schoolofhardNox Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 So today's hunt was not at a beach, but at a place that I should have been hunting all along! I thought I missed my opportunity (kind of did) to hunt a very old drained pond. I could not find a place to park, so I kept putting it off. That was in the fall of 2020. They said the dam repairs would be done by January 2021, so I forgot all about it. Last week, I have a client that needed a scrap electronics recycling pick up, so I drove to his new house which just happens to abut the pond. Now this pond is HUGE and a lot of people have been pounding it for a year (at least 30 people that I heard of. Many nice coins and rings have come out of there, including Seated coins. Oh well. So I asked if I could park in his yard and go down to the pond and he said - anytime. Now because it has been dry for over a year, except with a small river flowing down the middle, lots of vegetation has sprung up and makes it impossible to hunt. It's very boggy in about 90% of the pond now. The side I am on is not the popular side that has been used for a couple of centuries, but I figured I would start there and maybe return some other time. Also being cold, some of the desirable area froze solid. I brought the Equinox and the GPX 5000 for this hunt, and decided on the GPX even though I would be in areas with a lot of iron ( I assumed). I was amazed that the iron rejected extremely well and most of the iron I dug was out of curiosity. This was a 4 hour hunt and I had to dumb the GPX down sensitivity wise in order to not go nuts. Targets were everywhere. This was going to be a low conductor hunt because of all the iron, as my primary goal was finding gold! I knew there would be a lot of lead, but I did not take into account the sheer number of small pieces of aluminum that I would encounter. I worked non stop and got a lesson on trashy pond hunting. I'm glad I did it and glad that I found a little bit of gold, silver and even a very crumbling Indian cent. Man o man, do humans pollute!!!! 🤬 I will be back if the weather doesn't freeze over everything soon. I'm glad I had a chance to detect it after all. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Beechnut OBN Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 That's a Nice Gold!! Love red stone gold rings.. No doubt you did a service to mother nature also, Lotta digging...🏴☠️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King-Of-Bling Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 I've had many a beach hunt likes yours. I know of a few over analytical engineer type knuckleheads who would question my trash to target ratio. And I could care less. The point is you found a beautiful gold ring. Lots of digging exercise and a great hunt ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoolofhardNox Posted December 30, 2021 Author Share Posted December 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, Joe Beechnut OBN said: That's a Nice Gold!! Love red stone gold rings.. No doubt you did a service to mother nature also, Lotta digging...🏴☠️ Thanks Joe. I wish I had not procrastinated as the pond was bare for months. Target are shallow and I could have used the Nox for most of the hunts. Live and learn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoolofhardNox Posted December 30, 2021 Author Share Posted December 30, 2021 Just now, King-Of-Bling said: I've had many a beach hunt likes yours. I know of a few over analytical engineer type knuckleheads who would question my trash to target ratio. And I could care less. The point is you found a beautiful gold ring. Lots of digging exercise and a great hunt ! Thanks. I could have just used the Equinox and hunted differently. Had I known that this was going to be easy, shallow digging I would have done it differently. But I could have missed that ring because of all the different sizes of aluminum that may read the same as the ring, so I decided to dig as many targets as I could dig, until there was no more room in the pouch 😄. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F350Platinum Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Great stuff again! Yeah a lot of trash, but you sure do find the good ones. 🙂 I bet if you took the 5000 over where people were more successful, you'd get everything they missed. You just got some good practice in. 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zincoln Posted December 30, 2021 Share Posted December 30, 2021 Bet your legs are sore tomorrow. That is a lot of holes represented in the pics! Great job pulling the gold ring out of the mix! Zincoln Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoolofhardNox Posted December 31, 2021 Author Share Posted December 31, 2021 36 minutes ago, F350Platinum said: Great stuff again! Yeah a lot of trash, but you sure do find the good ones. 🙂 I bet if you took the 5000 over where people were more successful, you'd get everything they missed. You just got some good practice in. 😀 Hopefully I won' t run out of time and the deep freeze hits. I wanted to cross that small running water but chickened out. I didn't want to be that guy that gets stuck in the mud and has to call for help 😄 They already had one of those for the fire department to practice on 😆 I will go over to the better side next time. This hunt i just wanted to get used to what I was up against. I really didn't expect that many targets to be so shallow. The ring made it all worth it. 21 minutes ago, Zincoln said: Bet your legs are sore tomorrow. That is a lot of holes represented in the pics! Great job pulling the gold ring out of the mix! Zincoln Probably will be soar, since I didn't take anything to drink with me. 🙄 I opted to take a spare set of mini headphones with me in the spot usually reserved for a 16 oz electrolyte drink. I've had some headphone issues lately, so I didn't want to trudge back up that steep briar filled hill until I was done for the day. It did help that the targets were shallow and very close to one another. I could actually dig 2 or 3 targets without getting up if they were close enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal_Cobra Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 The gold ring made it all worth it, congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strick Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Superman strikes again! and it's nice to see that it paid off...Nice ring. strick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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