When you see someone in a park or on the beach with a metal detector, combing the ground backwards and forwards, what goes through your mind? Do you mutter to yourself, "There goes another metal detecting loser?".
Do you chuckle as you picture her in your mind's eye, digging out soda cans and pennies for hours at a time? Maybe you were with friends and everyone got a good laugh from it.
If that is a description of you, it is simply dependent on time before you get your first metal detector. Talk to almost any metal detecting hobbyist and they'll tell you that is how they started out. First they made fun of people, and then they started having questions.
How well do they work? Are they really sensitive? Just how far down will they have the ability to tell you there is metal in the ground? Maybe they are only finding change, but it can add up (find more on this forum). How much has this person found altogether? Has it paid itself off? What about jewelry? Did they discover any good jewelry? Where is there more stuff on the beach; in water or out of the water?
Knowing anyone who has a metal detector you really should ask her to show you how it operates. Go out exploring for some hours, one day. In all probability you'll be hooked from that time, forward. Do not ask your friend to loan her unit to you. Wars have been fought over much less than that.
The best places to go are anywhere groups of people walk, gather, or even, used to gather. Sites where county fairs are held are great (check out this Canadian directory for more resources). Parks and athletic fields, as well as beaches are prime spots. Camp sites can be fruitful, especially if they are boy scout or girl scout camps, since those get used so much.
Do you chuckle as you picture her in your mind's eye, digging out soda cans and pennies for hours at a time? Maybe you were with friends and everyone got a good laugh from it.
If that is a description of you, it is simply dependent on time before you get your first metal detector. Talk to almost any metal detecting hobbyist and they'll tell you that is how they started out. First they made fun of people, and then they started having questions.
How well do they work? Are they really sensitive? Just how far down will they have the ability to tell you there is metal in the ground? Maybe they are only finding change, but it can add up (find more on this forum). How much has this person found altogether? Has it paid itself off? What about jewelry? Did they discover any good jewelry? Where is there more stuff on the beach; in water or out of the water?
Knowing anyone who has a metal detector you really should ask her to show you how it operates. Go out exploring for some hours, one day. In all probability you'll be hooked from that time, forward. Do not ask your friend to loan her unit to you. Wars have been fought over much less than that.
The best places to go are anywhere groups of people walk, gather, or even, used to gather. Sites where county fairs are held are great (check out this Canadian directory for more resources). Parks and athletic fields, as well as beaches are prime spots. Camp sites can be fruitful, especially if they are boy scout or girl scout camps, since those get used so much.
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