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Do you still remember the one thing that made you pick up a Metal Detector and bring you to this forum of ...............

I lost my wedding band and got me a cheap machine did not find it but started finding lots of other stuff then I did a little research and found an old civil war camp and found a drop and it was all history I upgraded a couple of times but about a year later I finally found my wedding band
 
I bought a Quantum in 99, July or august, did a little hunting in parks, got tired of that in about two weeks, and just about gave it up..but then,.I stumbled across the whites forum a while later and found a bunch of guys that appeared to have fun with this hobby. Some of them even detected.
I was doing some work for a customer that lived in an old house from the late 1800's. I ask her if I could detect her yard, she was a little hesitant, but said if I found any treasures, I need to share with her. I found my first civil war Minnie ball within a half hour and a gold coin a little later. I found a lot of nice things there and the Don's finished cleaning it out when they came down. I bought a MXT in 2003
 
I even tried to make my own detector. My wife ordered a detector from one of the TV marketing sites and I used it around the yard, but only found a few coins. Later I bought a Tesoro machine at a "Flea Market" and cleaned out the yard at my new house. Found a lot of matchbox cars and BBs of all things. That Tesoro would really sound off, but the tones were hard to distinguish from one another. I never quite got the hang of my Whites 6000 and its weight was terrible. My latest is a "Yeller Feller". Still don't get to hunt much but I still enjoy it.
 
[size=large] I had been using a sluice box to get gold for several years. A gnarly old prospector was my mentor... what a character he was. The old guy was about 70, had been a gold miner forever. He had a set of arms for an old man that was unbelieveable, and blood veins the size of a garden hose running through them. Anyway, more and more I would see guys with metal detectors at the gold fields; I started doing some research and decided to get a Whites V-SAT (Whites machine designed for gold nuggets). On one of my first excursions with the new White's detector I found a gold nugget about the size of a lima bean. I had shown it to a couple of people who were there and more were coming over to look at it; they offered me $100, $150, and on up to $250 for it but I told them it wasn't for sale, why? ... my father in law told me I wasn't going to find anything with that metal detector, and I'll be danged if I was going to sell it before I could show it to him. I went on to find quite a few nuggets, nothing bigger than that one but nuggets none the less.

The gold got me interested in silver (I also found some raw silver in Alaska with a metal detector). I couldn't afford another new detector so I bought a used Garrett made in the late 1960's. I think it was called a Groundhog or something. Man, it was like swinging a fire hydrant. That got me interested enough that I finally got a Whites XLT which I still have today. It was about that time that I started looking on the old Whites forum; one of the first guys I noticed there was this cat named Elson. From there we went to 2 or 3 other forums before we ended up here (Oh, by the way, I still think this forum should be called the Find Mall's Friends and Social Emporium... well, it was something like that anyway.)

There have been a lot of guys come and go on this forum; some were great guys, some not so great. The number of people who used to view, lurk, or participate on this forum have dwindled over the years from about 300 down now to about 100. But I can safely say that everyone who is here now has successfully been assimilated.

Vernon
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