Question abut this hobby.

up hear it's copper big deep pieces no wimpy detectors aloud cash all the time with copper steady flow every were in the roads in the fields were ever you go you will find copper up here any ware with reasoning from a one once piece too two tons pieces but the loop has to go over it first....copper paid for all my detectors and the up keep coast......



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Tnmountains said:
Well if you think that all the stuff is junk and trash maybe this is not the hobby for you? I enjoy the history of the finds and the research. The value is in my satisfaction of researching then locating the site. Maybe you should try coin roll hunting or beach hunting ? That way when you find a recent gold item or silver you can sell it quick? There is nothing wrong with that. I have sold all the gold I ever dug.
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Possibly because when you die all of those mason jars full of the stuff you pulled will be stolen by family and sold as quickly as possible. It really is junk and trash unless you do something with it and sticking it in a Mason Jar is not doing something with it. Just my opinion. Sure, nice exercise and thethrill of the hunt but once you find "it" to just stick "it" in a jar is a HUGE waste and I ran into someone who did that after they had passed away and you could not even move around his house. His family stole a lot of it and sold it off and the rest was laying around in jars. I figure the most valuable was already gone and his estate executor confirmed what I was thinking.
 

Ninjafossils said:
The joy in metal detecting is all about the hunt. When you find an object, perhaps worth nothing, maybe worth a fortune, you shouldn't be fixated on monetary value. Just think. When u find a wheat penny from the 20s, think that you may be the first person to hold this in several decades. Sure monetary value is great, but I personally find the joy in contemplating the history more than anything.
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Same, but I think if I never made any money in the hobby I would rather utilize another hobby that does or potentially does. Yes, this one has the potential.
 

Keppy said:
..Most now a days just do it as a hobby... In hopes of finding a gold ring or silver coin ... and some for they just like to detect.......... Your right we don't need more trash or junk in our homes........ My self i use all my clad .... sell all my silver & gold .......... And take my scrap to the scrap yard and sell it............ So i don't have any junk or trash around...... And i am not a collector of any thing... to me that is just clutter also ...... And i do not make a living doing this thing called detecting....... You never know you could go out in the morning and find a gold ring ...... Or you could go out in the morning and spend 4 hours detecting and go home with items that just go in to your trash can...........
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Thank you. This is exactly the response I was looking for because it is exactly how I feel. You know even all metal mode in today's world can bring in cash with how the metal's market has been as of late. Shoot, even an old piece of iron has street value these days or a bunch of aluminum pull tabs.
 

Dark Alchemist said:
I will be living within a 5 to 10 min drive from the beach. I never knew a wedding band (my wife's and mine were 18ct) could go for that much that is weathered.

I always love it when people ask what your time is worth as I have always answered them as 0 because if you love what you are doing it is silly to put a value on your time. That is akin to a person who constantly looks at their watch or the clock which means you aren't enjoying it and if you aren't enjoying it then why is it your hobby?
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Hey D.A. You got any old , weathered gold you wanna sell ??
 

Dark Alchemist said:
Possibly because when you die all of those mason jars full of the stuff you pulled will be stolen by family and sold as quickly as possible. It really is junk and trash unless you do something with it and sticking it in a Mason Jar is not doing something with it. Just my opinion. Sure, nice exercise and thethrill of the hunt but once you find "it" to just stick "it" in a jar is a HUGE waste and I ran into someone who did that after they had passed away and you could not even move around his house. His family stole a lot of it and sold it off and the rest was laying around in jars. I figure the most valuable was already gone and his estate executor confirmed what I was thinking.
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What?:dontknow: Where did I ever say I stuck junk in a Mason jar? I think you assume many things plus I normally do not keep junk. I suggest going out and finding something first then you can decide what to do with it. It is not as easy as many make it look.
 

Tnmountains said:
What?:dontknow: Where did I ever say I stuck junk in a Mason jar? I think you assume many things plus I normally do not keep junk. I suggest going out and finding something first then you can decide what to do with it. It is not as easy as many make it look.
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The point was that many a person does just that and that is just a darn shame. Either sell it, melt it, eat it, or give it to a renowned museum but so many just stick them in Mason Jars to stare at and when they die they get thrown into the wild anyway via the way I said that happen to that one gent.
 

Keppy said:
..Most now a days just do it as a hobby... In hopes of finding a gold ring or silver coin ... and some for they just like to detect.......... Your right we don't need more trash or junk in our homes........ My self i use all my clad .... sell all my silver & gold .......... And take my scrap to the scrap yard and sell it............ So i don't have any junk or trash around...... And i am not a collector of any thing... to me that is just clutter also ...... And i do not make a living doing this thing called detecting....... You never know you could go out in the morning and find a gold ring ...... Or you could go out in the morning and spend 4 hours detecting and go home with items that just go in to your trash can...........
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I'm with there Keppy, not that I've found a much of anything, old beer cans, pull tabs a few coins and kids rings. The scrap goes in with the scrap and coins go with the rest of my change and the rings go to my daughter after a good cleaning.
 

For those that remember when the ocean dregers first statrted, they were paying for their $5000 rigs every WEEKEND! till it dryied up. WHAM! What a hobby!! TTC
 

liftloop said:
up hear it's copper big deep pieces no wimpy detectors aloud cash all the time with copper steady flow every were in the roads in the fields were ever you go you will find copper up here any ware with reasoning from a one once piece too two tons pieces but the loop has to go over it first....copper paid for all my detectors and the up keep coast......



liftloop
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... That copper sounds like a better deal than most are finding.... You are in a good area.....What does raw cooper look like when you dig some up after you detector finds it ?.. I know that you are way up there though... I watched something about the UP on one of the tv channels what one i can't remember.......... Discovery , A&E .. Nat.Geo.
 

Everything a detectorist finds is worth something. Even a pulltab if enough of them are saved is worth something. Even rusty iron if enough is saved is worth something. I have sold things for a surprising amount of money that many would have considered junk. After all, one man's trash is another man's treasure.
 

thrillathahunt said:
Everything a detectorist finds is worth something. Even a pulltab if enough of them are saved is worth something. Even rusty iron if enough is saved is worth something. I have sold things for a surprising amount of money that many would have considered junk. After all, one man's trash is another man's treasure.
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You are so right! Through Judy's 80 acres (near Murphys CA) is a road that is perportedly over 100 years old. In less than 100 yards, I found 3 horseshoes. I don't do relics yet I call this treasure simply because the history involved can be so interesting! But they ARE treasure because it IS so interesting. One of my most memorable finds was a piece made of white metal (in a corn field) that would have been passed over as SCRAP by most. I dug it and it turned out to be a 3¢ token by a hardware store from Tyner, NC in excellent condition. Tyner, NC no longer exists.... a ghost town! I was standing in the middle of a ghost town and didn't know it! I had to stop for a moment and reflect. Wow! TTC
 

I have to agree it is all treasure well just about.i save pull tabs and make chains,I've got many horseshoes I even save some of the better square nails.
I'd like to put a small building up to house my collection perhaps when this mortgage is over ill get another ,after all I love my profitless hobby
 

Joe hunter said:
I have to agree it is all treasure well just about.i save pull tabs and make chains,I've got many horseshoes I even save some of the better square nails.
I'd like to put a small building up to house my collection perhaps when this mortgage is over ill get another ,after all I love my profitless hobby
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George Carlin's famous routine comes quickly to mind.
 

Well, I guess this subject has been pretty well dealt with but I'd still like to offer my perspective. I started hunting in the early 1970's with a Garrett BFO detector. Back in those days I could go out on a Saturday and/or Sunday and come home with enough money to keep my daughter in milk and diapers. Heck, I even paid the rent on the house every now and then out of what I found. (The rent was only $110/mo.) Coins, rings, necklaces all pretty much got sold unless something caught my eye and I decided to keep it. Even that eventually got sold. Needless to say, that old Garrett paid for itself many times over.

Move ahead through the years and newer detectors came and went. I'd get fired up about detecting and collect up a pile of coins and jewelry. Then I'd get distracted off into some other pursuit for a few months and sell off my finds to fund it. I think I even went a whole year without detecting once. But I always came back. Metal detecting and muzzleloading rifles are the only two hobbies I've ever had that I really stuck with. Metal detecting is the only hobby I ever had that paid for itself.

The price of gasoline today really takes a chunk out of any hope I have of profit. The cost of top-of-the-line detectors doesn't help either. I've tried to adapt by hunting smarter. I guess it could be said that I'm also something of a recycler. I have a bin that all the aluminum cans around here go into. It dawned on me one day while I was emptying the trash out of my finds pouch that can slaw and pull tabs are ALUMINUM! Now I toss them into a wire basket and hose them down to get the dirt off and into the aluminum recycle bin they go. Odd pieces of steel go into another bin. All gets sold at the scrap yard. I don't mind getting fooled into thinking a target is good when it's trash nowadays. It doesn't happen often but when it does it's not a total waste of time to dig it.

Just my 2-cents.
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See, people around here have the wrong idea about all of this. Seems a lot of folks grabbed a football and ran home with it but it wasn't the right football.

Profit comes in many forms and all metal mode can zing you profit and probably will more often than searching for that nice ring. Profit is getting exercise, enjoying what you are doing and having some change left over at the end of the year after all expenses. Will you get rich? Nope, but you do not need to treat this like every other hobby either because the potential for money to at least help defray some of the costs is pretty good.

I doubt I will take this hobby up again unless we can find a house close enough to the beach but the realtors are being real <bleep> and letting the local flippers always have first crack at every house that becomes available (guaranteed money vs a homesteader). I want to enjoy the beach and my MD knowing that it will eventually strike enough to have paid for itself (ROI) but if there is absolutely no chance of ever seeing a ROI then this hobby really is, and I quote a stance I have seen around the web, "just a past time of old, and or rich, men". I suppose it is like fishing where you spend a grand on a rod and reel but you will never ever pull a grand's worth of fish with that rod and reel except on a rare chance the lucky fairy touched you that day.
 

in my case just for fun to get out of the house its very relaxing its my time
 

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