It's fun, it's educational, it's exercise, it's away from the house. When you have two or more guys you have more fun with the friendships made. I used to belong to a club here in town that had prizes for monthly finds everyone voted on. I got several find of the month awards and a few "Century Club patches for my jacket. The Century Club was for finding a coin over 100 years old. We had chili cookoffs, Christmas dinners and planted hunts in an area like a park where we planted coins and numbered tokens for prizes everyone brought. We even had speakers from all over including a guy from the Atocha. I got to working out of state and never could find the time to go so I let my membership lapse.I've been looking to get into MD myself for several years.