Hi,
I live in Texas, I first started detecting in 1965 with a White's non-discriminator. I found a few interesting items and a few coins with it, but mostly dug up tons of junk and trash. About 1972, I bought an A.H. Pro detector, a great old detector with good discrimination. It arrived at the Post Office about four in the afternoon. After setting it up and learning a bit about it, I went to the high school that I had attended. There was a line that formed on the sidewalk outside the cafeteria at lunch. That was the first place that I looked. I got to search about two hours before dark. I think I was the first one to ever detect there. When I got home that night I had already found enough in silver coins and class rings to more than pay for my detector. In 1977, I bought an A.H. Super Pro 2 body mount, been using it ever since and I still can go right in behind newer detectors and make good finds. I am retired now and have combined my hobbies of riding motorcycles and detecting, they go well together. I found this site through a Google search and it is an interesting extra for after the hunt.