DANIEL TN

[Anonymous]

I know this is a Tesoro forum but just wondering if you have tried a minelab in your area. I read you posting on your conditions and was curious....
thans

 

[Anonymous]

I hunted with a guy that brought an Explorer II to one of my sites. I didn't know anything about his machine and he had just got it not long before he hunted with me so he was green with it too. On that particular machine it had a graph like screen that would have crosshairs come up on it to show where each object would hit. He hunted in that one spot of mine and all he could say was "this thing says this dirt is one solid sheet of iron". That's my only Minelab experience. I currently have a Nautilus DMC IV and just agreed to buy a DMC IIb to try. I'm going to hunt those two against one another and pick the one I like the best and keep it and sell the other. Then take the money from that and buy a Minelab Advantage since it gets great reviews for bad dirt.

 

[Anonymous]

You had purchased a Fisher Coinstrike and I thought you were happy with it with its performance in your mineralized ground. What happened?
John

 

[Anonymous]

John,
I loved the C$ that I had. The area I live in saw a bunch of troop movement through it but not alot of camps so everything you find is very spread out and hit and miss. I had been trying to find one major camp for the past few years and finally found it. There are two people that own it...and one wont let anybody hunt at all. The other let me hunt it three times before I shot myself in the foot and gave him a button that I'd just found. Suddenly he decided he wanted to keep some stuff there in case he or his grandson wanted to dig some of it in the future. After spending all this time looking for this camp...finding it...and never getting to hunt the middle of it...I nearly lost all my interest in metal detecting. I sold all my CW books. Sold my detectors and everything. The only thing about my C$ was that I had bought it used for a REALLY good deal and even today you can't find them selling used for that low of a price. I've still not got my full enthusiasm back for the hobby so I'm not wanting to lay down $600+ for a machine. Right now I am comfortable with the $200-$300 range. So hopefully I can find a machine in that range to equal or surpass the C$ performance. Otherwise I'm going to have to break down and get another one of those.

 

[Anonymous]

part of the fun of a hunt is the hunt for a site. Detectorist all over the country are being run out of parks and the old favorite sites we like to detect but, permission to hunt private lands will always be there. You just need to get permission!! Then do the hobby of detecting a favor by being curtious and responsible while you have fun hunting. On a positive note regarding your button to the land owner thing, at least you may have introduced a new person to the great hobby of metaldetecting.

 

[Anonymous]

Maybe if you have a spare detector, try and visit the land owner. Show him to how to's of detecting, etc. maybe he'll be your new digging partner or if his son is old enough..........or wait a few years till the kid is older, then approach father and son. You never know.....send them a Christmas card, etc. to keep you in their thoughts.