Our newest forum for all of you Bounty Hunter users. If you use one or are interested in getting one please feel free to post your questions here.http://www.findmall.com/list.php?60Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:42:07 -0600 Phorum 5.2-dev http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1094461,1094461#msg-1094461 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1094461,1094461#msg-1094461
the show will re air on 11-25-09 at 7:00 am. on the history Chanel , Chanel 269 on direct TV satellite
11-25-09 at 1:00pm. on the hist. Chanel]]> TABAGO Bounty Hunter ForumFri, 20 Nov 2009 12:05:00 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1093522,1093522#msg-1093522 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1093522,1093522#msg-1093522 Lloyd H Bounty Hunter ForumWed, 18 Nov 2009 23:39:25 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1093324,1093324#msg-1093324 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1093324,1093324#msg-1093324
ONE OF THE SIGNALS I HEARD TODAY WAS A 2 DOLLAR COIN OR THE TOONIE

WENT OVER THE SAME SPOT AGAIN AND HEARD A BEEP AGAIN

WOW ANOTHER TOONIE

JUST TO MAKE SURE SCANNED IT A THIRD TIME JUST IN CASE

I STARTED LAUGHING

THERE WAS ANOTHER TOONIE FOR A TOTAL OF 6 DOLLARS IN ONE HOLE

ALL TOGETHER GOT JUST OVER 20 DOLLARS TODAY

PLUS A RUSTY POCKET KNIFE AND A 10 DOLLAR LIGHTER

IT WOULDNT WORK AND I DONT SMOKE SO IT WENT IN THE TRASH

MUCH BETTER THAN YESTERDAY :canadaflag: WHEN I GOT 5 DOLLARS]]> af647 Bounty Hunter ForumWed, 18 Nov 2009 21:58:42 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1092383,1092383#msg-1092383 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1092383,1092383#msg-1092383 jrwill56 Bounty Hunter ForumTue, 17 Nov 2009 20:00:41 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1091607,1091607#msg-1091607 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1091607,1091607#msg-1091607 nugget Bounty Hunter ForumThu, 19 Nov 2009 05:52:56 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1091353,1091353#msg-1091353 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1091353,1091353#msg-1091353 Ed Steinhoff Bounty Hunter ForumTue, 17 Nov 2009 18:33:52 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1091334,1091334#msg-1091334 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1091334,1091334#msg-1091334Mark]]> hunter434 Bounty Hunter ForumMon, 16 Nov 2009 07:57:24 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1091303,1091303#msg-1091303 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1091303,1091303#msg-1091303 Jeff63 Bounty Hunter ForumMon, 16 Nov 2009 14:50:57 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1090810,1090810#msg-1090810 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1090810,1090810#msg-1090810
GOT A GRAND SUM OF JUST OVER 22 DOLLARS

PLUS I EYEBALLED A TOONIE FOR 24 DOLLARS

WARM AND NO WIND FOR A BONUS

BOUGHT A 1 DOLLAR LOTTERY TICKET

IT WON 1 DOLLAR SO BROKE EVEN

THIS HAPPENED OUT OF TOWN SO NOT MUCH PROFIT WITH GAS AND FOOD BUT FUN AND FRESH AIR]]> af647 Bounty Hunter ForumTue, 17 Nov 2009 08:28:29 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1090759,1090759#msg-1090759 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1090759,1090759#msg-1090759 reddirtfisher Bounty Hunter ForumMon, 16 Nov 2009 14:56:24 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1090266,1090266#msg-1090266 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1090266,1090266#msg-1090266 Jeff63 Bounty Hunter ForumSun, 15 Nov 2009 17:16:05 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1090047,1090047#msg-1090047 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1090047,1090047#msg-1090047 kinring Bounty Hunter ForumFri, 13 Nov 2009 21:05:42 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1089602,1089602#msg-1089602 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1089602,1089602#msg-1089602
THEN GOT A LOUD WIDE SIGNAL THAT SOUNDED LIKE A BIG CAN

DUG IT UP AND IT WAS $3.25 IN 1 HOLE

LATER GOT $3.75 IN 1 HOLE

TOTAL WAS $10.80]]> af647 Bounty Hunter ForumTue, 17 Nov 2009 08:44:53 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1089588,1089588#msg-1089588 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1089588,1089588#msg-1089588 handyman Bounty Hunter ForumThu, 19 Nov 2009 22:47:53 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1089400,1089400#msg-1089400 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1089400,1089400#msg-1089400

Full Metal Racket
The perverse thrill of metal detecting, the world's worst hobby.
By Emily Yoffe
Posted Monday, Aug. 18, 2003, at 10:42 AM ET
Listen to Emily Yoffe discuss this topic on NPR's Day to Day.

I brought my metal detector on our summer vacationwe drove from Washington, D.C., to Mainehoping to add fun and profit to our holiday. As I packed it in the trunk for the trip home, my normally considerate husband had this to say about my latest pastime: "Now that your metal detecting is overand believe me IT'S OVERwe will think of it as a hideous family episode, like something out of a Pat Conroy novel, that we must put behind us and never discuss again."

It's true that I had come to think of metal detecting as the world's worst hobbyfrustrating, solipsistic, potentially felonious. But I had to admit that each time I turned the power dial on my Bounty Hunter Tracker IV and swung it over new territory, I understood how Bill Bennett must have felt before pulling that $500 slot: This time, baby, I'm going to hit the big score.

I started metal detecting for the latest episode of Human Guinea Pig, the column in which I do things people are curious about but wish someone else would do for them. But metal detecting was something our family actually did want to do, even without Slate's encouragement. It was my daughter's idea, actually. She requested a metal detector for her 7th birthdayshe had seen a TV commercial that promised diamond rings and other amazing treasure. My husband and I thought it was an original choice, and even somethingbesides sleeping latethat we could all enjoy. After all, what could be more universal than the desire to find and keep a valuable object that doesn't belong to you?


After being completely confused by the detectors offered on the Web, my husband called one of the retailers. He explained that we wanted a detector that would be easy for a 7-year-old to use, but that would be suitable for finding Civil War artifacts, since we live close to some known encampments.

The salesman found this hilarious. "Believe me, you're not going to find any Civil War artifacts. I've been doing this for three years and I've never found anything valuable." (Presumably, after this conversation our salesman enlisted and is now in Iraq leading the search for weapons of mass destruction.) The salesman also said not to worry about getting a metal detector that would be easy for our daughter. "She might go with you once, then she'll get completely bored and not want to do it again." Instead of taking this advice, my husband insisted on purchasing one, so the salesman recommended the $130 Tracker IV. Then, perhaps remembering what line of work he was in, he said, "You'll have fun," which turned out to be the equivalent of saying "bon voyage" to the passengers boarding the Titanic.

You've seen metal detectors in action. They are the long poles with the dinner-plate-sized coil on the bottom held by men with Bermuda shorts and atrophied calves who are scanning the beach looking for jewelry and coins. There are millions of metal detectors out there. Debra Barton of First Texas Products, manufacturer of my Tracker IV, estimates the handful of domestic producers sell a half-million a year. Rosemary Anderson, editor of Western & Eastern Treasures, a magazine for devotees, says the hobby really took off in the '60s when the machines became lighter and easier to use.

Anderson pointed out that people who do it call it a "sport." The industry loves to tout the exercise benefits of metal detecting. But metal detecting would most likely constitute a real workout only for those recently released from solitary confinement. I also learned from Western & Eastern Treasures that people who metal detect are called "metal detectorists." It was gratifying we had our own "ist" like numismatists, philatelists, or contortionists.

The modern history of metal detecting is ignominious. Alexander Graham Bell used an experimental model in 1881 in order to locate the assassin's bullet lodged in President James Garfield. Unfortunately, no one remembered that Garfield was lying on a mattress with newfangled metal coils, causing the machine to emit a continuous whine, resulting in failure to accurately locate the bullet. Garfield's heart gave out when doctors cut into him. (Read more about that here.)

The beep of the metal detector, like the car alarm, the busy signal, and the colicky baby, belongs in the catalog of irritating sounds. The booklet that came with my Tracker IV instructed me to study the different tones emitted by the machine so I would know the kind of metal being indicated. But I could never keep straight whether the chirp that resembled a dying sparrow meant iron or the drone like that of a truck backing up meant copper.

It was time to find Civil War artifacts. The three of us trooped off to a wooded area behind a public school near where I knew Union soldiers had camped. A man who lived a few houses down told me that a workman once asked if he could metal detect on that property and had found belt buckles and eating utensils. The woods were muddy and swarming with mosquitoes. I turned on my Tracker IV and it started emitting chirps and beepsit sounded like I had discovered a satellite outpost of Fort Knox. But every time I dug I turned up a hole filled with rocks and worms and roots. Occasionally there would be the pop-top of a beer can. As the salesman predicted, within minutes my daughter was begging to be allowed to go to the playground. She and my husband abandoned me to my attempts to contract West Nile virus.

After this episode I realized I needed help. I turned to my neighbor, Philip Dobak, a retired physicist and known metal detectorist. He told me one of his latest neighborhood finds was a 2,000-year-old Hebrew coin. I had a sinking feeling that I was now going to have to tell his lovely wife that Phil needed a neurological exam, when he ran across the street and returned with the coin. I was relieved to see it was hanging from a chain and mounted in the center of a silver Star of David. I asked to look at the rest of his treasures and he brought out a 4-inch-square box spilling over with a decade's worth of found objects.

It had the talismanic power of a shaman's chest. There was an 1879 U.S. silver dollar, British pennies from 1928 and 1938, a Chinese toy soldier circa 1940, a 1931 coin commemorating the 100th anniversary of the McCormick reaper, a class ring, a gold watch, a silver heart-shaped locket shot repeatedly with a BB gun, a wedding ring (I wondered if these last two were a set). The box filled me with a desire to release such lost things from their unwitting graves.

Phil said his favorite place to detect was the grassy strip that runs along the street side of many D.C. sidewalks. He called them a "renewable resource" constantly being refilled with dropped items. We went to such a strip next to a nearby park. Phil adjusted the arm length on my Tracker IV, resulting in the immediate relief of what was becoming a debilitating case of metal detectorist elbow. When the detector beeped Phil took out his knife, peeled back a divot (which he later carefully replaced), and revealed a piece of metal. In a half-hour we found a bottle cap, a piece of fence, a fist-sized mass of iron, and 53 cents. As we dug up our last quarter a woman opened her front door and held the collar of a straining dog.

"Are you from the city?" she called out.

"No, ma'am," answered Phil.

"Then I hope you're not digging up my yard."

"No, ma'am."

The confrontation exposed the underbelly of metal detecting: You have to do it either on public or private property, and neither the government nor the property owner necessarily wants you digging around like a colony of monkey-pox-infected prairie dogs.

Despite my newfound expertise, without Phil my further forays were a bust. A trip to a friend's yard where my daughter had dropped a ring the year before resulted only in the discovery of the sewer pipe. An attempt to find my editor's wife's lost engagement ring at a playground turned up one rusted nail. By this time my daughter was not only bored with metal detecting, she was appalled. On the way to the car from the playground I tried detecting on the grassy sidewalk strip.

"Stop it, Mom, someone might see you," my daughter said.

"But you're the one who wanted a metal detector," I said.

"I know, but I don't like it. Please stop. This is your last beep, Mom. I don't care if it's the world's best beep, just stop."

But I couldn't stop. I had to find just one good thing. I told my family I was going to metal detect on our way up the East Coast. My husband greeted this with the same enthusiasm Sony Pictures would bring to distributing Gigli: Part II. Our first stop was Manhattan, where my brother-in-law and 13-year-old nephew were eager to become detectorists. My brother-in-law recommended searching in Riverside Park, and the five of us set off. He also suggested I limp a little, making the metal detector look like a crutch. When we got to the park my husband took my daughter's hand and started putting disavowal distance between us. "Someone has to be able to bail all of you out," he called over his shoulder. As soon as I began swinging my Tracker IV a beefy man in a green park police T-shirt materialized. I turned it off and limped away. It went that way for an hour. I found one bottle top.

On to Maine. When we got to our bed and breakfast on Westport Island, I immediately saw that the living room sideboard was tauntingly laid with colonial era hand-forged four-sided nails that clearly had been dug up on the property. There was stuff here! The next day we went for a hike with the metal detector. But on every sixth tree was a "No Trespassing or Else" sign, and I began to fear we might find ourselves in some Down East version of Deliverance if I started detecting. I did do some in the sand of a little cove and found a nailnot hand-forged and not four-sided.

My husband begged me to give it up. When I refused he said, "Maybe you need to put yourself in the hands of a higher power."

"Yes, the Bounty Hunter Sharp Shooter II," I replied.

We arrived at my last hope, the home on Deer Isle of my sister-in-law and her husband. Their house had been built by a ship captain in the 1880s. They could see our family was in extremis and agreed to let me start detecting immediately. I walked across the yard, and at the point where field turned into woods I got a strong beep. I dug and found a large, semicircular handle for a kettle. It looked old and the turned-up corners of the handle were four-sided. Eureka! Of course, now I couldn't be stopped. I plunged into the woods, which had obviously been a longtime dump. Broken glass and trash were everywhere. There were piles of metalbed springs, a bicycle wheel, car parts. So much metal that my detector was uselessit was like turning on a silicone detector at the Miss Universe Pageant. My brother-in-law, taking pity on me, got a big shovel and starting digging. We turned up wonderful old bottles and some pieces of china that the captain had probably picked up in China. I was satisfied. I agreed my metal detecting was over.

When I told my daughter, she was ecstatic. Then she said she had a message for other children who might have seen the commercial that seduced her into asking for the metal detector in the first place. "Kids, your birthday only comes once a year. Don't waste it on a metal detector."

In Human Guinea Pig, I take strange jobs, sample peculiar therapies, pick up odd hobbies, and generally try the activities that my colleagues have always wondered about but don't have the guts to do themselves.]]> crabby Bounty Hunter ForumTue, 17 Nov 2009 08:39:50 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1089320,1089320#msg-1089320 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1089320,1089320#msg-1089320
I was hoping someone could give me some tips on (NH or not) where they seem to find items. I'm mostly interested in coins and the NH seacoast seems to have a nice history dating way back into the 1600's, but most everything is built up so you can't get to any of it.

Thanks]]> jleblancjr Bounty Hunter ForumThu, 12 Nov 2009 15:14:08 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1089317,1089317#msg-1089317 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1089317,1089317#msg-1089317
I think the ring came off in a horse accident so am searching through sand, small rock, and debris and keeping the disk low to the ground.

Any advise?

Thanks,
Jane]]> schreiber Bounty Hunter ForumThu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:29 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1089213,1089213#msg-1089213 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1089213,1089213#msg-1089213
Jeff]]> JWNagy Bounty Hunter ForumFri, 13 Nov 2009 09:53:27 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1089019,1089019#msg-1089019 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1089019,1089019#msg-1089019
Check out the pictures at this link:
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=38699]]> milco Bounty Hunter ForumThu, 12 Nov 2009 09:27:54 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1088090,1088090#msg-1088090 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1088090,1088090#msg-1088090
GOT $6.35 CLAD

1919 CANADIAN BIG PENNY

1915 CANADIAN BIG PENNY

1938 PENNY

1942 PENNY

THESE COPPERS WERE IN ROUGH SHAPE AND MORE THAN A FEW INCHES DOWN

ALSO A WHEATIE HAVENT MADE OUT THE DATE YET:shocked:]]> af647 Bounty Hunter ForumWed, 11 Nov 2009 15:51:16 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1087690,1087690#msg-1087690 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1087690,1087690#msg-1087690 abcoin Bounty Hunter ForumFri, 13 Nov 2009 09:24:08 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1087066,1087066#msg-1087066 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1087066,1087066#msg-1087066Got out to my old faithful Wood's field, and found $1.06 in clad with the oldest coin being a 1946 nickle in fairly worn shape...Darn fertilizers!!!

All found with the BH Land Star (Sens 2 o'clock, DISC 8 o'clock, Auto-Notch mode/DISC to confirm/All-Metal to pinpoint)

HH,
]]> GoGoGopher Bounty Hunter ForumFri, 13 Nov 2009 12:58:13 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1086229,1086229#msg-1086229 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1086229,1086229#msg-1086229
SURPRISED TO FIND MY 10 INCH -COIL WORKING AFTER MAKING HUMMING NOISES FOR 2 WEEKS

WENT TO A WORKED OUT SPOT

DETECTED A STERLING SILVER RING THAT WEIGHS 11.1 GRAMS

PLUS $24.50 CASH NO COMPLAINTS AND MAY DETECT BREIFLY TOMORROW

ANYONE GOT A BOUNTY HUNTER 10 INCH COIL I COULD TEST FOR 1 MINUTE WITHIN 50 MILES OF HAMILTON ONTARIO?]]> af647 Bounty Hunter ForumSun, 08 Nov 2009 19:40:00 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1085289,1085289#msg-1085289 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1085289,1085289#msg-1085289 parkerram Bounty Hunter ForumSun, 08 Nov 2009 21:58:22 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1084679,1084679#msg-1084679 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1084679,1084679#msg-1084679http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland/6501759/Treasure-hunter-found-1m-haul-on-first-outing.html]]> mwaynebennett Bounty Hunter ForumFri, 06 Nov 2009 00:05:52 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1083605,1083605#msg-1083605 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1083605,1083605#msg-1083605 digging nm Bounty Hunter ForumTue, 17 Nov 2009 08:59:11 -0600 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1082325,1082325#msg-1082325 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1082325,1082325#msg-1082325 digging nm Bounty Hunter ForumSat, 31 Oct 2009 21:30:05 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1081764,1081764#msg-1081764 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1081764,1081764#msg-1081764article from ring found in where to go when it rains post

was surprised to see it on the web today...

brian]]> last12know Bounty Hunter ForumSat, 31 Oct 2009 00:02:18 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1081700,1081700#msg-1081700 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1081700,1081700#msg-1081700 parkerram Bounty Hunter ForumFri, 30 Oct 2009 18:49:30 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1081373,1081373#msg-1081373 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?60,1081373,1081373#msg-1081373 garthbfan Bounty Hunter ForumSat, 31 Oct 2009 22:40:37 -0500