Welcome BT to our wonderful forum. Lots of good information and folks here. How about telling us a little about yourself, what machine you're swinging, what type of MDing you like to do, etc.
I have a minelab e-trac and an xterra 705 I like to coin shoot and I even do a little relic hunting. I prospect for gold in north Georgia but not nearly as much as I would like to. I have been an explorer guy for a long time and I decided it was time for an upgrade. Lol. I'm not sure if it is an upgrade from an explorer II to the e-trac. Don't get me wrong the e-trac is an excellent machine I just don't know if I like it as much as I did my explorer.
Yes it's full of history and it's also full of people that won't allow permission. And you have to get permission from city councils to hunt any of the parks in all the old little towns(which they won't give) I probably get permission one one out of every 50-60 that I try and they have been pounded by others who have got permission before me, but I'm tryin!!