I think everyone who attended last Saturday’s Central Texas Treasure Club’s Old School vs New Tech Competition had fun. The only complaint I heard was that we need to even out the numbers on each team. As in recent years, the New Tech Team greatly outnumbered our Old School Team. This year, it was 13-5 in favor of NT. As a result, I’ve come up with a couple of ways to do this. One is that we limit each team to 8 or 10 members. To do that, we need more members to acquire discontinued vintage detectors that are 25 years old or older, learn to master them, and commit to join the Old School Team at the 2025 Competition. The other part of the solution is the add a qualifier to members wanting to detect on the New Tech Team next year. We will need to get firm commitments signed up by August, 2025 regarding those who will be participating and which Team you want to be on. Those who want to be on the New Tech Team will need to qualify by getting enough total points in next year’s Finds of the Month Contests for September, October, and November to make the 8 or 10 person NT roster. This will also increase participation in next year’s Finds of the Month Contest for our 2025 CTTC Treasure Hunter of the Year award.
So, no matter which Team you want to be on next November, we all have work to do! Using a vintage detector successfully is certainly not as easy as many newbies want you to believe. You don’t just “turn them on and go.” It takes many hours to master using one, just as it does to master using a new model.
