Any Metal Detector participants in the OC?

I’ve been wanting to do this for years. I have two friends that do this, they do it like a weekend hunting trip.

I’ve gotten some suggest of the equipment needed but would like to see what others that do the Metal Dectector suggest.
My starting budget would be around $400.00.

Belly35;1661412 wrote:Any Metal Detector participants in the OC?

I’ve been wanting to do this for years. I have two friends that do this, they do it like a weekend hunting trip.

I’ve gotten some suggest of the equipment needed but would like to see what others that do the Metal Dectector suggest.
My starting budget would be around $400.00.

This officially puts you in the over the hill category.

thavoice;1661439 wrote:This officially puts you in the over the hill category.

That is true. After 40 plus years of working, dedication to my profession and family, giving up my hobbies, interest and wants for family and career I can now be more adventurous but on less physical level. I can do my Pistol Shooting and maybe get into Duck hunting and pop a few groundhogs sometimes, get back into golf (I suck at now), search for Big Foot (just an excuse to get out with old Army friends), take up sailing again or buy a motorcycle or a 1964 GTO … I’m one year from closing businesses and doing what I want just for the Hell of it…

Note: I’m in the best physical shape that I been in years. However over those years my body taken a beating and those physical hurts and pains are here to stay…

I have a whites and used it quite a bit the first few years I owned it. Found a few hundred coins and 10 or so rings. The coolest thing I found was a tin can with ten silver dollars in it. They were all in pretty rough shape but thought it was cool to find them.

mcburg93;1661483 wrote:I have a whites and used it quite a bit the first few years I owned it. Found a few hundred coins and 10 or so rings. The coolest thing I found was a tin can with ten silver dollars in it. They were all in pretty rough shape but thought it was cool to find them.

You cash any of it in? Where did you do most of your searching?

thavoice;1661439 wrote:This officially puts you in the over the hill category.

Not really. I can be fun. Probably getting one for my 11 year old son for Christmas. He'll love it.

Maybe if you are joining clubs and travelling to search, then maybe in that category.

ernest_t_bass;1661491 wrote:You cash any of it in? Where did you do most of your searching?

I have kept everything but one ring. It was the home owners that had lost it 6 or 7 years prior to me finding it. I look around older houses. I found the tin can with the dollar coins by an old abandon house. I have had my best luck around houses that are 100+ years old. I havent really been doing much hunting last few years but did enjoy it when I was doing it every weekend. I had the coins graded and put in protectors. The rings and such just put in a box. I figured I would eventually melt them down and put them in a gold bar. I might have a few hundred in gold from the rings. I am sure some of the rings had stones in them but had no luck finding the stones. Before I tuned it in properly I was digging a ton of nails and cans. Now I think most of the detectors come programmed so you would not have to worry about that part.