Ben Cartwright SASS
NES Member
ccm75
As I type this at my desk I can look up and see a small vial of gold flakes that were taken out of a stream in Western Mass, it is not much but it is gold.
A friend of mine has a very expensive bass boat that sucks down gas and he goes fishing, it would be cheaper for him to buy the fish at the market, another friend goes hunting every year, most years he doesn't get a deer and even when he does what is the cost per pound of that meat?
It is not about making money or even catching a fish or getting a deer, it is about relaxing and enjoying a hobby. I shoot in the Cast Bullet Association Organization Postal Shoots in the military division, I never win and even if I did it costs $4 for the match, the cost of 30 rounds of 30.06 and $2 to mail the target back, I can win $5 for first prize and $4 for second, oh and don't forget the gas to get to the range. I would be better off not doing the matches as even if you win you lose money.
I also do metal detecting, one year I calculated how much I made per hour doing that, it came out to 35 cents an hour!
BUT that being said I will ask the members of the forum -
If any of you have an older house that you would let me metal detect around I would be more than grateful.
It is about the hunt.
As I type this at my desk I can look up and see a small vial of gold flakes that were taken out of a stream in Western Mass, it is not much but it is gold.
A friend of mine has a very expensive bass boat that sucks down gas and he goes fishing, it would be cheaper for him to buy the fish at the market, another friend goes hunting every year, most years he doesn't get a deer and even when he does what is the cost per pound of that meat?
It is not about making money or even catching a fish or getting a deer, it is about relaxing and enjoying a hobby. I shoot in the Cast Bullet Association Organization Postal Shoots in the military division, I never win and even if I did it costs $4 for the match, the cost of 30 rounds of 30.06 and $2 to mail the target back, I can win $5 for first prize and $4 for second, oh and don't forget the gas to get to the range. I would be better off not doing the matches as even if you win you lose money.
I also do metal detecting, one year I calculated how much I made per hour doing that, it came out to 35 cents an hour!
BUT that being said I will ask the members of the forum -
If any of you have an older house that you would let me metal detect around I would be more than grateful.
It is about the hunt.