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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2015 19:38:00 GMT -5
Me i was on vacation in cuba and 3 guy's were doing some metal detecting in the water and i when to talk to them but we could not understand each other so it was basically pointing , and when i got back to my wife i told her i was going to look to buy one when we would get home. After looking at a lots of machine and review and watching video on youtube , i when for the garrett at pro. Got my first machine and started in may 2012 and my first find was a penny.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2015 8:54:43 GMT -5
Well it was always something I wanted to do, because of excuse 42 and 63, I never got around to it. After watching the series Meteorite Men a few years back, the bug kicked in big time. First bought myself a Fisher Gold Bug, loved it, but I could not take it in the water. A detecting buddy of mine had the ATPro, was impressed with that machine so I decided to add it to my arsenal. Two seasons of detecting done and I am hooked beyond hope, but I guess there could be worst things to be hooked on.
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Post by Leslie Sarkany on Feb 15, 2015 12:30:00 GMT -5
That is interesting especially since it is illegal to metal detect in Cuba. Had my machines seized going into that country but had gotten them in a year before!
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Post by Leslie Sarkany on Feb 15, 2015 12:31:09 GMT -5
Started here too long ago to recall but glad I did take up the hobby!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2015 16:37:49 GMT -5
That is interesting especially since it is illegal to metal detect in Cuba. Had my machines seized going into that country but had gotten them in a year before! There was 3 of them metal detecting and snorkling in the water. Im gonna check at the travel agency to see if they can give me an answer on that. Unless they totaly when unnotice.
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Post by Leslie Sarkany on Feb 16, 2015 13:44:06 GMT -5
Had mine taken. Think it was great you got in to detect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2015 13:55:28 GMT -5
Had mine taken. Think it was great you got in to detect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is when i got the idear to buy one.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2015 19:45:49 GMT -5
The reason; I wanted to walk around standing up looking for gold rather than the back breaking panning.
I used to pan some gold, Had some "gold Prospector", and "Rock and Gem" magazines with pictures of metal detectors in them, and in particular the Fisher Gold Bug. I drooled over the gold bug for about 20 years before finally deciding to get off the fence and buy one. It was 2007, I called one dealer to get my gold bug, and he didn't have one, and didn't seem too interested in talking to me, so I called another dealer in Ontario, he didn't have one in stock either. My first detector was a dozen detectors.
I no longer have my first Gold Bug. My only regret is I didn't get one sooner.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2015 19:11:42 GMT -5
I use to pan the gold in the creeks back in the early 70's and thought there was a better way of finding gold but didn't follow up till I read an article on metal detecting 10 years latter, my hobby in those days apart from prospecting was electronics and building electronic kits, so I thought I'd combine them and build a metal detector which I did and this was in June of 81. I brought a ETI 1500 detector kit swapped the soldered board over for an etched one and 20 hours latter had a working detector ( I used an oscilloscope to check it out and make sure it was working )and then field tested it in a local school oval, found my first nugget second time out with it in Wattle Flat near Sofala Christmas that year, from that to a Minelab GT1500 then to a White's back to a Minelab GP Extream ,
Now I have a Minelab GPX 5000 with a GPX 4500 as a back up and to date have found eight and a half oz of gold nuggets
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2015 13:37:33 GMT -5
Nice to know why we started detecting , wish more member would post in , very interesting to know , we all got different stories why we started.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2015 10:42:48 GMT -5
My father bought me a Radio Shack metal detector when I was about 10 yrs old. I used to putter around our back yard with it all the time. I'm sure he planted many coins without me knowing it as I was constantly finding nickles, dimes and pennies. LOL! Every once in a while one of the neighbours would ask if I could help them find a dropped nail or screw or lost metal part to something they were working on outside. I hadn't used a detector for almost 30 years but got to watching a bunch of metal detecting videos on youtube a few years ago and developed the itch to do it once again. I'm glad I did. It's an awesome hobby!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2015 19:42:18 GMT -5
When I was 13 (c.1978) I was sitting on a bank in the park with my family, having a picnic lunch when these two guys come up behind us with things on their heads and "sticks with dishes on them". One of them (stinky old man) stopped about 4 feet from me and pulled out a big Bowie knife and popped a silver quarter out of the ground. Hmmm I had no idea what it was he had, but I could quick figure out what it could do! Being an avid coin collector, I was very very interested in what I had just seen. FREE COINS!! I am patient. Quiet. I can wait. Two month later I was at a coin club meeting in Mississauga where I met someone with hundreds of rings for sale. When I asked him where he got them, he said " metal detecting". I pestered that poor guy for over an hour with questions. Eventually he agreed to take me and my dad to a man who sold metal detectors out of his basement. I worked my ass off for the next six months to save up the $350 I needed. I helped build a house for my uncle in B.C. and lived in a lean-to for the whole summer. I walked the ditches at night through the city collecting beer bottles (5 cents back then) But I did it. Never looked back since. Wish I had started sooner and wish I could spend more time digging now. I'd sooner give up my car than my Minelab.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2015 9:06:05 GMT -5
When I was 13 (c.1978) I was sitting on a bank in the park with my family, having a picnic lunch when these two guys come up behind us with things on their heads and "sticks with dishes on them". One of them (stinky old man) stopped about 4 feet from me and pulled out a big Bowie knife and popped a silver quarter out of the ground. Hmmm I had no idea what it was he had, but I could quick figure out what it could do! Being an avid coin collector, I was very very interested in what I had just seen. FREE COINS!! I am patient. Quiet. I can wait. Two month later I was at a coin club meeting in Mississauga where I met someone with hundreds of rings for sale. When I asked him where he got them, he said " metal detecting". I pestered that poor guy for over an hour with questions. Eventually he agreed to take me and my dad to a man who sold metal detectors out of his basement. I worked my ass off for the next six months to save up the $350 I needed. I helped build a house for my uncle in B.C. and lived in a lean-to for the whole summer. I walked the ditches at night through the city collecting beer bottles (5 cents back then) But I did it. Never looked back since. Wish I had started sooner and wish I could spend more time digging now. I'd sooner give up my car than my Minelab. Nice story and very interesting . I also wich i would have start earlier.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2015 14:10:56 GMT -5
Always wanted one as a kid. I retired from the NS Gov't two years ago, and it was one of my "hobby" purchases just prior to retiring. Been doing it ever since. I now work as Communications Director for Oak Island Tours Inc., the parent company for "Curse of Oak Island". Haven't done any there yet, and not sure if I'll be allowed to, but sure will be a hoot if I can.
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Post by clay on Jun 21, 2018 5:51:18 GMT -5
it is interesting hobby for me
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