by simply centering the good tone on the surface of the ground.

Target Recovery Tool (TRT) will be a battery powered drill that can drill various sized holes and will have the ability to dig around the small target like a coin or 3 ringer and bring it to the surface from the drill hole.

I guess if we had all of our new dream tools we might as well stay home and play a metal detecting simulation game that we pay to play and get paid for the treasures we find based on the value of the treasures. Another form of gambling.

 

[Terry Soloman]

I'll be dead. The hobby will never die. Technology will will be so advanced, that there WILL be Gold Only machines, costing about the same as a Minelab GPZ7000 (in todays prices).

 

[Peyton Manning]

Robovacs will be adapted to search the beach and alert your phone when finding a target

 

[lackaff]

still be same but ill have a bad back

 

[Jeff H]

There will be no coil-based metal detectors in 20 years. We will all be wearing ground penetrating radar head sets capable of reading the dates on coins buried 2 feet deep. So if you don't feel like digging 1985 zincoln because you already have one in your collection, you can just leave it for the next person.

 

[boogeyman]

There will be no coil-based metal detectors in 20 years. We will all be wearing ground penetrating radar head sets capable of reading the dates on coins buried 2 feet deep. So if you don't feel like digging 1985 zincoln because you already have one in your collection, you can just leave it for the next person.

Don't forget the Kevlar backpack to hold all your ID'S, permits, tax stamps copies of the piles of regulations & licenses needed from the multitude of agencies with their hands out.

All digital you say? Cmon, when has the govt. Made anything easy..........

 

[GoDeep]

Other than more bells and whistles and price wars, not a lot will change detector wise. You'll still be limited to approximately 6-12" detecting depth depending on your soils composition.

I don't think identification, discrimination or recovery speed will improve dramatically over what it has evolved to over the past few years either.

Now that computers are in our detectors processing identification, discrimination and recovery. It will only be small, mostly PR marketing claims of improvement in those areas such as: "New improved processing for the fastest recovery speed ever and an all new intelligent IQ processor for vastly improved target ID", but despite these claims, you'll still be digging pull tabs to find the gold rings.

 

[bowwinkles]

The design gu ru's will just have to design our detectors so they detect "plastic"

 

[RTR]

Detectors will be better....places to hunt will be more restricted,or non-existent