GPX Beach Hunt On My Favorite Beach

[schoolofhardNox]

So I'm still trying to milk the same cow 😄 I figured until it stops spitting silver on me, I will continue to ask for it. Long day at the beach 8:30-5:00, but the weather was decent, as I dress well for the cold. I'm getting to be a delicate flower in my advancing years 🤔 I'm using the GPX all day for this hunt and digging select areas and removing all iron so I can hear the deep targets.I hit a patch that started producing exclusively wheat pennies, so I knew that the chance for silver was very possible.  It did produce some silver but the ratio was mostly pennies. Moving over just a bit, the wheats turned into memorials and the clad followed as well. Not a bad day with 8 silvers, but I worked harder than usual for it.The beach is slowly sanding in and the easy stuff is gone. No gold again, but switching the timings on the GPX did start getting me a lot of nickels, including a handful of Buffalo. Jewelry was missing as usual, but the spoons sure weren't lacking 🙄 So here is everything I dug. Lots of junk too. It was great to get out and enjoy the hobby.

[GB_Amateur]

Hard work but you knew that coming in.  Spring is around the corner (Monday is March 1st!)  Thanks for taking the time to photograph and share.  As always I'm left with questions:  Why so few pulltabs?  What was the depth range on the coins?  And is the mineralization low on this beach?

You beach & water detectorists sure have to deal with a lot of sharp items.  Makes me wonder how many barefoot walkers/swimmers/etc. end up visiting the first aid station (or worse).

[MSC]

Nice finds schoolofhardNox glad the 5000 is working for you.

[schoolofhardNox]

3 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

Hard work but you knew that coming in.  Spring is around the corner (Monday is March 1st!)  Thanks for taking the time to photograph and share.  As always I'm left with questions:  Why so few pulltabs?  What was the depth range on the coins?  And is the mineralization low on this beach?

You beach & water detectorists sure have to deal with a lot of sharp items.  Makes me wonder how many barefoot walkers/swimmers/etc. end up visiting the first aid station (or worse).

Ahhhh Pull tabs.... in this particular area the ocean takes care of those for me on a regular basis. The rough sea hits certain sections hard and rips sand away. Here about a foot was removed and along with it all the tabs, bottle caps , and other light trash. Once I moved to a new area, a few bottle caps and zincolns showed up. Coins ranged from about 10" to 14" on average. So this would mean that prior to the sea cleansing the sand away, the coins would have been buried from 22" to 26"  I can't hit them at that depth. Not even a peep. Mineralization can be high in places with black or purple sand, but in other places it is a low concentration of black sand and normal beach sand. The purple looking sand seems to affect the GPX a bit more than the black sand does.

1 hour ago, MSC said:

Nice finds schoolofhardNox glad the 5000 is working for you.

Thanks. It is my number one machine for finding deep silver & copper coins. Nickels and gold don't come in as solid as copper and silver do.

[King-Of-Bling]

That is alot of digging. Surprised you didn't find gold. But I also didn't notice any sinkers either. And that's a big indicator for me. But still , I would have dug it all there too.

[F350Platinum]

Outstanding day! Can't wait to try my hand at a beach, it's coming soon. I'm also going to do some river hunting if I can get a permit.

What sort of digger/scoop do you use?

[Joe D.]

Tremendous amount of digging! Delicate flower my butt! Good job!

   And yeah, beachgoers would be well advised to wear beach shoes! Broken glass, syringes, rusty nails and screws, sharp aluminum, man-o-war jellyfish! No box jellyfish thankfully! Very hazardous!

   F350, somewhere on the forum is a great deal of info on scoops! But I would only buy a good gauge of stainless steel! Depending how much beach and water hunting you do, is directly tied to how durable the scoop should be, and how much you are willing to spend!👍👍

[Valens Legacy]

Great job digging up all those coins and junk.

Better luck on the rings next time.

[schoolofhardNox]

On 2/26/2021 at 9:09 PM, F350Platinum said:

Outstanding day! Can't wait to try my hand at a beach, it's coming soon. I'm also going to do some river hunting if I can get a permit.

What sort of digger/scoop do you use?

I use the Xtreme Surfmaster X3 Stainless Steel scoop with carbon fiber handle. l just bought it and it's very well made. I'm saving that for when I decide to detect in the water. For dry beach hunting I use a short pointed spade. It helps get through the packed rocks better and faster than I can do with a scoop. That is my main weapon of choice.