Part One…
I know that prices in general have increased exponentially on everything, including metal detecting accessories, but just how much of an increase was brought home to me when, instead of looking at the prices and not thinking about them, i was now looking at them to make a purchase…
It was after returning from a fossil hunt, on the Yorkshire coast, that i sat down to look for another cheap finds bag & a simple but dedicated box for putting fragile fossils in;
It seems the cost of the simplest metal detecting accessory has spiraled. These finds’ boxes are in excess of sixteen pounds with postage, & the shoulder bags were not far behind them & rising to thirty pounds…
Luckily, after a lot of searching, i managed to find the waist / shoulder bag at eight pounds thirty-nine pence ( £ 8.39p on eBay), & for just under nine pounds, i was not holding out much hope of it being any good, but also these prices do go up & down, so keep looking…
On its arrival from the naton selling cheap goods and over a thousand miles away, it arrived a week earlier than forecast, & i was pleasintly surprised to find that upon arrival this was a good weight & not flimsy at all, & on the plus side the interior has a waterproof coating, this lining might not last long as it is coated plastic, but, so was my backpack which lasted five years before deteriorating, so i’m not too worried about that, as the bag is strong enough to still be capable of doing its job, another thoughtful touch is, all the zips have large zip-pull-tags so its easy to open & pull closed with gloves on…
The pouch has a large, full-width zipped pocket at the top with three internal pockets, for a total of four separate pockets, plus a smaller but full-width zipped pocket just below it and an ideal smaller zipped pocket near the D-Ring.
This smaller standalone zipped pocket is just the right size to hold a small emergency first-aid kit, credit card, cash in note form & car keys…
With my new finds pouch, the main criteria was that it would have to go over my shoulder, & not just around my waist. So far the finds bag is the winner here, i can still put a pulse pin pointer, notably the Tek-point, in the dedicated loop,…
A spare pin pointer holder was put onto the belt & slides around the back of the belt for a micro mattock, to slip into, & amazingly it all fit, without any excess weight…
I can now use this finds pouch as a cross-body bag, and by attaching the spare strap to the pouch, I can connect the bag to one of my belt loops. This prevents the bag from swinging forward every time I bend down.
Metal Detecting 
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