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Hello to all Members
Both my son Keegan and Myself Grant would like to introduce ourselves, we are interested in detecting as a Hobby and something we can do together, he is 9 and myself 37.
I lost my leg in March of 09 and its been a battle for Keegan to come to terms with this life changing procedure, so i thought that this hobby(treasure hunting would bring us together and close the gap.
We do not have a clue in how to start or where to go and look, i have bought a Garrett Ace 250 as a starter, now it where to go, i have read quiet alot on it and i do realise i need permission of the land owner, does any one know of anywhere we could start our searching, we live in Porthcawl South Wales.
Any help advise would be great. ;)
Happy Hunting

Do you use Google Earth fella ?

Hi yes i do use it from time to time

Ok I will send you an E mail shortly.

Thank you for that

Im probably stating the obvious here but Porthcawl beach and Ogmore? and the other one towards Sker rocks cant remember the name. Anyway welcome to the forum as was said the ace 250 is a good little machine. Best thing you can do in my opinion is join a club to meet other detectorists go on rallies, club land etc. Bit rich comming from me thinking about it lol (Im not in a club yet) but hopefully all will change tomorrow. Great name by the way why didnt I think of that lol

Hi Grant and Keegan, welcome to the site both.
Being from Porthcawl you've obviously tried the beach, on a good day try Newton, there has been some good old finds come off there in the past.  
Next step is to approach a local farmer and just ask if you could use your detector on his land.
Seems easy i know, and speaking from experience, i still have not got a farm  :-\ , i was lucky that another member on the site , invited me up to his farm for a day's detecting.  We become great butty's and go detecting up there regular.
Another good bit of advice as been said , joining a club, there are lots of people on here to guide you on that.
By the way, i'm only in Sarn, Bridgend and i use the  garrett ace 150, great little detector , yesterday had a silver ring, my first, so i'm landed, if you go to detector finds on page you'll see it.
Anyway good luck with getting permission, as i was told on here, if you don't ask , you'll never know, so try it boys...
All the best
Ace  ;)
 

a big welcome guys to the forum  ;) im sure us guys can sort you out something .old parks is allways a good place to start and get use to your detectors they are full of coins ringpulls and all sorts you will soon learn what to dig and whatnot to all the best guys regards phil ;)

Hi Grant and Keegan,  welcome to the world of detecting :)

As someone as already said a good start is to join one of the clubs, they have monthly meetings and their own club land.  Doing this will also get you your membership for one of the metal detecting councils/federations which sorts out your public liability insurance etc,

Hi Grant and Keegan and welcome to DW, some sound advice from the lads but beware detecting can be very addictive!  :o

Hope to meet you both on a DW rally. :) :)

Richy.

Thanks Guys
All your advise has been taken, yes a club would be my next step and in my current situation i will put my best foot forward lol and say the members of DW have all show great spirt and friendliness, hope to meet you out there somewhere.
Thanks Grant and Keegan

E mail sent  Grant.

Hello Grant and Keegan. The Wombles hey, I get a feeling we may have litter free detecting Wales rallies in the future LOL  ;D As you can see from the help you are having already they are a brilliant bunch of people on here and there Knowledge and generosity is second to none. Hope to see you in the future and good luck with your searching.

Thanks Mate

welcome aboard young keegan and [not so young] grant.

there is a lot of knowledge available thro this site, feel free to ask at any time.

cheers & happy hunting

alan

welcome to the forum keegan and grant... ;)....the nearest clubs to you will be the cardiff scan club and R.A.R.E., which is just north of pontypridd in the rhondda valley...the details of both clubs can be found in the detecting club section.... ;)..good luck and i look forward to meeting you on a DW rally soon......byron

Hi Grant & keegan.   Welcome guy's.  I'm pretty new to metal detecting too and have only ben out a few  times. Luckily i managed to find a gold ring which has led to me becoming hooked on metal detecting.   :)   You can find out so much interesting stuff on this site and everyone is really friendly and helpful.  Good luck with you treasure hunting - hope you find loads of good stuff.   :D

Joanne

Welcome to the site both and I look forward to meeting up with you sometime soon.

Hi Grant and keegan they are a great bunch of people on here and any questions or problems there is always someone with the answer or the know how to help you. We go to porthcawl beach quite often. We are in the R.A.R.E club in trehafod which is a great friendly little club.
Hope you enjoy the hobby
debs ;D

welcome to the madhouse boys good luck with the finds they will start to turn up soon then your hooked  ;)  by the way phil bumped into a few detectorists in a dark alley they,re best find was a hoard of empty beer cans  ;D

Hello Wombles and a very warm welcome to DW.com  ;)  Are there any public footpaths near you ? through woods or fields ? Good places to detect and great for getting used to the garret 250 which i use myself. Im only up in maesteg so may bump into you some time.... Good hunting both  ;)

not here'd off you guys since the 70s  ;D only joking welcome to D.W.COM hopeyou enjoy this great site and get great info off here that many members will help you as best as they can,hope to meet up with you guys soon ;) good luck with the great hobby of metal detecting