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Date Posted: 19:32:32 03/16/02 Sat
Author: Ralph
Subject: "Beeper Freak" vs "Prospector"
In reply to: Matt 's message, "Re: ARTICLE - The Secrets of "Becoming" a Good Detectorist!" on 19:06:41 03/16/02 Sat

......"In my opinion most beeper freaks today are not optimizing their opportunities by advancing from detector operators to true prospectors"......

I think you hit THAT nail right on the head, Matt! You can run around the open spaces all day, all week, or all year swinging a detector, but if you don't do your homework first, if you don't take the time to become knowledgable about what you are looking for and your best prospects of WHERE to look, then yea, I think that would pretty much define a "beeper freak".

Still, knowledge, persistence, and luck come into play, no matter what you choose to call yourself..... "detectorist" or "prospector". But you can find your own "luck" instead of wondering around waiting for IT to find YOU. I think most all of the successful "detectorists" I know are every bit as much the "prospector" too in their own right. For those types, it would be hard to separate the two terms, whether they research and locate long lost civil war relic sites, old forgotten camps or playgrounds as virgin territory for coinshooting, beaches used many years ago that can still produce old jewelry for the water hunter, or the true "gold prospector" that most of us refer to.

The detector is just a tool to clean up the remainder of the job after most of the real "work" has long been finished.

Great post Matt..... Thanks!

Ralph

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