Why is metal detecting hardly discussed here, it is an excellent way of finding gold, silver, pirate 'booty' and the like.
>>62471892Id like to. I ruined my year opportunity in Idaho. What’s the cheapest you can get away with for a quality metal detector
>>62471892>it is an excellent way of finding gold, silver, pirate 'booty' and the like.kek noI've been metal detecting for almost 40 years and I've found less than an ounce of gold total and less than 5 ounces of silver. No pirate booty whatsoeverI have found literal buckets of bullet shells and plumbing fixtures though.
>>62471892This is a US based board and for a country with a maximum of 300 years of history there is no precious anything to be found anywhere with a metal detector.
>>62471895about two fiddy
>>62471913I've found close to $50k worth of relics, they just weren't silver or gold.also that's less than $2k per year if anyone wants to do the math. Pennies per hour. Probably didn't pay for my gas and definitely didn't pay for my time.
>>62471910>I've been metal detecting for almost 40 years and I've found less than an ounce of gold total and less than 5 ounces of silver. No pirate booty whatsoeverSounds like you need to adjust the settings on your 'tector
>>62471926I find stuff worth hundreds in fields that have been detected literally thousands of times overmy detector is better than anything else out there. I regularly beat $5k Minelabs and expert detectors. there's just not a lot of silver and gold in the old west. I find a little every year, but not much.
>>62471892It's one of those things where if it was highly lucrative, everyone would do it, and if everyone would do it, then they'd find all the booty. This may have already happened, or, it didn't. Either way, it's likely not very lucrative. Fun hobby, but don't expect to make much in a life time.
There is a part of Australia filthy with gold. I basically got to retire from it. But the area is completely hidden and I only found it by sheer luck
>>62471913The spanish were trading gold up and down the continent in the 1500's
just go early in the morning on a beach that was crowded the day before
>>62471910>have found literal buckets of bullet shellsthis. people think it's that easy, I can't even cover my gas it takes me to get to a interesting place.
>>62472121the most exotic gold/silver that you speak of would require scuba diving and a ship
>>62471892Based. Im going camping with my dad for a week next week to metal detect for gold nuggets. I know a guy who claimed to have pulled $50k of gold nuggets from panning over the years and he sells it for cash tax free
>>62471910Seriously? My dads been detecting for like 20 years and hes probably found around 10 oz of gold jewelry. But yeah 99% of the time youre digging up tin foil and nails or shitty clad coins
Euro chads mog us Americucks in terms of metal detecting. You guys casually find roman treasure and cool ancient artifacts. America sucks ass for metal detecting for treasure since youll only find 1800s stuff. Must be awesome metal detecting in Egypt or Italy..
>>62479095Yeah I've been detecting old mining camps and ghost towns and cabins from the 1800's and early 1900's. Those places have very little real silver and gold. I have handfuls of indian head pennies and V nickels and old saloon tokens. I'm usually looking for the tokens. That's the valuable stuff where I'm at.
>>62472108Are you the guy finding gold to fund a car?
Might incorporate this into my travel hobby. Would get me away from the usual places
Probably only viable on australia bush where you actually can find nuggets a few inches in the ground, but as there are literal tv shows about it i imagine its pretty saturated, you need a lease and everything Hoping to find gold coins or jewelry isnt gonna make you rich, maybe cover expenses at bestDid you know tons of nazi gold is still lost? You won't find it using a metal detector though
>>62479419>Did you know tons of nazi gold is still lost? You won't find it using a metal detector thoughI like diving. Maybe I'll start diving in German and Austrian lakes with a metal detector
>>62471948? detectors are all the same these days. minelabs, nokta, garett all have multi frequency offerings. im thinking of getting a nokta simplex to start
>>62479088where? are you using a fisher goldbug
>>62479485I use a 1986 radio shack analog detectorYou'd be amazed all the coins that the digital discriminators miss.Only disadvantage to mine is it takes months to learn how to use it effectively.
>>62479481Not the worst idea, though 80yrs of mud is covering it so you probably need an excavator There are people investing their whole life finding it, i personally think its either long gone or buried in one of these destroyed mines, miles underground
>>62471892>In the gold rush the only people who got rich was the shovel sellersMany such cases
In Austria (probably germany too idk) they put thousands of tons of weapons and munition in the middle of frozen lakes to let it sink in spring. Its now stuck in the mud. Divers recover tons every year and it gets increasingly hard to find. I talked to one who did it. You basically have to know the rough spot and then you just start digging in the mud. You cant see anything within seconds once you start messsing with the mud and you just have to try to grab anything hard that doesnt feel like a rock.
>>62471892Damn I should get a Tesla bot to go out and do this shit 24/7
>>62479734>and you just have to try to grab anything hard that doesnt feel like a rockParadise for gooners
>>62471892I plan to buy one of those things, because here (in Italy) you can find Roman treasures everywhere
>>62479733you'll find stuff. Most everyone I've met detecting has paid for their detector in a couple months. But it's really just a fun hobby. There's always a slim chance the next target will make you rich, but in real life it probably never will. Like playing the lottery. I call it the dirt lotterythe main problem is if someone actually buried or lost a treasure big enough to make you rich, they usually went back and got it. Or their family did. Or the cops. Or other treasure hunters. But one or two people every year get rich hunting treasure. It can happen.
>>62471892doesn't the cost of having the pajeet outweigh your finginds? my understanding is that you barely get 15% ROI over the long term when you roll in the expenses involved w pajeet (hourly wage, theft, immigrant family impact in your neighborhood)
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>>62483618I laughed but it wasnt like a big laugh more like a heh
>>62483626good enough for me
I know where the gold is hidden. You are wasting your time OP.
