Monthly Archives: February 2024

Q&A with Brad Martin of Green Mountain Metal Detecting

Those of you who have detected any length of time know of Brad Martin. His Green Mountain Metal Detecting website and YouTube channel are both top notch and extremely popular. Let me also add that if you are NOT familiar with GMMD do yourself a big favor and check it out. You will enjoy and come away better for it. 

I have been trying for some time to get Brad to slow down, sit down and do a Q&A and finally (after he got tired of me bugging him) he agreed. Hope you enjoy and thanks Brad….

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Slim Pickings…

How does someone stay interested, all I find is garbage….”

The above was question was recently posted on a FaceBook site for beginners but it’s also becoming a common utterance for long time tekkies and with good reason. You see we’re approaching the law of diminishing returns and if we (especially the manufacturers) don’t wake up this pastime will die a slow death. Continue reading

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A Recap and a Rerun…

My friend Kyoko

Have been out with the machine twice this week breaking a record for this old dude.  First time at a nearby school and second time to recover a small gold necklace for a good friend. First outing netted me something in the neighborhood of seventy five cents and a bad back – the second was a success in that the item was found, thanks to my Nokta Simplex. Continue reading

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