Hello everyone, I am new to the hobby and site. I live in Daytona beach, FL and would like to start metal detecting. My question is what detector do you all recommend for my area that will serve me well. I do not need the latest and greatest; but I also would be willing to spend a little more now so I don't feel the need to upgrade soon. Thanks, Mike
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Detector for new hunter
- Thread starter Mikecp
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one eye guy
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Maybe because I've stubbornly chosen to follow my dream & am creating a living as a visual artist, instead of a more lucrative career path, I find I'm often needing to get outside more, to get more exercise & to have more fun & to get extra cash. Thinking about these co-mingled desires-exercise, fun, & cash-made me remember that years ago I once had a metal detector & I got outside more, I got more exercise, had lotsa fun, every hunt was an adventure, and I always made money, too.
But that thing called Life intervened: a marriage, a son, a divorce, change of profession from Major Crimes Investigator to recovering from getting thrown off a cliff, by some very bad dude that got the drop on me, leaving me for dead, but only unconscious for four nights. So that stuff & other Life Stuff got in the way of, you know, using a metal detector!
So, while researching & conducting online reviews & posts about metal detectors (hereinafter, "MD"), to buy another, better MD, I've discovered many things:
* It's almost impossible to trust MD reviews! (Many are self-serving; many are dealers pretending they're a customer while praising the MD they want to create excitement about so they can foist off a MD upon you because you believed their BS. There are far too many so-called "reviews" that are just shills trying to create a review that won't look like the ad it really is. Too many sites purport to be neutral but one discovers they have a major MD sponsor, (maybe this site?).
* In the purchase of any expensive item, intelligent consumers research Consumer Reports. Does anyone here know of any neutral reviews of MDs that one can trust- that is NOT in any way supported, even in tiny part, by any MD company?
* Perhaps I didn"t do enough research on evaluating the reviews of the merits of top of the line MDs. I'm prepared to get what I pay for, but hope any reader of this long post may be able to offer info on where I can obtain unbiased reviews of MDs that is not, in whole or part, in any way supported by a MD company.
But that thing called Life intervened: a marriage, a son, a divorce, change of profession from Major Crimes Investigator to recovering from getting thrown off a cliff, by some very bad dude that got the drop on me, leaving me for dead, but only unconscious for four nights. So that stuff & other Life Stuff got in the way of, you know, using a metal detector!
So, while researching & conducting online reviews & posts about metal detectors (hereinafter, "MD"), to buy another, better MD, I've discovered many things:
* It's almost impossible to trust MD reviews! (Many are self-serving; many are dealers pretending they're a customer while praising the MD they want to create excitement about so they can foist off a MD upon you because you believed their BS. There are far too many so-called "reviews" that are just shills trying to create a review that won't look like the ad it really is. Too many sites purport to be neutral but one discovers they have a major MD sponsor, (maybe this site?).
* In the purchase of any expensive item, intelligent consumers research Consumer Reports. Does anyone here know of any neutral reviews of MDs that one can trust- that is NOT in any way supported, even in tiny part, by any MD company?
* Perhaps I didn"t do enough research on evaluating the reviews of the merits of top of the line MDs. I'm prepared to get what I pay for, but hope any reader of this long post may be able to offer info on where I can obtain unbiased reviews of MDs that is not, in whole or part, in any way supported by a MD company.