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Anyone metal detect?
I got into metal detecting April 2023, I've been having fun with it, I even started a YouTube channel
I don't know what else to say, ask me anything
I got into metal detecting April 2023, I've been having fun with it, I even started a YouTube channel
I don't know what else to say, ask me anything
This has always seemed like a fun and tranquil hobby to me. A few questions:
Thanks for your time!
Sorry for the late reply lol I forgot about tildes for a while
I usually go detecting early in the morning as I don't work, today I plan to leave at 4am, it doesn't get light out till 530am so I use a headlamp, if I'm not feeling it I'll be back home before light
I got into coin roll hunting and stacking silver, and I seen on reddit people finding old silver coins metal detecting, so I thought I want to find those coins too, so I talked to a redditors about which detector to get and I got it
I've found a few silver dimes, 1913 Canadian large cent, a sterling silver Victorian match safe, a gold ring, a small thin gold chain, multiple silver rings, about $100 a year, some other misc silver stuff, some old coins, I flip all pre 1964 coins I find, I'm in Canada and 1964 is the last year with the young queen loreate crown portrait, I also have a coffee jug that has about 700 pulltabs right now, if I would scrap it it'd be less than a dollar lol I don't know why I keep them just for fun
Gear I used is a detector, a pinpointer, a edge digger, a leather sheath for the edge digger, a finds pouch and sometimes a shovel, sometimes you don't want to be seen using a shovel as it looks bad to most people a guy in the park with a huge ass shovel, although I have a special shovel and can dig cleaner holes with my shovel than my edge digger, so it's just a perception thing not based on reality
A lot of people think they will start finding good things right away, I had a guy tell me in the park he bought a metal detector, used it for 2 hours and only found junk so he sold it, you need way more patience than that, my very first time out the only thing good I found was a penny, but since here in Canada we haven't had pennies since 2012 I thought that was kinda cool, in myfirst couple weeks I found a silver Nike ring, which kinda hooked me, but I've gone that long and found nothing exceptional before, it's really down to if you swing over the right spot
No, but the show "Detectorists" is fucking fantastic. So satisfying from start to finish.
I don't, but I do watch a bunch of prospectors/detectorists/magnet fishers/relic hunters on YouTube!
Aquachigger <- My fav
meMiner (fellow Ontarian)
nuggetnoggin
Relic Recoverist
Dani Dip
Bondi Treasure Hunter
Tassie Boys Prospecting
p.s. No pressure, but feel free to share your own channel here if you want to, @Gopher. I'd certainly subscribe and check your videos out. :)
Don't feel pressured to subscribe I don't think my channel is as good as the other people I watch
https://youtu.be/vXzsaQEhC0o?si=jEbGc_dY9sdEXtDJ
I watch
Treasure Outdoors
Paystreak superfreak
Texan detector and coin collector
TPP The Pirates Plunder
Can You Dig It Metal Detecting
Monterey Magnet Man
Yodie's Finds
And probably others that aren't coming to mind, one thing they all have in common is it's realistic hunts usually in park or beach setting depending on the channel, Treasure Outdoors is my favourite, he just seems like such a chill dude 😎
Subscribed. Thanks for sharing. I really like your video format with not much talking, just clips of your finds! I also think your longer videos will be something relaxing to watch though, so I'll prob throw one of them on tonight. :)
I actually hadn't heard of any of those other channel either, so thanks for giving me a bunch more channels to check out too.
p.s. What's the hand tat? (if you don't mind my asking)
Lol I got the tattoos when I was in a psychosis, I have a Lucifer sigil tattoo on my left hand and a AA tattoo on my right hand
I used to drink to the point of blacking out when I was younger, but at some point something switched in my head and I drink somewhat responsibly now, it feels weird going in to buy a bottle of tequila with a AA tattoo on my hand lol
That's pretty metal. ;) And that's actually a very very similar reason for me getting my tattoo too. I have "NEVER GIVE UP" on my left forearm. I got it after a (thankfully) failed suicide attempt, and my addiction was of the more hard drugs variety though. :/
You know what's funny about the AA tattoo, it's a triangle, one time a cab pulled up in my parents driveway, and I was the only one there, so after like 5 or 10 minutes I went out to be like why are you in my driveway, the guy was acting super sketchy when I talked to him, he saw the triangle on my right hand and he was like oh you have that tattoo what is it, I'm like it's an AA tattoo and then he seemed relieved, I legit think he thought it was like an illuminati tattoo or something, anyways I went back in and watched him through the window till he left, I think he was trying to steal the pot plants growing in the garden lol I should have reported him to the cab company, but they go through guys so fast I rarely get the same cab driver twice when I use them
And sometimes I get people who recognize the AA tattoo and act like I'm an old friend, I don't have the guts to tell them I'm not in AA anymore and even drink sometime
LOL, yeah that's more than a tad sketchy. Did he even give you an excuse for why he was in your driveway? Regardless, I'm pretty confrontational though, so I probably would have told him my driveway is not a parking lot so he needed to get lost. :P
TBH, their total abstinence policy is one of the things I really dislike about AA (besides the forced religious shit). Sober means different things to different people, and cold turkey based total abstinence may work and be necessary for some people to get over their alcohol addiction, but it doesn't work and isn't necessary for everyone. So IMO they end up excluding a lot of people they could be helping by taking such a hard-line, black & white stance. Not to mention the shame and stigma associated with "falling off the wagon" they have fostered, which makes recovery even harder. It's why I don't recommend AA to anyone, and always point people towards SMART Recovery these days instead.
What detector and pin pointer do you use? I’ve thought about being into this but never really liked into it much
Sorry for the late reply I rarely use tildes
I have two detectors, a nokta legend, and a XP deus one, and my mom has a vanquish 540 that I can borrow whenever I want, they just released the Minelab Xterra elite and it looks like a decent detector, the cheapest one that's still okay to use is the nokta FindX pro
I have a mi4 pinpointer, it's my favourite pointer but sometimes they seem to develope issues, I'm on my second one, but if it breaks I'll probably get another, I love it's pitch tones, unique among pointers