bad old days

[Agseeker]

You old timers will appreciate this story. It was a beautiful, warm, sunny day here in central Oklahoma today. I left the house with high hopes of experimenting with the 11x17" coil in a park I've been hunting for a couple of years. Hoping to see if the large coil would pick up some of the deeper coins that the 11" may have missed. Got to the park, unloaded all my equipment, started off across the park and turned on my Garrett pin-pointer. Nothing but a loud constant buzz. I decided to continue on without it and find the coins the way we did it back in the bad old days -- running a handful of dirt under the coil until getting a signal. Sure was slow but did manage to find a couple of wheats from the 40s. Put a new battery in the pin-pointer when I got home and it seems to be working fine.

 

[GKMan]

My first twenty years was sans pin pointer. I CAN NOT imagine going back to that type of "good ol days"

 

[sube]

Don't feel bad I never used a pin pointer for 45 years finally got one makes it easier but old habits are hard to change .sube

 

[glenn3-88]

Life happens, things like that make us stop and appreciate "some" of the changes
in life.

 

[KinTN]

For me, I blame my relative lack of success in the 70s/80s on the lack of a good pinpointer!

I swear its a wonder I ever came home with more than a few targets in those days. For certain, a good pinpointer has made my diggings MUCH neater and quicker.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Yep, those were the bad old days! Pinpointers are almost required detecting equipment now. Always carry a spare 9V, especially if you have a Carrott. They get screwy when the voltage drops, and the Carrott doesnt seem to last as long as the old Garrett PP