Other hobbies?

[My4Kiwis]

I was curious as to what other hobbies you folks had. I am just getting into MD'ing and have been bitten bad. My wife just rolled her eyes when I mentioned I had another hobby...she thinks I have too many. I have no idea why?? :dontknow:

I am an avid fisherman...I am a bass fisherman at heart and I love to fish competitively. With a wife from New Zealand and now that I live in Colorado, I have become hooked on fly-fishing as well. With that I discovered fly tying.

I love to hunt, especially bow-hunting for deer and elk. I also enjoying hunt upland birds, turkeys and ducks.
I love to shoot...especially skeet leagues. I like to re-load my own ammunition, both shotgun and rifle.

I don't think I have too many hobbies...I just enjoy my fun time!

Cheers,
JD

[coinnut]

It's a good thing for the mind to have hobbies. And not to bad for the soul either lol
Besides metal detecting, I play guitar, bottle hunt, collect stamps, enjoy music and a wee bit of ufo researching.

[del]

hobbies are a good thing as they usually keep us men out of trouble but sometimes they can us into trouble as well. lol lol

i collect old bitters and medicine bottles , some older coins , old military buttons . i also do alot of camping , fishing and off roading in my jeep.

[Toadman]

Used to fish like a maniac ! Also golfed .. Sometimes the same course 2 times a day..Once i started detecting, All the other hobbies took a back seat...

[giant056]

Motorcycles, fishing and hunting but I metal detect the most.

[ec121connie]

I enjoy woodworking and even like to build a guitar or a propeller every now and again. Scrap wood and the firewood pile are my friends.

[coinnut]

I enjoy woodworking and even like to build a guitar or a propeller every now and again. Scrap wood and the firewood pile are my friends.


Great job on the guitar :happydance01: I used to build professional drums at a company called Noble and Cooley. Something about working wood that gets the blood boiling lol We used to steam 1/4 maple boards and bend them to the different diameters of drum shells. You do really nice work thumbsup01

[mike l]

Fresh water fishing. My daughter out fishes me every time lol

[zrickkid]

I collect old wooden baseball bats, wool baseball jerseys, books, anything related to George Washington and history.
I also collect coins, (obviously), old tobacco baseball cards, bottles, records, University of Illinois homecoming items,
or anything my wife of 20 years will let me as im 44 in March.

[Evan/tn]

I collect everything,if it's old or cool i want it :envious:
But actively collect old glass candy containers ..and.. seemingly pull tabs,or at least my detector thinks so lol
And play MTG :devilish: :devilish: :devilish:

[My4Kiwis]

Great Stuff everyone! Very nice fish Mike...your daughter looks like a natural.

[Carver]

Love to go river fishing,,,deer hunting with my son,,,,wood carving, 8/ 8/ did a LOT of trapshooting,,not so much now. One thing I dearly love to do,,,,AFTER I am done for the day in my cabinet shop,,,I love to make things for my family <: <: <: <:

[russellt]

i like making volkswagens go fast. call it a hobby or an obsession . i like turning wrenches on my dubs.. i have a 89 golf GTI 16V completely rebuilt ( by me ) and a 2003 golf GTI turbo . she's been slammed , chipped, boosted, reinforced, gutted and just plain loved.. at 5 inches off the ground the only thing she loves more than the whip is 93 octane fuel and a smooth hand ...... sorry i got carried away :smitten: :devilish:.. so to answer your question i like speed. swiss watches, german cars and well rounded american ladies ...did i mention metal detecting :cheering:

[fastfwd]

Love shooting my guns, just got a fishing kayak so that will be fun this spring. Build and repair computers just for fun, and reloading bullets ! :beerbuddy:

[Nitro 54]

Prospecting is my number one hobby after Metal detecting.. Then I guess I would have to add, riding ATVs, shooting ,hunting, reloading and sitting in front of a computer on my favorite forums.

[Bedrock]

In addition to metal detecting, I enjoy hunting, fishing, camping, violin making, piano playing, wood carving, antique firearms, old bottles, and a 1931 Model A.

[Indy!]

Yup! Fly Fishin! Dirt Fishin! And cruisin my '63 Valiant. My first car, bought in '77.

I call these my 3 rods...

[CyberSage]

I enjoy gardening. Here is a picture of me and my favorite variety of heirloom tomatoes. Brandywine!

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o187/CyberSageBH3300/Tomato-2.jpg

These hit 10 feet by the end of the season. No better tasting tomato!

Fermenting beverages of any kind is close to my heart. Wines, meads, and Beer of coarse.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o187/CyberSageBH3300/MVC-018F.jpg

yummy! Good stuff.

Jack

[greg]

I enjoy gardening. Here is a picture of me and my favorite variety of heirloom tomatoes. Brandywine!

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o187/CyberSageBH3300/Tomato-2.jpg

These hit 10 feet by the end of the season. No better tasting tomato!

Fermenting beverages of any kind is close to my heart. Wines, meads, and Beer of coarse.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o187/CyberSageBH3300/MVC-018F.jpg

yummy! Good stuff.

Jack



Wow you have a green thumb or real good soil

[Evan/tn]

Hi Jack I've got five gallons in the primary myself :peace:
It's bottling time :happydance01:

[tink77]

Riding atv, shooting my guns and reloading.

[P Side]

Let's see, the short list. Hunting deer, turkey, pheasants, elk and coyote, shooting, fishing with regular tackle and flyfishing, fly tying, camping, working on my MG, running marathons and photography. That's about all I have time for. :crazy:

[Bubba707]

My hobbies besides MDing are astronomy and messing with computers. I'm telling folks I don't do computers anymore though. They all seem to think I should fix theirs for free and pay for the parts besides. I also enjoy cooking and reading.

[Judy]

Well if you ask my hubby what my other hobby is...he'd tell you in a heartbeat....driving him nuts rofl

ahhhh life's simple pleasures thumbsup01 :popcorn:

[odave]

Astronomy since I was a Kid, the Pic is getting ready for the evening star Party

I also enjoy...
Fishing
Golf
Camping
Chipping arrowheads
Woodwork
Photography
Snowshoeing
Drinking a Nice glass of Wine .

And lots of other things ...

[Poker Jim]

Wow Dave, quite a setup you got there, very cool.

I like to go to the target range and plink around with my pistols. That costs money though, more and more these days, which is what makes detecting so great. Just gotta throw the machine in the car and go. I also like playing around on my computer, mostly checking out the latest virals. School, work and family take up quite a bit of my time but I would really like to learn to play the piano. I enjoy general numismatics and even some video editing as well.

Poker Jim

[Epi-hunter]

Wow, great thread :) I love the photos!

I like to ski (downhill snow ski) and rollerblade and dance. More or less anything that moves fast. :)

I also have always loved history and antiques. Particularly antique furniture. Love going to auctions... have a bunch of great furniture to put into my Victorian era house someday :)

Love exploring abandoned houses...

I am a single mom with 3 kids. I have converted my daughter, who is 10, into watching HGTV (it's her favorite channel now lol ) and she and I love to update and upgrade houses. For the last 10 years or so I have bought farms (mostly recreational hunting farms in Iowa) and flipped them for profit. I would love to start doing that with houses, and I am trying to learn the skills to do a lot of home renovating work myself.

[jkress]

My other hobby that ranks right at the top with metal detecting is wilderness camping/fishing.

However, since the birth of our daughter 2 years ago, wilderness travel has been put temporarily on pause. :rolleyes:

Since I was in my 20's, I have made several trips a year to the very northern part of Minnesota, to a 1 million acre place called the Boundary Waters. It is truly an indescribable experience to be sitting miles from civilization with no other sounds than the erie howls of a pack of wolves or the singing of lonely loon at sunset. :smitten: It's truly like stepping back in time 400+ years.

I can't wait to be able to share the wilderness experience with my daughter for the first time. :yes:



These are a few pictures from our last trip...

http://homepage.mac.com/j.kress/AmericanDetectoristMisc/pictures/picture-1.jpg http://homepage.mac.com/j.kress/AmericanDetectoristMisc/pictures/picture-2.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/j.kress/AmericanDetectoristMisc/pictures/picture-3.jpg http://homepage.mac.com/j.kress/AmericanDetectoristMisc/pictures/picture-4.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/j.kress/AmericanDetectoristMisc/pictures/picture-5.jpg http://homepage.mac.com/j.kress/AmericanDetectoristMisc/pictures/picture-6.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/j.kress/AmericanDetectoristMisc/pictures/picture-7.jpg http://homepage.mac.com/j.kress/AmericanDetectoristMisc/pictures/picture-8.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/j.kress/AmericanDetectoristMisc/pictures/picture-9.jpg

[Epi-hunter]

Joe. Do you have any idea how incredible your photos are? :shocked04:


My fave is the sunset, but they are all excellent. Magazine quality. You are talented.

[jkress]

Joe. Do you have any idea how incredible your photos are? :shocked04:


Thanks :embarrassed: but the credit here really goes to the subject matter. It's almost hard to take a bad photo up there.

[Napa Steve]

Right behind tecting would be diving, and some ocean fishing, preferably a charter boat where they take you out to the biggins.

[tanacat]

I love this thread!!! Thanks for starting it JD :clapping: I want to respond to just about everybody's post here lol That's really cool you scuba dive Napa Steve, I've only been snorkling. Ever been face to face with a shark? :cheesysmile:

Great pics Joe- esp the one where the wolf is in your campsite! I also have love of wilderness/backpacking and am in same boat with having small children. We've been doing the car camping/campground scene for past few years and I can't wait to break out my backpack again!!

Another hobby of mine is arrowhead hunting. Such a great feeling to get out in the fields, I have a thread around here somewhere with pics of my collection. I never found anything especially valuable, like a nice paleo point, but still fun all the same!

[tanacat]

Thought I'd share my old arrowhead thread... brag brag brag :cheesysmile:

http://www.americandetectorist.com/forum/index.php?topic=1636.msg18960#msg18960

[milco]

Cool thread! I am a life long stamp collector and postal historian, but also collect old books, documents, letters, etc. etc., related to Wisconsin history. I also enjoy camping. I don't collect coins, but do like finding them! (Joe, nice photo's, the northwoods are awesome, no doubt!!!)