bruinvikes
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I’m a truck driver and I was picking up a load at the Ford plant in Woodhaven Michigan. When I walked in there was another driver sitting there going through a box of rolled half dollars in search of silver. I struck up a conversation with him and told him that I was a metal detectorist. A Ford supervisor overheard me telling him that and proceeded to tell me that he bought a detector at a thrift store/flea market for his grandson years ago but his grandson never showed interest so it has been sitting in his closet for all of these years. He wasn’t sure what make or model it was but told me that it had a blue box on it. He told me that I could have it if I wanted it. He saw me two days later and he had brought the machine in for me to take. The machine didn’t have a blue box on it, but instead it was black. It ended up being a Bounty Hunter Pioneer 101. It’s definitely not one of my Fisher machines, but it was free nonetheless. Don’t take me wrong, I’m not at all bashing the Bounty Hunter line. In fact, there’s a bunch of people in the hobby that started out with these machines and some still use them and are happy with them.
There is a house a couple of miles away that once was a one room schoolhouse and the homeowner has a couple of sons. What I’m thinking about doing is trying to secure permission to hunt his yard and to help land permission I might offer for his boys to swing the Bounty Hunter and whatever they find is there’s to keep. What does everyone think of that tactic? I figure the kids might get excited and then their parents might not be able to say “no” once they see the excitement on their faces.
There is a house a couple of miles away that once was a one room schoolhouse and the homeowner has a couple of sons. What I’m thinking about doing is trying to secure permission to hunt his yard and to help land permission I might offer for his boys to swing the Bounty Hunter and whatever they find is there’s to keep. What does everyone think of that tactic? I figure the kids might get excited and then their parents might not be able to say “no” once they see the excitement on their faces.