G'Day All.
Have been lurking for a little bit and decided to introduce myself. The wife and I have been thinking about prospecting for a little while now initially as a bit of a hobby (to take the van to and camp) and then longer term for when we decide we want to go on the road a bit more and travel.
Borrowed a mates detector over Christmas and did a bit of detecting but just for coins and stuff. Mostly around where we knew that there had been old shops and blacksmiths and no surprise the bulk of our finds were blacksmith related but did come up with 11 cents, 1948 penny and a pocket knife. We think we would like to do a combination of gold and also coin and relic detecting so have been looking into detectors that can help with both
Have used this forum a bit and are gradually narrowing our search down but are also mindful that we don't wish to spend thousands and then decide to give it up. Probably puts us into the $1,500 (up to) category. There is a massive amount of choice but we will get there and at the moment like the Macro Gold Kruzer (new), QED PL3 (2nd hand) and the Equinox 800 (new). Will probably change my mind a few times before we commit though but that is part of the fun.
Interested to hear from people out our way (Gunnedah and North West NSW) and hopefully meet up with some of you :Y:
Rod
Have been lurking for a little bit and decided to introduce myself. The wife and I have been thinking about prospecting for a little while now initially as a bit of a hobby (to take the van to and camp) and then longer term for when we decide we want to go on the road a bit more and travel.
Borrowed a mates detector over Christmas and did a bit of detecting but just for coins and stuff. Mostly around where we knew that there had been old shops and blacksmiths and no surprise the bulk of our finds were blacksmith related but did come up with 11 cents, 1948 penny and a pocket knife. We think we would like to do a combination of gold and also coin and relic detecting so have been looking into detectors that can help with both
Have used this forum a bit and are gradually narrowing our search down but are also mindful that we don't wish to spend thousands and then decide to give it up. Probably puts us into the $1,500 (up to) category. There is a massive amount of choice but we will get there and at the moment like the Macro Gold Kruzer (new), QED PL3 (2nd hand) and the Equinox 800 (new). Will probably change my mind a few times before we commit though but that is part of the fun.
Interested to hear from people out our way (Gunnedah and North West NSW) and hopefully meet up with some of you :Y:
Rod