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First photo of me detecting....

Bill Ladd

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My dad, when they moved, gave me a dusty box of stuff that was taken from my late Grandfathers house. My grandfather is the one that hooked me on detecting in the late 70's. In the box was a bunch of old slides. I had held a couple up to the light and saw weird buildings & stuff & they sat in my basement for a couple years. Then a friend got a new high end scanner that converts old slides to digital. Cool! I pulled out that box & went through each silde.....I found lots of photos nobody in the family ever knew existed...lots of baby pictures, etc. But, my favorite "find" is definately this one......A late 70's shot of me (in red coat) swinging Grampas Whites 4-DB in a park. My late cousin in his soccer gear has a knife while my younger brother Dan (in the cool plad pants) pinpoints.....
HH,
Bill
 
Can you imagine hunting those parks back then with one of todays detectors! Still I bet they gave up lots of silver.

Tom
 
hey!..bill!
found aton with the 4db!..great "high frequency" "tr" detector!..that detector taught me to listen for deep "round" coin hits!..enjoyed the "hell" out of it!

(h.h!)
j.t.
 
My first detector was one of those plastic "Jetco's" that I got for X-mas a year after this pic. But, our first "real" detector was a silver colored "sears" whites 4DB....we found tons of coins too using the TR mode.
I guess Sears was the place for buyin' everything back then :).....the store near me is still open but like a ghost town now.....
 
hi!..bill!
i hear ya!..my first "real" detector was compass judge 2!..did find alot with it,however when i got the 4db i started going even deeper,and discovered by "listening" closely,i could get 6" inches or better hits on coins,and THAT really got me "hooked" on the hobby!
with the introduction of the "vlf" detectors,all that changed,because as you know,the new units make coins sound like they are on top of the ground!

regards!
j.t.
 
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