My early days

[CASPER-2]

I first used a machine i think when i was 10 - 1973 but that was in kids hunt at planted hunt
i tell people i started in 1975 because thats when i got my own machine a Compass 94B
this old pic of me was from an old detecting publication from the late 70s called DIG magazine
i think its from 1977
I found my first seated quarter - 1857 and a medal from the 1880s for big wheel bike race
among newer silver, IHs and buffalos that day

 

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[CASPER-2]

the New is missing from the ENGLAND at bottom of pic

 

[cudamark]

Your hair looked like mine back then!

 

[CASPER-2]

Your hair looked like mine back then!

my hair is looking like that now with barber being closed
Im also wearing Sears Toughskins

 

[TooManyHobbies]

I used to have hair.

 

[A2coins]

Awesome I wish I started in the 70s Heres a question for you if you could go back in time right now and be that little Guy again and not know what you know now would you do it. Give up all you have now I would Im always asking people this LOL Good post...I remember having the orange radio shack detectors and I think I only used it in my house of course I was very young......

 

[RustyGold]

Cool history Casper!

 

[terry g]

Wow that's a long time to have been detecting!! There couldn't have been many metal detectors around then. What did the Compass cost you then?

 

[CASPER-2]

Wow that's a long time time to have been detecting!! There couldn't have been many metal detectors around then. What did the Compass cost you then?

believe it or not - there were tons - at least in my area (ma & Ct) we had like 20 dealers within an hours drive - there were no water hunters back then until early 80s when alot of us started to float our land machines - i got a better Compass - a 77 which had a few more knobs and got a large coil for it and then floated my 94B
my first Compass machine was used for $99... they didnt go for much more new
back then i was in a local club that had over 300 members and not to far away there was another club that had like 100+ and around an hour drive away there were a couple more - back then would go for a ride on a weekend and see guys at schools and parks all over

 

[ARC]

Your hair looks like mine in avatar.

 

[cudamark]

Awesome I wish I started in the 70s Heres a question for you if you could go back in time right now and be that little Guy again and not know what you know now would you do it. Give up all you have now I would Im always asking people this LOL Good post...I remember having the orange radio shack detectors and I think I only used it in my house of course I was very young......

So, I'd have to go back to 1970 and be a stupid teenager again, ignorant of all the great places I SHOULD have detected, but, didn't? Naw, if I couldn't benefit from what I know now, I wouldn't want to go back and do the same stuff over again. What would be the point? I can still remember what I did. Now, if I could go back with what I know NOW? Absolutely!! I would have started detecting at least 10 year earlier!

 

[LawrencetheMDer]

Wow, I never found a coin already in a 2" x 2" folder! Ha Ha Ha.
Actually, I did find a cent last year that was in a plastic sleeve...very strange.
I started MDing in the early 1970s and bought my first White's detector with the proceeds from selling a 20 dollar US gold piece for $37.50. I originally bought the coin from a candy store owner who got it in change in the 1960s. I think I paid $25 for it at the time.
Don't remember how much the detector cost.

 

[A2coins]

So, I'd have to go back to 1970 and be a stupid teenager again, ignorant of all the great places I SHOULD have detected, but, didn't? Naw, if I couldn't benefit from what I know now, I wouldn't want to go back and do the same stuff over again. What would be the point? I can still remember what I did. Now, if I could go back with what I know NOW? Absolutely!! I would have started detecting at least 10 year earlier!

You would be able to live another 50 years lol

 

[cudamark]

You would be able to live another 50 years lol

Who says I can't now!

 

[Harold in Fla.]

I started very young also, my mother bought an old whites the one with the blue case and hunted all over the place with it but my mother was the one that got me started, now my back and knees are all done and have not been in three years, but still got my Excalibur 1000.