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« on: July 04, 2014, 08:02:43 am »
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Remember your first detector?  Your first find?  Your first GOOD find?

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This week's show is a look at my beginning, and the find that hooked me into this wonderful hobby forever.

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That would definitely get me hooked too! What a rush Shocked

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« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2014, 09:07:32 am »
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  Took me months to hound my mom to buy me that NO NAME BFO detector out of the back pages of a Rag Treasure mag.  I'm Thinking it was  a Crusader?  Looked like it was put together in a Garage some place.   Popped the Batteries in and hit the yard.  In the first 10 minutes I found a 1953 Silver Quarter by the door step.   Life has been down hill every sense.

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« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2014, 09:46:50 am »
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  Took me months to hound my mom to buy me that NO NAME BFO detector out of the back pages of a Rag Treasure mag. 


Homefire, can you remember when this was?


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« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2014, 05:39:37 pm »
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Homefire & Dan,

It was a Crusader from The Association.  Homie and I discussed it in an exchange of posts not long after I joined thunting.com a little over 3 years ago.  I remember because I posted some photos of my Crusader then.

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Arfie, refresh my memory about the Association.  I have a very vague memory of that organization.  Wasn't it kind of a combination sales place and "club"?  From the early 1970s?

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I remember because I posted some photos of my Crusader then

i wonder if you can dig the link to the photos

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Dan,
The Association  was primarily a metal detector and treasure hunting sales organization based in Oscoda, MI.  It was run by a John Ballinger and his son Gene.  After some problems (I think it was a sort of hostile takeover by others in the group) The Association went out of business.  They had other associates around the country that also sold their product.  They also published TH'ing books and sold them.  Their logo was an upside-down triangle or pyramid with and all-seeing eye enclosed in it.  I have a couple of the books they published.  One book is "Today's Treasure Hunter" by O. Lobo and J. Cubit, who were fairly well-know name is the treasure hunting community in the early '70's.

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Use the "search" feature (upper right corner with a tiny magnifying glass to click on the search) on this forum and look up "The Crusader."  I found the topic and pictures under the first listing there.  I would have transferred it to here if I knew how.  I'm about as computer literate as sugar spot on a watermelon! 

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« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2014, 12:02:47 pm »
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Yep, Upside down Triangle it was ..  Received a New Letter for a year.  Only problem with it was the Pinch type Capacitor it used to tune.  Had to retune every 10 steps.  

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Only problem with it was the Pinch type Capacitor it used to tune.  Had to retune every 10 steps. 


I had a Compass Judge 6 in the early 1980s.  Great detector, but you had to retune every time you moved from sunshine to shade!

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