maxxkatt
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Where else can you participate in real life treasure hunts?
Well there are other fun hobbies that might come close. Coin collecting, gold panning, hitting the coinstar machines, browsing thrift shops and estate sales for nice treasures, beach combing (detecting without a detector) and there are probably others I failed to mention.
But when it comes finding real treasures, detecting tops the list.
Remember the many stories and tales growing up about finding treasures? Of course you do. As a boy or a girl do you remember the joy of finding something good that was lost? I was always on the look out for found things.
Once I got my first bicycle, I rode around our small town of Perry, GA and check the returns of all the newspaper boxes and pay telephones. The pay telephones were the very best. Would often collect $1 to $2 in change on my route. Never told my friends about this source of coins. And get this; back then they were all silver cons. Should have saved them all.
We do our research or head to a well known to us ocean or lake beach to find recent drops. The heavy 14k men's wedding band may be our first hit or 25th or last or none for that hunt. You truly don't know what is below your coil when you get a signal. And this is what makes it so much fun.
I have heard researchers say the satisfaction section of your brain lights up about the same when gambling and winning as when you are metal detecting and find something really good. Some detectorists (Lance or Andy) even do the gold dance.
Most people I encounter when metal detecting seem to have a good opinion of the hobby. Many just pass and smile, a lot give the standard "Find anything good?" or something nice like that.
As an avid detectorists a fair amount of time thinking about detecting even when I am not detecting comes into play. Like when driving, "wow, that would be a good place to hunt, quick make a note!" or when doing some honey do chores, thinking "darn, I could be at that great relic site I found that is only 40 minutes away." Or even, shucks, I should have dug that iffy signal.
You find yourself planning your week around when you can hunt those sites you have found but not had time to detect.
And then there are the metal detecting forums. Yes lots of my friends and neighbors know I am a detectorist and they politely appear interested when I am talking about the finer points of my CTX3030. But in reality they don't have a clue to the fun I am having with my hobby. But the great people on these metal detecting forums get it and share my love for this hobby.
And there is the love affair you have or had with that one special detector. For me it is currently the CTX3030. My previous was a love/hate (at times) affair with my Nox 800.
My grandsons have a huge hotwheel and matchbox car collection thanks to my volleyball court hunts. They also get large donations of dirty quarters for their coin jars. They don't seem to mind at all that they are not shiney.
My wife has several nice rings she has appropriated for her own use. I have enjoyed some really great days hunting with my sons and finding Civil War relics.
My last swing of the day at a volleyball court. Is it a pull tab, junk ring, gold ring, gold ring with real diamond, silver quarter, broken zipper pull, 1996 Match box Corvette?
Regardless of what the tones and digital ID's are telling me, until I scoop it out of the sand, I really don't positively know what I have found.
Every signal is a mystery and I love mysteries.
Well there are other fun hobbies that might come close. Coin collecting, gold panning, hitting the coinstar machines, browsing thrift shops and estate sales for nice treasures, beach combing (detecting without a detector) and there are probably others I failed to mention.
But when it comes finding real treasures, detecting tops the list.
Remember the many stories and tales growing up about finding treasures? Of course you do. As a boy or a girl do you remember the joy of finding something good that was lost? I was always on the look out for found things.
Once I got my first bicycle, I rode around our small town of Perry, GA and check the returns of all the newspaper boxes and pay telephones. The pay telephones were the very best. Would often collect $1 to $2 in change on my route. Never told my friends about this source of coins. And get this; back then they were all silver cons. Should have saved them all.
We do our research or head to a well known to us ocean or lake beach to find recent drops. The heavy 14k men's wedding band may be our first hit or 25th or last or none for that hunt. You truly don't know what is below your coil when you get a signal. And this is what makes it so much fun.
I have heard researchers say the satisfaction section of your brain lights up about the same when gambling and winning as when you are metal detecting and find something really good. Some detectorists (Lance or Andy) even do the gold dance.
Most people I encounter when metal detecting seem to have a good opinion of the hobby. Many just pass and smile, a lot give the standard "Find anything good?" or something nice like that.
As an avid detectorists a fair amount of time thinking about detecting even when I am not detecting comes into play. Like when driving, "wow, that would be a good place to hunt, quick make a note!" or when doing some honey do chores, thinking "darn, I could be at that great relic site I found that is only 40 minutes away." Or even, shucks, I should have dug that iffy signal.
You find yourself planning your week around when you can hunt those sites you have found but not had time to detect.
And then there are the metal detecting forums. Yes lots of my friends and neighbors know I am a detectorist and they politely appear interested when I am talking about the finer points of my CTX3030. But in reality they don't have a clue to the fun I am having with my hobby. But the great people on these metal detecting forums get it and share my love for this hobby.
And there is the love affair you have or had with that one special detector. For me it is currently the CTX3030. My previous was a love/hate (at times) affair with my Nox 800.
My grandsons have a huge hotwheel and matchbox car collection thanks to my volleyball court hunts. They also get large donations of dirty quarters for their coin jars. They don't seem to mind at all that they are not shiney.
My wife has several nice rings she has appropriated for her own use. I have enjoyed some really great days hunting with my sons and finding Civil War relics.
My last swing of the day at a volleyball court. Is it a pull tab, junk ring, gold ring, gold ring with real diamond, silver quarter, broken zipper pull, 1996 Match box Corvette?
Regardless of what the tones and digital ID's are telling me, until I scoop it out of the sand, I really don't positively know what I have found.
Every signal is a mystery and I love mysteries.
