Am I the only one Obsessed with this hobby?

[OutBack Duo]

It is 6 days before I go on vacation to upstate NY and I am very excited. I have planned my entire vacation around metal detecting. I have found and gotten permission to hunt places that are between 150 and 200 years old that have never been hunted. I bought a new Surfmaster PI water detector to detect an old beach while there that hasn't been used in 80 years. I am taking my small box trailer with me that I just painted billboards on it that say "Let me detect your property". I am a very active member in the biggest detecting club in Kansas City and also am their webmaster for their webpage. I can't get enough of this hobby, I wake up in the morning to check Treasure Net, I stay up late doing research. Am I the only one with this obsession? Should I go see a Psych? Is there any help for me?

 

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LOL, they made a movie about us. The lead character was Indiana Jones.


There is no cure. It gets worse because retirement is approaching.

 

[Gabbit]

Think ya got me beat, but not by much! -- I think the obession ends when you no longer find anything of interrest.

 

[stoney56]

You might be able to to into remission but every time you get some tool in your hand that can even remotely be used for digging, it comes back even stronger.

 

[PBK]

As Mark Twain said about smoking, “Quitting is easy. I’ve done it hundreds of times.”

Once for nearly an hour. (Okay... maybe less.)

 

[gldhntr]

been thinking on opening the first chapter of '' treasure hunters anonymous '' with my two step program {instead of the usual 12 step}....step one = always detect on top of concrete..........step two = only dig with plastic spoons........sure cure

 

[Digginman]

Nick Cage was that way too, in National Treasure. You are perfectly normal. Keep diggin, and remember that Martha Stewert is obsessed with her hobby. She's made a great living doing it.

 

[Michigan Badger]

I quit at the end of every unsuccessful day (I have few) but by morning I'm ready to go again.

I'm a treasure hunter. I was born a treasure hunter. I started before they had hobby detectors.

As a kid I'd swim along the bottom and look for rings and I'd find them. I'd dig in my yard and sift the dirt for coins and clay marbles.

Back in the early days of CB radio my "handle" was "Treasure Hunter"...broadcasting wall to wall and treetop tall...10-4 good buddy!

Been into using metal detectors for nearly 40 years now.

Nope, once hooked on this hobby (lifestyle) you never get over it.

 

[rvbvetter]

I think obsessed is OK.

Now, Possessed might be a different story If your ever detecting with someone that doesn't need to turn around to look at you.
Then there's a possibility that they might have carried it just a tad too far.
And you just might want to be too busy to go, the next time they ask you to go detecting.
Trust me on this!
Because when my head gets stuck and I can't tell if I'm coming or going.
It's a real pain in the neck. Especially for my detecting partner that has to constantly watch to see that I don't go stepping off things.
Plus, I always get the feeling that I covered this ground before.
And at the end of the day. Who can blame him for complaining when I back the car up the 30 miles to get us home.

Good luck on your vacation and enjoy. HH

 

[bk]

I just think you need to go detecting more often. I have taken many vacations just to detect. One thing I like about that is you never get bored.
Hope you have a good time. Let us know what you find.
Are you a member of the Mo-Kan Packrats? (They have been around a long time).

 

[OutBack Duo]

Don't think I have heard of the packrats. I am a member of Mid-Western Artifact Society (MWAS). I will definately share lots of pictures of some great finds when I get back.

 

[Sandman]

If it isn't any fun, why do it. We all have a bad case of the Treasures. It's the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

 

[Jeffro]

I have planned my entire vacation around metal detecting. I am taking my small box trailer with me that I just painted billboards on it that say "Let me detect your property". I am a very active member in the biggest detecting club in Kansas City and also am their webmaster for their webpage. I can't get enough of this hobby, I wake up in the morning to check Treasure Net, I stay up late doing research. Am I the only one with this obsession? Should I go see a Psych? Is there any help for me?

Yes, its just you and you alone..... what is wrong with you?

I never look for any lost items that weren't lost by myself, and I never drive 50 miles out of my way "just to see" anything, heheheheh!

Well, OK, ALMOST never-

 

[surlydog]

I like this post!!..MMM why would some of us spend hundreds of dollars on machines ,that for most us our finds never equal in value..A very close friend of mine (recently deceased) was nudged into detecting by myself, the man was a millionaire. You should have seen his face everytime he found a coin, as they say" that was piceless". I still feel a little rush even with finding a tarnished penny and I hope that never stops.

 

[Aguila]

I prefer to think of it as a "passion". Either way it gets a hold of you and wont let go.

 

[Detectingfreak]

I am also obsessed with metal detecting! HA i have even planned my boy scout camping trip to just go detecting! While other kids are doing merit badges i will be detecting my heart away. I know the adults of my troop will yell at me to go do merit badges. But i refuse because no one i know of have hunted the boy scout camp. They dont dare to hunt it when people are around. People or no people i am still going to hunt it!!! I also am on these forums a lot grabbing any information during the week because i hunt on the weekends since its more convient. But yeah. Your not the only one obsessed with metal detecting! Even I am!!!

 

[MAINE HILLS HUNTER]

7am till 2am daily. Just cant get enough MDing, THing, BDing, or just plain old research. And then there is this darn Treasure net place that I heard of once...

Eric

 

[dfx_maui]

I got bit by the treasure hunting bug when I first saw a White's TV ad a couple years ago. I thought to myself, "Cool hobby to get into". I never got around to buying that White's detector until a couple weeks ago then WHAM I was hooked! I found my first clad coins last weekend and I am raring to go again. I've got pretty much all the coils I'll need for the different areas I want to explore. Now I just have to hone my skills. Fortunately I don't have to go it alone. I've got the local dealer to give me some advice and of course the forums like this to peruse around. Also the White's DFX really makes it easy for a newbie like me to get started finding things of interest.

 

[thadious]

I am hooked, got to say it. Go at least 2 times a week anywhere from 4 to 6 hours at a time. Love the hunt, the finds are nice too. Then there is all the good people here at treasurenet to talk to and learn from. Would go every day but health issues require me to rest at least a day or two between hunts. Only been at it since June this year. I know I will be doing it this year even thinking about having a MD buried with me when I die. You never know might need it in the here after. anyway HH and enjoy your vacation. Ted

 

[jalyia]

I am new to this. I don't even HAVE an MD yet and I am totally hooked. I can remember from a very young age always looking for rocks and imagining them to be presious stones, selling those seeds and other entrepreneurial things from back of my "Richie Rich" comic books. I did an oral report in 4th grade on the California and Alaska Gold Rush and I was fascinated by it all. I am now 37 and I finally realized what has really always excited me in life is treasure hunting and all that goes along with it. It really makes life enlessly exciting doesn't it.

Hey, if there is anyone reading this who lives anywhere near San Jose, CA (Silicon Valley) I would love to hear from you. I want to make some treasure hunting friends ). Ciao, Jill