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A little poll to liven things up. What was your very first detector and when did you first start in the hobby and can you remember your first find?

My first detector was a cheap off brand name unit back in 1992. It could not find anything I mean nothing ! The second one was my first real one. A bounty hunter sharpshooter2.Cheap but done the job. My first find with it was a civilwar bullet from farm land in Gettysburg. And a silver half from a church camp.Then I got my first Garrett a GTA1000 powermaster and the rest is history. <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">
 
My detector was a $25 Mustang,can't remember the coin,35 years ago,have a hard time remembering yesterday.
 
GTA 500 and the first thing I believe was a 1998 quarter. I started this wonderful hobby the spring of 2003
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Steve
 
It cost $95.00 and I did find 260 coins that year and everything else, as the discrimination didn't work. When I learned that there was such a thing as discrimination and understood how it worked, I got a sense of future possibilities. So I bought my first real machine, a Garrett GTA 500 and the rest is history. This year is my 10th year detecting and I still get as excited finding things as I did many years ago!
 
Me too. <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
Bill
 
Can't remember my first find, but my first detector was about 1973 BFO Garrett detecter with a large coil and built in small 5 inch coil. Next detector was a 1998 GTI 1500.
 
I'll retract my "first find", since I made a distinction between things of value and junk.
That being the case, my first find was the very large nut and lockwasher from my dad's trailer hitch ball.
Got to thinking about it when Tony (L.I.) posted "rusty nail".
DAS
 
First one I ever used was a Fisher T10. My buddies dad was a weekend prospector and used to take us with him. That was about 1966. In 1967 I was taking high school electronics... things were still built with tubes back then... but I saw a 'Build it Yourself Metal Detector' story in Popular Electronics using those new fangled transistors and my dad fronted me the cash to build it. It worked... sorta... Then in 1973 my blushing bride knew how much I wanted a detector,but money was tight, so she bought me a $20 Radio Shack detector. It had an on/off switch and a volume control. I HAD to use it. Didn't want to break her heart. In fact back then she would go with me to see what I would find. It had a depth of about 2 inches.... A few years later she figured out how hard it was finding anything with that one and surprised me with a Bounty Hunter Red Baron Jr. That was about 1984. Still have it and it works as good as the day she gave it to me.
 
Garage Sale special, Zink Penny. 1981.
I got back into this 3 yrs ago.
It was not real deep but was fun. Would have been more fun if my hunting partner had not been using a Garrett Master Hunter or whatever they called them in 80.
You know they would really have something if they put the motorboat putt in a new VLF! <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">
 
First detector: The American, VLF TR, S3. First find, a toy metal airplane. I never did really understand how to use this detector. I now have two other garrets. GTAX 550 and Gtax750. Both wonderful machines, and i know how to use them. Jerry
 
Easy, since it was only about 55 weeks ago. Garrett GTAx 1250, and the find was a 1980 dime at 4 inches. I remember thinking..."Wow, these things do work"
 
I bought my first detector(Garrett 1250) 5 yrs. ago for my 50th b'day. Figured since I was officially a geezer, I needed a geezer hobby (no offense to the rest of the geezers out there). Detecting was a natural choice, being a surveyor, and always trying to find old property corners. Now that I think of it, I have been using detectors of some sort, since I started surveying when I was 18. We originally used dip needles (kinda like a compass in a black box, with the needle vertical instead of horizontal) to find iron property corner markers. Then came the advent of the Schoenstadt magnetic locator, a detector that only picks up ferrous metals. We also used Fisher 2-box pipeline locators or M-scopes. I remember digging holes 3 feet deep to find old pipes set back in 1880's up in the hill country, and it was quite exciting finding it exactly where the old surveyor said it was.
 
That's keeping it honest. <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
Bill
 
Yeah I sort of miss the old motorboat putt putt. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
Bill
 
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