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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 69109, member: 3011&quot;]My son and I go detecting from time to time.&nbsp; On vacation last week we did a substantial amount of searching at the beach.&nbsp; We&#039;ve never found &quot;hoards&quot; of anything except pull tabs, but it&#039;s great fun and pretty good exercise.&nbsp; We found a fairly large number of coins [cents through quarters] and some small pieces of metal that appear to be parts off of boats, but nothing worth more than the face value of the coins.&nbsp; We are using a Discovery 3300 from Radio Shack and the performance seems pretty good to me [an unknowledgeable amateur].&nbsp; It&#039;s fairly accurate at informing you about what is there before you dig, and seems to detect hits up to about 10 inches down.&nbsp; If you want to try out the hobby without spending a lot of money on a high quality/high priced detector, this seems to be a good first model to buy in my opinion.&nbsp; If you enjoy it, then it might be worthwhile to upgrade to a better model.&nbsp; I&#039;m happy with what I have.&nbsp; To actually make money, the key is probably to carefully choose a site that was either occupied more than a century ago, or recently occupied by people wearing a lot of loose gold jewelry while drinking heavily <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; The real fulfillment for me is being able to do this with my son.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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