GRAY GHOST
New member
hey everybody, let the naysayers have their idle and silly talk about how bad or boring our hobby is to them. they sound like a group of old cackling hens who won't get up long enough to lay an egg! it's just more for us anyway. i'm relieved to not have people like that in the field and representing our hobby. i read with interest the great and profound posts of echostar and dahut. the two combined really hit close to home for me. so, i felt compelled to answer in my own way. hopefully, you will too.
i must say that i've had a blast! man, i've had such a great time. i love detecting! i'm nearly thirty years into this great hobby, and have never seen a dull moment. i wouldn't know what one was. that next beep could be the big one...we've all had bad days, yes, good days, sometimes, and excellent days? almost never. but they do happen! my only concern about our hobby is where i'm going to next! the naysayers just don't know what theyr'e missing. but that's ok. it's more for us. cackle on, naysayers! haha! how ya like me now?
we have all touched hands with time and learnt forgotten secrets. the truth becomes more apparent with every swing, learning and knowing of how people of times gone past lived and lost their valuables. for example, the loss of a simple dime not so long ago was a great loss to a little boy who wanted to buy candy for all his friends, and who searched for it on his hands and knees for an hour in the front yard, without success. 70 years later, the lost dime is right where he left it - right next to his buried tootsietoy cars. that small and obscure and forgotten passage of time then becomes ours to discover. in a simple sweep of our machines, we became the knowers of days and times gone by. how cool is that? who else can say that?
it doesn't take long or much imagination to start forming an accurate picture of how others lived in the past when we're detecting. there's not a whole lot in life like the feeling you get pulling your first big silver or your first gold pocketwatch out of the ground. now, don't get me wrong, life is great! it really is all good! sure, our hobby has taken many hits lately, and i feel it too... mainly in the form of "no trespassing" signs. theyr'e everywhere! people's attitudes shift daily with the evening news, so please everybody, be responsible enough to cover your holes, don't blow yourself up, and not trespass on someone else's property without permission. try to be an ambassassador to our hobby. it's not that much to ask, or do.
yes, we've all held time itself in our very hands... and the mysteries of the ages as well. it's an open book of our own interpretations, too. it's enough to make the archaeologists scratch their heads and say, "now, how did they do that without a federal grant? and had fun doing it too? hmmm. guess i need another class." hh,
i must say that i've had a blast! man, i've had such a great time. i love detecting! i'm nearly thirty years into this great hobby, and have never seen a dull moment. i wouldn't know what one was. that next beep could be the big one...we've all had bad days, yes, good days, sometimes, and excellent days? almost never. but they do happen! my only concern about our hobby is where i'm going to next! the naysayers just don't know what theyr'e missing. but that's ok. it's more for us. cackle on, naysayers! haha! how ya like me now?
we have all touched hands with time and learnt forgotten secrets. the truth becomes more apparent with every swing, learning and knowing of how people of times gone past lived and lost their valuables. for example, the loss of a simple dime not so long ago was a great loss to a little boy who wanted to buy candy for all his friends, and who searched for it on his hands and knees for an hour in the front yard, without success. 70 years later, the lost dime is right where he left it - right next to his buried tootsietoy cars. that small and obscure and forgotten passage of time then becomes ours to discover. in a simple sweep of our machines, we became the knowers of days and times gone by. how cool is that? who else can say that?
it doesn't take long or much imagination to start forming an accurate picture of how others lived in the past when we're detecting. there's not a whole lot in life like the feeling you get pulling your first big silver or your first gold pocketwatch out of the ground. now, don't get me wrong, life is great! it really is all good! sure, our hobby has taken many hits lately, and i feel it too... mainly in the form of "no trespassing" signs. theyr'e everywhere! people's attitudes shift daily with the evening news, so please everybody, be responsible enough to cover your holes, don't blow yourself up, and not trespass on someone else's property without permission. try to be an ambassassador to our hobby. it's not that much to ask, or do.
yes, we've all held time itself in our very hands... and the mysteries of the ages as well. it's an open book of our own interpretations, too. it's enough to make the archaeologists scratch their heads and say, "now, how did they do that without a federal grant? and had fun doing it too? hmmm. guess i need another class." hh,
The naysayers will always view us as boring 
When I'm hunting an old cellar hole, I always imagine what it would have looked like in it's golden years. How smart the owners were in situating certain buildings, walkways, etc... And the shear amount of manual labor to design these beautiful structures was immense. I always try and "tune in" to the feelings at a particular site. Maybe that's why I have been fairly successful over the years. Sure others have more than I do, but I have been rewarded well from treasure hunting, in both materialism and spiritualism. No regrets!!! HH