schoolofhardNox

Gold runs from me 😄 I now know where it ends up..... at your place. Nice job on the sparkly ring.

Nice old area to get those rings! The whole hunt is made when the first one pops out. The rest is gravy!!!!

Good looking piece.  Nice chunk of silver. That cell phone made someone else cry too. 😄 Amazing how much some of the nice things we find actually cost.

That's a super hunt! You got a lot of different, great targets. 2 sweet coins, bullets, etc. I'd be real happy with that for the day.

Tried to figure out that back mark but just couldn't match it up. Try and gently rub your finger over the dirt on the covered letters. Don't push deep, just gently sweep side to side until the letter show up. Overdoing it makes it harder to see the letters. Contrast is your best friend.

Actually looks pretty well made. Nice design.

Cleaning it up will probably not do much good. If you do, start in the fields that are plain, like below the bust. Leave the details alone or you will lose them. That corrosion may be tough to pick away or it may just flake off easily. Use caution.

3 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

...where it belongs!  If my ratio were similar (dry land detecting) I would conclude that the site hadn't been frequented in the last 35+ years (1982 having the last 95% copper cent production).  But you beach detectorists have different environmental factors working.  Is you conclusion similar or do you think the Zincolns have disappeared, either by corrosion or selective washing away?

7 hours with such a heavy detector is quite impressive.  I do well to hold up after only half that amount of time with my ~3-3.5 lb detectors.  And obviously, based upon simply the number of good targets shown, your recovery energy output is considerable as well.

Thanks GB. The zincs were washed away when about a foot of sand went with them. The one zinc I found was kind of a shock, as it was as deep as the mid 60's layer that was exposed. Just shows you how the beach mixes everything up. We could be so lucky to have the zincs corrode away quickly. They slowly degrade and cause havoc with my Equinox numbers. They find there way down into #'s they should not be, like 9, 6, 5, all great gold #'s. I'm used to the weight of the GPX, it's the constant digging that gets to me. Non stop, and no lunch is what does me in after 7 hours. I've had people move into where I was hunting when I changed machines, so I stick to it until I've had enough. My energy level is a mathematical equation E=GFxS (Energy= Good Finds x Sugar) 😄

I think kac is correct, it's a George III half penny. The newer dates have the style of bust you have. Here's a 1799 that has the high bust.  Unfortunately the date is one the reverse side.

9 hours ago, Joe D. said:

  Whopper of a day! Your good for March already! I need that type of beach near me! You definitely were in the ring range with all those nickles! Great job! When the soreness goes away, you will have to hit it again!!👍👍

Thanks, I should be back at it this coming Thursday. We'll see if conditions are the same or not. But either way, I get the stress release of being on a beach and my detecting fix is satisfied!

9 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Just how many days did it take to get all that?

Fantastic hunt, just wish I could do that sometime.

Good luck on your next outing.

That was one, 7 hour hunt. For the last 5 hunts combined, I'm nearing 90 silver coins from this beach. When conditions are right, you can get a lot of coins. I remember some hunters in New Hampshire that got 100 silver coins in just one hunt.  Early morning and late night hunt. The coins are just deep enough to be out of range of most VLF's but well within the range of pulse machines.

8 hours ago, GaryC/Oregon Coast said:

Those conditions must have been perfect!  Nice haul of silver for any beach.  GaryC/Oregon Coast

If I lived closer, my wife would only see me long enough to feed me 😂 But if I get her a nice ring, I may be OK. Conditions are great here. Usually they get good around October as bigger storms hit the coast, but this time it was late and it's better in Feb/ Mar.

6 hours ago, mn90403 said:

You're the man!  What a great outing for a great guy.

I'll contrast it with my 2 hour outing on the beach here and I found less than $.50!

What coil do you use with the 5000?

Mitchel

Thanks, Mitchel. I'm using the 12.5" Detech DD coil. It seems to be the best choice from all the coils I have. I have the 18"DD but I would have to either get a bungee cord or a side handle for the machine, neither of which I have a love for. If I could find a way to drag the small spade I use behind me,  then I would try the 18" coil for deep quarters and half dollars. 

56 minutes ago, Jim in ma said:

Great Silver haul!  that charm looks promising.

years back I would clean all my silver.  Then I realized it look just like the pile of clad next to it. 

Now I do not clean silver I leave it all black and crusty as I found it.  When I look into my box of silver coins they bring back the memories of finding them.

I just cleaned one of those black cookies and found a very poor Washington quarter beneath it. Not even a date.

8 minutes ago, Tom_in_CA said:

I never get tired of seeing those beach-kissed blackened silver coins in my scoop !

You ain't kidding! They don't clean up well, but it sure beats clad. 😉

10 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:

Good lord, man! Hope I have a day like that when I go to the beach. Unlikely because of my experience, but WOW. Great haul! That's a haul right there. 😀

Thanks. The GPX has a lot to do with it.  Without it I probably would not have nearly that amount. Experience comes with time and of course using your brain 😄 My experience is learned very slowly, unlike some others who learn quick.

Well in this day and age it's a good idea for them. Your existing customers may buy it and if word gets around, you may get some new customers too. Sounds lie a win - win situation.

2 minutes ago, GaryC/Oregon Coast said:

Yes, I did not mention I was hunting in All Metal.  I also had my Impulse with me but did not get it on the ground, too much trash here.  I brought my big tire wagon to haul all the gear to the site, as it's closed.  Probably a 1/4 mile walk from the parked truck outside the park.  GaryC/Oregon Coast

Those guys hit that place hard before you got there 😢 The walk in pretty much eliminates swapping out machines or coils too. At least you got that ring. 👍

That dime was all encased in iron. Great save. Nice decorated one piece button too.

It's hard to hit those places. No one talks about it being drained until someone slips up 😄 I actually saw a huge pond drained in my area and found out about it after stumbling onto a YouTube video of it. Then the snow came in and I missed my chance. At least you got a ring from it.  I always try all metal if I'm not getting a lot of targets, just to get a little deeper.

That is the oddest gold ring I have ever seen. I would swear it was plated until you tested it. I'm not sure what would de-laminate a ring like that. My second guess would have been gold over silver (vermeil). It would be interesting to see if the layers are a different karat. That would be a job for an XRF for sure.

10 hours ago, CCadrin said:

Occasionally, we'll get a ring that is so delicate that if you drop it on a hard surface they will break into multiple pieces. This one tested as a 14k so I was a little surprised that there was so much tarnish and erosion of the filler metal. 

So true. I found a nice 10K ring, what I call a panel ring that had 8 sides to it. The coolest ring ever. I dropped it on the tiled kitchen floor, as I was showing it to my wife. It shattered at each connecting point. I now had 8 small panels and no ring 😄.......😭😭😭

6 hours ago, geek4gold said:

I actually wonder why Minelab even called it a GPX 6000. It isn't remotely the same as any of the other GPX range of detectors. Hell....it wont even take the other GPX detector coils. Guess the only similarity is the color & the coils are white & round. 😂

G4G 

I wondered the same thing too. I kept thinking it would be like a 5000, but better on EMI and maybe with a more refined discrimination, and a tad bit deeper. But it may be that in the countries that are the new gold areas, Minelab wanted to continue the continuity of the 5000, so that they would not perceive it as a completely new machine. The 5000 probably produced a lot of gold for them, so they wanted to keep riding the successes of it. I have this odd feeling that the 6000 is the last of that series or that the series has morphed, and we will never see anything like the 5000 again. Will we ever get discrimination again??

I quickly built an old shelf where a fireplace chimney once was. I hid the bricks with a shelf. Only mistake was that I did not make the shelves deep enough to support a large coil. My other coils, I hang on the outside of each end cap. Maybe you can repurpose an old shelving unit without much modification??

2 hours ago, Badger-NH said:

I never took risks like that with my non-waterproof machines.  I would freak out if even a few drops got on my Explorer housing. I used to put a zip-loc bag over it if there was any mist in the air.  Heck, I don't even let my Equinox get wet.  I have to remind myself that a little rain is okay.  Those protective habits are still with me.  99% of the time I had no concerns about using the Explorer on the wet sand and/or occasional shallow water.

 

My non waterproof machines handled the rain better than the waterproof ones 😄 My DFX was used a lot in the rain and once about 1/2 mile in the woods when it started to down pour. My GPX and E trac did great too. It was my CTX that would leak just looking at the waves 🙄

I've had my GPX hit with those sneaky little waves that come out of nowhere. 😣 It's happened at least a half a dozen times. But one day it will fry that machine and I will be very sad. It depends on your machine. The GPX is fairly rugged. I've dropped it, hunted in light, steady rain, had those waves hit it, and so far it's survived. You do have to use contact cleaner on the knobs though. I once froze one solid. Couldn't turn the knob to change timings. Sprayed it down with the electronics contact cleaner and it was good as new.  I have hunted a beach like Badger is describing. It is extremely flat when the tide goes out. There is no wave action to speak of. It just drains out slowly and you just start seeing a lot of flat land. It does retain water, so if you lay your machine down, the bottom of it would get wet. Things sink very deep at that beach. Next time I have a real low tide, I will venture out to the deepest part I can.

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.

34 minutes ago, The Seeker said:

I don’t have to read anything that I have read plenty of times. The only way I can barely run the detector with minimal falsing is with presets. Out off the 30+ detectors out there there’s only a handful that work as they should but nobody discusses this because it’s taboo. Have a nice day.

I don't think it's taboo here, as we have been very vocal on our dislikes about the machine. I hope you are not holding back on your issues with it as someone may have an answer that may help. You must have a very different type of beach than I am used to here in New England. There were some issues with the coil wire not being tight against the shaft that produced a lot of falsing, especially in the water. I don't think Carolina meant any disrespect to you in his comments. I find that I generally run on or near the presets for most time, but do run the ATS at 3 in all metal, when I want to get the most out of it. I do have to change my sweep speed to settle the machine down at that low of a ATS setting. Just some thoughts. I know you are a seasoned detectorists, so no disrespect meant by my comments on how I run it.