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Average age of active hunters??????????

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tracyjm
Re: Average age of active hunters??????????
July 25, 2015 07:31PM
Soon be 55 and been hunting since 1971. I'm still a kid at heart when it comes to digging for the past...
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docbars
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July 25, 2015 07:46PM
46 and have been digging since 1983 I think
Corey
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possum mo
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July 25, 2015 07:58PM
56, detecting since 75. Thankful to be healthy.
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goodmore
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July 25, 2015 07:59PM
53. I Got a Whites Blue Box detector with no discrimination for my 12th birthday.
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Sand dog
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July 25, 2015 08:11PM
I'm 37 started when I was 10 with a whites 2500

John
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Keith Southern
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July 25, 2015 08:15PM
N/T

“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
-Nikola Tesla



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Keith Southern
Re: Average age of active hunters??????????
July 25, 2015 08:24PM
45 ....Hunting since 78...

2 1/2 years to my 40th anniversary...

Been bottle hunting and collecting since 76 ...yes I got hooked on Glass from my Aunt....I was the only kid with a treehouse full of dug bottles..LOL!!!

Glass lead to treasure thoughts.. that lead to My older brother telling me there was a such thing as a metal detector and I found one in the Sears catalog and the Relco Mustang was waitng on me Chrstmas morning!!!

Keith

“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
-Nikola Tesla
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deathray
Re: Average age of active hunters??????????
July 25, 2015 08:46PM
Just turned 49. Got my first detector in 1977, was soon stolen, didnt get my next till 2000. Started on bottles too! Me and my buddies found a bottle dump in Ft. Riley Kansas.
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Digger70pa
Re: Average age of active hunters??????????
July 25, 2015 08:53PM
I'm 44 for a couple more months. I started metal detecting when I was around 8. I didn't get serious about it til I was 28. I would go with my Dad to a fair grounds that he shoe'd horses at. At lunch time the help would go out & detect. I'd tag along & help kind of. They found lots of coins. The silver caught my eye. I went out at that spot when I got serious about the hobby & that place put lots of old coins in my collection.



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Fletch88
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July 25, 2015 09:24PM
45 as of July 5th!
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sonny(IN)
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July 25, 2015 09:26PM
is anyone gonna do the math up to this point??????????????
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detectingMO
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July 25, 2015 09:29PM
36 and would love to be a more active hunter. Wife, house, farm, 4 kids, full time job, and full time business say no. lol
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rustic charm
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July 25, 2015 09:38PM
53 detecting only for 4 years
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shoveler
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July 25, 2015 10:16PM
sonny(IN) Wrote:
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> is anyone gonna do the math up to this
> point??????????????

It was running about 57 toward the end of the first page.
As usual I'm above average at 64. smiling smiley
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MXT SNIPER
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July 25, 2015 10:34PM
62 been detecting since 1968, built my first detector (bfo) from a kit by Relco, got my first social security check this week, so semi retired now.
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thumperjones
Re: Average age of active hunters??????????
July 25, 2015 10:52PM
I'm 27...

Do I win a prize for being the youngest??

I've been detecting about 8 years.
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tnsharpshooter
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July 25, 2015 10:56PM
thumperjones Wrote:
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> I'm 27...
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> Do I win a prize for being the youngest??
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> I've been detecting about 8 years.

Give the man a cigar !!!!

Welcome Thumperjones, I see this is your first post. Lots of experience here. And folks here will answer questions too.

ps I said man, but if I'm wrong, I do apologize.



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Cal_cobra
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July 25, 2015 11:11PM
48 and been detecting for about eight years, wish I'd started a long time ago, would've been awesome to get in on the golden age of detecting long ago smiling smiley



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thumperjones
Re: Average age of active hunters??????????
July 25, 2015 11:12PM
Haha no worries, I'm a guy. I been lurking around here for a couple years. Just never had much to contribute so I never registered.

You are right, there is a lot of great info and folks here. Thanks to everybody for all the info I've picked up here. This is THE forum to go to when I look for actual facts about machines, performance, comparisons, etc.
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Cabin Fever
Re: Average age of active hunters??????????
July 25, 2015 11:37PM
Soon to be 49.
Started in mid 90s with a CZ5. Been in and out of the hobby several times since then but taking it much more serious
now that I have some more time.
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search and recovery
Re: Average age of active hunters??????????
July 25, 2015 11:42PM
55. Been detecting since 1987. Coin and relics until the last three years when I got serious about water detecting. When I retire I plan on doing a little nugget hunting as well. A man has to have a plan. Best hobby in the world at any age.
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Tony-Ok
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July 26, 2015 12:06AM
53 years old,hunting coins since 1976.
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Sven1
Re: Average age of active hunters??????????
July 26, 2015 12:07AM
58 or 59 can't remember. There was one year I thought I was one year younger, surprise when I learned I was only a few years closer to being over the hill.
Detecting since 1969, started with a Relco pc. of Carp

DeepTech Vista X with 3 search coils.
Works for me
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Caretaker
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July 26, 2015 12:07AM
Man, I know a lot of you guys for a few years now from the net and some of you I thought were a lot older and most a lot younger, I'm 60 and been swing since 99, bottle digging since 84 and treasure hunting since 73
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Harold,ILL.
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July 26, 2015 12:20AM
I'm 52. Been Detectin' about 16 years. I actually saved all summer to get a Detector when I was 12 yaers old as saw one in a Coin Magazine as collected coins at the time. Anyway's all I could afford was the cheapest one which I believe was a Detectron Gremlin ? It was Yellow had one knob. Took it out a couple of times found one Memorial penny on top of the ground. Put it in the closet and sold a couple years later,But read the Treasure Mags and vowed to get another when I could afford a good one which came ''many years '' later. LOL!
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ozzie
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July 26, 2015 12:44AM
I am 62.......seem like I was 18 not too long ago,.......... how time waits for no one.
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Mike in CO
Re: Average age of active hunters??????????
July 26, 2015 01:04AM
60 already...been hunting since 1973.

Time flies whether you're having fun or not...so might as well enjoy it. smiling smiley

mike



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Dan-Pa.
Re: Average age of active hunters??????????
July 26, 2015 01:44AM
77 and hunting for the last 25 years or so....certainly no 8 hour days anymore but several hours is doable...
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Shenandoah Digger
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July 26, 2015 01:59AM
Just turned 60 and have been detecting since I was 14. I still run, lift, and do MMA, but I don't feel the same after a workout as I did when I was 20. Gotta keep at it 'cause the Grim Reaper is undefeated.
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DigDugNY
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July 26, 2015 02:29AM
Got thumper beat...25 here
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