{"id":9907,"date":"2011-08-21T11:25:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T16:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9907"},"modified":"2011-08-21T11:25:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T16:25:23","slug":"book-report-treasure-hunting-for-fun-and-profit-by-charles-garrett-1997-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/21\/book-report-treasure-hunting-for-fun-and-profit-by-charles-garrett-1997-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Treasure Hunting for Fun and Profit<\/i> by Charles Garrett (1997, 2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/garrett.jpg\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\">Last spring, I lost a part from my rototiller, so I went down to the sporting goods store and bought a metal detector to find it.  And since I live on the edge of the Old Wire Road \/ Trail of Tears, I thought I might become a relic hunter&#8211;that&#8217;s what the people who use metal detectors call themselves.  Or treasure hunters if they look for pure metal. So I ordered this book to get an idea of how to use my metal detector.<\/p>\n<p>The book was written by Charles Garrett, President of the Garrett Metal Detectors company, so the book gives a lot of attention to the innovations in the latest Garrett detectors.  It provides a broad overview, from looking for coins on the beach to using metal detectors to prospect for gold in the American West.  It has a chapter on how good the hobby is for seniors and children.  Ergo, it&#8217;s a little broader than I would have hoped.<\/p>\n<p>I guess to get the knowledge I hope for, I&#8217;ll have to spend a little more time using the device rather than reading about it.  Ain&#8217;t that the way?<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0915920905&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last spring, I lost a part from my rototiller, so I went down to the sporting goods store and bought a metal detector to find it. And since I live on the edge of the Old Wire Road \/ Trail of Tears, I thought I might become a relic hunter&#8211;that&#8217;s what the people who use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9909,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9907\/revisions\/9909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}