Why do you Detect?

[PaDirtDigger]

I would like to quote/ditto pepperj and mrmikejackie...

They both summed up my thoughts and saved me 2000 key strokes...

 

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[Nitric]

I detect for the thrill of the hunt. I like being outdoors, digging in the dirt, and sometimes just to be alone to think or talk to myself.....UMM....I mean talk to the birds! uhhh ya.

It's nice to just be outside in a remote area just to get away. I also dig everything depending on where I'm at. I just have to know what's in the ground. lol I've actually been in the woods and sat down at the base of a tree for hours just enjoying everything around, or even taking a nap at times, in the cool breeze!

When I'm not alone it's always fun to see if we can guess what's in the ground before we dig. It's amazing the trash or items in the most remote places that you would think many people have not gone. It just shows, that there is stuff buried everywhere, and you never know what might turn up!

I don't have a pin pointer and spent a long time tracking down a BB. I kept that BB!! It was too much work to throw away!

 

[JrMack]

something cool about finding something that has been lost and then recovered years after. just think of the attachment someone had to some of the things we find,

 

[SusanMN]

I grew up on land that used to be the local dump, til it was bulldozed and covered over with a thin layer of top soil. Us kids used to dig in the dirt for hours, pulling out everything from marbles to soda bottles (5 cents apiece when we returned). So, metal detecting for me is sort of like being a kid again, having adventures, digging around in the dirt and bringing home treasures.

 

[pong12211]

For the thrill of the hunt and to be oustide and enjoy the peace and quiet. The excercise is nice too.

 

[Boatlode]

What drives you to detect even after getting skunked over and over again.

I'm a fisherman. That makes me an eternal optimist.

 

[Ahab8]

I love colonial history. I think the struggles that my ancestors went through when they arrived on these shores is incredible. I love the fact that a group of colonists had the courage to rise up against the worlds super power. I just find anything colonial fascinating and I feel so honored to have a collection of items from this time period. Holding a Mass silver in my hand is hard to put into words

 

[luvsdux]

I enjoy the anticipation of retrieving a good find. However, I also am motivated to discover what made the detector beep even when it's just trash.
luvsdux

 

[OBN]

For the eye candy. And I'm a old goat.

And the high of seeing Gold in the Scoop!

 

[bzbadger]

Only way I can play in the dirt like a little kid without someone thinking I have issues.

 

[jmaryt]

Being retired I gotta do something.


GOD Bless

Chris

keeps me from spendin' money (i don't have) and i'm doin the "retired" thing too!

(h.h.!)
j.t.

 

[RustyGold]

I do it to be down at the beach! It's my favorite place and has been all my life.
What the sea and the beach evoks in me, metal detecting connects me to it!
The adventure continues!

 

[CoilyGirl]

My husband started relic hunting years ago and the few times I got to go with him it was me watching our two children and just standing over the hole or helping him to find the object in the dirt clods with the boys. Fast foward 25 years or so and now it's my turn. I've always loved finding treasures and collecting ever since I was young so it continues on. The stories I invent in my own head are probably better than the actuality of how the object got there. I think it takes a little bit if a daydreamer's spirit to be a metal detectorist.

 

[voodoo]

excitement, possibilities of what's hidden, exercise, just being in the outdoors, comraderie, sharing, learning, teaching, helping folks recover lost items, seeing new places, discovery and it's just fun

 

[ARC]

Adventure...
Discovery...
Mystery...
Travel...
History...
Wonder...
Experience...
And of course... The possibility of hitting the mother lode.

What not to like ?

 

[RGINN]

Because I'm one of 'Coronado's Children'. Hope you know that reference.

 

[John Winter]

I'm currently in the process of writing a book that involves detecting. I'm not sure yet if it will be a series directed at youth or a novel. I would like any and all input. The storyline is as follows.

A brother and sister are in the car with their parents on their way to visit grandma and grandpa who live on Cape Cod. They encounter a violent storm and the parents die in a car crash. The kids go to live with the grandparents and the young boy is presented with a metal detector. While in the hospital library the boy stumbles upon a book about treasure myths along the east coast of the US and is attracted to a myth of treasure off the shore of cape Cod Bay.

I don't detect any more because of ill-health and get my 'fix' by writing about the hobby. Every month the since 2005 I have penned something for a national magazine. On the first page of this thread the original poster asked for advice ... be interested in what he thought about my comment ...

 

[Peachy]

So I can blog with all of you nice people.

 

[Kevin in IN]

I think it's somewhat of a compulsive disorder for me, along with a love for history. I hunted arrowheads for many years, until no till farming ruined it in my area. So metal detecting was the next likly choice for me. I have never sold anything, just like to look at what I've found and wonder about the person who lost it. Almost sounds a little creepy when put into words. But I don't feel alone here. Kevin

 

[JBnNC]

I just love to put my hands on a small piece of history. Especially when hunting for Civil War relics, I realize that I am the first person to touch an item in 150 years. I often pull from the ground that smashed or dropped bullet, that button or artillery fragment...... and just try to imagine the sights and sounds of what happened there. SO COOL!