Hello and thanks for the warm welcome from each and every one of you!!
Well as far as background goes and my interest in detecting here it goes.
I live in middle TN about 40 miles west of Nashville called Dickson. Been here 24 years now. Grew up in Texas outside of Houston.
I like to coin shoot and relic hunt.
My older brother got a metal detector for the first time in 1982. I was 9 years old. It was just a radio shack bounty hunter one. I think it was called the prospector.
He being the older brother made me dig for him!!! Imagine that but it was fun and I really enjoyed doing it.
He has now passed away but he was a big influence on the hobby itself. I miss him very much.
So that is how I cut my teeth with detecting. I have owned a ton of units and also was a multiline dealer for a couple of years with my own brick and mortar store here in TN called Henderson's metal detectors and more. Sadly I could not keep up with the online sales and sold all of my stock and building as well. I could have stuck it out but it was tough and decided to close instead.
I actually got burned out on it for about a year. Having my store front and no time I did not get to detect for myself.
A couple of friends kicked me in my butt and got my head right again on the hobby and have been happy again to say the least.
I enjoy history and actually find metal detectors very neat contraptions if you will. I have owned personally had several machines through the years from all of the major brands and like all of you, I liked some better than others.
Now I am really into the XP Deus and ORX units. Your thread here on this forum is why I signed up here. As far as sharing knowledge on the detecting hobby, I have actually made a video on the ORX and bottle caps and posted the link here in the XP thread if any of you care to take a look.
I guess before that my favorite units varied through technology and name brands. I know most of you also remember that there was a large leap in technology with detectors in the late 1980's and early 90's. I have owned several Tesoro's, Whites MXT, Fisher F-75, Some Teknetics like the Omega, T2 and the Eurotek Pro, Minelab Xterra's, Garrett CDC 3 Coin commander, Fisher 1260 and 1225 and some of the Nokta and Makro units.
Anyways, just a little brief history of my experience with metal detectors.
I also am a musician and play guitar too.
When I get time I will update the avatar and such. Nice meeting you all here and seems like a real nice bunch to be around too!!