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Hey dirtdigginlady. I live only a few minutes from Folly so I hunt there often. I use three detectors and two of them are Minelabs but I don't think that has anything to do with whether people are friendly or not. I have met one or two women detecting over time, don't know if maybe you were one of them or not, I'm getting older and very bad with remembering names. When I see other people detecting down there I like to speak if we come close enough to each other but only for a second or two as time and tide wait on nobody. I don't want to take up much of their time or lose much of mine. I always hunt alone so often I won't see people up close. Another thing I like to do is hunt other stretches of the beach, away from the pier area and the County Park. Those areas are fun to hunt when conditions are right but that is where people with detectors like to concentrate. Remember that the entire coastline has nice waterfront beach houses and most of these are rentals. My best finds have come from areas where I never see anyone else hunting. It's true that you might go for stretches without finding much and probably fewer coins than you will around the pier or park but the potential for some really nice jewelry finds is there when conditions are right. I'll keep an eye out for you and promise to be friendly, Minelab or not.
--Jerry
dirtdigginlady said:This is a very good topic. I guess I feel differently than most here. If it's on the beach, it doesn't bother me in the least for someone to come where I am hunting and I've honestly never given it a thought about me walking onto the beach and starting to hunt where others are. I guess I feel it is PUBLIC beach and it is free for all. Maybe my views reflect the fact though that I don't take it very seriously. It's just a very fun hobby to me. I've met a lot of nice people detecting who would stop and chat. Then I've met several that were not very nice or friendly (seems to me like most of them are carrying minelabs). The last time I was at the beach at Folly, there were usually 6 - 8 detectorist in any given part of the beach so you really wouldn't have gotten to hunt if you were afraid of getting on someone's turf.
Hey dirtdigginlady. I live only a few minutes from Folly so I hunt there often. I use three detectors and two of them are Minelabs but I don't think that has anything to do with whether people are friendly or not. I have met one or two women detecting over time, don't know if maybe you were one of them or not, I'm getting older and very bad with remembering names. When I see other people detecting down there I like to speak if we come close enough to each other but only for a second or two as time and tide wait on nobody. I don't want to take up much of their time or lose much of mine. I always hunt alone so often I won't see people up close. Another thing I like to do is hunt other stretches of the beach, away from the pier area and the County Park. Those areas are fun to hunt when conditions are right but that is where people with detectors like to concentrate. Remember that the entire coastline has nice waterfront beach houses and most of these are rentals. My best finds have come from areas where I never see anyone else hunting. It's true that you might go for stretches without finding much and probably fewer coins than you will around the pier or park but the potential for some really nice jewelry finds is there when conditions are right. I'll keep an eye out for you and promise to be friendly, Minelab or not.
--Jerry
