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Hello - New Member(s)

madmanx

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Location
Wilmington, NC
I'm Bud and my wife is Sue. This past Christmas I surprised my wife with her first MD (Whites TreasurePro). She loves combing the beaches where we live for shells and sharks teeth and I thought this might interest her too. To say she's taken to it like a fish to water is an understatement.

We have been going out to together and actually finding "stuff" (coolest find to-date is an 1867 2-cent piece), but it's completely random. Getting tired of carrying the shovel and gear, I bought myself a lightly used Garrett GTI 2500. We are now hunting together. In 26 years of marriage this is one of a very few things we actually do together and enjoy.

We live in Wilmington, NC and was hoping to join up with a club/group but it seems there aren't any active clubs in the area.

We haven't worked up the nerve to start "asking for permissions" yet, so our hunting has been limited to the beach, abandoned trailer parks, empty fields (that allow us some privacy), and dirt parking lots around closed businesses or on the weekend when they aren't open. Taking a little risk but we leave everything cleaner (and all holes filled) than when we came. We usually end up with more trash than finds.

We learn a lot from reading this forum and other references. Would love to accompany a mentor into areas that aren't landfills (like trailer parks), so hopefully we'll find one in the area.

Lots of questions coming (like: can someone tell me what this is).

Thanks for having us.
Bud & Sue
 
Hello Bud and Sue. Welcome to the forum.

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Greetings from "Parts Unknown" NY!

Had family live in condos down there and know the area. Just becareful.

Have you thought of starting your own club?

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Welcome from Salinas/Monterey CA

.... (coolest find to-date is an 1867 2-cent piece), but it's completely random. ....

Nah, not random at all. You're on the east coast. So those pesky 2-cent pieces and large cents and colonial coppers are everywhere ! :laughing:
 
Welcome from Salinas/Monterey CA



Nah, not random at all. You're on the east coast. So those pesky 2-cent pieces and large cents and colonial coppers are everywhere ! :laughing:

Yeah, we pave the streets with old coins :laughing:

After detecting now for about 5 months I realize how lucky Sue and I were to find the coin on one of our first hunts. In the same empty field, that has never been developed on but used as a garbage dump for years, we found this very cool 60's cap gun. Funny thing is as cool as the coin is, I was almost more excited over the gun :cool3: Yes, I'm a 61 year old kid.

Thanks for the warm greetings.
Bud
 

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:fmdfwelcome: We're glad to have you, Bud & Sue! Congrats on the fantastic 2-cent piece and the cool cap gun... you're both off to a great start, and we hope to hear about your future finds, as well! It's really nice that the two of you can enjoy the hobby together. I'm blessed to have my dad and two brothers as detecting partners, and we so enjoy the opportunity to make memories together. :yes:

Happy hunting to both of you, and we'll look forward to reading your posts!
 
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