Hey everyone. I have been super busy lately and not around here much, but I sincerely hope everyone is doing great, finding gold, and having fun. I went to the beach this weekend and camped at a campground, and decided to bring along my gold detector. I have never detected beaches before, but I have put around 300 hours in on my current detector. It was a little awkward actually using the discrimination feature, and not digging every single target. it was something to get used to. I ran a very low discrim, which sang out on very shallow nails. I sorta figured less discrim was better, especially using the DD gold field coil. So here's how it went!
I dug 175 targets!
These ended up being:
42 aluminum "nuggets".
8 aluminum foil pieces
8 random pieces of junk, like lighter and pencil tops.
1 .22 caliber casing
4 lead fishing weights
1 tent spike
32 pull tabs
1 large rusty nut
1 piece of a toy motorcycle
1 baby spoon
1 piece of plastic ( must have some metal inside)
6 quarters
7 dimes
20 regular pennies
1 souvenir penny
1 skull battleaxe ( pewter?)
1 silver ring
1 silver earring.
Here is some pics, check them out!
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Nice Digs Dusty!!! those zincolns sure do corrode fast compared to the good ol' copper ones...what kinda gold detector did you end up getting?...Nice tent stake too LoL!!
Wow Mike, that sounds great! Lol howard, I am willing to let go of the tent spike but it ain't cheap! And haha chacha, I used to get sore but not anymore. I put TONS of time on my detector out looking for gold. This was just my first time to the beach.
Dusty, here is one of the rings I kept for myself. It looks like a gift shop ring but when you compare them this one is clearly hand made. The black is the coral stained from silver, left after it was cleaned. This had a little tuft of seaweed. Came from about 12 feet as the sand bank broke up on the tide change.
The Gold is very easy to spot as the water is crystal clear and it doesn't pick up marine life easy. So from there, the silver rings and pendants are clearly the prize items.
Its like the lottery, If you don't play, you cant win. I did pretty well free diving on northshore Maui 4 years ago. Lots of 14k earrings and rings. a couple silver rings. The silver was the hard ones to spot. Coral grows right on them and they look like pieces of pipe trimmings. That was in about 6-10 feet of water. I know that beach would be hot for a detector.
Nice silver! Gas money is aways good, too! Wow, you did a LOT of digging!! Watch the soreness tomorrow! Hope you saw some bikinis, too. Err, I mean, if you were paying any attention inbetween digging! :)
Pretty Nice haul KK can sell that tent stake for you at Kents Used Tent Stake Emporium