Popular Post ScoTTT2 Posted August 22, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 22, 2021 got out for a 2 hour hunt this evening .. the lakes and rivers around are flooded .. so I hit a clad field, but they were all set up for soccer so I just did the edges .. 1st hunt ever with the vanquish 340 and it gets a solid 6 .. 4 inches down .. 14k white gold .. size 8 .. 1 amethyst .. 4 diamonds .. $3+ in clad .. 1 butterfly pendant .. kind of wish that this would have been #100 .. but it's #101 .. the start of my next 100 .. pretty sure the 1st hunt with the 340 would have paid for the machine with 1 find .. but my wife likes this one so it goes to the jewelers and gets fixed and cleaned .. nickels were ringing up at 13 .. so would you have dug a 6 in a park? 17 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valens Legacy Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 Congrats on the ring, love the stone as it is my birth month like grandfathers was. Good luck on your next outing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F350Platinum Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 Nice ring and handful o' clad. 👍I will definitely dig a 1-6 in places I feel have a potential for gold. Most times it's foil but... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strick Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 I met a guy on the beach a few years back. He had his ctx and I had mine. He said every time he dug a 12-09 it was a ring...every time. I remember thinking he must not do much park hunting . Nice ring. strick 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogodog Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 I usually dig anything in the 5 to 12 range in certain areas. Small 14k is always in the 6 to 8, like f350 said it's not worth passing those up. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F350Platinum Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 1 hour ago, dogodog said: I usually dig anything in the 5 to 12 range in certain areas. Small 14k is always in the 6 to 8, like f350 said it's not worth passing those up. I got my wife a nice little gold wave ring that was a 1. The 925 version I dug at another beach was a low signal as well. About the only thing I can truly recognize now is a bottle cap but I still dig them. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 As a beach hunter I dig just about everything from a -6 up in an area until I find out it is not worth digging it. I sometimes skip a -2 because it is a hair pin. The -5s sometimes fool me lately because they are tent stakes. The 0s and 1s can be foil bottle seals or ketchup foils but they can also be something good. I get tired or sometimes forget a 14 is a pull tab but they can be real too. Then the clad, corroded pennies can be anywhere from 15-25 on my beaches. They take more interrogation. If I'm working a patch which has quarters, dimes, pennies and jewelry I will sometimes skip a solid 20 to dig something more valuable if the tide is coming in or I just don't have enough time or energy for a penny. That becomes evident at the end of a session of 3-5 hours. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geof_junk Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Most of mine finds were from using a new Garretts ADS 1979 detector the only time i used the TR discriminator was when I was detecting under a wire fence. What I did was set it so that moving it in and out from the wire made no change in sound. Well the no discrimination and dig all signals meant that all the new dectector that tried my spots found no coins or jewellery. I know there is a place for discrimination / read out ID but most people miss out on good targets when using them when not needed (easy dug target like the beach or limited junk.) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locator Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Cool bunch of finds. Congrats on the ring. Good Luck & Happy Hunting 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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