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How many remember the very first detector you started the hobby with and how long ago ??

Bounty Hunter Land Star……..
 
Gold Mountain Eagle. Bought it mail order from Lucy Bowen at Bowens Hideout in Spokane. She used to write a column for Western & Eastern back in the 1970s.
 
1972 D Tex BFO.
 
My brother got a bounty hunter of some kind in 1982 ......then we found a dtex that a coin store was selling. ......I don't know what model it was but it had a needle and several knobs set up wrist breaker style
 
Mark ( ohio ) said:
I personally started with a whites black box 4900 d that my wife bought me for christmas back in 1993 then moved to a whites silver eagle.... then probably 25 more models after that..

Mark ( ohio )
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We started with a Nautilus. Then went with a rented Fisher for a while. First actual purchase was the Nautilus LF. I purchased a White's Eagle 2 SL soon after so my brother could use the Nautilus. I still have the 2b bought back in the 90's and still use it from time to time. My current detector is the Deus 2.
 
Garrett GTA 500 in 1991. Followed by Fisher 1280x , then Tesoro Stingray…….The game changer for me was the Minelab Excalibur. Wow!…. Night & day technology & totally open the doors on finds for me.
 
Joe Black said:
Garrett GTA 500 in 1991. Followed by Fisher 1280x , then Tesoro Stingray…….The game changer for me was the Minelab Excalibur. Wow!…. Night & day technology & totally open the doors on finds for me.
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Ya , deciding on a waterproof unit back then, There was two choices, the fisher cz-20 and the excal. My dealer said both are great units, but if I was on the west coast the excal would be the way to go. Since I'm back towards the east I chose the cz20... But that stingray and stingray II are great fresh water units. Just set the disc a tick above a bobby-pin and You will clean up in the lake.
Mark ( ohio )
 
1990 and a Garrett Master Hunter 5. I still have it, and it still works :) it gets closet duty now, I will let the CTX-3030, GPX-5000, Excalibur 2, or Deus 2 do the heavy lifting now, The Master Hunter paid its dues long ago.
 
Shadow X2. 22 years ago. Im a relative newbie. Great machine, paid for itself by week 3 with my first gold ring.
Been hooked ever since. Still own it and and still works well. May never sell it. Too many great memories... 2 diamond tennis bracelets !!!!

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Donna(NJ)
 
I have only been in the hobby for about 15 years and my first detector was the XTerra 50.
Since I am relatively new to the hobby, it would be interesting to see some of these older models mentioned…maybe others will post some pictures of them if they still have them…
 
Mark ( ohio ) said:
I personally started with a whites black box 4900 d that my wife bought me for christmas back in 1993 then moved to a whites silver eagle.... then probably 25 more models after that..

Mark ( ohio )
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A BFO CALLED ALTEK 3. made by altek instruments - it found lots. today it would find nothing on the hammered out land we search.
 
My first metal detector was a Whites Coinmaster I bought from a garage sale in 1972. I found enough to pay for it in change the first day I had it and a gold ring. I was Hooked...
 
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