Metal detector

frankthetank · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:04 am Post subject: Metal detector

Anyone own one?

When i was a kid my buddy brought over a couple and we scanned my backyard and found a ton of pennies and maybe a few larger coins. Was a lot of fun! I've always had it in the back of my mind to buy one, but never have.

Any recommendations?

Might be a good way to clean up the backyard or even find those lost gold nuggets you buried in attempt to hid the stash from the zombies.
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steam_cannon · Expert Joined: Dec 28, 2006 Posts: 2460 Location: MA

I don't have one anymore, but I used to have an old one that ran off a
9 Volt. It was a relatively cheap design and you had to calibrate it a
lot, but it worked. I used to use it to find metal target point arrows.
I'll probably pick another one up sometime, I think they're a useful
thing to have around and there's certainly a history of their use in
struggling economies...