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We are moving to Fort Myers area of Florida this year. We will be going down in a few days to visit our inlaws who live in the North Port area for the upcoming Easter holiday plus scope out the area for housing etc., plus me getting to hunt beaches with my Explorer II. YEE HAH!!!
My wife (who thinks any coin hunting in Ohio is a waste of time) seems to be interested in hunting beaches. She still to this day does not understand why I get excited coming home with a few older silver coins, indian heads etc. here in Ohio. The worst thing that can happen to me is that I'm gone all day hunting instead of doing chores and come home with 37 cents in clad!!! It does not help trying to promote this fine hobby to her! Some of you fellow Th'ers who are married know what I mean! I believe that deep down she is a treasure hunter at heart and she just gets frustrated that I don't come home with a jar full of silver and gold coins.
Gold jewelry seems to get her attention and I'm trying to get her interested in the hobby. She believes that you only find gold jewelry on a beach. OK. That's probably true rather than here in Ohio with the type of hunting I do, so that tells me to get her a detector now that we're moving and let her have her own experience and get her hooked. One gold ring and I know she'll be my hunting partner for the rest of our days together.
So I need advice for a simple to operate detector with great performance on beaches. My EX II is way to complex for her to ever understand. At least for now. I used to be a White's user for over 20 years before I converted to Minelab and it took me awhile to grasp technology to fine tune and maximize performance in finding good stuff.
So I want to minimize the pain for now. I don't want her to be too discouraged finding junk all the time, like I have, to get the goodies. I'd like her to be able to have something to show from her efforts to really gain an interest in this hobby, then I can gradually ease her into what it takes to make this hobby motivating, research, digging everything etc. Once she gets going she'll want to upgrade just to get the edge on me!
The door to opportunity is open and I want to make the most of it and finally turn her into my treasure hunting buddy after all these years. I want her to wake me up in the morning and hear her say "Let's go hunting" instead of seeing her roll her eyes again when I tell her I'm going out digging for stuff.
We have everything else in common and this is the last bridge to cross. Any suggestions and input appreciated! Thanks everyone!
My wife (who thinks any coin hunting in Ohio is a waste of time) seems to be interested in hunting beaches. She still to this day does not understand why I get excited coming home with a few older silver coins, indian heads etc. here in Ohio. The worst thing that can happen to me is that I'm gone all day hunting instead of doing chores and come home with 37 cents in clad!!! It does not help trying to promote this fine hobby to her! Some of you fellow Th'ers who are married know what I mean! I believe that deep down she is a treasure hunter at heart and she just gets frustrated that I don't come home with a jar full of silver and gold coins.
Gold jewelry seems to get her attention and I'm trying to get her interested in the hobby. She believes that you only find gold jewelry on a beach. OK. That's probably true rather than here in Ohio with the type of hunting I do, so that tells me to get her a detector now that we're moving and let her have her own experience and get her hooked. One gold ring and I know she'll be my hunting partner for the rest of our days together.
So I need advice for a simple to operate detector with great performance on beaches. My EX II is way to complex for her to ever understand. At least for now. I used to be a White's user for over 20 years before I converted to Minelab and it took me awhile to grasp technology to fine tune and maximize performance in finding good stuff.
So I want to minimize the pain for now. I don't want her to be too discouraged finding junk all the time, like I have, to get the goodies. I'd like her to be able to have something to show from her efforts to really gain an interest in this hobby, then I can gradually ease her into what it takes to make this hobby motivating, research, digging everything etc. Once she gets going she'll want to upgrade just to get the edge on me!
The door to opportunity is open and I want to make the most of it and finally turn her into my treasure hunting buddy after all these years. I want her to wake me up in the morning and hear her say "Let's go hunting" instead of seeing her roll her eyes again when I tell her I'm going out digging for stuff.
We have everything else in common and this is the last bridge to cross. Any suggestions and input appreciated! Thanks everyone!