how many years have been detecting now. and what was your first detector?

[Dang]

I started 2003 and first real non junkie detector was a minelab musketeer. The black one.

 

[dirt doctor]

1993 Tesoro Mayan

 

[mascard1]

I started detecting in the womb.......It was heck.......getting the coil wire out that belly button!

 

[Tony-Ok]

1976 Garrett BFO Coin Hunter

 

[knarfj]

Off an on for around 44 years. My first detector was a Gold box Bounty Hunter l. The vast majority of my finds were rusty rusty iron objects but I loved the hunt just the same.

HH

 

[joe dirt_1]

My first detector was a Jetco Mustang in the early 70's, then had a Bounty Hunter 550D.
My first real detector was a Fisher 1220x. What a huge difference the 1220x made over the other two detectors.....HH

Roger

 

[GKMan]

1984 Fisher 1210X

 

[nugget71]

Started around 2000 / 2001 and went all out on a GP Extreme for my first machine. Took me 2 solid weeks to find my first nugget and will always remember that day. It was was about 1.5grms but it was beautiful. Found lots of small nuggets with the GP Extreme and it ran very smooth in hot ground. Probably went over board for my first machine but looking back it was worth every penny.
Cheers!

 

[metalmedic]

78 or 79 with a bounty hunter from sears...Can't remember the model, it was red and had no discrimination. I also had some old BFO's can't recall the brand. First quality detector was a Fisher 1260, which I still own today.

 

[Southwind]

I bought my first detector in the 70's but didn't really get serious about detecting until the 80's. My first detector was a mustang? BFO. My first good detector was a Tesoro Mayan.

 

[nesdore]

1 month Garrett Ace 150 ( shoulda went with the 250) lol

 

[jim tn]

42 years. Started in 1972 with a Jetco Mustang. It maybe got a whopping 3" with good wet ground. HH jim tn

 

[yowow#1]

1985, Micronta, man that thing loved cigerette pack and chewing tobacco foil lining. I remember my dad who i lost a few years later asking me"whats you gonna do with that geiger counter?

 

[jimmy]

Nautilus Silver King and I been tectin I gold mining since 1978, I am a US Navy Vet. 1965-71

 

[mwh604]

Started detecting in 69, Don't even remember the first make of detector (Radio shack I think)

 

[Rick(ND)]

Started in 1973 with a Whites Coinmaster 3 and at that time they had no disc and learned how to tell good targets from bad by the way they sounded, this was a good learning tool.

Rick

 

[Elton]

Fisher 555D or something close to that.in numbers .. !! LOL

Next was a coinmaster ........

 

[Tom_in_CA]

About 1975 or '76-ish. White 66TR. That's an all-metal TR unit, similar (but not as good as) the Compass 77b. By 1975, Whites had already stopped making and selling those. But I had gotten it as a used machine, that a mere few years old by then (earlier '70s vintage). By 1975- and '76-ish, all the manufacturers were rolling out their then-new-fangled discriminators. So if you had a machine that was a mere few years old, YOU HAD A DINASOUR, haha. But that 66TR found me a lot of coins. I'm ride around town on my 10 speed bike after school each day, and hunt yards of old homes, churches, etc.... Max depth was perhaps 4 or 5" tops. No discrimination, except for an innate ability to null over small iron.

 

[Ed Steinhoff]

This is my 5th full season. Started with a Tracker IV, two weeks later got a pioneer 505 and a year ago December picked up a fisher f-70. Wish I had got started 30 years ago!
HH Ed in co.

 

[Hank68]

1987 Garrett freedom detector,