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Confession is good for the soul.

John 'n' W.Va

John 'n' W.Va

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I heard that when you confess that you have a problem that is half way to being cured. I have got thinking about the obsession I have with metal detecting. When I am driving the car, I am always on the look out for new places to detect. Sometimes I will drive a different route just to find some new places to detect. When my wife asks me what I want for my birthday, It has to be something to do with detecting. I can't go one day without reading this forum and an on line treasure magazine. I check on line to see if there are any new detector on the market. I reread all the field tests. I bring up the manuals for the different detectors and read them. I would rather open up my book of coins than read a book. Even when I am watching TV. I am noticing places that I would like to detect. It's bad. A pretty girl was standing in front of a swimming hole on a commercial and all I noticed was "Wow that would be a great place to detect!" I work construction. When the weather is too bad to work and they send us home, I think it great and go detecting. I would rather go detecting by myself than go for a trip with family and friends to the mountains for a day. I day dream about metal detecting. I dreaming my life away.

What a waste of time. I have isolated myself from my friends. I dig trash most of the time and what do I have to show for it? Where is it taking me?

Well that really didn't make me feel any better. In fact talking about detecting makes me want to go out and detect some before it gets too dark. So it 33 deg. F. and snowing. I have better things to do than write this stupid letter." HAPPY TECTEN " I'm out of here!!!
 
:You could be dreaming and thinking of worst things that could get you in trouble !!! :crazy::laugh:
 
Your not alone John. My wife says I'm addicted. Work really keeps me busy so when I get a chance to hunt - I hunt all day.
Last week I hunted for jewelry in a ball field. It was cold and misty. My nose was running from a bad cold I still have. I dug 235 targets in 7 strait hours of swinging. Only to bring home 176 pieces of trash. 59 coins. One was a 1959 dime and a P nickel though! Zero jewelry! I guess I'll just do it again......
 
I do most of the same things on a daily basis that you do. I also look for new places to hunt all the time. I carry a map of the Kansas City area in my truck, just in case I have a few extra minutes in an area. I can just look for a park in that area. I could hunt all day when I get a chance. Can't wait for daylight savings time. Sometimes I get discouraged at locations, but I look for the next area and hope it will be better. Haven't really found anything of any great value, but I might. I guess it is the possibilities that make this a good hobby. You just never know.


bill
 
My wife gets her pick of the gold rings I find. My mother-in-law just can't believe all the stuff I find and likes me to bring it and show her-she even called me over one day to find a key she had lost. But I know exactly what you mean. My best friend for life introduced me to this great hobby over 35 years ago and he kept shaking his head that someone could actually hunt 8 hrs. a day with only a few breaks. My total detector count has been lost, but it's close to 100 detectors-some traded-some bought- D-Tex, Garrett, AH Pro, BH, White's, Wilson-Newman, Compass, Radio Shack, Fisher, and some names I can't even remember. I mastered the "skips and hesitations" on the bfo's, reverse discrimination on the vlf-tr's, size discrimination on straight vlf's like the Garrett groundhog, mode comparison discrimination discovered by Ken Whitener of Oklahoma, and lately listening to the "clipped signals" on the Tesoros and the "wide"vs. "pointed" signals on the Ace. The rest would take a page. I would have completely trusted in all this had it not been for one elderly gentleman who honestly believed he knew everything his detector was telling him. One day he showed me a diamond ring he found, then made the statement that changed all my thinking-"It sounded like a pulltab, but something just told me to dig it anyway." I have found that if you share with your family and incorporate something they like to do with your hobby you can have the best of both worlds-for instance, on our days off, I take her to her favorite shopping place in a town that is LOADED with schools and coins she will let me use the time (2-4 hrs.) to do my thing while she does hers. Then, we go for lunch afterwards and she gets to ask that famous question "did you find me another ring?":rofl:
 
my wife agrees with me i"m addicted to, the first question she asked today when i got home from work today was were are you going detecting today :laugh:.
WOW 100 detectors that's amazing where do ya put em all i thought i was bad with 5.
 
Haha. Ditto on that detector thingy....
 
Guilty on all charges.:detecting: There are often times that I wish that I still lived in Sydney. It's those times that I've only got one thing on my mind.:smoke: If it wasn't for me getting heat effected on Jan 1, I would have hunted for a couple of more hours. I'd literally hunted 11 hours strait without so much as a meal break. No breakfast, no lunch and at 5pm I still wasn't hungry. The only time I stopped swinging, was to either walk to the next park, or a nature break.
I'm fortunate in that I can get bored of it at times.:thumbup: but yesterday I turned down a trip to the movies to watch a kids show with the family to hunt. It was a top hunt as well, due mostly to the scenery. Very spectacular.
I also seem to suffer from an acute case of equipmentitus. Last week I very nearly bought another detector, but fortunately I was rescued from myself by a certain forum member.:lol: Talking to fellow club members the next night confirmed the wisdom of not buying a certain detector due to reliability issues. I've still got a buying itch (AKA X-Terra 70) but so far am resisting the temptation not to scratch. After all, I won't my finds to catch up with my buys.
Garrett's have got a lot to answer for! THEY MADE A PIN POINTER WITH A TORCH ON IT! What were they THINKING!!!!!!!!!! They put a back light on their detectors as well! Don't they know that we have to go home at some POINT and that the sun disappearing was a good hint!:rofl::rofl:
Mick Evans.
 
lazyaussie said:
my wife agrees with me i"m addicted to, the first question she asked today when i got home from work today was were are you going detecting today :laugh:.
WOW 100 detectors that's amazing where do ya put em all i thought i was bad with 5.
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They've been swapped off or sold and I'm down to only 7 of which 4 are "serious" detectors. I have a GTA 300 in the shed that I tried to repair, only to have the module fall out of the detector while I was doing so and rip a couple of printed circuit parts off the board-ouch! on the pocketbook.
 
The most machines I've had at one time is 4. I made the mistake of having them all together about 6 months ago. I usually had two of them downstairs even though I used them regularly. I had them all together doing some air tests. Although my wife doesn't really care that I detect said " Why does anyone need 4 detectors?" I then knew I made the mistake of not separating the machines after my tests. I soon sold one of them.
 
Hi my name is ConfCav and I'm a Metal Detecting Addict.

Support Group in unison: "Hi ConfCav". LOL.

Unfortunately I try to hunt only CW relics, so don't have the "Jewelry agreement" with my wife; she's just learned to accept it. The few pieces of jewelry I've found by accident are not worth mentioning, much less worth offering to her as a trade-off.

Just curious John, what part of WV are you from? Have seen several of your posts and always wondered. I'm originally from the Eastern Panhandle of WV and now reside just across the state line in VA, but hunt in both states whenever time permits.
 
Hi...my name is Rick and I am a metal Detecting aholic. I only have one machine, but, I want 14 more! Does that count?
 
I work 6-10's, so I only have one day to hunt now. I get to read the posts when I get home from work.

I'm going to have to find me another job with less hours. It just that this job pays sooo wellllll!!.
 
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