It Looks Like The Ny Times Are Changing The Image Of Metal Detectorists

[phrunt]

 

This woman goes detecting in high heels 🙂

The article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/style/metal-detectorists-ring-finders.html

Below is a segment of the article so you can decide if you want to click on the link to read the rest

People have been metal detecting since 1881, when Alexander Graham Bell invented a device to find the bullet lodged in President James Garfield.

But it took several more decades for recreational metal detectors — devices that resemble “sort of a skillet on the end of a pole,” as one newspaper put it in 1927 — to develop a serious cult following.

Now, that cult following is growing. Detector makers are reporting record sales. According to an annual report from one brand, Minelab, in 2020 the company sold 30 percent more detectors than the previous year, which had climbed 18 percent the year before that.

And we are in a bit of a detectorist media moment. New York magazine is making listicles of the best metal detector models. Drew Barrymore is giving them away on her show. The teenage sketch comedian Parker James is wielding one before his six million TikTok followers. In England, Carey Mulligan is making it mainstream; on Nantucket, millennials are making it fashion; and in the gaming industry, a romantic thriller-meets-metal detecting video game will be released this summer.

[Gold Catcher]

I need a subscription to read the article. But looking at the pic I don't know if I want to read it.... 

[Norvic]

Yeah, I'm with you GC, last thing we need is to become a pet of social media or maybe that is inevitable now and we could take advantage of any positives this may bring. I'm thinking maybe political advantage to gain detecting access to areas we are excluded from currently.

[Gold Catcher]

17 minutes ago, Norvic said:

I'm thinking maybe political advantage to gain detecting access to areas we are excluded from currently.

So true, we need all help we can get!

56 minutes ago, phrunt said:

This woman goes detecting in high heels 🙂

I have some off-limit areas in mind that I would love to get access to. And if high heels are what it would take to get to them I am sure I can find a pair somewhere 🤣

[phrunt]

It seems you get 5 free articles on NY Times a month, you must have read your 5, unless they just let internationals get 5 free...

Out for a hard day detecting 🙂

Say, that's a nice finds bag.  I must get one.

[Ridge Runner]

She’s not doing too bad with the ORX and HF coil.

 Chuck 

[Gold Catcher]

4 minutes ago, phrunt said:

t seems you get 5 free articles on NY Times a month, you must have read your 5, unless they just let internationals get 5 free...

Out for a hard day detecting 🙂

Say, that's a nice finds bag.  I must get one.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Looks like a GM in pinpointer mode. But hey, it could have been worse, she could have carried a 6000 😅

[Ridge Runner]

You can tell the difference in age because I look at the detector and others look at the girl .

 Chuck 

[Norvic]

You've matured with wisdom RR, I missed the detector too.

[Valens Legacy]

You know that it is a staged picture, if she was really metal detecting a beach she would have been in a bikini.