You might be a coinshooter if...

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You go detecting when it's below freezing.

You get excited when you smell dirt.

You walk a mile into the woods only to discover your digging tool is still in the car.

Things that go beep turn you on.

You've ever thown away a piece of trash and later discovered it was worth a lot of money.

You've slid down a steep hill on your rear with your detector up in the air.

You've ever been the main course for a million chiggers.

You've ever tried to fend off bees or wasps with your detector.

You have walked what seemed like a mile, only to discover you've lost your digging tool.

You've ever walked into spider webs that felt like they were made from 6 pound fishing line.

You've ever stabbed yourself with your digging tool.

You have cuts on your forehead from walking into tree branches.

Mike Demaree
mousedemaree@juno.com





You have a trunk full of various digging apparatus - and dirt!

Phyllis
PHYDEL@aol.com


Your knees are the the same color as the grass at the local park.

You walk slower than the rest of the crowd at a mall because there might be a coin on the floor and you do not want to miss it.

Edward Groth
guy14kt@qnet.com


You find yourself driving your car into places where most people would't take a 4X4 truck.

Loyd Curkeet
LCurkeet@aol.com


After detecting for many hours with the sun dropping from sight you think to yourself, "Hey, I haven't tried that spot over there!"

Michael J. Ramon
mike@atlantic.net


You have a room in your house totally dedicated to the hobby/sport of metal detecting.

At the end of the day when you’re ready to leave, you walk back to your vehicle with the machine still on and digging everything along the way.

When talking to others, you steer the topic toward coins and TH’ing in general.

You often find yourself playing with all those clads you found.

When going to flea markets you find yourself mainly looking for coin dealers.

While walking and always having you head down looking, then you know you are an eyeball coinshooter.

Most all of the reading material in your home is even remotely related to coins.

When having company over you start bringing out showcase after showcase of your coin finds.

While working you find yourself daydreaming of popping out coins.

You close your eyes and mainly see visions of piles of coins of every denomination.

Barry
goldcoin@bellatlantic.net





You have identified the different areas of your local park by the taste of the dirt.

Chris
CD361@aol.com


You brought your detector on your honeymoon (I did).

You can go to a park 20 years after finding a seated quarter, and point to the exact spot.

You're favorite detector is so worn down, and black taped up, that you can't even tell what brand it is anymore.

You can tell which of your 20 friends has been at storm beach cut before you, just by the way the holes and footprints look.

You've ever gone all day for absolutely no coins, and yet started over the next day again.

Tom
TTanner777@aol.com


You take a day off from work just to wait for the UPS man.

You found one civil war token and bought a 50 dollar book to see it in print.

All your bookmarks point to tresaure related sites.

Jim Yates
jimyce@ix.netcom.com


You spend $15 cleaning $5 worth of coins.

You keep a record of every coin you find.

Every night you dream of metal detecting with Charles Garrett.

You and your spouse fight over the metal detector.

You pay over $1,500 for a tropical vacation, and spend the whole time metal detecting.

More than 50% of your income comes from a metal detector.

You quit your job to spend more time metal detecting.

Your detector has more luxary features than your car.

Jacob Hilt
jahilt@carlnet.org





You are uncomfortable because you do not have sand or a rock in your shoe.

You can successfully explain to your spouse just why a $35.00 digging tool is better than a Walmart garden digger.

You have ever almost lit your pants on fire by shorting out a battery in your pocket.

You know a "Wheatie" is not cereal, and if you know Barber silver is not a scissors, and if you know a "Rosie" is not the beginning of a zit.

You run into things in parking lots and stores because you are looking for coins.

You have a tendency to swing one arm from left to right when you walk.

You have cuts or scrapes on at least 40% of your fingers.

You sleep in the camper with your detector between you and your spouse.

You can read fifty books on "Coinshooting" with a metal detector and still have questions.

You have difficulty reading the label on a soup can but can read the date on a dirt encrusted wheat cent or the Karat rating on a ring you have found.

Your fingernails are exceptionally dirty or exceptionally clean.

You find yourself drooling over old houses instead of the young women sun bathing in their front yards (young men for the ladies).

You think the museum currator or the historical librarian are really swinging people.

You have a difficult time telling junk from treasure when you get home.

You bury gold rings and silver coins in your own yard.

You start doing strange things in the winter, you are probably a yankee "Coinshooter".

You can spend eight hours looking for a good beep, with no drinks, no food and no earthly idea of what time it is.

You have a spouse who still lives with you THEY are probably a "Coinshooter" too, OR a very very special person.

V. Kirby Bahr
vkb@uaptelcom.com
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