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Pizzabrewer

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Any metal detectorists here?
« on: May 21, 2020, 01:53:53 PM »
It’s a hobby I’ve often thought I’d enjoy and after binge-watching the BBC show (which is great BTW), I’m thinking of taking the plunge. Particularly as the weather has finally turned glorious and I have plenty of unemployed time on my hands.

I’ve done some research and it looks like it’d be $1200 - $1500 to get decently kitted out.

Any advice, comments or suggestions?  TIA

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Re: Any metal detectorists here?
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2020, 03:47:27 PM »
I have not done this either, but always wanted to.

I also greatly enjoyed the tv show and was quite sad it was so short. But they did wrap things up nicely.


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Re: Any metal detectorists here?
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2020, 05:44:28 AM »
I've got a friend who's into it and I've gone along a few times. She didn't spend anywhere near that on her detector. She had a few good places, like parks and fields after events like markets. She found a lot of coins. The beach was quite interesting. Mainly found rubbish, but a couple of old bits of jewellery, not worth anything but still we found treasure.