Woodyvtwin
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- Joined
- Jan 16, 2013
- Messages
- 10
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- Location
- Newfane, NY
- Detector(s) used
- Tesoro Compadre
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
- #1
Thread Owner
My experience with metal detecting is just about nil. This past Christmas I purchased 2 detectors; a Garrett Ace 250 for my wife and a "Tesoro Compadre" for myself.
We went out to a local park a couple of times where my wife did pretty well, and I helped the environment by removing a lot of trash. I did find a dime and 4 pennies but she outdid my efforts by a 5 to 1 ratio. Of course she was sympathetic about my efforts and demonstratively made fun of my simple little one knobbed detector.
I decided that I needed to get edgumicated on how to discriminate the trash from the good stuff. I started by watching videos and reading reviews online. read Mr. Garrett's book (NO - NOT Leif Garrett) on how to metal detect and where/how to find good prospective areas to hunt. NOW - I was ready, and on our second treasure hunting adventure I was, once again, the consummate garbage man. This time it cost me dinner, as I had gloated that the loser had to pay for dinner. I didn't really mind - I love prime rib.
In early/mid January I came down with a cold so I went back to the videos online. I was not able to get much help with my particular machine, but I came across some videos of this Gentleman Demonstrating the "Tesoro Vaquero" on YouTube. mjcz5853's channel - YouTube I must tell you that I was blown away at how easy he made it look. In addition, I was apprehensive that his discrimination methods could be applied to my simple one knob machine. Though, after closely watching the discrimination techniques that he used, I decided to give it another go.
On January 16th my wife was working, and I had gotten off from work at 12:30 pm. I had a couple of errands to run that took me close to a local park, so I grabbed my "Compadre" figuring I could get an hour of hunting in before she got home. In that hour I found the following stuff:
1 pull tab
2 bottle caps
1 nickel
1 piece of costume jewelry
8 pennies
7 dimes
I realize that this might not seem like much to seasoned metal detecting Gurus, but to me it meant that I spent about 80% of the dig time on the good stuff. I get it, now I think it will just get better from here.
So, Hi everyone! Here I am! I'm hooked as an official metal detecting nerd. I already have glasses - don't I qualify for a new pocket-liner or something?
We went out to a local park a couple of times where my wife did pretty well, and I helped the environment by removing a lot of trash. I did find a dime and 4 pennies but she outdid my efforts by a 5 to 1 ratio. Of course she was sympathetic about my efforts and demonstratively made fun of my simple little one knobbed detector.
I decided that I needed to get edgumicated on how to discriminate the trash from the good stuff. I started by watching videos and reading reviews online. read Mr. Garrett's book (NO - NOT Leif Garrett) on how to metal detect and where/how to find good prospective areas to hunt. NOW - I was ready, and on our second treasure hunting adventure I was, once again, the consummate garbage man. This time it cost me dinner, as I had gloated that the loser had to pay for dinner. I didn't really mind - I love prime rib.
In early/mid January I came down with a cold so I went back to the videos online. I was not able to get much help with my particular machine, but I came across some videos of this Gentleman Demonstrating the "Tesoro Vaquero" on YouTube. mjcz5853's channel - YouTube I must tell you that I was blown away at how easy he made it look. In addition, I was apprehensive that his discrimination methods could be applied to my simple one knob machine. Though, after closely watching the discrimination techniques that he used, I decided to give it another go.
On January 16th my wife was working, and I had gotten off from work at 12:30 pm. I had a couple of errands to run that took me close to a local park, so I grabbed my "Compadre" figuring I could get an hour of hunting in before she got home. In that hour I found the following stuff:
1 pull tab
2 bottle caps
1 nickel
1 piece of costume jewelry
8 pennies
7 dimes
I realize that this might not seem like much to seasoned metal detecting Gurus, but to me it meant that I spent about 80% of the dig time on the good stuff. I get it, now I think it will just get better from here.
So, Hi everyone! Here I am! I'm hooked as an official metal detecting nerd. I already have glasses - don't I qualify for a new pocket-liner or something?
