wygold
Jr. Member
- May 21, 2016
- 54
- 118
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab X-Terra 705 Dual Pack
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
So a few weeks back a member of the church I attend pulled me aside to tell me he had a gift for me and that he was thinking I would like to have it. He goes another member had moved out of state and wanted to give away some things that they didn't want anymore. So he ended up with a bunch of mining equipment and a MD. His brother in law wanted all the mining equipment and the MD, but the guy told him that the MD is going to someone else. The brother in law was furious as he wanted all of it and didn't take the fact that he was lucky to get anything at all.
So when my friend told me he was giving me the MD, he said it was about a 10 year old MD and he thought I would enjoy it. I was glad to receive this gift and told him "sure bring it over when you can". He then Stopped by that Friday afternoon and handed me the MD. But before he stopped by I was thinking through out the week, okay what kind of MD would it be. Would it be something that you can get from Big 5 or Walmart or something in the lines of being a cheap machine because of the family who had given him all of the mining equipment were the less fortunate type who scrape by with very little income. I know it's was wrong to think of that about someone like that because I'm in the same type of boat. So my thinking changed and I said to myself that "at least I'm getting something for free".
My friend dropped the MD off and I thanked him again. The bag that held the MD was a heavy duty canvas type bag and as I placed the bag on the pool table in the family room and left it there for a couple hours to take care of some other stuff. When I returned to the family room starring at the bag, I decided to open the bag and check out the MD. The first thing as I pulled it out of the bag was, Wow would you look at this thing. It wasn't some cheap MD from Big 5 or Walmart but a Garrett. I scanned over the machine and realized that this is one very old MD, so old that it was as old as I am.
The Garrett MD is the Relic Hunter BFO and it came with the original instruction book and the bag is the original one you could buy from Garrett during that time frame. I basically just gave away my age. A few hours later I found some batteries and plugged them into the MD and what do you know, it works. I took it out into the backyard, tossed a few coins on the ground and made sure that I had my Minelab with me incase the Garrett didn't pick it up. Trying to tune it was a challenge but I did manage to get the MD working the way I wanted it to per the instructions and it signaled all 6 coins. I also tried a portion of my front yard that I didn't detect with my Minelab and found a couple of coins.
Packing the Garrett with my Minelab during my last camping trip into the mountains
So what does anyone think about this particular MD and has anyone here ever used this one machine?
So when my friend told me he was giving me the MD, he said it was about a 10 year old MD and he thought I would enjoy it. I was glad to receive this gift and told him "sure bring it over when you can". He then Stopped by that Friday afternoon and handed me the MD. But before he stopped by I was thinking through out the week, okay what kind of MD would it be. Would it be something that you can get from Big 5 or Walmart or something in the lines of being a cheap machine because of the family who had given him all of the mining equipment were the less fortunate type who scrape by with very little income. I know it's was wrong to think of that about someone like that because I'm in the same type of boat. So my thinking changed and I said to myself that "at least I'm getting something for free".
My friend dropped the MD off and I thanked him again. The bag that held the MD was a heavy duty canvas type bag and as I placed the bag on the pool table in the family room and left it there for a couple hours to take care of some other stuff. When I returned to the family room starring at the bag, I decided to open the bag and check out the MD. The first thing as I pulled it out of the bag was, Wow would you look at this thing. It wasn't some cheap MD from Big 5 or Walmart but a Garrett. I scanned over the machine and realized that this is one very old MD, so old that it was as old as I am.
The Garrett MD is the Relic Hunter BFO and it came with the original instruction book and the bag is the original one you could buy from Garrett during that time frame. I basically just gave away my age. A few hours later I found some batteries and plugged them into the MD and what do you know, it works. I took it out into the backyard, tossed a few coins on the ground and made sure that I had my Minelab with me incase the Garrett didn't pick it up. Trying to tune it was a challenge but I did manage to get the MD working the way I wanted it to per the instructions and it signaled all 6 coins. I also tried a portion of my front yard that I didn't detect with my Minelab and found a couple of coins.
Packing the Garrett with my Minelab during my last camping trip into the mountains
So what does anyone think about this particular MD and has anyone here ever used this one machine?
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