lost treasure versus W&E treasure mag

[fongu]

which magazine do you like best? lost treasure or wester & eastern treasure magazine. I subscribed to W & E magazine, but it doesn't have very much how to as I would like. Does lost treasure magazine show more how to?

 

[TXPIRATE]

Of those 2 Western & eastern I buy both at Books-a-million. The other 2 that I read or American Digger a great mag and Also Treasure depot mag.

 

[oldranger]

I get LT in the mail W&E i find at a local
book store i but it when there is something
I find interesting or educational

Just a newbies opinion

Ron
Rangers Lead The Way

 

[Jewelry girl]

Of those two I read W&E the most. But Lost Treasure is a good one too. I think in the Sept. Issue it had some How - to: Make Great Finds. I think if you can afford both mags. You should subscribe to both.

 

[cwilk]

I like both. I only subscribe to LT but I pick up a copy of W/E at my local bookstore when it has articles that I want to read. Their are some issues of both that I am not fond of. I prefer the issues that deal more with coin shooting and gold prospecting. I liked this Decembers issue of LT that dealt with other types of treasure hunting more than I thought I would. I am not much of a relic hunter and I'm not a Civil War buff so those issues take me a while to read. I also thought LTs recent three month story about collecting the Red Book took up too much space. It would have been an interesting 2000 word article but I bet those 3 parts were close to 9,000 words. A bit too much. I think the writer is their coin guy and some of his coin articles are good. He had a recent article where he discussed some values in key and semi key date coins as investments that he had written about some time ago and he tracked how they had done value wise.

I'd also like a bit more how to in both.

Chris

 

[Uncle Willy]

W&ET used to be strictly a how-to but they have strayed from their original premise. Neither are what they used to be and are mostly a catalog of advertisers. The words in an article you submit are restricted to about 1500 words or less to make room for advertising and the mags are half the size they used to be.

Lost Treasure used to publish a mag called "Treasure Facts", for which I penned a slew of articles - but that went by the wayside and is now included in their annual, "Treasure Cache." Years ago the mags were thick and crammed with articles, often long ones. I used to do a few two-parters and I don't think they even accept them anymore. Your best bet is to buy a copy of each and compare them to your particular tastes and then decide.

Bill

 

[Cliff KS]

I have read them both and agree with Uncle Willy about neither one of them being as good as they use to be. He is dead on about how they are thinner with more ads and fewer articles. I started reading them about the same time and originally preferred LT over E&W treasures. However, I currently prefer E&W treasures to LT, as it usually has some coinshooting articles in each issue, whereas LT has taken the approach of making each issue a "special edition" where one month is all about gold prospecting and another month is about coinshooting and the next month is all about beach hunting, the next relic hunting, etc. I don't like that approach, because they can go several months on types of hunting I don't even have available to me within a reasonable driving distance, and the stretch with no coinshooting articles seems to always fall right during the dead of winter when it is too cold and the ground too hard to do any detecting so I need to "get my fix" by reading about it. But heck, I can just go to a magazine store and buy their one coinshooting issue each year and be done with it --right? I tried American Digger for a year. If you were into civil war artifacts and bottle digging, it would be the mag for you, as it it about 90% Civil War stuff and high quality photos and articles.

 

[marcomo]

100% agree with Cliff.

I subscribe to W&E and pick up LT when the monthly topic is of interest to me.

Watch the auction site for multi-magazine lots of old detecting mags since most of the info in the articles from old mags is still relevant.

 

[Lloyd H]

n/t

 

[garthbfan]

I get both and used to also get American Digger! I enjoyed them all! I dropped AD because it's only comes once every 3 months!! Too long of a time between issues! Of the other 2 I like W/E Treasures the best! While it's nice to read about long lost treasures and ghost towns it's not really what I want to read! I would rather see finds other detectorists are finding and hear how and where!! Just my opinion. But I will continue to get both!! Can't get enough reading during the long, lonely, winter months here in PA!!

 

[Uncle Willy]

This was published by Lost Treasure for several years and I wrote a ton of articles for it but they discontinued it and now it comes out once a year as an addition in Treasure Cache. It was a great rag with how-to tips from cover to cover.

Bill

 

[oldranger]

I agree GarthB it does get cold and lousy here...
I can deal with the cold I deer hunt but frozen ground
makes it hard to dig

Ron
RLTW

 

[Alan Applegate]

I take both, and here's my take.

Most of the hidden treasure stories seem to be rehashes of those which often appeared in True and Argosy during the 50s and 60s. That's great if you're into those kinds of things. If your primary goal is coin hunting, you're left a little dry, especially so when you live in the desert southwest.

We do have our indian artifacts, but those hunting areas are verboten as they should be.

Civil war relics? Certainly rare in this part of the country.

If you're technically inclined, and would like to read more about that side of the hobby, you're out of luck. Fact is, there's a real dearth of information on this issue, even on the net.

If you're looking to improve your hunting technique, what you read is so generic, it's of no help except to a neophyte.

Alan Applegate

 

[roceda]

This was published by Lost Treasure for several years and I wrote a ton of articles for it but they discontinued it and now it comes out once a year as an addition in Treasure Cache. It was a great rag with how-to tips from cover to cover.

Bill

That's for sure. I had a subscription for it for a few years until they notified me that they were discontinuing it. I glad I saved a file folder full of the "How To" tips.

 

[rifleman]

I suscribed to both last year. I found W&ET seemed to cover the east coast much more than the west coast. I was living in Arizona and am now in Idaho. LT had far more on west coast detecting sites. If you like relic hunting and live on the east coast, W&E would be my choice. On the left coast, LT. If you have the $$$, both do have info for anyone no matter where you live in the USA. W&E also covers overseas locations which I care nothing for.

Good Hunting, John K