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

[slingshot]

48 years. Started with a D-tex Tiny Tex. Wish I still had it.

 

[Mike Hillis]

Bounty Hunter Tracker IV in December of 2003.

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Mike

 

[chuck ky]

1971 with a crusader and the d-tex tiny tex my next one. it was very small but i found a lot of coins with it. got more silver with the whites 6000d-series 3 and even more with the cz-5. when i got the minelab sovereign it was like starting all over again

 

[Hombre]

I started out in 1995 with the then new White's XLT, it was a little complicated to figure out at first. I made my own custom program out of the "Coins&Jewelry" program with the Pre-amp gain goosed up a bit and VCO turned on in all-metal mode. It found me my deepest coin, an 1866 2

 

[Dang]

I started out in 1995 with the then new White's XLT, it was a little complicated to figure out at first. I made my own custom program out of the "Coins&Jewelry" program with the Pre-amp gain goosed up a bit and VCO turned on in all-metal mode. It found me my deepest coin, an 1866 2

 

[Hobo lobo]

Over 50 yrs ago, 1962, Detecron, 2nd was a Whites Gold Master,.

Hey hobo, how deep would that Detecron get a coin to ? Eg.: depth on a penny or dime ? And what type sites were you detecting in those days, and what was an average day's haul ?

Been a long time and my remembember isn't as good as it once was, but Ithink maybe 4-5 inches on a dime. There were no pull tabs or can slaw but foil from cig packs, gum wrappers and bottle caps were a problem no disc then. I hunted mostly city parks and ghost towns in Colo.
All the coins (except pennys) were silver, but they were worth face value , except for rare ones. Maybe $10.00 a day in a good park





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[Prep1957]

prep-1957, Interesting that you would recall a lot of "large" silver with that. I'm assuming you mean quarters and halves, versus dimes, for example, right? So too is my recollection of my first machine: the White 66TR. I too seemed to find my share of silver washingtons then in the mid 1970s. And even though I'd wracked up perhaps a dozen silver washingtons, had YET to find a mercury dime (although I recall finding silver roosies and some wheaties). Now, looking back, I realize it's because:

Those old machines were handicapped on depth, of course. So for example, 4" on a dime was perhaps max. However, naturally, the quarters being bigger signals, you could add a few more inches to that. And since we weren't using headphones, and probably weren't super-carefully looking for whispers, then .... it just stands to reasons that the # of quarters would be commensurately out-of-synch-more, than with the # of smaller targets (dimes).

So on that old Heath-kit, do tell: What was the depth on a dime? A quarter? etc.. What type places were you hunting then, and what was an average day's count of silver back then ?

I am not sure it could find a dime,Had 2 plastic screws that had to be adjusted with 100% plastic screw driver on top of coil to tune it and wet grass would make it go nuts could not hunt in wet grass at all.Still I found a lot of quarters and halfs,cap guns,hose nozzles,sad irons,tools some to almost a foot deep.I remember my dad driving me to Starve Rock State Park and of course everything was silver back then my pockets were full of halves.I do not remember ever finding a penny with that machine.I remember when I got my Garrett Ground Hog finding buckets of silver coins with it and dimes at 5 inches and I thought that was real depth.

 

[Prep1957]

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

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

I had a Fisher 552 it would find a lot of plated stuff for some reason bobby pins,plated fish hooks,cracker jack toys,plated rings plus of course a lot of gold and silver.It seems that when we all switched to motion machines we do not get as much as the fun stuff any more.

 

[terry-cola]

I started close to 2000, with a bounty hunter 101 that my father bought for 40 dlls. Then, I was hooked, i have had lots of brands. I have 6 right know. Regards all the way from South Texas, almost Mexico.

 

[Sweeping-4-junk]

My first Metal Detector was a BFO Design , it was called an Altek 3 . A company called Altek instruments made it. The control box was as big as a match box! Coil 6 inches. Had to plug a Stethascope ear set in - no head phones! Found the goods to 2-3 inches, but found a ton of stuff.

 

[garwadd1]

24 years Fisher CZ6,Fisher CZ70 pro, Garret Ace 250, Garrett ATPRO with NEL Storm coil,Blisstool LTC64V3
best find 1904s half dollar slabbed and graded AU50, found with ATPRO.

 

[bradwheat777]

Bought my first detector, a used Whites 4900 DL Max, in 1993 when I was a sophomore in college.

 

[Jedi]

2009 I got a used radio shack detector at a rummage sale. I would take it to the park so my kids could play. I found quite a few coins for a machine with no discrimination. Then I got the AT PRO. It was like going from a bicycle to a corvette.

 

[Walknstik]

The year was 1987 when I walked into an Army Surplus store in Las Vegas, Nv and saw a magazine cover of a guy holding a metal detector along with a few gold nuggets he had found with it. I've been hooked on metal detectors since. Ha! Went to a local dealer in North Las Vegas near the base and told him I wanted an all purpose type of detector and he sold me the original Tesoro Eldorado which I still have.

 

[rjsupersonic]

In the 70's I think it was call a Freedom Ace back then from Garrett?

 

[RTP]

I have been detecting for 39 years. The first detector I bought was a Bounty Hunter Outlaw BFO/TR.

 

[steve herschbach]

My first detector was a White's Coinmaster IV in 1972.

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[atlantic]

My first was a Micronta from Radio shack. That was in the late 70's. First hunt was on the beach at Lake Cochituate in Cochituate Mass. First find was an all steel ball peen hammer under 6" of beach sand! I did a "Happy Dance" for ten minutes!