Love metal detecting but like others said, there are so many doing it now that it is hard to find much. I live in Florida and live hitting the beaches. I meet so many nice people there. Wish we lived closer. We have a lot in common as I like fishing too.
I started detecting in the 80's. Didn't see that many people out. Now, you're right, seems like everyone has one! Come to Ohio and we'll fish and detect!
It is an excellent hobby. One of my cousins and her husband came for a visit. When the husband discovered the property had been in the family since 1943, he was anxious to metal-detect it. In my front yard, he found a button from a Union soldier's uniform and a Civil War-era bullet. He and my cousin were big into Civil War reenactments and were pleased to have found them. I keep them in a small archival box.
HA HA! I see this all winter long across the street on the beach! It's an easier dig in the sand. But Buzz you'd have to find a lot of quarters to break even on this hobby. But hey you're having fun and getting some exercise! All good!
I’ve watched a couple of your videos…I would highly recommend reading FALLING UPWARD, BY RICHARD ROHR. Prior to retiring I was dealing with serious stress from my job. My physician suggested I consider retiring and recommended this book to me. It has been my “retirement bible “ and gave me “permission “ to relax and smell the roses.
Back in a prior "wifetime", I used to do some metal detecting. Always hit the jackpot under the stands at the local high school footbal/soccer fields.Still have an old, cheap detector and have thought of getting back out there.
I'll bet you found a lot of dimes, since you were metal detecting on a golf coarse. 😁 I've been doing metal detecting for years, and love every minute of it.
Didn't spend a lot of time but it's close enough to get there often. Two quarters and a penny all by the cart path. The tee areas were clean which surprised me I guess.
Leave it like you found it. I used to go metal detecting with my dad when I was a kid back in the 70's. Never found much but I don't think that was the point. Thanks for the memory, sir.
That looks like so fun! Thanks for sharing! I saw a person put all his finds in a small box mostly as rememberances (is that a word) and to show! Show us more as you find interesting items. Love your videos.
3-Older Garretts here :) Water detecting I have a weighted head with longer cable the detector body stays in rubber raft I made a handle to go with rest :) works like a dream , the weighted head is key for water :)
Nice job Buzz. Dave and I enjoyed the video. I had a signal once that rang up like a penny in the bark at the park, to my surprise was a silver ring with diamonds. You just never know!
My husband does this. He thinks up some ingenious idea to go here or there but it's obviously something a hundred other people thought up. He's never made a dime. However, he stil has fun and that's the point.
This one hit the spot for me, last week i was watching videos about hobbies and run into metal detecting along the Florida coast and I am hooked! I know it's a long way from Columbus, Ohio but I can start on the shores of Lake Erie and State Parks. I let you know in a few weeks.
Great hobby, been doing it since 2011! have used the AT Pro under water and it worked great. I will be retiring soon and hope I can stay in shape metal detecting more often. You are right, the older I get the harder it is to keep going all day. Good Luck!
Hobby time!!! Gosh we can’t wait to jump into hobbies again. We were just talking about how we gave up all hobbies once we had kids and life took over.
So fun! I’d love to have a go. I have my Mum’s old metal detector but it is 98% broken. It just about found my neighbour’s washing line tube in the grass where the grass had grown over it and he forgot where it was. Now it just makes a crackle, not related to finding anything 😂 Maybe I’ll get a new one 👍
Gave Gramps a metal detector for his birthday one year because he had a small gold claim that he visited occasionally. In the end he didn't use the detector at the claim but on the logs, he ran thru his sawmill. A big nail that was used for a fence or an insulator for a power line embedded into the log could do real damage to his saw blade.
Used to dig holes as kids all the time, mostly would find sharks teeth on the beach in Florida but dreamt of Spanish treasure. In TX now and have a very old downtown area that I'd love to metal detect along with some older sites close by. Similar setup as you, except I use a beginner metal detector. I looked up my detector online and Amazon has it marked 52% off for a whopping total of 71 bucks...LOL. I've used it successfully around the house and it works, says it has a waterproof coil as well. Hopefully, I wasn't one and done and can get excited about finding treasure again.
The most important thing to bring on a metal detecting hunt is a young lad to do the digging for you ;-) (learned that from Gary Drayton of Curse of Oak Island show)
Fun! Only 1,600 more quarters and your equipment will have paid for itself!!! 😂 How much fun would it be to do metal detecting in a battlefield or ollllllllld abandoned town or fairgrounds. I'm sure the 'finds' are fewer and fewer as we use cash/coins less and less. This was interesting. Wishing you a 'top pocket find' (Gary Drayton) real soon!!
If you'v enever watched The Dectorists on Prime, I highly recommend it. Just a lovely, funny series (3 seasons I believe). Set in a small town in England.
AT pro is a great detector, had mine bout 10 years or so.. gold rings are in the 52 range,,so is a lot of garbage.. that’s what I use the camo bag for .. coins in my front pocket.. rings , chains,etc in my back pocket… which I don’t show anyone if they ask …HAVE FUN!!!
I have a detector somewhere lol 🤷♂️Hopefully I removed the batteries so they didn’t corrode in the thing, I have been thinking about trying it lately, went camping last week and seen a guy with one & made me think about that, something to pass the time and maybe make some spare change, it takes a little bit to break even on the cost of batteries lol
Just thinking about the batteries I had to buy when we went camping lol didn’t realize they had gone up in price too like most everything else it was fresh in my mind thinking about that detector lol
A friend of mine told me about ground hog holes. Check the dirt that they throw out of their holes. He has found all kinds of cool stuff. The best is a bone bracelet made by Indians. Very cool!
I’d like to someday check that out. I’d have someone else do the digging though since sadly I’m afraid of anything that could crawl or squirm out of the soil or ground. It does seem like therapeutic as well .
Super interesting. I've always wanted to get into that. About 30 years ago my wife and I were doing some yard work, pulling weeds, and she lost her wedding ring. We never could find it, but I remember approximately where she lost it. Now we live down the street from our old house. I'd like to get a metal detector and ask the new owners if I can search for her ring. It's a long shot, but who knows?
You'd find it. Even a cheap detector would find it. A Garrett Ace 250 is $224 on Amazon. Sometimes you can rent them at the local rental center. Good luck! Buzz
Funny. When I work out at the beach I see these guys combing around for stuff. I usually drop my car keys in the sand while I train, but I keep an eye on those guys because I don’t want my car keys getting ripped off. BTW my car is a 1985 Toyota truck and doesn’t have a fob.
@@BuzzRetirementGarageI bought it 2021 after my 1999 Subaru died. I took the Subaru to my mechanic and after a month he told me he couldn’t fix it. My truck is in pretty good condition for a truck this old. Toyota had no name for these trucks other than truck. They named them Tacomas after 1995. I call mine Municipal Junk. It is a stick shift and fun to drive. It just went over 200000 miles.
You're on pace to pay yourself about $1.50 an hour, might have to work some OT to pay for the detector. I bought myself a big magnet to go magnet fishing when I take my dog swimming, I mostly bring up rocks with all the iron in them. No treasures so far.
This is awesome. I've a buddy in a fellow Civil War buff whose grandfather bought him a metal detector for his fourteenth birthday. Digging in National Battlefield Parks is forbidden, but if you read officers' reports from the period, you can figure out where the Armies camped during winter. Alls you have to do is ask a farmer's permission to walk his land with a dtector and you wouldn't believe what my buddy has found over the years. Keep it up, Buzz. Fun stuff!
That would be fun hunting civil war relics but those areas of battles I'd be too respectful even if it was legal. The farmers fields in my area are becoming fewer and fewer. Sad.
Years ago I found a class ring that we couldn't find the owner to do o pawned it. Was nice extra money in my youth. Currently I have about 5 jars of coins. Nothing really valuable My goal when I detect is to find old silver. Nothing like it when it comes out of the ground.
Not related to metal detecting - has the spotted lantern fly invaded Ohio yet? Came home to hundreds of them on my property. Killing these things is a full time job 😂
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That’s a great hobby.
It gets you outside walking, digging, and generally doing things.
I might have to try this sometime.
If I lived out west I'd be targeting gold for sure. There are machines made for that.
@@BuzzRetirementGarage that’s exactly what I’m thinking. Find some tailings and have at it.
Love metal detecting but like others said, there are so many doing it now that it is hard to find much. I live in Florida and live hitting the beaches. I meet so many nice people there. Wish we lived closer. We have a lot in common as I like fishing too.
I started detecting in the 80's. Didn't see that many people out. Now, you're right, seems like everyone has one! Come to Ohio and we'll fish and detect!
It is an excellent hobby. One of my cousins and her husband came for a visit. When the husband discovered the property had been in the family since 1943, he was anxious to metal-detect it. In my front yard, he found a button from a Union soldier's uniform and a Civil War-era bullet. He and my cousin were big into Civil War reenactments and were pleased to have found them. I keep them in a small archival box.
That's terrific! I need to find some older places.
HA HA! I see this all winter long across the street on the beach! It's an easier dig in the sand. But Buzz you'd have to find a lot of quarters to break even on this hobby. But hey you're having fun and getting some exercise! All good!
Cheaper than golf!
One of my hobbies as well. The one thing I learned metal detecting is the amount of Garbage in the ground is mind blowing.
You are right! At least when I recycle it at home I feel like an earth contributer.
I’ve watched a couple of your videos…I would highly recommend reading FALLING UPWARD, BY RICHARD ROHR. Prior to retiring I was dealing with serious stress from my job. My physician suggested I consider retiring and recommended this book to me. It has been my “retirement bible “ and gave me “permission “ to relax and smell the roses.
I'll add it to my list. I always look for good reads for the winter. Thanks. Buzz
Looks fun Buzz. Please show your collection of cool things you found over the years!?
Mostly dirty clad coins, car keys, cosmetic jewelry and hundreds of pull tabs. Lol
Lol Oh well, maybe you will hit it big someday! 😊@@BuzzRetirementGarage
@@willay747 One can only dream.
Back in a prior "wifetime", I used to do some metal detecting. Always hit the jackpot under the stands at the local high school footbal/soccer fields.Still have an old, cheap detector and have thought of getting back out there.
I'll bet you found a lot of dimes, since you were metal detecting on a golf coarse. 😁 I've been doing metal detecting for years, and love every minute of it.
Didn't spend a lot of time but it's close enough to get there often. Two quarters and a penny all by the cart path. The tee areas were clean which surprised me I guess.
Leave it like you found it. I used to go metal detecting with my dad when I was a kid back in the 70's. Never found much but I don't think that was the point. Thanks for the memory, sir.
I wish my daughters would have wanted to try it. That's ok though. Glad you had those memories with your dad.
Sweet Hobby !
I hope you find some 50's Cleveland Browns helmets jerseys , and beer money !
Ramblings from a retired Lunatic !
Anything old would be sweet.
That looks like so fun! Thanks for sharing! I saw a person put all his finds in a small box mostly as rememberances (is that a word) and to show! Show us more as you find interesting items.
Love your videos.
Thanks! Nothing too good today. Just the two quarters and a penny. Was a farmers field before it turned into a golf course in the 70's I believe.
3-Older Garretts here :) Water detecting I have a weighted head with longer cable the detector body stays in rubber raft I made a handle to go with rest :) works like a dream , the weighted head is key for water :)
Good idea.
Nice job Buzz. Dave and I enjoyed the video. I had a signal once that rang up like a penny in the bark at the park, to my surprise was a silver ring with diamonds. You just never know!
I usually dig everything unless it's a big surface object which is usually a cut up beer or pop can. Fun being out!
My husband does this. He thinks up some ingenious idea to go here or there but it's obviously something a hundred other people thought up. He's never made a dime. However, he stil has fun and that's the point.
This made us giggle! 😂
This is very funny and very familiar
Fun and excersice!
Very interesting thanks for sharing
Thanks!
Great hobby. I’m the old guy in the ocean metal detecting
You probably have stories to tell!
This one hit the spot for me, last week i was watching videos about hobbies and run into metal detecting along the Florida coast and I am hooked! I know it's a long way from Columbus, Ohio but I can start on the shores of Lake Erie and State Parks. I let you know in a few weeks.
Yes, let me know!
Great hobby, been doing it since 2011! have used the AT Pro under water and it worked great. I will be retiring soon and hope I can stay in shape metal detecting more often. You are right, the older I get the harder it is to keep going all day. Good Luck!
Today the sun was beating down and when I got home I had to nap for a few. Lol
Hobby time!!! Gosh we can’t wait to jump into hobbies again. We were just talking about how we gave up all hobbies once we had kids and life took over.
It happens. I always kept fishing and detecting while the kids were growing up. Neither took an interest but that's ok.
Nice tutorial Buzz!!!
Glad you think so!
Glad you think so!
So fun! I’d love to have a go. I have my Mum’s old metal detector but it is 98% broken. It just about found my neighbour’s washing line tube in the grass where the grass had grown over it and he forgot where it was. Now it just makes a crackle, not related to finding anything 😂 Maybe I’ll get a new one 👍
It's great excersice. Lot's of places are off limits and I'm not a fanatic about it. Bending down and back up repeatedly is getting tougher!
Get yourself a small foldable seat/chair! :)
Save your back!
@@ejeanroh377 Backs fine. Knees and legs.
Good exercise LOL
Absolutely!
I have a Technetics T2. Found a Gold Ring and 3 silver rings with it. Silver coins and a diamond pendant. I use the garrett probe.
I heard that's a good detector. It's fun getting out once in a while.
Gave Gramps a metal detector for his birthday one year because he had a small gold claim that he visited occasionally. In the end he didn't use the detector at the claim but on the logs, he ran thru his sawmill. A big nail that was used for a fence or an insulator for a power line embedded into the log could do real damage to his saw blade.
He put that detector o good use! Smart man.
Used to dig holes as kids all the time, mostly would find sharks teeth on the beach in Florida but dreamt of Spanish treasure. In TX now and have a very old downtown area that I'd love to metal detect along with some older sites close by. Similar setup as you, except I use a beginner metal detector. I looked up my detector online and Amazon has it marked 52% off for a whopping total of 71 bucks...LOL. I've used it successfully around the house and it works, says it has a waterproof coil as well. Hopefully, I wasn't one and done and can get excited about finding treasure again.
I'd love to detect a foreign land. The older the better!
Cool hobby. Maybe some interesting times on old golf course
The course is fairly old so I'm hoping for silver eventually.
I have learned something new! 😃
I did too. Don't wear shorts in a poison ivy patch. I scrubbed my legs with a Mr Clean sponge. Hopefully it works. Lol
The most important thing to bring on a metal detecting hunt is a young lad to do the digging for you ;-)
(learned that from Gary Drayton of Curse of Oak Island show)
That would be smart.
Fun! Only 1,600 more quarters and your equipment will have paid for itself!!! 😂 How much fun would it be to do metal detecting in a battlefield or ollllllllld abandoned town or fairgrounds. I'm sure the 'finds' are fewer and fewer as we use cash/coins less and less. This was interesting. Wishing you a 'top pocket find' (Gary Drayton) real soon!!
It is fun. Just like water fishing, dirt fishing is fun even if I don't find anything exciting.
Fun!
And excersice!
Two quarters in 20 minutes. A new income stream!😂😂 That’s a neat hobby Buzz. Looks like you have a decent setup. Ever find anything really good?
I've got jars of coins, some silver coins but nothing to brag about.
@@BuzzRetirementGarage Cool! Have to keep your treasure.😀
If you'v enever watched The Dectorists on Prime, I highly recommend it. Just a lovely, funny series (3 seasons I believe). Set in a small town in England.
I was going to say the same thing! I love that show so much.
@@GinaStanyerBooks Don't call them detectors, they're detectorists. ;)
@@nancywebb4676 😂
Haven't yet but I will!
AT pro is a great detector, had mine bout 10 years or so.. gold rings are in the 52 range,,so is a lot of garbage.. that’s what I use the camo bag for .. coins in my front pocket.. rings , chains,etc in my back pocket… which I don’t show anyone if they ask …HAVE FUN!!!
I've only found a couple rings. I love finding silver. Makes my heart jump.
I have a detector somewhere lol 🤷♂️Hopefully I removed the batteries so they didn’t corrode in the thing, I have been thinking about trying it lately, went camping last week and seen a guy with one & made me think about that, something to pass the time and maybe make some spare change, it takes a little bit to break even on the cost of batteries lol
I don't worry about the cost. Gives me excersice, relaxation and sometimes I make a buck. Lol
Just thinking about the batteries I had to buy when we went camping lol didn’t realize they had gone up in price too like most everything else it was fresh in my mind thinking about that detector lol
A friend of mine told me about ground hog holes. Check the dirt that they throw out of their holes. He has found all kinds of cool stuff. The best is a bone bracelet made by Indians. Very cool!
That's an idea. Haven't seen any on the golf course yet but it makes sense!
@@BuzzRetirementGarage Tree lines and rail road tracks!
I’d like to someday check that out. I’d have someone else do the digging though since sadly I’m afraid of anything that could crawl or squirm out of the soil or ground. It does seem like therapeutic as well .
I've never had anything crawl out of the hole. Maybe a few bugs but nothing dangerous.
Super interesting. I've always wanted to get into that. About 30 years ago my wife and I were doing some yard work, pulling weeds, and she lost her wedding ring. We never could find it, but I remember approximately where she lost it. Now we live down the street from our old house. I'd like to get a metal detector and ask the new owners if I can search for her ring. It's a long shot, but who knows?
You'd find it. Even a cheap detector would find it. A Garrett Ace 250 is $224 on Amazon. Sometimes you can rent them at the local rental center. Good luck! Buzz
Funny. When I work out at the beach I see these guys combing around for stuff. I usually drop my car keys in the sand while I train, but I keep an eye on those guys because I don’t want my car keys getting ripped off. BTW my car is a 1985 Toyota truck and doesn’t have a fob.
Wow! That trucks held up well. A Tacoma maybe?
@@BuzzRetirementGarageI bought it 2021 after my 1999 Subaru died. I took the Subaru to my mechanic and after a month he told me he couldn’t fix it. My truck is in pretty good condition for a truck this old. Toyota had no name for these trucks other than truck. They named them Tacomas after 1995. I call mine Municipal Junk. It is a stick shift and fun to drive. It just went over 200000 miles.
@@williamread8186 That's funny!
Very nice field. Interesting. I knew nothing about this. Tell us what the best thing you ever found was :)
Silver coins. Nothing really great but I have jars full of coins.
@@BuzzRetirementGarage cool :)
I gotta cheapie detector to play with. I just bought 7+ acres to check out!
You're on pace to pay yourself about $1.50 an hour, might have to work some OT to pay for the detector. I bought myself a big magnet to go magnet fishing when I take my dog swimming, I mostly bring up rocks with all the iron in them. No treasures so far.
Not really about the money. I like history so I'm always interested in finding something old.
😅 i have a metal detector! used on shore of lake…. i kept finding….. fishing lures 😟… no pirate gold yet 🙂
and… I’m talking man-made Texas lake shores… yes I will accept any and all pity 😔…. #TexasLakePirates #gold! 😂
I'll be taking mine to the lake when the water gets cooler. Less crowds.
It’s difficult finding somewhere worthwhile detecting.
That's true. Need to research places.
We’ve never done metal detecting
It's never too late?
I have an AT Pro, 17 miles of public beach, less than a mile from my house.
I haven't been detecting in 4 years.
What's wrong with this picture?
Time to get it!
When i saw the thumbnail, i thought you were mole hunting!
No but that's funny.
Leave it better than you found it......Does that mean you should leave a half-dollar in place of the quarter?
Probably should?
This is awesome. I've a buddy in a fellow Civil War buff whose grandfather bought him a metal detector for his fourteenth birthday.
Digging in National Battlefield Parks is forbidden, but if you read officers' reports from the period, you can figure out where the Armies camped during winter.
Alls you have to do is ask a farmer's permission to walk his land with a dtector and you wouldn't believe what my buddy has found over the years.
Keep it up, Buzz. Fun stuff!
That would be fun hunting civil war relics but those areas of battles I'd be too respectful even if it was legal. The farmers fields in my area are becoming fewer and fewer. Sad.
Do you also make your own beer?
I don't like beer. Weird huh?
I know you do it for a hobby, but have you ever found anything valuable?
Years ago I found a class ring that we couldn't find the owner to do o pawned it. Was nice extra money in my youth. Currently I have about 5 jars of coins. Nothing really valuable
My goal when I detect is to find old silver. Nothing like it when it comes out of the ground.
Not related to metal detecting - has the spotted lantern fly invaded Ohio yet? Came home to hundreds of them on my property. Killing these things is a full time job 😂
I've had an eye out for them but haven't seen any yet.
Yep, they’re in Ohio now.