I live in South Texas Purchased my first machine in 1975... a Garrett Groundhog ADS Been reading thru the posts and replys It's great !!! And like minded folks too...It's sure getting me enthused Been out of the loop for awhile and very eager to get back into searching Wife got me a used GTI 2000 (ebay) a while back and haven't tried it out since I sent it, and the groundhog in to be refurbished and whatevered Usually go heavy on the discriminator and just pick up the easy stuff on virgin sites like old houses(I get old usgs maps and use local history books etc ) Likely walked over pounds of gold all those yrs but found lots of silver and etc Ideally I'd like a partner to go hunting with Last summer was way too dry hot and... busy Happy hunting!!