luciddream
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Hey all, my name is Lukas and I live in Sarasota Florida for almost 20 years...about a week ago I became very interested in metal detecting. After watching several videos and read about what metal detecting is and how to do it, I became addicted before I even bought one. A few days later I bought an Ace 250 from a local Garrett dealer. I held off on buying a pin pointer as it was in my next pay checks budget. I did get a beach scoop and today was my first day using it. I did some research and planned for this morning at 730 am at siesta key beach since it was low tide. Had an awesome time, didn't find much and didn't really expect to seeing as the weather is cold. Regardless, I was out there for a good 6 hours and would have stayed long except that my right arm feels like I've been doing one armed push ups Arnold style. Half the day I spend at siesta, then took a 30 minute break ate some lunch and went to Turtle beach where I figured I would find older stuff since it has more shells and has heavier and higher mass deposits like rocks. I definitely learned a lot about my detector and after a few hours got pretty consistent at predicting what I would dig...Still, I dug it all...Mostly foils at siesta, lots of iron at turtle. Found a couple of interesting things including what looks like bullet shells, a gold-colored bead, quarter, a 1941 nickel, a regular dime, couple fish hooks, 2 pull tabs, plenty of bottle caps, hair pins, buttons, what looks to be a metal name charm make out of a copper type metal, a necklace that I thought was silver because it had a mark on it but the detector kept saying it was foil, looks like it was recently lost. Anyway, had a great time and already thinking about going out again. Today was my first real attempt at it since I bought the unit on weds and I work mon-fri I was only able to use it in my yard at night for a few minutes. So far I love this hobby and have already called my local dealer to order me a pro pointer as park hunter is a HUGE pain in the butt in SW Florida with all the heavy roots and mineralization. But I love it and am planning on taking a trip to Georgia next weekend after I get my pro pointer to go old site digging. Can't wait! So nice to meet you guys and I look forward to sharing good times with you all. 
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