metaladdict
Elite Member
First hunt with Ace 250, and found a Merc! I was on cloud 9
My first hunt was in 1966 in Vietnam. Two men from Whites factory in Sweet Home Oregon came and gave us a class in Whites Mine detectors. Didn't find what you could call treasures but I've been using Whites detectors ever since.
followed a Jr. High school chum around, as he hunted school yards with his Compass 77b, in about 1975 or '76. Was immediately fascinated at the concept. So I went out and found a used Whites 66TR for $100 . Took it out to my front yard, and found a memorial penny ! Wooohooo.
My first hunt was in 1966 in Vietnam. Two men from Whites factory in Sweet Home Oregon came and gave us a class in Whites Mine detectors. Didn't find what you could call treasures but I've been using Whites detectors ever since.
hard way to learn metal detecting. I was in Korea that year. Boy were we glad we were not in Vietnam. Not many enlisted men wanted to go to Vietnam for obvious reasons. But a lot of (not all) officers did to get their ticket punched for future promotional purposes.
If anyone is really interested in the problems the US Army had in Vietnam (other than we probably should not have been fighting a war on China's border area) read the book "About Face" by Col. David Hackworth. It is an eye opener. I finished it recently. 800 pages. I was in the Army for 3 years, but had no idea what when on with our Army Officers in their quest for promotions.
Most of my enlisted buddies, were just waiting to do our 2 or 3 years and get out.
....I was in Korea that year. Boy were we glad we were not in Vietnam.....
Saw it many times, officers ....
Saw it many times, officers coming in and out just to get combat listed on their DD214. We had the war won in early 1967, we captured a man that would have stopped the war, but he was back in the north with in two days. Still Can't talk about the rumor fifty some years later.
My first hunt was in 1966 in Vietnam. Two men from Whites factory in Sweet Home Oregon came and gave us a class in Whites Mine detectors. Didn't find what you could call treasures but I've been using Whites detectors ever since.