Let us face the facts, for many, the hobby of metal detecting is a passing fancy, an obsession, one that fades often, faster than the brightness of our gleaming, brand new metal detectors. However, for the rare few, it is a curiosity and enthusiasm that stays around pretty much throughout our lives.
Some of us who started off treasure hunting and metal detecting at a young age believe this to be the truth. The passion just gets in your system early enough and you just can't shake it.
Even though metal detecting often suffers a bad reputation or poor press-often misunderstood by the public because of its solitary nature-with hobbyists often lumped together and stereotyped as usually harmless and geekily weird, we are actually a varied bunch. Aside from falling into four different hunting groups: the mineral hunter, the beachcomber, the coin shooter, and the relic hunter; we're people who come from different walks of life. We have other interests outside of metal detecting and usually, hold other jobs.
Why are we so into the hobby? What's not to like? For people who know what they're doing, they can really-and do-earn some extra (literally) coin! And some of these coins that they have managed to find have been worth a bit of money. But, that, to the true hobbyist, is gravy. That is just a bonus. The reward of the hobby is the act itself. The enjoyment of being out there hunting is to many of us, reward in itself. The enjoyment of being able to take out our metal detectors and stay out and explore is more than half the fun.
Naturally, no metal detecting hobbyist will decline to a find. Most of us enjoy discovering and recovering stuff. Whether they be valuable or just old-still precious in a sense, but nothing that can perhaps be sold for a lot of money.
So, when Christmas rolls around the corner and the next generation starts trailing us around on these hunts and starts begging us for their own metal detectors, we know that the cycle has begun again.
Some of us who started off treasure hunting and metal detecting at a young age believe this to be the truth. The passion just gets in your system early enough and you just can't shake it.
Even though metal detecting often suffers a bad reputation or poor press-often misunderstood by the public because of its solitary nature-with hobbyists often lumped together and stereotyped as usually harmless and geekily weird, we are actually a varied bunch. Aside from falling into four different hunting groups: the mineral hunter, the beachcomber, the coin shooter, and the relic hunter; we're people who come from different walks of life. We have other interests outside of metal detecting and usually, hold other jobs.
Why are we so into the hobby? What's not to like? For people who know what they're doing, they can really-and do-earn some extra (literally) coin! And some of these coins that they have managed to find have been worth a bit of money. But, that, to the true hobbyist, is gravy. That is just a bonus. The reward of the hobby is the act itself. The enjoyment of being out there hunting is to many of us, reward in itself. The enjoyment of being able to take out our metal detectors and stay out and explore is more than half the fun.
Naturally, no metal detecting hobbyist will decline to a find. Most of us enjoy discovering and recovering stuff. Whether they be valuable or just old-still precious in a sense, but nothing that can perhaps be sold for a lot of money.
So, when Christmas rolls around the corner and the next generation starts trailing us around on these hunts and starts begging us for their own metal detectors, we know that the cycle has begun again.
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