Joe Beechnut OBN

The problem the fitting for the cable are so expensive and hard to get. One reason I stopped making batteries. I can see why they are so costly now.. each is about 27 dollars X 2 equals 54 dollars, than the cable and labor (18dollars)?. Looks like they are selling them with very little profit if that. This is part of the problem, some how I missed this. Those fittings are IP67 and M-8 They should have used these, M-12 just as many pin Opps.....a little larger, a lot cheaper and IP68

Looks like a setup some ran in the late 80s//running the control box out of the water with a long coil wire on the shaft to the coil.. Are the 3000 or similar coils water proof?

You did a lot of hard work on this job, which I'm sure it was fun. Love the details on all. Once you start to expand to different areas should be interesting to see what affects what. I see all as a big plus... you learn a lot about your detector and your area when doing any kind of testing. I've done many test over the years, (Air, Buried in the sand, the buried tube test, and real world virgin targets). Most ....with just two machines, the two I use all the time. Fisher AQ and then the Minelab Excalibur. I rarely keep a log but I do video all which helps me more since I can hear the audio response of the faintest to shallowest. Most don't like air test but I do think a lot can come from them on how a targets responds, in relation to the same target but different test, than when testing different head phones. I do make my own head phones and feel factory (Stock) phones are weak and lacking when it comes to squeezing ever last drop of audio out of them. 95% of the time I only use diff gold rings and a US nickel... most of the testing involves sand and brackish water. So my questions is.. Has your testing helped your detecting skills?

My opinion Every beach is totally different, conditions VARY, sand matrix, intensity variables, directions, the list is endless in the possibles that affect beaches.. Years ago there was a guy on Findmall who had a few hundred lead rings he made, wedding band size, think they were around 5 grams? Took them out and seeded different areas of a beach. He could never really see a defined pattern. I'll see if I can find that post, it was around 2010? For me here in the Chesapeake Bay, as slow as things move here I've found there is no sure fire way of knowing what I'm walking into or when to expect great conditions. I can come close on a few details from learning the habits when some conditions come in, then watching for patterns but l've yet to be right to the point I can predict 100%. Good Luck! Found the story.. interesting too ....2008 https://www.findmall.com/threads/has-anybody-tried-planting-surf-salt.116381/ Hello all, I hunt the wet sand between the water line and the dry sand primarily, so the following experiment really only applies to wet sand hunting. About ten years ago I made a little mold to cast lead rings. I made the mold to cast rings that I considered to be of "average" size, weight and shape. Then I threw about 200 of them out in the surf all across one beach I hunt pretty heavy which is Seal Beach in S. Ca. In the month following that "planting" I found about four of those rings in the wet sand which meant they had been swept up there by wave action or whatever. Since that first month, I have never found another one of those lead rings. This last summer I tried the same experiment but since I couldn't find my mold, I cut up a 3/4" copper tubing water pipe into "rings" of varying widths from about 1/16" to 1/4". I'm a machinist by trade so this was fairly easy for me to do. Again I threw about 200 of these new copper "rings' out into the surf all across the beach at a distance from shore where most people swim. I have only found one of those copper rings since that "planting." The fact that I have found so very few of my planted rings surprises me. I have probably found close to hundred rings on that beach of varying degrees of shape, worth and weight since that first planting ten years ago...and I have probably found a dozen rings on that beach since my planting this last summer. What conclusions can I draw from this experiment? What I think is...there is more stuff out there than we can imagine but only a very tiny percentage of it is within detector range at any given time. Has anybody ever tried this experiment before? What results did you get? Harvdog

Sun Glasses Needed! Nice one!

Wow! That's a 10 grand piece of gold! The stone looks way bigger than 1 carat. Just a guess, 1.5

Hats off to you, those rocks are pure.. Pain! NIce haul on the treasures too! The good, not much going to move that stuff unless you go moving it.

I agree with Kac, Please don't drift to far, been great reading your post and getting to know you as a friend. Also thank you so much for the introduction to Gary and a chance to talk to him, Just wish I lived closer to you guys so we could do some time talking about the past. Social media, I do enjoy. It's nice seeing and reading like minded opinions and ideas. And the good is, if I don't like I can move on... I never was much for reading Treasure magazines, the people and forums have been my inspirational drive to do better and share. Be Safe and Good Luck on your adventure!

Congrads on all the beautiful nuggets! Question, what measure of weight is that.. Thanks for sharing!

What a Beauty!! Nothing like seeing that color in the scoop!! Wow!! Just a guess I would say your close on the date, 20's to the late 30's, the fineness stamp fits that period along with the style. By the way Super Lowtide Saturday in the Bay.. Negative

Bay water is still up, but seems to be slowly lowering itself. Which I don't mind, I do see my grass taking a beating and like you said its like concrete. NIce haul on the treasures!

Gray Ghost are very easy to work on but you do need a few tools to find the problem. And I too, very surprised they did not test them before. Do the plugs on both your head sets look and measure the same? As far as the stock yellows, maybe the worse set of water head phones made, audio wise and because of the cheap coiled cord. Make sure to keep it well sprayed with something like 303 Aerospace spray. They are famous for dry rotting.

I've only been doing this since 2008, Every trip out is a learning experience for me too. Good Luck in your adventure, enjoy reading about your trips to the beach.

A good outing. I think you did excellent! Keep on learning by doing things different. Here around Annapolis/Baltimore Chesapeake Bay area those faints that are far and few are possible gold and silver. I'll be lucky if I can find any targets, I can easily go 15 minutes without a signal. And I dig them all, just disruptions in the threshold. Once I find a silver (Or old target) I will do circles around, X-ing working that area slow. Plus I take note of the bottom condition, this area can be just sand.. or a harder pack sand.... then add the bottoms slope/hardpack/matrix/any different conditions. My last hunt I was working a drop off.. blow out cut, dug gold and silver, some of the targets were faints in the deep sand closer to shore (100 foot out 12 to 15 plus inches deep), but as I got deeper in to the drop off/blowout (200 feet off shore) targets were shallow.. less than a foot. And I could really feel the bottom slope, had to be careful for there were areas over my head.. a equal is if you every hunted a spot where boats park and party.. than get stuck in the sand as the tide goes out and they blow the sand with there prop while trying to get back out of that area.. a nice sudden slated drop of that holds targets. And a note, these above conditions can be ... much different. .. close to............ or just like.. every spot is different. Most of the places I hunt are just like..

What a Great hunt! Love the old silvers for sure! I have to agree with others but one difference, way off shore.. like as deep as you can go. Water was way lower 70 plus years ago. And tides were killer here Monday.. Hopefully this will continue. Good Luck if you get out ASAP!