Fisher "F" Series Forum

I like the rain but it kinda makes my forays out a little messy, which in turn wakes up the little woman, which in turn makes me not want to get out in the wet, which in turn makes me look at other metal detectors, which in turn make me want to buy one, which in turn makes me sell one, which in turn makes me wish I'd kept what I had, which in turn makes me sell what I just bought to buy what I just had, which in turn makes me fell like I'm nuts.



HH
Mike

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Fisher F5 - Whites DFX / Bigfoot combo - Minelab Explorer SE Pro - ETPro - Tesoro Compadre

I understood all of that, perfectly.
I guess you are not the only one that is...

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Vaquero, F2, Compadre, Compass Judge 2 and 2 Propointers in case I lose one!
2013 totals...$123.45...4 gold rings, 1 gold chain and 5 pieces of silver!

Well, I drove 25 minutes to a site this morning myself knowing with showers all around it was going to be an iffy chance to hunt. Got in 20 minutes before the skies opened up. Fortunately, I do have an understanding "little women" with regards to my time spent hunting, but I also know I tread a fine line. I also think most of us in this hobby are a little "nuts" in some fashion. Well the rain has stopped here. I wonder how fine my fine line is right now. Good luck, Mike, with your thinking. HH jim tn

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LOL,Mike, you are so right,tho I dont swap many detectors as some of you. Got a hankering for a F75LTD right now. Never had a Fisher unit. Yeah, wifes just dont understand.
No, youre not nuts. Just trying to figure out a machine to fit your needs,I guess. Thats me anyway. Or curious about other machines.
Have you ever bought a machine that you owned before, didnt like it then, or it didnt work out for you and then say, why in the world did I do that,lol.
Rainy days and reading forums, yep, know what you mean.
Im glad we got forums to read for these type days.
HH,
John

Mike: Been there, done that, still doing it, maybe we are just compulsive and love the machines, hard to explain to the girls.

Yeah...its some sort of reptilian part of your brain that has not been civilized yet...gotta go huntin and explorin, checking out structure, and rooting around in the dirt...
Mud

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Detecting is the study of Humans interaction with topography, the untrustworthyness of pockets, and metals desire to return to the earth from whence it came.

Been there done that so join the many others that do the same. Never had it put that way but to a doer makes sense..

Also read behind every good man is a good woman so mix that in the equasion and go out and do your thing..

You put it perfectly Mike. I have been through that process MANY times. Each time I do it, I regret it and say I won't do it again...but then the next new detector comes out of course...and the cycle continues...

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XP Deus / Large Coil / Garrett Pro Pointer
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Man, that was so funny. I laughed until I broke a sweat.

Hi John,

More times than I really want to admit. When the Minelab Xterra 70 first came out I bought a new one. Used it for a while, bought a couple of extra coils but couldn't get to work for me. Really disappointed in it and disliked it. So I sold it. Then after a few months I read all a bunch of good reviews and thought maybe I was missing something or something had changed. You never know So I bought another new one. No difference, it was the same as the last one. So I sold it. A year later, some more glowing reviews came out. I'm sitting here thinking that maybe I could get it to work for me. So I bought another one. Nope, no change. I'm either dense or gullible or hopeful. I still to this day read new, glowing reviews about the Xterra 70, from people I respect , but I know now that in my dirt, for my applications, they don't apply and I don't need to buy a forth one to tell me so. But it was an expensive lesson and I sold machines that I did like to fund those purchases.

Here's another one. Tesoro Cortes. Bought one and used it exclusively for 6 months back before I discovered that tone id was my most loved detector feature. Found good stuff with it but always had a headache after hunting with it and I had to really be selective as to what dirt I used it in. Got to where I didn't really want to hunt it. But I sure liked looking at it. Loved the way it looks. Still do. All those dials and switches and the display contents. I'd stand one behind the bedroom door and just admire it when ever I walked by. But once I got a good tone id unit I never hunted it again. Sometimes, on rainy days, I'd run across a picture of a Cortes and I'd go back and pull up the manual and the field tests and read them again and get the Cortes itch. I'd buy one, hate using it, stand it in the corner and admire it until I sold it. Did that four times in four years. Now when I get the Cortes itch I just put the picture up as a screen saver.

Don't ask me how many CoinStrikes, GoldStrikes and CZ units I've had and sold and re-bought again, and those are units I like!

Hi, my name is Mike and I have a metal detector addiction

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Fisher F5 - Whites DFX / Bigfoot combo - Minelab Explorer SE Pro - ETPro - Tesoro Compadre



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/19/2012 01:03PM by Mike Hillis.