Metal Detecting Hobby, requires a lot of patience

[Jollyrodger1]

Sometimes too much patience , lol. Hey the machines haven’t yet excluded good from trash yet, if so they will charge heavily for it someday, I doubt they will offer such anytime soon. Maybe LiDAR or Ladar or what ever they call it, color coded potential hot spots of significance that has to be dug up regardless to be determined. So it’s up to the users to determine which direction they want to go. Fact of the matter is nobody is replenishing the ground with the old relics and coins we like, meaning the remaining few still reside but need better technology to find them, my opinions.

 

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[robertk]

nobody is replenishing the ground with the old relics and coins we like,

Sure they are. Today's trash will be tomorrow's relics. (Though I'd agree about the coins.)

 

[Chilli]

Fact of the matter is nobody is replenishing the ground with the old relics and coins we like, meaning the remaining few still reside but need better technology to find them, my opinions.

Yeah finds are for relics getting very skinny on the ground to the point im lucky to bother a couple of times a month. Go back several yrs id be out a few times a week. Goldfield relics where I am are almost done and dusted. Topsoil is shallow, nothing sunk very deep till it hit hard packed clay and gravels. There's still the odd old ruin homesite on farmers land but over the years that many did the wrong thing they don't want anyone on their land. I got tired of asking politely and getting yelled or sworn at or told us bl**dy detectorists are all the same leaving *"+!# holes everywhere NO!
Golds pretty much a shadow of what it was here too.
Its all only finite and the general consensus here is the best days are well and truly behind us. I got a Nox a while ago and it didn't up my rate even though it was a good detector. It could be twice as good again and it wont make a difference. So after 8 months of really giving it a go I sold it. I just use my Terra at present. I found bananas more with the Nox at my previous Terra hotspots.
We don't have a lot of history though here compared to other countries like you guys are in with hundreds more and even thousands of years more of things dropped.
Im just glad I was around in the time here where relics were plentiful and it was rare to have a goldless day.