Not new To Metal Detecting. Just New To Its Technologies

[basset]

Not New To metal Detecting Just New Ti It Technologies
Hi To All
I am not new to metal detecting. I first got the bug when I was going to college back in the late 60's. I was indroducec to detecting by a friend that worked for White Electronics. I bought my first detector, (Bounty Hunter) just after I got out of college (1972). I hunted sites in Central Texas while I was in the Army and then in Eastern KY. I then got away from metal detecting for awhile. About a year ago I bought a Bounty Hunter Sharpshooter II and due to Geocaching and a very busy lifestyle I didn't take the time to use my detector. I have just recently brushed the dust off and found my first $0.27 cents in a local school yard.
Since my first Bounty Hunter was a basic model I am not quite up to stuff on all of the technologies that my Sharpshooter II has to offer.
Will more than likely have alot of questions to ask as I start using my detector.
Basset

[JoAnne]

Welcome Basset - Ask away and I am sure you will get the answers you need. This site has the best people who are more than willing to help. Good luck and welcome back to this great hobby. JoAnne

[ECACE]

Welcome back to the hobby. TQ is a great place with a lot of helpful people. Just think, since you last detected, how much good stuff has been lost and is waiting for you to find it! Good luck.

Eric

[Gregory]

Welcome to TQ Basset now get out there and find some finds for us to see

[basset]

Thanks For The Welcome.
Working two jobs and things to do around the house has kinda slowed me down in the past year or two. I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I plan soon to start back geocaching and detecting on a more regular basis.
Basset

[basset]

Thanks to all for the warm welcome to TQ. Will get back into the swing of things and start posting some of my finds soon.
Basset

[Joe(TX)]

Being an old timer in metal detecting you may be more comfortable with an older vintage machine. Some of thes oldies-machines can still keep up with the new machines in the right circumstances. The older machines were more simple and non-complicated. Most had one mode and one dug everything , others ignored small iron and was and still is... hot on non-ferrous objects. Still others had basic discrimination to ignore bottlecaps or pulltabs and they all did this without motion and there was never a pin-pointing problem. Also due to the intensity of the audio and meter one could tell the difference between a shallow and deep object or between a coin or a beer can!! Of course, it helps if you live in an area of non-mineralization or you can alway get a VLF/TR to compensate for any of these problems!!! Good Luck!!!

[basset]

Sure wished I had my old BH Compass. Back then I believe that discrimination was still basically a very ne technology. If I remember right the Compass only had a on/off switch and a tone adjustment. The only real fancy detector that I used was a White and that belonged to a friend of mine when I was in college, the late 60's.

Basset

[Joe(TX)]

Bassett, did you mean your Bounty Hunter or old Compass metal detector? The Compass 77B and 94B was and still is a highly sought after machine especialy in mint or near-mint condition. In nail infested sites it will still out-perform any of the modern machines, as it ignores the nails and sees the coins underneath them! Not as familiar with the the Bounty Hunter Line but I do see a few pop-up especially the IB100, IB200, and IB300 and also the BH DE280 Outlaw which is a pretty good VLF/TR machine. If you need help to scout out a copy of your old machine let me know exactly what model it is and I will keep an eye out for it on xxxx and will let you know if I spot one. Of course you can do the same........ If you want to email me direct I'm at tsherrod818@netzero.com

[basset]

You know as one gets older and the brain cells die from abuse things that used to be sometimes comes back alittle fuzzy.

Let me re-phrase my last transmission. It was a Compass Metal Detector . Not A Bounty Hunter.

Thanks for getting me straight and taking me back several years.

I ask my Mom last night what happened to my old metal detector. It seems I brought it home and somehow it was sold in a yard sale several years ago.
I didn't know that Compass made a metal detector any more?

I went to E-Bay after I read your post and there it was a detector very similar to the one I owned.
I can say oneday I would like to have another Compass very similar to the old one. Since you have gotten me down the right path of memory lane I may start looking and would appreciate it if you would keep your eye open. if the price is right who knows it may find a new home.

Thanks Joe.
Basset