Great hobby.
You’re right. I used to go out with my father in law.
Did you ever find anything good? I have heard that the reason
it is so addictive is the random rewards. You find a lot of
just trash but every once in a while you find something
really great. It’s like the slot machine. You keep playing
because on the next pull of the lever you might hit the
jackpot. My moment came a couple years ago in a small town
park when I dug an art deco style white gold Masonic ring.
It was an antique. Then another time I found an Army general
service button from the civil war era next to a sidewalk in
Saguache, Colorado.