Getting ready

OK, I have everything ready for my marathon week of metal detecting. I plan on doing at least 2 to 4 hours a day for the next 7 days or so.  I will be working some of the beautiful beachs of North Carolina to see what I can find.   I plan on making daily post so, with pics, so that anyone who is interested can see how I am doing.

Hope you follow along.  It should be interesting.

First outings

Yesterday my friend J and I took out the new metal detector just to play around with it a little and start to learn the machine.  J suggested Winthrope Lake so I said why not.  I guess we were out there about an hour in an admittedly "low trafic" area.  While we didn't find a whole lot, I did learn a lot about how to use the machine, how to listen to the tones (the Bounty Hunter 505 only uses 3 tones) and how to put together what I was hearing with what I was seeing to help ID the target.

I left the detector in the truck last night when I got home so today on the way back from taking off trash I decided to stop at a local school playground and see it there was anything waiting to be found.  I think the playground a was hunting on is used by very young, 5-8, children so I didn't know what I would find. I spent about 20 mins in the HOT sun and found 2 quarters.  More importantly, I have gained more valuable knowledge about how my machine performs and lets me know what it is detecting.

Total time detecting.......about 1hr 20 mins

Items found...... 1Nail
                         2 metal straps
                         1 pc of possible lead roof tile
                         1 Zinc Penny
                         2 modern quaters

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How it all started

Well, about a week ago I decided it would be fun to take a metal detector to the beach in a couple of weeks so I happened to mention to my dad my idea to see if he knew anyone with a metal detector that we could take to the beach.  Well, low and behold he offered to buy us one, along with a couple of accessories. 

While I was in college I worked at a hobby store that sold White's metal detectors.  I learned a lot about metal detectors back then and even went through the White's factory training. I got to take one out several times and do a little coin shooting and such, but never have owned one.

Well, not wanting to try and take advantage of my dad's generosity I looked around and even though some people don't like it for beach use, I decided that the Bounty Hunter Pioneer 505 was probably what my family and I needed right now.

So, now we have a metal detector and I have decided to keep on online log/blog about our adventures with it.