schoolofhardNox

I'm mad at those VLF guys for being able to discriminate out those bottle caps and small bits of aluminum. They should be removing them for me 😄 Now I'm stuck digging them to get to the deeper stuff. I'm calling the metal detecting police on them! I'm trying hard not to imagine that. 😵 ............😆

Who wants to see an old (silver) streaker at all? 😅 Sounds like a plan. I like lead 🥰 Silver won't hurt though 🤔

Thanks. The Buffalo was a weird brick red color. Sometimes if you rub it right away after finding them, you can remove a lot of that red. The back came clean, but the front not so much. I cleaned it up a bit more at home. The other silvers get the usual black color after being exposed to the sunlight. If I we not a lazy guy, I would have a container with some chemical to start the cleaning process on silver right there at the beach. But I'm not that ambitious. 😞. Maybe in my next life 😄 If that thing is made of silver, I will find it!!! Put some gold on it and it will be invisible to me. 😭.... 😄

I think you are right about your button. On a project I worked at an old site that the English took over from Natives, I found a very similar button to yours. It has the same look as yours with the dots running around and is crudely done. That site is early, so yours is probably early as well. Nice find!

You looking for one of these? 🧐 I am the proud owner of some of the ugliest GW's you will ever see. 😅

Beach hunt # 8. What seems like an eternity from being able to hunt a beach, I finally had a chance to get out. It’s been a while, so I decided to hunt a beach that I have not hunted in about 5 years. Back then, they had the bright idea of dredging up the ocean and piling up that sand on the beach. What a disaster. 😌 They pulled a huge amount of lead and sharp iron objects onto the beach, along with other trash. I understand they need to replenish the missing sand, but the location they picked to get the sand from was terrible. Hence the reason I have not returned there. But I was hoping to catch this beach with some erosion so I could look for the deep ones. Digging a test hole to 20” I never hit any kind of hard bottom. Along with a sanded beach, I noticed these little bits of cut up wire scattered all over this beach. Finding only one copper cent and a new dime in 2 hours was enough to make me run to the car. I couldn’t wait to get out of there. Being only 20 minutes from my second favorite beach, I opted to go there. Great choice. This beach looked like they had already bulldozed the sand level, and a small but decent section of the beach looked fairly low. So, I fired up the GPX and worked this section back and forth. The first good signal was a 9” deep Mercury dime. That’s more like it. 🤗 I spent about 4 hours gridding this patch and was rewarded with 6 silver dimes, a war nickel, and a small silver charm. Also snagged a 1928 Buffalo nickel and some copper cents as well. I don’t know if I can claim the silver streak continues with this much time passing, so I will just say I was very happy to see the first silver pop out. My free time has mostly been spent on the archaeology project. It has been very slow going …. like pulling teeth. I think I’ve only found around 15 round ball in 7 visits, so getting a break to relax and hunt a beach was just what I needed. Needless to say, the next visit will start out there again, possibly trying out some bigger coils. I’m hoping for a few missed deeper targets or maybe finding another patch there, similar to the one I just did. Always nice to see the sun, sand, and ocean.

Alright, doctors orders:...... Metal detecting? = OK, Ladders? I have to go with a NO on that. 😅 Glad you dodged that bullet! Hopefully a quick recovery. Nice looking button for sure. Hand decorated? Old for sure.

That's awesome. 😄

Don't worry, your post was not taken the wrong way. Recently, beaches out west have been giving up the gold regularly, and the fun factor must be huge out there. It's not often that nature exposes the deeper layers that can have those heavy targets. Between cjc, mn and you, I can live my life through you guys 😄 For me, competition is always between me and the sand. Sometimes the sand loses and I win. 🙂 But we all win just by being able to get out there and hunt!

If that's the game you guys are playing...... I'm not even at the starting line 😆 I will have to save all my gold rings that I find for the next couple of years so that I can just make one good contending post 😔 Sweet looking rings.

😮😲😬..... Who ever the manufacturers of those items are, they are making some nice looking jewelry. Even the silver ring is a nice quality and style. 😍 Congrats on some great hunting.

I notice depth reduction on the Manticore when I enter a high EMI area. You have to get out of multi frequency or you will get so much chatter (target ID included, that you can easily miss targets. I think most depth loss is due to not picking the best settings for the situation. Can't comment on the update affecting depth, since I never up date any of my machines. When it comes to EMI updates or Iron falsing updates, my opinion is that the engineers do not actually solve the problem, but merely find a way to quiet the machine down, usually at some expense to us. That's just my opinion and I'm sure others will disagree, but I just can't believe engineers wouldn't have already thought of the fix to the common problems that occur prior to releasing a machine. Iron falsing and EMI are not new issues. You would think that they would be aware of them by now without listening to our complaints 😄

Well worth the digging. Always nice to see some gold!

Beautiful finds. Always trust your gut feelings. I do. When I don't, I always get this feeling I just screwed up royally 😆

Beautiful rings. That one is too nice to have a fake stone in it. It looks well made and the stone well secured. I agree it needs to be looked over in case it is a white sapphire or some other rarer stone. The second ring may also be 18K over silver or maybe it is 18K after all. Maybe it will read a bit higher if it isn't solid 18k.

Wow. Awesome finds. Cleaner than beach finds 😊, that's a big plus! I always wanted to do some lakes in my area, but I'm not sure if they are off limits. Worth the extra digging you had to do because of the trash.

I think that place has more to give. If you can still squeak out 2 quarters that others missed, then maybe digging iffy targets may get you some other deep coins. Nice couple of hunts and congrats on another first.

Thanks. 24" and still sand is a no go for me. Anything over 15" is not doing me any favors 😄. The bling piece is what's left of one of those fake Atocha treasure coins. Gold covered zinc, I would think. 🤔 Thank you. If I lived near the shore I would venture out of my comfort zone a lot. But being so far away, I need to play it safe more than I usually would. I'm a wander by trade 😆 so sticking to a familiar area is not as comfortable for me as it seems. 😄 You are safe on any beach I'm at. If you could record me detecting there are plenty of space I miss. I've even went back over my steps and found stuff 🙄 Thorough, I am not. The junk steel was mostly the binding that keeps those stupid slat fences together.... that is until the next storm rips them apart and scatters bits of steel all over the beach. Some of them sound real good when they are small bits. I wish that was oil 😍, but maybe some trace gold in that black sand 🤔. The 24" thing was just a hole I dug to see how far the sand went. The black sand was in another location and was about 6-8" deep, but a solid layer. Usually it's mixed in layers, but this one was a chunk of solid black. Come on down, you can pan some of it for gold 💰

Beautiful. Nice to get back on the areas that have some gold hiding. All that yellow made my eyes weep 😄

Beach hunt # 7 was a Friday the 13th hunt. 😲 I finally got myself to try a beach I have never been to. I was a bit leery since I selfishly wanted to continue my silver streak, but it ended up well. From Google earth, I saw areas I wanted to try, so I hit a spot there, similar to my other beaches. I was hoping for about 15” of sand followed by a solid clay layer, but after digging a test hole to 24” I never hit bottom. So that meant things could go way deeper than I could detect. Bummer. I wandered around for about 2 hours with not much luck and I was about to head out to another beach, (also that I have never been to), but fortunately I stumbled onto a copper cent. So, I stopped to grids the area, and it started to produce a lot of coins in a relatively small area. I couldn’t believe how these coins could be missed, as a lot of the beach was very quiet. I even saw dig holes from someone else close to where the coins were coming up. But digging a deeper hole, I found out why. There are not many places the GPX struggles, but the black sand in this area was the richest I have ever seen at a beach. The Garrett pinpointer could barely pick up a dime at 1” in that black sand. Small targets were almost impossible to pinpoint. I was fortunate enough to get some silver, including a nice filigree heart locket with what I think is a piece of amber inside of it, along with its broken chain. Also found was random silver bead and what I believe to be an odd silver pendant. I looked it up and there are lots of these bar pendants that you can have engraved. Never seen one of these. So, a great finish to a sparse beginning. Not sure I will go back there until there is some erosion, but I did way better than I thought I would.

I'm thinking Draped Bust for the large cent. Nice to find a copper right off the bat. Also nice to see a turned field for some easy diggin' .Good hunt and a whole lot of exercise. 👣

Awesome finds. I found a nice chain mail purse, but mine was only full of dirt 😄 I like yours better 😊

I think 10 KFG stands for 10 Karat Fool's Gold 😅. Beauty of a ring and a very nice weight. Nothing like seeing a gold rim and have it actually turn out to be a gold ring. 🤗

Awesome. It's difficult to hit the 1600's club. Nice score!!!

But I need more 😆