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steve in so la

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On the Depot forum they have a post about how many detectors have you owned. I am amazed at the numbers - 15 in 4 years, 12 in 5 years, etc. I have had 5-6 in my 26 years detecting. How about you all ? Steve in so az
 
have owned 3 water detectors a 3 land detectors. 6 total in about 8 years. Now only 3. One for deep coins and relics, one for water, and one for competition hunts.
 
I have used two more but they weren't mine.

US Army mine detector
Radio Shack P-box kit
Whites 5900 DI Pro
Compass Judge II
Fisher CZ-70 Pro
Headhunter Diver

Dave
 
a Whites sold to my former mother-in-law, a Whites 6DB, a 1983 Whites 6000 DI Series 3, and a 1994 White's Spectrum XLT...these I still have but use the Spectrum the most as it is very light and is computerized!

God Bless & HH!
Betty
 
Started with a whites classic II. This was bought knowing nothing about detecting. After a little more then a year I joined the local detecting club where I started learning more about detecting and detectors. At this point I knew I found a hobby for life. I then bough a Garrett 2500. About this time I also started doing water detecting. Not wanting to drop my Garrett in the water I bought a water detector. A whites beach hunter ID. A few years went by and I was detecting with a fellow club member. We were searching at a house. I started going along the driveway. I made two passes ( 10 feet or so? ) and the other guy went right where I had been and got a silver Washington. At 1st I thought, OK I missed that one. A few minutes He called me over still in the area I had searched. He said, listen to this signal and marked it. As I stood next to him and went over and over it in all different angles I could only hear a beep about every 6 or 8 time sweeps. The other times there was not beep. He took off his headphones and went over the signal. Wait a minute, his beeps every time at all different angles. Now it wasn
 
Started with a whites classic II. This was bought knowing nothing about detecting. After a little more then a year I joined the local detecting club where I started learning more about detecting and detectors. At this point I knew I found a hobby for life. I then bough a Garrett 2500. About this time I also started doing water detecting. Not wanting to drop my Garrett in the water I bought a water detector. A whites beach hunter ID. A few years went by and I was detecting with a fellow club member. We were searching at a house. I started going along the driveway. I made two passes ( 10 feet or so? ) and the other guy went right where I had been and got a silver Washington. At 1st I thought, OK I missed that one. A few minutes He called me over still in the area I had searched. He said, listen to this signal and marked it. As I stood next to him and went over and over it in all different angles I could only hear a beep about every 6 or 8 time sweeps. The other times there was not beep. He took off his headphones and went over the signal. Wait a minute, his beeps every time at all different angles. Now it wasn
 
I ,also, was out one time with a friend & he said listen to this signal. I got no sound and he did. He proceeded to dig up a wheaty. I then knew I needed an upgrade. Got my Fisher and greatly inmproved. Glad you had a positive experience also, steve
 
Hmm... let's see if can recall 'em all...
1974 (Spring): first detector was a Heathkit, which I built myself - the salesman said it would find a dime a foot deep in GA red clay ...NOT!
1974 (Summer): Saw John Sexton's newspaper-classified ad for a better detector - and thus discovered the North GA Relic Hunters club - and a White's Coinmaster V.
1976 (?): Introduction of the Fisher 441 - which was better on brass than the White's Coinmaster V.
1978: a Nautilus DMC "five knob" -(I'd moved to VA to dig relics in '7:geek:.
1980 (?): a newly-introduced improvement, the six-knob Nautilus (a.k.a. the "DMC-1").
1982 (?): Bought a Tesoro to hunt coins in Fredericksburg yards.
1988: a Fisher PI for underwater detecting.
1989: a TekNetics underwater.
2005: a Minelab Explorer (version 1) - which I still haven't learned to use very well.

So, that makes 7 in my first 15 years, then only one in my next 17. I guess I'm too happy with my old 1980 Nautilus DMC-1 relic-detector.

Regards,
TheCannonballGuy [Pete George]
 
Vicky got me a Bounty Hunter Quickdraw II in '04 for my birthday. I quickly realized that it wouldn't work on the beach in wet sand. So, 30 days later I bought a CZ-20. Last April, I got the Exp II. I think this is going to be it for a while unless of course I find a winning lotto ticket :)
 
Still have five. Surf PI, Surf PI Pro, Whites MXT and DFX, HH Diver.
If I had to sell any the HH Diver would go first, then the DFX.
 
I have owned 5,I think.....BY THE WAY,ARE YOU THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS SNOW WE GOT IN MICHIGAN???.....IM KEEPIN MY EYE ON YOU,LET ME TELL YA..........:rofl::buds::cool::clap::fisher::whites::usaflag::nopity:
 
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