Anyone into metal detectors?
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Always wanted to have a metal detector. Found one on CL at a screaming deal. Friend and I hit a circa 1840 house on his property this week. Share your stories.
“You’ll own nothing” — And “you’ll be happy about it.” K. Schwab
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Re: Anyone into metal detectors?
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If you want inspiration, go to youtube and search for the Hoover Boys.
Awesome finds. Yep, watched a number of their vids.
“You’ll own nothing” — And “you’ll be happy about it.” K. Schwab
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Re: Anyone into metal detectors?
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Always wanted to have a metal detector. Found one on CL at a screaming deal. Friend and I hit a circa 1840 house on his property this week. Share your stories.
I own one basic (cheap) "metal finder" for property corners, dropped fasteners, nails in driveway, etc. Owned a nice nugget finder and found little so sold it. Very important to get a detector that works well in your geographic area. Find a dealer and talk with them so time spent is productive. As a hobby I used to hunt for old bottle dumps. Access old "Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps" at the Library of Congress and find areas to search. Beware historic / archeology laws. Beaches and areas where people congregate for picnics, fireworks, etc are usually good hunting too.
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Re: Anyone into metal detectors?
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Thanks guys. I'm not wanting to get into it hard core just have some fun with it. In my photo above, you can see my first coin find. I was about an hour into the day. Turned out there was another coin right with the two in the photo. Weird to have 3 coins right there together about 8" down. While I would like to tell you they were 1800 coins, it wasn't so, just some 1960's, LOL.
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Re: Anyone into metal detectors?
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I used one every day when I was in NAM.. I dont know about cheap ones.. I even wondered about the military ones.. specially when it was my life on the line.. I did find a mine about every day and I'm still here
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Always enjoy reading finds on different forums, but never got into it heavy. Used one for work to find evidence, and my dive team has underwater Fischer .
We used a very basic White for finding spent casings etc. Then Garret produced a "CSI" model that discriminates different casings somehow. Its actually one of their higher end commercial units, that they put a different menu on- rather than settings to discriminate out tin, aluminum, whatever, it has has calibers.
It has been useful.
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Re: Anyone into metal detectors?
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I've read good things about the above machines.
“You’ll own nothing” — And “you’ll be happy about it.” K. Schwab
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