My wife and I love this hobbie for the folks you meet and the stories that come along with it . It seems like alot of the times we talk to land owners and they take us back to their childhoods. Talking about they once had a detector but it wasn't very good, or they have always wanted to get one. This one day we was in a park and really wasn't finding much but clad. This little boy walked up to my wife and ask what we was doing. They had a long conversation about the dos and donts of the hobbie. After a while you could see that the boy was really catching on to the ctx and the sounds it was making. Well we found over a few bucks in changed that day and gave him all of it. I often wonder what he done with it but I'm sure it went on something good. That brings me to the true meaning of what detecting means to us. We love the mysteries we sometimes get into only to unravel it together and the good folks along our way
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Whats the true meaning of why you detect
- Thread starter chadwick
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Well iv ben Detecting 4R 25+ Years, I think its the thrill of Not knowing what your going too find??? The Enthusiasm of the Hunt,
The stories, The people you meet, Doing the research of things you found, Thinking of the next place you want too go Hunt,
Learning how too master the Detector your using, Wen your Hunting really focusing all your efforts and mind power to finding the next target and to set your Detector the Best to get that extra inch in doing so getting lost in your thoughts and not having a worry in the world,
Mickfin
The stories, The people you meet, Doing the research of things you found, Thinking of the next place you want too go Hunt,
Learning how too master the Detector your using, Wen your Hunting really focusing all your efforts and mind power to finding the next target and to set your Detector the Best to get that extra inch in doing so getting lost in your thoughts and not having a worry in the world,
Mickfin
SunrayBrabo
New member
The main reason for me personally why I detect is to find some nice old coins.
I search in the " low countries " mainly for coins from the 80 years war which was between the Spanish occupation and the low countries.
But there is a lot more to this hobby, like chadwick is saying, the contact with the land owners, the curiosity off people passing by, the questions off recovering a lost marriage ring and so on.
I personally am very interested in the stories older land owners can tell you about what has hap pend in that area, in the region where in live there was some heavy fighting during the Market garden operation.Not that I am a Relic hunter for war items, Not even but you even find them over here when you are not looking for them. For me it is more interesting to know what has happened in that region.
Kind Regards SunrayBrabo
I search in the " low countries " mainly for coins from the 80 years war which was between the Spanish occupation and the low countries.
But there is a lot more to this hobby, like chadwick is saying, the contact with the land owners, the curiosity off people passing by, the questions off recovering a lost marriage ring and so on.
I personally am very interested in the stories older land owners can tell you about what has hap pend in that area, in the region where in live there was some heavy fighting during the Market garden operation.Not that I am a Relic hunter for war items, Not even but you even find them over here when you are not looking for them. For me it is more interesting to know what has happened in that region.
Kind Regards SunrayBrabo
nolanation
New member
To find gold and platinum! Oh and silver too.
Last Sunday we attended a club site on a fairly large farm. We had only been there a short time when we met a couple of friends. As the day went on others appeared all engaging in good hearted chat about who had found what and where. We personally found nothing but apparently some one had a gold hammered coin. This is what detecting should be about, a good day out , hunting, and meeting like minded individual's. Not as does occur in the Uk where fields are looted at night for profit.
ironman200081
Active member
I am an addict. It's like playing the slots, you will eventually hit it big if you keep pulling (swinging).
I actually got in to the hobby because I am a coin collector, and wanted to add to my collection. Then, a year ago, I got really in to finding Civil War relics. i am to the point now where I'd rather dig a minie ball than a silver dime. I enjoy the history that comes up while researching sites, and the interaction with landowners when you get to share with them what you find. I have a good group of friends to detect with, and we have a good time at it.
I actually got in to the hobby because I am a coin collector, and wanted to add to my collection. Then, a year ago, I got really in to finding Civil War relics. i am to the point now where I'd rather dig a minie ball than a silver dime. I enjoy the history that comes up while researching sites, and the interaction with landowners when you get to share with them what you find. I have a good group of friends to detect with, and we have a good time at it.
For me, it takes me back to my childhood days, days of learning, discovering the world, and the Aha! Factor. The thrill of newness, finding a part of history that no one else has found, since it was lost, or buried. The romanticized aspect of fantasy, wondering who lost it, under what circumstances, why there?, Why then? Value to me, is secondary to that which I speak. It is also the ferreting out a "prize" that all of my competitors within the hobby missed, and the inflated sense of superiority which that instills, and the agony when your buddy comes behind you, and finds the better coin which you failed to double check for........
After my 39 years plus in the hobby, I still enjoy searching out those moments of reveal, when I find a piece of our history, a treasure placed by the hand of fate, destined for that moment and tmie, to be recovered and revered once more, seeing the light of the day for the first time since it became a buried treasure.....That to me, is why I detect.......It still instils the same mystical joy as it did way back when I found my first coin, that 1935 Bubbalo Nickel......
HH
Dennis, waxing poetic....
After my 39 years plus in the hobby, I still enjoy searching out those moments of reveal, when I find a piece of our history, a treasure placed by the hand of fate, destined for that moment and tmie, to be recovered and revered once more, seeing the light of the day for the first time since it became a buried treasure.....That to me, is why I detect.......It still instils the same mystical joy as it did way back when I found my first coin, that 1935 Bubbalo Nickel......
HH
Dennis, waxing poetic....
Its the thing itself. . .
The irony, in these days of perpetual electronic interconnectivity, is that grabbing a detector and slipping on the headphones is the best way for me to 'tune out.'
No cell phones, no email, no incoming texts, no TV. Just the low steady and reassuring threshold hum to concentrate upon.
As therapeutic as a canoe trip or a walk in the woods where there's no cell phone reception. Having to focus on ONE task only is quite restful, in spite of perceived need to constantly multitask.
Finding stuff is neat too!
The irony, in these days of perpetual electronic interconnectivity, is that grabbing a detector and slipping on the headphones is the best way for me to 'tune out.'
No cell phones, no email, no incoming texts, no TV. Just the low steady and reassuring threshold hum to concentrate upon.
As therapeutic as a canoe trip or a walk in the woods where there's no cell phone reception. Having to focus on ONE task only is quite restful, in spite of perceived need to constantly multitask.
Finding stuff is neat too!
nolanation
New member
bik-il said:
Agreed
I don't know...I've tried to condense it into this poem I've been working on...I've always wanted to get a detector and try this out, Life got in the way for a while, but in the last 3 years I've been enjoying what you all posted on this subject, meeting people, finding things, watching the sun come up, peaceful mind in neutral...lost in the thoughts. Seeing the World in a different light that hidden objects give us a glimpse into.
Mud
Mud
RandyNorthridgeca
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GKMan
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They came and took away my guns, so I figured I would go coin hunting instead.
J/K
I love being out in the woods.I have always enjoyed exploring. The thrill of the discovery, knowing that I am the only person alive to hold a coin that I just dug out of the ground.I also enjoy trying to read the terrain and figuring out where people had been in the past.
J/K
I love being out in the woods.I have always enjoyed exploring. The thrill of the discovery, knowing that I am the only person alive to hold a coin that I just dug out of the ground.I also enjoy trying to read the terrain and figuring out where people had been in the past.
Jim Robertson
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