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Got A Detector Again. Heading To The NC Coast Tomorrow

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 Posted 09/08/2008  5:40 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add mmerc20 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Yeah! I finally got a detector again. My wife made me sell mine a handful of years ago and I have been trying to get one in the past week since I will be going to the North Carolina coast for a few days for work.

I picked up a Garrett GTA 350 for $120 and I am so excited to get out on the beach and find a whole lotta nothing!

I'm sure I might pick up a few coins here and there, but I am hoping with Hanna going through a few days ago I might have a little better luck than other times.

I will report my findings (if any) this weekend.

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Well good luck. I hope you find something. When the storm was coming through I was watching the news being broadcast from the beach and in the background you could see a couple of people out metal detecting. Looked like they were working the areas where the beach was already eroding.

I actually thought about going over there to the coast to check it out but that thought only lasted a few seconds. 2 hour drive not worth it. And then again you never know. Well anyways enjoy the beach.
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<sigh> you have good days and bad. Atleast I didn't come back empty handed, but I got 17 cents (a dime a nickel and 2 pennies) and a bunch of steel and copper shrapnel. Apparently the beaches south of Carolina Beach were used for target practice and I got a bunch of that crap.

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Better than my average beach hunt. There are just too may detectors in my area to find good stuff at the beach.. Every time I go I see others there or signs that they have been.
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NC/SC beaches have allot of elderly people living around here with detectors so its pretty hard to find much around here also because that's about all they do all day
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Copper scrap is worth more than cents by weight, and comes in bigger pieces. Save it up and recycle it.

The 350 was at one point our best seller. Especially when we pointed out that the difference between it and the 400 was the label.
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You got a nice machine, very popular, and you got a great price!

Just don't get discouraged, keep going, you will find the big one someday.
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