okara gold

Nice group of jewelry! Those crucifix's are nice to find.

Thanks for figuring out the CD ring. I've got a feeling it's plated, just doesn't have the look of solid gold. On to the next!

Here are 2 more pieces of gold that hurricane Idalia uncovered for my searches. Still nothing heavy to be found in the water and searching out there has been fruitless. These were found 2 weeks ago where the sand was stripped from the upper beach. The ring is marked .585 and sadly...the stone is not a diamond according to my tester. Someone said it might be a white sapphire, so it needs to be properly tested. My walks are getting longer as I continue to look for severely eroded areas along the coastline and hopefully more gold. The other initial ring is etched k18, but I'm a little suspicious as the metal is rather shiny but did dissolve with a 22k acid test. Thanks for looking.

Here is a 14K gold that rings up a solid 14 on the Equinox 800. I was staying ahead of a fleet of bulldozers that were doing a beach renourishment about 5 years ago and was hunting a small strip of dry / wet sand that was soon to be covered with 5 feet of sand. The pile of junk gives you an idea of the trash to gold ring ratio. These are zip files so don't know if they will open.

To go where no coil has gone before! Congrats!

Congratulations on all those nice finds! I have to agree, that platinum sure is a ripper and what a great find for your first one!!

Nice score on the ring! I found one last year that was from an 1887 silver dollar. I wonder how many people have found a coin ring?

I may have broken the ring when digging it. It was two scoops down in a rather hard packed layer and when I dumped the second scoop of sand and gave it a light kick, I and saw a glimpse of the gold ring. I picked it up and checked the pile again hoping the other half was there and sure enough, a nice sounding target. Two halves made the whole! 😊

I think you're right about the movement of sand back onto the beach. The lighter sand gets pushed up leaving the heavies behind. I know that a strong current that runs parallel to the beach can move lots of sand to another part of the beach yet leaving it still in the water and create a deep trough that has lots of goodies. Some of the beaches I hunt are constantly changing. I would love to have that GPX 5000 right about now. 😁

Tampa Bay Brad… You’re absolutely right about the sanded In conditions in the water. Hardly any targets out there so I’ve been concentrating on the beach until the sweat is dripping off my elbows, then into the water for awhile to cool off.

I was definitely expecting gold when I came upon a large flat section that had sinkers about every other target, I dug about 30 the first time I hunted it. Went back the next day and must have dug another 20 or so, but no gold. Good thing I didn't bet my paycheck that I'd find gold. lol

Hurricane Idalia went up through the Gulf of Mexico a little over 2 weeks ago. It caused significant erosion along some portions of the west coast of Florida. I've been hunting mainly where the erosion has stripped large sections of sand up to the dunes or seawalls. Most of these finds were in the eroded areas including the two 14k and the broken 10k ring. The storm pulled a lot of sand off the beach and into the water. Not many finds in the water, probably because everything out there is covered up. One of the rings pictured is silver with a small 18K circle of gold on its side with the manufacturers name on it. Another picture shows where a walkway went down to the water. Nothing left but the last support that held it up. There was at least 100 feet of sandy beach at that spot before the storm. Now the water is right up to the seawall with boulders shown. I was amazed that in one long stretch of beach loads of sinkers were found but no gold was found in that area. I've been back several times now where all the sinkers were found but still can't pull out any gold...yet. Unfortunately, the sea turtle nests were wiped out for miles. Nothing left but some yellow painted sticks that marked where they once were. Bob

Congratulations on a nice ring with some good history behind it. Love finding those old school rings.

I'm in the saltwater 90% of the time and am always trying to squeeze as much sensitivity as possible for the elusive gold chain and added depth. A smaller coil would suit me just fine for the sole purpose of cranking up sensitivity, mitigating the effects of salt to a certain beneficial degree and hopefully being able to pick up the small responses' chains give off. If I could get the depth of the stock coil or something close to it, with the smaller coil then sign me up.

That's how my local dealer took orders with the Manticore roll out. He put your name on a list, wanted NO money down and would let you know when they were in his shop. If you backed out... no problem.

Nice looking ring. I'll bet it's got some good weight to it too! I remember going to a beach once and the first target I dug was a 14K ring. It thought... oh boy here we go! 3 hours later I had 1 penny, a little junk and that gold ring. Ya never know.

When I had the Garrett Infinium, the coil was smooth on the bottom. I used the cover that came with it but as soon as the warranty was over, I coated the bottom and sides with a white marine grade epoxy. Over time when some of the edges of the epoxied coil would wear thin another touch up coat on those edges did the trick. No longer any build up with sand or skid plate removal. I would have done this with the Nox, but the bottom design makes it impossible to coat. This goes for the Manticore as well.

Hey Steve... You made me think of how much magnetite is in some locations in the NY Adirondack Mountains. These are a few before and after pictures of a water hunt in one of the lakes up there 2 Summers ago. You would only have to dig in the water a few times and the magnet was full. When I lived there full time my Excalibur was almost useless on some of the beaches as it would hardly get any depth at all. That was the main reason I went to hunting only with a PI, and that was the Infinium. What a huge difference that made.

Just saw your post and a big congratulations on those rings. 18K is really nice to find, but 2 in one hunt is just great!!

That's for sure and after 8 weeks I wasn't even thinking about that lost ring that night but was excited about a 2-foot cut. You never know what is going to show up!

Beautiful ring and high karat too!

She was absolutely "over the moon" that it had been found. I messaged her this morning with a couple pics, and she couldn't wait to get out of work to come and get it. Real happy lady!

Eight weeks ago, a lady lost one of her rings that went to her wedding set. She posted on Facebook approximately where it was lost, and it was right where the surf was breaking. The ring was part of a 3-ring set, all with diamonds and marked 19K, and they all came off at once. She was able to recover 2 of them immediately but couldn't find the last ring. The diamonds were from her mother's wedding ring, and she was devastated. I was there the next morning in a very rough surf, hunting the shoreline and nothing turned up. It was a short hunt as the waves were blasting me into the shore and I thought I am going to break my machine if I keep going. The surf was bad for a few days, and nothing was to be found. I told her not to give up as we can find rings that were lost for years. Every so often I would go to this beach and hunt that particular area, but no ring. Last night there was a nice low tide and a 2-foot cut in the sand. I went hunting just with the intention of hopefully finding something good not even thinking about her ring. The water was too rough to get in and as I was walking the wet sand, in the general area where her ring was lost. I got a nice "10" reading on the Manticore and a ring was in the scoop. It was only several inches under the sand and could have been found by just about any other machine. It was the lost ring from 8 weeks ago. So, I would say that it had probably sank almost 2 feet in the surf and sand and because of the 2-foot cut and extra low tide it was now found. Quite a few people had searched for it earlier but gave up. I found a few green coins and a heavily encrusted silver cross too. Went back this morning but it was pretty much sanded in. Here are a few pictures of the ring and return.

I haven't posted in a while so thought I'd show some jewelry found with the manticore. All were found in the salt water with the exception of the silver ring found in the wet sand. The chain and ring were found in the same hunt making for a great day, both 10K. I was really surprised to find the chain, 5.7gms, in the saltwater as they sure are elusive! The tiny thin ring is 14K and weighs only 1.2 grams. Too bad the other jewelry was junk but still made for a fun hunt. They were found over the past couple weeks. I do find lots of other stuff but don't want to bore you with too much junk. LOL

No leaking here yet and mine is submerged at least 4 days a week. I have owned quite a few "water" detectors, including the Nox and sooner or later all were sent in for some sort of repair, but none for a leaking issue.