madmanx
New Member
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
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