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JohnA		Posted : Wednesday, 14 November 2012 6:07:10 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Flake Groups: Registered Joined: 14/11/2012(UTC) Posts: 21 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 1 times Was thanked: 2 time(s) in 2 post(s)		Hi All, I am what you may call a dormant detector.. I havent switched on any of my units for a few years.. I used to be very active coin / jewelry / relic hunting. I bumped across this forum and decided to join to see how the MD scene is coming along in NZ. looking fwd to getting involved again, and dusting off the detector.. John

madsonicboating		Posted : Wednesday, 14 November 2012 6:54:08 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 21/03/2011(UTC) Posts: 674 Thanks: 187 times Was thanked: 157 time(s) in 127 post(s)		Hi John what area are you from? There's a few of us around now..all hunting parks that have been hunted out previously with older detectors...new technology is finding us a few items here and there ;) cheers Dan
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JohnA		Posted : Wednesday, 14 November 2012 7:35:17 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Flake Groups: Registered Joined: 14/11/2012(UTC) Posts: 21 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 1 times Was thanked: 2 time(s) in 2 post(s)		Hi Dan I am from St Martins. My units are not too old I guess. I have a whites MXT and Whites XLT. I have previously owned various other models : several bount hunter units Garrett GTAX550 Garrett GTAX1350 Minelab Sovereign elite Whites PI Pro Whites beachunter cant think of the others right now.. it would be good to dust off the units and get digging again! John

nzpoohbear40		Posted : Wednesday, 14 November 2012 8:58:54 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 14/07/2011(UTC) Posts: 1,482 Location: Matura Thanks: 26 times Was thanked: 384 time(s) in 329 post(s)		Hi john...wellcome to the forum...if you have been following this site then you will know we have a club of sorts here in CHCH.. we meet the last sunday of every month at the papanui workermans club at about 630...we stay there for an hour or so then we go out for a night hunt...you are more than wellcome to come along.
		Chris - Fisher Dealer http://www.puiakisupply.co.nz/

expat		Posted : Wednesday, 14 November 2012 9:24:52 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 26/03/2012(UTC) Posts: 499 Location: Rangiora Thanks: 49 times Was thanked: 91 time(s) in 76 post(s)		Hi John and welcome from another Christchurch searcher. Some nice machines you've owned, I was a bit of a Whites fan back in the UK, had a couple of spectrums, silver eagle etc. As Poohbear said, it would be nice to catch up with you at our monthly get together. There always seems to be somebody doing Hagley during these summer evenings too.
		My greatest fear is that when I die my wife will sell my collection for what I told her it cost me.

madsonicboating		Posted : Wednesday, 14 November 2012 10:17:50 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 21/03/2011(UTC) Posts: 674 Thanks: 187 times Was thanked: 157 time(s) in 127 post(s)		nice...go the whites XLT I have one sitting here in my room too!
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JohnA		Posted : Thursday, 15 November 2012 1:17:36 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Flake Groups: Registered Joined: 14/11/2012(UTC) Posts: 21 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 1 times Was thanked: 2 time(s) in 2 post(s)		Hi Guys thanks for the replies - this does seem an active forum.. I will be sure to come along one Sunday night - thanks for the invite.. I am overseas at the moment visiting family, but will come along once I am back John