Old People

[MikeyMinx]

Was hunting with my dad at 10,got my first detector of my own as 8th grade graduation present in 1972,I am now 59 and I remember telling my dad that I was thinking of giving up the hobby each year because it was getting hard to find even two dollars in silver each day or at least 20 dollars in clad and things were really getting bad when you could not find at least 5 rings in a week.Dad hunted until he was 72 before he passed I have to at least hunt to age 73 the completion as best coin hunter is still on.

Good Lord!!! Was the digging really that good back then?! LOL

 

[Tinfoil]

I am 72 and still cooking. Jerry aka Tinfoil

 

[Prep1957]

Was hunting with my dad at 10,got my first detector of my own as 8th grade graduation present in 1972,I am now 59 and I remember telling my dad that I was thinking of giving up the hobby each year because it was getting hard to find even two dollars in silver each day or at least 20 dollars in clad and things were really getting bad when you could not find at least 5 rings in a week.Dad hunted until he was 72 before he passed I have to at least hunt to age 73 the completion as best coin hunter is still on.

Good Lord!!! Was the digging really that good back then?! LOL

I was one of the first back then to hit state parks,Starved Rock,Buffalo Rock Park,Kankakee not to mention all the churches,town squares,masonic buildings only other hunters of that era can really appreciate yes it was that good and better no one bothered you.I use to go to Kankakee State park in the open field and find dozens of the best brass pot pipes you ever seen.Not to mention we could cover the top of a picnic table with coins with just 4 of us hunting.I use to find civil war buckles in the old parks use to throw the in my junk bucket until coin dealer said he would give me 10 bucks for each one I found.The best thing I can remember is my whole family putting found coins in rolls and selling gold rings to buy my 1976 graduation present a black fully loaded short box Silverado with 454 man that thing would go.I know it is hard to believe but I understand how the Buffalo Hunters felt when they ran out of Buffalo.Just think what the first beach hunters found.

 

[still looking 52]

That song "Glory Days" keeps coming to mind when I read your post, thanks for sharing your thoughts. The real treasure is in the hunt not what you find.

 

[jackintexas]

I like the saying......Growing old is a privilge denied to many.....Jack

 

[copper kidd]

I'm 57 and just got into the hobby last year.

 

[K-DOE]

73 and still loving it, to every one, all the best.