Did ya ever notice ...

[Willee - Texas]

The way someone will get a new detector and then post glowing reports about how well it operates and that they would never hunt with anything else.
It is usually the deepest detector they have ever used and finds everything everyone else is leaving behind.

Then the new wears off and few months later it is up for sale or trade.
The process is then repeated.

Now if I had kept all the detectors I have ever used ... my back yard would like like this ...

Willee

 

[Terry Soloman]

OMG!!! LMAO! Great Post! That photo gets framed!

 

[D&P-OR]

It's a terrible (contagious) affliction SO MANY of us in this great hobby suffer from.---It's called "tectitus"!-----There is no known cure and even to experience some (temporary) relief from the malady, the only known "fix" is the aquisition of another "tector!------Boy, that sounded like I really knew what I was talkin about, didn't it? -------That guy ended up selling off some of those detectors didn't he?-----------Del

 

[Smudge]

Yeah, kinda like your first girlfriend in high school: we're going to last forever!! NOT!

 

[D&P-OR]

Yeah, kinda like your first girlfriend in high school: we're going to last forever!! NOT!

Good one!

 

[Jerry-Wi]

It must be nice to be able to buy a new detector when the batteries on the 'old' one go dead.

Jerry

 

[Neil]

Yep and we find ways to justify keeping different ones too, even though some perform the same. Ive read the analogy of a golfer not having only one club and so on. Honestly for most of us, one for water and one for land is enough and perhaps a back up in case one fails but thats often overkill also as detectors are usually very reliable. a backup is probably more necessary if the company whos detector you use is slow in repairs as seasons do come and go for alot of us and you can loose a summer of detecting if your detector is tied up being repaired.
I find it hard to get rid of any of them as they all seem to work well these days

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[norman maassey]

have been watching this go on an on an on for years now.

I have been detecting 23 24 years now,

My first detector was Radio Stack that I take in on a Loan Gone Bad. The man could not repay me so..I get the detector and some ever stuff. Wear that little thing plum A-- out.

Next was a used White 4900 that picked up at a pawn shop and was happy with it until I flooded my pickup out in 3' feet of water with it under the seat.

With 7 or 8 years of detecting behind I only had seen two other hunter and two dealers 1 a Garrett dealer was 45 miles east and a Whites 100 miles west of Abilene, TX. after a half a dozen calls, I went with Garrett. H e came closer to what I wanted for the $400 from insurance money replacing my pickup. a GTAX 1000. At the time I had my Heart sit on a Whites XLT. The GTA in my mind didn't pony up about the time I wanted to wipe it around a tree it would show me now trick.

In 1998 I discovered Internet and take in a Whites XLT in trade on roof, then I learned how great a detector the GT really was.


12 years later I picked up a 2 year old Whites DFX after my XLT needs overhaul. Now with my health the way it is I am thinking a Garrett AT PRO, because a DFX is to heavy after 6 to 7 hours of hunting.

 

[JB(MS)]

I was a buy and try junkie for way too many years, but even though I always have several on hand I finally grew out of having to try every new "best ever" detector when it hit the market. A kind of funny, to me but not the other guy, thing happened earlier today. I was hunting with a guy who recently bought, and was using, a new detector that's praised for it's depth on the forums and, according to him, detects dimes a foot deep and quarters even deeper. I was using a 1988 model Garrett Freedom III CDC I bought about three weeks ago off Craigslist. Both of us recovered several newer coins from surface down to about three inches, then I got a weak bell tone signal and asked him to check it with his detector. He couldn't get even a hint of a signal in disc mode, even with disc set at minimum and sensitivity maxed out, and only a whisper in all metal mode. It was a 1968 dime a tad over 6 inches deep, and an eye opener for him.

 

[Sven]

The way someone will get a new detector and then post glowing reports about how well it operates and that they would never hunt with anything else.
It is usually the deepest detector they have ever used and finds everything everyone else is leaving behind.

Then the new wears off and few months later it is up for sale or trade.
The process is then repeated.
Willee

LOL, it's another way to get the most for your detector if you think your going to sell it after a short time....... Folks just gobble up the hype and can't wait to buy the hot rod from you!!

 

[reltolbert]

I'm just guessing, but most of those metal detectors appear to be 20-30 years old in the above photo.

 

[Willee - Texas]

I must confess that the photo I used was found on another post some time ago and is only "representative" of what my collection of past detectors would have looked like.

But perhaps there is yet hope ... I have not bought a new detector in months ... and I really dont have the urge to.
My present collection should serve me well thru this beach hunting season.
If only Garrett, Fisher, Minelab, or White's can hold off any new release until winter, I will be OK.

Willee

 

[goodmore]

I get a kick out of detector reviews. Most are 5 star and the deepest ever. Like you said Willee then all of a sudden they are in the classifieds. I confess that I went through a few models quite quickly looking for THE one. During my search I had a few quality detectors in my hand. The only problem is I didn't like them for one reason or another. My point being is that one person loves a detector for the exact reason someone else hates it. Basically I found if you stick with a major brand manufacturer and do a little homework on the forums you pretty much know what to expect. The detector that I finally decided to keep is the Sovereign. It's not real important to my post, but I wanted to throw it out there anyways.