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breadman		Posted : Wednesday, 3 October 2012 11:01:20 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Flake Groups: Registered Joined: 3/10/2012(UTC) Posts: 24 Location: Auckland Thanks: 16 times Was thanked: 16 time(s) in 8 post(s)		Hi folks, I'm a Technology School Teacher and Pastor here in Aucks, have been Detecting for a number of years now, like to hit the beaches in summer time and search out for "relics" with permission from farmer/landowner. Found bunched of coins, jewelery and a number of relics. Detecting's a great hobby, good exercise, lots of fun. Yet to gold detect but have been panning etc....didn't strike it rich, still Teaching Tech lol. Son-in-Law coming @ Christmas (hopefully) bringing a Whites 300? with him. Yes! I dropped my Minelab in beach water yesterday looking for shallow water rings, all I got were two small "Gas" bottles :-( Looking forward to catching up..... breadman

Apostle40		Posted : Wednesday, 3 October 2012 12:23:41 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Nugget Groups: Registered Joined: 5/06/2012(UTC) Posts: 41 Location: Auckland Thanks: 3 times Was thanked: 2 time(s) in 2 post(s)		Hi Breadman, I too am from Auckland/North Shore area... Welcome. I have only recently found this great past time and stuggle to get time off to pursue the art of metal Detecting. I have a T2 which I have fun trying to weed out the trash with... ;) - Apostle
		Teknetics T2 11" DD "You Can't Handle the Truth" www.disclosureproject.org

Scorpio		Posted : Wednesday, 3 October 2012 4:53:55 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Nugget Groups: Registered Joined: 2/09/2012(UTC) Posts: 83 Location: Auckland Thanks: 6 times Was thanked: 52 time(s) in 29 post(s)		Hey guys im in Auckland north shore area, ive found some interesting stuff so far but i haven't been metal detecting or found coins... Found a few quartz veins and gold dust :P Be keen to maybe catch up sometime :D

grubby		Posted : Saturday, 1 June 2013 7:55:02 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Medals: Groups: Registered Joined: 1/06/2013(UTC) Posts: 130 Location: west auckland Thanks: 13 times Was thanked: 36 time(s) in 31 post(s)		Hiya, I am also in Auckland and new to detecting. I was given a garrett at pro a couple of weeks ago as a fortieth birthday present. I went straight out into the back yard and found four pennies. 1941 and 1950 nz 1927 aussie and 1860 uk. I went to the park today for my first public park hunt and found a silver ring and two silver shillings. Both NZ 1934 and 1937. Also a penny and half penny and a few one and two cent coins. The two shillings and the penny were within 20cm of each other. I have found the information in this forum very valuable. What more can I say?...... I'm hooked.

ShoreScot		Posted : Sunday, 2 June 2013 1:24:51 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Nugget Groups: Registered Joined: 29/01/2013(UTC) Posts: 33 Location: North Shore Thanks: 16 times Was thanked: 5 time(s) in 5 post(s)		I'm on the shore too. Have been at this for a few months, and mostly found a lot of crap. But I keep going...