Do You Tend To Change Detectors Often?

[bayoukid]

If I were rich I'd own every single machine made.

But since I'm almost dirt poor I usually look for used bargins. I may get 3 or 4 machines but then have to start selling to buy more.

But I have a big THing problem, I like to try new machines almost as much as I like digging most finds.

Every new machine is like Christmas morning to me. I can't wait to unwrap it and get it out to my test garden to see what it will (or will not) do.

Anybody else here like this?

--kid

 

[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

[size=large] I trust them after a hundred thousand recoveries, why would I want to start new with something else when what I have works great and we understand one another?... If and when they make a a machine with some really new and advanced technology that is leaps and bounds above the current offerings I will get one ~ but that has not happened yet as much as some companies would like you to believe it has. Until then, I'll stick with I know works for me and works well. [/size]
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[Dang]

But now that i know Mascard1 I don't have to blow any money! LOL

 

[bayoukid]

the years I've noticed the best machine in the world can't find what isn't there.

There's a heck of a lot to say for hunting the right sites.

--kid

 

[Craig in Alabama]

n/t

 

[bayoukid]

(ca. 1985) I returned to an old park in southern Michigan I had totally hunted out.

To my surprise I saw somebody hunting MY SITE lol

I walked up to him and he gave me that look we all give people who bother us while detecting.

Of course I asked the classic question: "findin anything?"

He said "dug a standing liberty over there and just dug a merc here. I thought to myself what a wind bag!

I had noticed he had dug some things as I watched him from the car.

Then right before me he dug an awesome old coin that as I recall was a dated buff. Within something like 15 minutes this guy dug 3 coins that would of taken me several days to find. And he dug them at a site I had personally hunted out with some of the most expensive machines of that day.

He was using a cheaper and older detector than any of mine.

That was my first encounter with a REAL THer. Since then I've met others like him.

I asked that guy why I never found those coins and he told me they were all buried by iron.

Nuff said.

--kid

 

[Ed SW Fla]

.... learn what your current machine is telling you, use little to no discrimination, go slow, overlap each sweep .... that's what the folks do who find the most good stuff ... and trash.

Unless you can test drive a new machine on targets you desire in a test garden in the dirt you'll normally be sweeping, you are taking a chance on any new machine you buy. Time wasted, testing machines you may not be able to afford, .... well is a waste of time.