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Just realized I spent $200 on a metal detector for nothing
I bought a cheap metal detector off Craigslist last summer for $200 thinking I'd find old coins in my backyard. After 3 weekends of digging up nothing but bottle caps and rusty nails, I gave up and threw it in the shed. Then last week I saw a post in this group about how you need to research your site first, not just swing it around randomly. I never checked soil maps or old property records, just went in blind. Has anyone else wasted cash on a detector before they figured out the prep work?
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ruby_grant1mo ago
Hang on @angela_coleman has a point about the bottle caps but here's a different take - maybe the real waste was the time, not the detector itself. You probably learned more about reading land in those 3 weekends than any YouTube video could teach you. What kind of soil or terrain did you end up digging in?
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angela_coleman1mo ago
Right, because obviously the universe was saving all the silver dollars for someone who actually did their homework first. At least you've got a great magnet for bottle caps now.
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