thoughts on the hobby after watching this detecting cartoon

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Recently there was a contest on a forum asking if you remembered your first time out detecting. Tried as I might I couldn't recall that day but it did bring back a few memories and a smile to my face.
 
I see that Stevie O (Arizona) shared a few of his memorable moments of the hobby with us and the response was overwhelmingly positive. This leds one to believe that this hobby is one that not only embellishes life long friendships instilling one with intestinal fortitude, a sense of accomplishment but a way to purge one's soul while maintaining that small child in all of us. To see a grown man (or woman) kneeling down diligently digging a hole in the earth envisioning a find of a great lost treasure and being happy with a penny epitomizes the spirit of the hobby.
 
Along the way we have all encountered adversity , despair and moment of fleeting joy and have continued on; what to an outsider would be comparable to King Arthur's Knights quest for the Holy Grail. Here too the common threads are evident in the bonding, devotion and endless pursuit of the quest.
 
Let not politics, religion, personnal petty differences nor even inclimate weather deter us from this unique hobby where the greatest treasures of all are....... a friend, a laugh and finding one's self.

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I couldn't  find  it on you tube  either  Homie.

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"Keep Digging Its Down There Somewhere" Treasure Hunting, Gold and Coins.

HOLY CHIMECHANGA! No treasure is worth what they went through. I would have given it up, after making the other guy feel guilty about hogging the treasure.

Dusty Carl

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A bad day at gold prospecting or metal detecting is better than a good day at work.

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	That, my friend, is what sets you apart from a lot of people in this hobby----especially the ones who give us all bad names  (and even someone of the ones I know and generally like)

Thank you BA. Another point the cartoon makes , that's not as obvious, is that you can't take it with you. In this case all died with it.

Dusty Carl

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A bad day at gold prospecting or metal detecting is better than a good day at work.