i just started last sat and did very well for my first time , my 9 year old grandson and i went down the beach where he lives and found a 1.5oz solid gold medal and around 5 bucks in chenge , we had so much fun i just orderd a second detector but much better then the first, the new one will be able to pick up very small bits of gold and will go much deeper , if you've never tried it and want to some places will rent you one, oh the medal we found was given back to the guy that lost it , turns out it was a gift from his wife that had died not to long ago, but he did give my gradnson $ 20 bucks that was nice , boy that was a nice hunk of gold to 24k to put , well i'm a big beleaver in karma and what goes around comes around so we'll just wait and see what happens. :wave :wink