UPDATE: Thank you for all the people who read this, and an even bigger thanks to all the people who took the time to reply! I didn't realize this many people are this friendly and willing to help!
Hi there to everyone reading this!
My name is Max, I live in Florida, and I am 14 years old.
In the world of metal detecting, that makes me feel especially young.
I want to share my metal detecting story (that is in no way over yet) with all of you, and tell me if this seems relatable (probably not).
Ok, so I live in an area with a lot of very nice hotels that are insanely expensive and giant beachfront houses and condos bigger than my entire house, etc. etc., and it feels weird to be so close to all that wealth and not be able to access it.
Living 10 mins away from the beach, I always have loved to go there, and every once in a while I would see someone with a metal detector, and my 5-year-old self would always run up to him and ask what 'treasure' he found.
So I've always found the idea of metal detecting cool, but up until I turned 13, it wasn't something I seriously considered doing. THEN, I read an article about how a man found a $100,000 Sanskrit plate about 20 miles away from where I live. THEN I got the "treasure bug".
SO, after a bunch of research and pleading, I convinced my parents to spend pretty much all of my birthday money (and future birthday money) for me to get pretty much a professional metal detecting set. I got a Tesoro Sand Shark, a Garrett ProPointer, a knee-high sand-scoop, and some special pouch for holding my finds. I was as happy as can be, I went out... and found a lot of stuff (mostly trash) and I couldn't believe the world of treasure underneath the sand. Soon, I found my first 'good' find. A 1944 Washington quarter. After that, I knew that I was never going to stop doing this.
1 YEAR LATER: So I probably go to the beach now maybe once or twice a month, this isn't a hobby I can do every week because I'm a kid, I have school, people can't always take me to the beach etc. I realize that I am probably not the only one metal detecting here because I cannot go at the best times, usually only during the afternoon to sunset, so I feel that the best stuff is already taken. This year, my parents surprised me with something shocking:
a Garrett AT MAX (funny, it's also my name). With this amazing gift, I realize there is a whole world of treasure outside the beach.
The only problem is that there really isn't anywhere else to metal detect in Florida, and I don't want to use the AT MAX at the beach for various reasons. At the same time, I don't want to just sell it or give it away because it is fantastic pretty much everywhere else, and the way things are going, I'd love to go on some metal detecting adventures this summer. I just really don't know where or how (yet).
So that's my metal detecting story, thank you for reading this, and my question for you is, where do you think I should go from here?
Hi there to everyone reading this!
My name is Max, I live in Florida, and I am 14 years old.
In the world of metal detecting, that makes me feel especially young.
I want to share my metal detecting story (that is in no way over yet) with all of you, and tell me if this seems relatable (probably not).
Ok, so I live in an area with a lot of very nice hotels that are insanely expensive and giant beachfront houses and condos bigger than my entire house, etc. etc., and it feels weird to be so close to all that wealth and not be able to access it.
Living 10 mins away from the beach, I always have loved to go there, and every once in a while I would see someone with a metal detector, and my 5-year-old self would always run up to him and ask what 'treasure' he found.
So I've always found the idea of metal detecting cool, but up until I turned 13, it wasn't something I seriously considered doing. THEN, I read an article about how a man found a $100,000 Sanskrit plate about 20 miles away from where I live. THEN I got the "treasure bug".
SO, after a bunch of research and pleading, I convinced my parents to spend pretty much all of my birthday money (and future birthday money) for me to get pretty much a professional metal detecting set. I got a Tesoro Sand Shark, a Garrett ProPointer, a knee-high sand-scoop, and some special pouch for holding my finds. I was as happy as can be, I went out... and found a lot of stuff (mostly trash) and I couldn't believe the world of treasure underneath the sand. Soon, I found my first 'good' find. A 1944 Washington quarter. After that, I knew that I was never going to stop doing this.
1 YEAR LATER: So I probably go to the beach now maybe once or twice a month, this isn't a hobby I can do every week because I'm a kid, I have school, people can't always take me to the beach etc. I realize that I am probably not the only one metal detecting here because I cannot go at the best times, usually only during the afternoon to sunset, so I feel that the best stuff is already taken. This year, my parents surprised me with something shocking:
a Garrett AT MAX (funny, it's also my name). With this amazing gift, I realize there is a whole world of treasure outside the beach.
The only problem is that there really isn't anywhere else to metal detect in Florida, and I don't want to use the AT MAX at the beach for various reasons. At the same time, I don't want to just sell it or give it away because it is fantastic pretty much everywhere else, and the way things are going, I'd love to go on some metal detecting adventures this summer. I just really don't know where or how (yet).
So that's my metal detecting story, thank you for reading this, and my question for you is, where do you think I should go from here?
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