Metal Detecting

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>>1059016
what'd you get OP? been thinking about it myself for quite some time

>>1059017
I picked it up at Canadian Tire. Should be able to get them at any kind of outdoor recreation store though. Would have ordered a better brand online but I didn't want to wait and this one was on sale.

Got it for $150 plus tax

I just started detecting last fall. It's a fun hobby and I've found some weird shit already.

>>1059051
What kind of stuff?

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>>1059095
Within the first half hour of detecting on my own property I found a silver dime. I've found old sprockets, nails, and other weird bits of metal in the woods. But that dime is the coolest thing for sure.

>>1059100
Nice mercury.

>>1059017
Shit I misread your comment

I bought a bounty hunter discovery 2200. Apparently it's a pretty low end brand bit w/e

>>1059100
Noooiicee

Soflo fag here. One of my neighbors in the keys would take a fancy water proof one to the local sand bar after big weekends and he finds tons of stuff drunk college kids drop. His best find i know of was an engagement ring

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>>1059017
are you the anon that made that pic for me?
still one of my favorites.

>>1059623
haha, yes actually

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>>1059651
Nice!
I thought of you a couple months back. Someone was selling one of my favorite Radio Shack detectors in new condition on ebay for $9 with free shipping. I snapped it up but wondered if you would bid against me. Nobody ever did though.

>>1059656
Sadly I live innacity now so it wouldn't be worth it anymore to have one. Back in my old place it would have been great.

>>1059658
that sucks. I used to make decent money shooting coins and jewelry in city parks though. Not sure if that's still allowed most places.

>>1059663
Nah I wouldn't be able to dig in the parks. At the beach probably though.

Someone was selling one of my favorite Radio Shack detectors in new conditions
>>1059656

Please share model.

>>1059695
the back is marked "Micronta 63-3003"

it comes in either Radio Shack or Micronta brand, both are the same except for the word on the front. It is the VLF detector shown here:
>>1059017

>>1059695
here's an example for sale:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Radio-Shack-Micronta-4003-Metal-Detector-with-Waterproof-Coil-Pre-owned-/322581089669?hash=item4b1b54cd85:g:1cgAAOSwq~tZXkNU

Don't go into detecting looking for valuable finds and you won't come out disappointed.

i've been wanting to get one.

i want to sneak into a civil war site and find relics.

what are the chances ill get arrested?

>>1060261
how fast can you run?

>>1060266
about tree fiddy

Ive been thinking about metal detecting the beaches in florida around St. Augustine, but from what I hear Florida is actually pretty bad for metal detecting, are there any guys that know anything about it? I can find any actual laws about it, other than a million little local ordinances, or faggots who own the beach in front of their house.

>>1060291
Problem with Florida is the beaches are massive. There's probably some good jewelry and some boring spare change, but you'd have to cover huge areas to get it.

It's good for finding Spanish treasure after hurricanes, but that's mostly on the Gulf Coast. The Atlantic side has produced a fair amount of silver coins, but not nearly as many as the side where the treasure fleet sank. Also depends if your beach is natural or manmade. Most of Florida's beaches now import dredged sand, which has essentially nothing in it.

>>1060205
>>>1059695 (You)
>the back is marked "Micronta 63-3003"
>it comes in either Radio Shack or Micronta brand, both are the same except for the word on the front. It is the VLF detector shown here:
>>>1059017

Thanks anon. Fwiw I consistently see quite a few on goodwill auctions too for anyone looking. I just don't have any recent experience to know the best bang for buck used models.
>>1060232
>here's an example for sale:
>http://www.ebay.com/itm/Radio-Shack-Micronta-4003-Metal-Detector-with-Waterproof-Coil-Pre-owned-/322581089669?hash=item4b1b54cd85:g:1cgAAOSwq~tZXkNU

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I managed to find a gold ring with a grain of sand little diamond in the center but nothing else really. Some silver quarters of the early 60s or maybe a wheat dime.

I've been doing this for about a year and its fun for the most part. But I've only done parks.

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>>1060705
guess you didnt know that relic hunting is illegal in most parks

>>1060726
and.... who cares, really? Better someone find stuff and do something with it than just let it lie there.

>>1060726
>>1060764
it was a county park, so its not like the park is well managed or enforced

>>1060726
>relic hunting is illegal in most parks
not true in the US.
may be true where you live though.

>>1060705
>wheat dime.
kek

nice little ring though. Gold is always fun to find.

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guess you didnt know that relic hunting is illegal in most parks
>>1060726
good info tripfag

After watching The Detectorists I thought about how cool it would be to do this (I'm sure lots of viewers did too).

i got a metal detector when i was a kid and i still use it from time to time.

ive found better shit scanning the beach with my eyes while metal detecting than i have from actually detecting/digging. ive found multiple pocket knives, some rings, etc. just looking around but with the detector i think the best thing ive ever found was a working zippo. mostly foil, nails... some small change along paths

Serious detector guys looks like fucking dorks when they lug around multiple shovels, bags, vests, and pin-pointers

Gimmie a break. You dont need to be THAT suited up.

>>1061521
>Serious detector guys looks like fucking dorks when they lug around multiple shovels, bags, vests, and pin-pointers
>Gimmie a break. You dont need to be THAT suited up.

Obviously they don't give a flying fuck what you think. Who the fuck are you the fashion police? How exhausting it must be to imagine a collective normie dress code standard and ensuring you are always in compliance with it. You are everything that is wrong in this world.

>>1061544
>Opens up catalog
>Countless threads on gear, boots, knives, and clothing that are of quality; etc etc
>Even a thread about how to impress /out/ girls

>>"How exhausting it must be to imagine a collective normie dress code standard and ensuring you are always in compliance with it. You are everything that is wrong in this world."

and apparently I'm not the only one.

>>1061559
>>>1061544 (You)
>>Countless threads on gear, boots, knives, and clothing that are of quality; etc etc
>>Even a thread about how to impress /out/ girls
>>>apparently l'm not the only one.

Advice on gear that works has little to do with worrying how others perceive you when you look a certain way. put less effort in that and more in building your confidence you might even get laid instead of just reading about it.

>>1061521
Me and all the guys I know carry a detector and a shovel and not much else. Even then I usually set the shovel down somewhere and just carry the detector.

I'm a serious detector guy, I do it more than 40 hours most weeks. When I see someone packing around tons of gear I assume they're new.

>>1061647
Post finds I am curious.

Metal detecting seems like such an un-rewarding hobby to me, walking back and forth swinging a device, and 99 times out of 100 finding coins or nails or screws or something.

>>1061718
Then don't do it you big smelly fag. No one cares what you do or don't do

>>1061718
If you were gratified constantly you'd get bored.

>>1061727
Just trying to understand the appeal, you seem really asshurt.

>>1061729
Why should anyone justify why they like something to someone who clearly has a predisposed opposition to it?

>"you seem really asshurt"

How's middle school been bud?

>>1061736
>How's middle school been bud?
you're the one calling people big smelly fags for insulting your hobby lol

It's not like I called all metal detectors hitler apologists, just expressed my perception hoping others would elaborate on the appeal. why are you feeling so attacked bro?

>>1061759
>insults hobby
>expects people to inform you on anything
>"lol you're so mad dude"

>>1061544
>normie
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>1061778
metaldetectorfags truly are the most angry and pathetic people on this board.
>>>/r9k/

>>1061759
>hoping others would elaborate on the appeal.
I do it because my wife thinks I've quit smoking and drinking. So I go out in the woods and chug down whiskey from the flask while puffing Marlboros and come home smelling of bug spray.

the appeal is something to do in the woods if you're very bored and don't like danger or speed. It's very mellow, very private, and very relaxing. Sometimes you find something cool, but mostly you talk to other detectorists and random passers by who inevitably want to know if you're "finding anything." You see strange animals, you take interesting pictures. You repeatedly come close to being struck by lightning. And sometimes you find something cool.

>>1060271
ah, you'll be fine then

>>1060726
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED !

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>>1061697
>Post finds I am curious
ok, I find lots of stuff

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>>1061697
mostly just cool old junk

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>>1061697
some old suspenders buckles

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>>1061697
I sell a lot of stuff if it's worth anything. The stuff I have left is usually not worth much or I kept it because I really like it.

Dug coins usually aren't worth a lot.

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>>1061697
more junk

I find a lot of bullet shells and watch parts. I have a bunch of 5 gallon buckets in the garage just full of 1800's bullet shells and watch parts.

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>>1061856
>>1061858
>>1061860
>>1061861
>>1061864
Cool stuff anon.

>>1061868
Thanks!
I wanted to show you guys this really morbid little find I made a couple years back but I can't seem to find it now.

>>1061868
also of course...
saved

>>1061831
You sound like a nice person.

>>1061831
Thanks m8, makes more sense.
>You repeatedly come close to being struck by lightning
???

>>1061870
At least give us a description anon, I'm too curious now.

>>1061870
pls explain

>>1059100
Wow, it's in good shape for being buried in your yard!

>>1062072
>>1062076
>morbid find
Not that anon - but I bet it's either dog-tags, a (precious) metal tooth, or a medical implant of some sort.

>>1062259
Yeah, I am surprised it was here at all. Found it on a path through my woods just beyond the old pasture. As far as I know, prior to the 60s, this was just woods.

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>>1061977
>You sound like a nice person.
I'm not but thanks. I do like talking to people though. I'm very sociable for an autistic neckbeard.
>>1061983
>???
Standing out in fields for hours at a time in all sorts of weather. I've seen a lot of lightning up close and personal. Never been hit yet but I've seen trees and telephone poles less than 100 feet from me light up.
>>1062072
>>1062076
>>1062264
I was detecting an old burned down cabin. (This is common where I live, most of the old cabins have been burned by vandals). I found an old box spring from a child's bed. (also not rare, kid's mattresses are common finds). On the ground next to the mattress was a bit of a porcelain dolls face. (Doll parts are also common finds). The strange part was that this doll's face was burned and in the cabin, meaning it wasn't broken and thrown away- it was in the house when it burnt down. Right next to the kid's bed.

It made me curious so I went online to a database of local newspapers and searched fires where children died. Sure enough, in 1906 a cabin at that address burnt to the ground. The family escaped except for one 8 year old little girl who burned to death in her bed.

I have her dolly somewhere in my office, but I think my cat might have run off with it. He's a furry little dick like that.

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>>1062264
>a (precious) metal tooth
I do have a silver tooth with a titanium implant rod I found once. I figure it just came loose and someone tossed it though.

>>1060271
>reddit meme
kys

>>1061544
>quoting the entire post
kys

>>1061858
>>1061856
>>1061860
why save this crap?

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>>1062812
Because it's cool old stuff

>>1059016
I saw a kid digging a big hole in the middle of the woods near an old quarry network we have. He didnt have a metal detector he was just digging like shia lebouf.

>>1062812
It tells stories about the people that used it. Interesting stuff sometimes.

Like how pocket watches in the 1880's were as ubiquitous and popular as cell phones are today. And how every man carried a match case- if they smoked it was full of matches and if they didn't it was full of calling cards. How men and women wore corsets, even in the wild west. How popular shooting was, and which pistols and calibers were common. I know that miners back in the day commonly carried detonators around in their pockets, and that smoking pipes was very popular. I know what types of jewelry were worn by both men and women. I know that fraternal organizations operates as both insurance companies and labor unions back then- most men belonged to one. I know plastic combs were popular in the 1800's, something I wouldn't have expected. I know people had alarm clocks even when they didn't have indoor plumbing or electricity.

I just like what old trash says about the lives of people at the time. What it was like to live in a cabin in the woods of Colorado during the gold rush days. And these are my people too, my family moved here at that time. So I learn what it was like for them to live here, then. And it was interesting. In a lot of ways very different from my life now, but in other rather mundane ways it was quite similar.

>>1059016
Anyone know any cool historical sites in Canada i could go to? Seems not worth it where i am atm.

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>>1062418
Holy Fuck

>>1063037
Old mining or logging sites?

>>1063040
I had another one like that when I was a kid. My uncle had an old building on his property that used to be a whorehouse in the 1800's and early 1900's. I had heard about people hiding stuff under doorway floorboards, and he gave me permission to pull up the boards at the front of his building. Underneath we found a pile of whiskey bottles, some with dates of 1914 on them. We figured they were hidden during prohibition. A lot of them still had whiskey in them. In all we pulled out about 20 bottles from under those boards. As we were pulling the last bottles out my head started spinning and I felt like I was having a seizure. I felt like there was something else there.

I ran my fingers through the dust and found a pile of tiny bones. I had a feeling this wasn't somebody's pet cat or something. My uncle called the cops and they took the skeleton away. It turned out to be a human baby, probably from one of the prostitutes that lived and worked there.

Death was common enough back then, but it's still a bit creepy to encounter signs of it.

>>1063016
Best post I've read on 4chins in a long time.

>>1063052
thanks! It's not the first time I've had to explain why I have shelves full of old trash.

Just found a bag of krugerrand coins, nice

>>1061858
Would you ever restore the pocket knife?

>>1064018
nah. I don't mind having dead people's stuff on my shelf but I'd feel weird carrying it around or using it.

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>>1062806
> south park episode airs in 1999
> reddit is founded in 2005
Fucking summerfags also underage b&!