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Uncle Willy

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All you lurkers out there hiding in the shadows ( and I know you are there ), jump in and join the gang. Even if you don't have a detector yet.

Bill
 
Heck, we just may have to have a ACE250 Forum on its'own. I can't believe all the new people that have shown up in the last week posting with their ACE Series machines.

I'll be Mary is pretty busy these days....
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Yeah we have been picking up new members and there are more out there. Since the Ace series is now Garrett's top seller the whole force at Garrett is busy. I told Jack after I tested the 250 that I hoped Garrett was geared up as this thing was going to go like a house afire.

Bill
 
Former lurker here (I feel like a peeping tom). I teach English lit at a small university in Oklahoma. I was a kid in Gainesville, Fla. in the early 60's and found the maps that led Mel Fisher and Kip Wagner to the 1715 plate fleet (Bernard Romans mapped Fla. just 50 years after the fleet sank; his published work was Natural History of Florida). I was doing some research in the Florida History Reading Room at the Univ. of Fla. library for a junior high school paper on salvage laws when I ran across the account of the sinking and the maps Romans drew up. Through friends of friends I met Fisher in Cocoa Beach and showed him the documents I'd found. I was 14 years old and my mom had to drive me down to meet with him. I was only in the 8th grade at the time and did not know enough to try to participate in what I'd found. I was a dumb little kid . . .It was kinda surreal when the U of F museum put some of the artifacts on display after the lawsuits with the state were settled.
 
Thanks for coming onboard and sharing your story, Englishprof.

I'm new here, too, but have been welcomed warmly. I think you'll like it here:clapping:


Dick from IA
 
Real good point, prof. One must have open eyes in such matters. It doesnt do to be a hoarding miser, 'cause in the end you end up alone - no maytter your treasure.

But one has to choose with whom one shares his findings, eh?

David
 
Welcome aboard. Now that's an interesting piece of history that we would have forever been ignorant of had you not chose to pop in and visit us. We learn something new every day.

Truly a shame you couldn't have gotten a piece of the action. Mel could have at least throwed you a tidbit for the info you provided. Don't be a stranger and visit us whenever you wish.

Bill
 
You know what's strange about that, though? I just thought it was cool that I played a part. Although it was funny - I'd go down to the beach off Sebastian Inlet and watch them diving on the wrecks, and their security guards would run me off.
 
[quote Uncle Willy]All you lurkers out there hiding in the shadows ( and I know you are there ), jump in and join the gang. Even if you don't have a detector yet.

Bill[/quote]

Howdy. I'm a fairly new lurker..:/ Have been reading many of the posts
when I was researching a detector to buy.. Lots of good info.
I haven't done too much detecting, except for a few years ago with a
cheap basically useless detector. Spent more time trying to keep it
balanced than actually finding anything. Anyway, after many years of
wanting to try something halfway decent, I finally broke down and ordered a Ace 250 monday. I'll probably get it at the end of the week, or maybe monday depending on UPS... I like looking for old relics and coins.
Not that I expect to get rich, I just like finding old stuff.
Even old junk iron pieces can be interesting at times.. But prowling
around old deserted homesites, land, etc would probably be my favorite type of hunting, along with civil/revolutionary war relic hunting, etc.
I do plan to give the ace 250 a run at the coins though, just to get
used to reading the machine. I'm sure I'll find a few just in our own
yard. I bought it with just the stock coil for now, but suspect I'll
get the other two coils also before too long. I did also order a pinpointer with the ace 250.
Anyway, I'll be out there prowling the dirt before too long.
BTW... I'm in Houston...Mildew city USA.
MK
 
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