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reflection of the spirit of our hobby

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From the land of the Bluenose.......recently there was a contest on a forum asking if you remembered your first time out detecting. Tried as I might I couldn't recall that day but it did bring back a few memories and a smile to my face.
I see that Stevie O (Arizona) shared a few of his memorable moments of the hobby with us and the response was overwhelmingly positive. This leds one to believe that this hobby is one that not only embellishes life long friendships instilling one with intestinal fortitude, a sense of accomplishment but a way to purge one's soul while maintaining that small child in all of us. To see a grown man (or woman) kneeling down diligently digging a hole in the earth envisioning a find of a great lost treasure and being happy with a penny epitomizes the spirit of the hobby.
Along the way we have all encountered adversity , despair and moment of fleeting joy and have continued on, what to an outsider would be comparable to King Arthur's Knights quest for the Holy Grail. Here too the common threads are evident in the bonding, devotion and endless pursuit of the quest.
Let not politics, religion, personnal petty differences nor even inclimate weather deter us from this unique hobby where the greatest treasures of all are....... a friend, a laugh and finding one's self.
 
Well said!!
I have long known that the gold I find when metal detecting is not in the ground, but is in me.
I've often wondered if my reasons for enjoying it so much is simply the desire to get something for nothing, to stumble upon that one find of such outstanding interest and value that i would feel like the luckiest person on earth for a while. But it's definitely more than that.
I think it satisfies my hunter-gatherer instincts that are often not satisfied in this world.
I feel sure if my local supermarket hid the food instead of leaving it in convenient places on the shelves I would get great pleasure from hunting for it too! <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
Metal detecting allows me to get closer to my own nature.
Hunterscott
 
Here's a good post from over 10 years ago. This one from the Old Blue Nose his self.
 
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