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    I Hope It Doesn't Happen To You

    in Metal Detecting For Jewelry

    Posted

    Tonight I went for a detect.  When I got to the beach I could see a detectorist coming in my direction on the edge of the water.  I could also see another one up in front on  the same line a couple hundred feet in the direction I wanted to walk.  Those two were on a 'collision course' so I got away from the water to avoid the one in front of me.  As it turned out the guy behind me went to the guy in front of me and then they were gone in the opposite direction from where I was going.  I didn't step on their pattern of the water's edge.

    I walked and walked and finally got into my pattern and a beach without a detectorist.  It had not been dug.  The tide was low so I sampled the area as I know how to do and when I got to the end I turned in the direction I came from so that I could work the patch I had found.  It started with one cheap ring and then I found some hoops and then some quarters, pennies and dimes.  I was gridding and working it slowly.

    Someone approached me from behind and I could see it was another detectorist.  I normally don't talk to others even before the virus.  This guy came up to me (kept social distance) and asked if I was Gary.  I said no and then he said 'I see you have been digging up the place here, how are you doing?'  I didn't mention the ring but said I was getting coins and hoops (earrings).  He said he worked that beach a lot over the years.  He asked my detector and name and we exchanged a few more pleasantries before he said 'I'm going home.'

    He walked about 30 feet in front of me in the direction I was gridding and he detected.  He stopped and was digging while I'm working my pattern getting closer.  And then he still didn't move so I had to go around him but as I did he had a lighter out making some light to look at something he found (I assumed).  He stayed in that little area for some time and I was now about 50 feet on the other side of him when he came up to me and said 'Can you turn on your light so that I can see what I just found?'

    Well, I'm already a bit pissed because he jumped my pattern and now he wants to use my light ... ok.  He holds up a ring in the light and he declares it cheap.  It was corroded.  Next he has another ring.  He says 'cool, it has sapphires and other stones, I think it is silver but it might be white gold!'  Oh my goodness.  He said what did you just find?  (It was a dime.)  I'll never forget the sight of that ring in my light.  I'll never forget him jumping my pattern.

    Soon after he did in fact walk down the beach and leave me to my patch.  I was pissed as I said and wondered the real etiquette or 'right of way' in this case.  I felt I would have found that ring if he hadn't taken advantage of my search pattern.

    After a bit I said that I needed to go back where he found the rings and see if any were missed.  Sure enough I got another cheap ring and then I found a sterling band.  He hadn't gotten it all but he got the best piece.  Later I found one other cheap ring to make it 4 ring finds for the night.

    As I was getting near the end of my 4 hour session the Rolling Stones song 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' popped into my mind.  I didn't get what I wanted tonight.  As a metal detectorist I don't always get what I want but I do get what I can find.  Maybe we could paraphrase the lyrics and make it universal to metal detecting.

    Mitchel

     

    We Could All Use A Story!

    in Metal Detecting For Jewelry

    Posted

    I detect several days a week no matter the beach conditions.  Lately I make it simple and go to a couple of the same beaches and I get what is available for that particular day.  Yesterday, Monday morning I got out a bit late (7AM) after a busy weekend for the beach and saw that the tractors had already raked the blanket areas.  It is not a pattern I usually follow in dry sand but I know it can be productive.  I headed to my small wave, wet sand beach and found next to nothing.

    I was getting ready to leave when I was approached by a guy with his gf/wife.  He said 'Do you want to hear a joke,' in an 'island accent' and I said, ok.  He said 'I was swimming yesterday and I lost my Gucci Chain!'  I'm looking at this tall, polite black guy and thinking ... this is not a joke.  haha  He proceeded to tell me that he was here from St. Thomas and he had gone in the water on Sunday afternoon and forgot to take off his chain he had bought at his home island.  This is something I wanted to help him find but also know more.

    He told me that it was just a couple of life guard stations down from where he found me.  Ok, 4 life guard stations later we made it to his swimming area.  This is one of MY beaches.  When conditions are right it is a good detecting beach.  As we walked his wife showed me pictures from the day before on her phone.  I got to see the round (50g) chain he had been wearing.  I told them it could be near where they lost it because the waves had been small, the tide was not big and the current was weak.

    When I started detecting the area I knew it was going to be a problem because it was the little 'suck out' waves that weren't going to take a heavy chain and push it up a sloped beach.  I searched the water/wave line and it was a hard pack with the rocks churning up and down.  We needed a snorkel!  It was clear and if a chain was there you would be able to clearly see it but we were now 18 hours after the loss.  I had been over this beach to get my 4 rings on Saturday morning.  There was no new patch in the area.  

    It was time for me to go.  They were flying back to NYC in the afternoon and would be back at their island sometime this week.  He had lost his prized chain but we agreed he should still enjoy the trip.  We exchanged phone numbers.  He would have paid me a reward (he offered) but I couldn't find it but I got a good STORY.

    That beach will never be the same.  I will always look for Lebron's chain on that beach.

    I hope you get a good STORY about a beach where you detect.

    Mitchel

    3 Detects, 5 Rings (1 Silver), $8.20 Australian, And ...

    in Metal Detecting For Jewelry

    Posted

    7 hours ago, geof_junk said:

    How did the Aussy coins go on your coin ID against your US coins. You know that you will have to come to Australia to spend them but you may not take our nuggets. ☺️

    I still have some money left from last year's trip to Victoria.  I don't know how all of these Aussie coins got on the same beach at the same time but they all add up as Joe said.  The truth be known is that I've found enough coins on the beach to pay for that trip!  But I've also spent them on other things too like new detectors and BOOTS.  haha

    The IDs are a bit of a 'tweener' on the ID scale.  On this trip I also found a Brazil coin and a Taiwan coin.  The 'bad' coins are the British coins which have iron and sound scratchy.

    Rye Patch Report

    in Detector Prospector Forum

    Posted

    I heard about some of those nuggets from the guy who lives over in the Eugenes.

     

    2 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

    Not that far (scale is at lower right of this map image).  Lake to left if Imlay is the one in Simon's photo:

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    How far is it from Imlay to Rye Patch Placers?  It seems that they route everyone going to Burning Man further down the 80?

    Rye Patch Report

    in Detector Prospector Forum

    Posted

    3 hours ago, jasong said:

    The Lake Lahontan maximum elevation was somewhere around 4370ft, it can be traced on aerials. The Black Rock desert which is the biggest white splotch in the background was part of the same lake 12,000 years ago. Now it's home to Burning Man.

    Based upon this description some might think that Burning Man is close to Rye Patch when it really is about 200 miles to the WestNorthWest of Rye Patch.  The closest white patch at the top of your photo is Jungo Dry Lake which in fact has a layer of water on it many years.  I've searched that lake on both sides of Jungo Road and not found any but many have found them and posted YouTubes.

    https://www.meteorite-times.com/the-northern-nevada-meteorite-hunting-trip-of-2019/

    You get to Burning Man by going through Lovelock which is 30 miles west of Rye Patch placers.

    Lovelock

    You may be parched, famished, and you might be sick of driving. Salt Lake City lies about 500 miles to the east; and Black Rock City is another 150 miles to the west. Yes, you’re almost there, but you still got a ways to go.

    Set on the western edge of “Cowboy Country,” Lovelock is your only pit stop on I-80 for another 60 miles before you hit Fernley, so you may want to fill up on some gas, maybe grab a bed, a shower and some food, and even load up on many of the supplies to be found here at the local enterprises who enjoy our company and know our needs.

    Rye Patch Report

    in Detector Prospector Forum

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Gold Catcher said:

    Did you ever find anything on the right of the street (east)? I haven't

    I have heard of nuggets being found on that side and there are some claims on that side but I have not found anything there.  I have heard of arrowheads being found there when the water is low.

    Rye Patch Report

    in Detector Prospector Forum

    Posted

    6 hours ago, phrunt said:

    Is this the Rye patch I hear about so much? Looks pretty well hunted 🙂

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    Simon,

    On the left hand side of the reservoir there is a road.  That is the road we use to turn towards the mountains which are mostly off of your picture.  If you look at the 'light area' on the left side of your picture just about in the middle are areas we hunt.  These at one point had been the shoreline of the lake that Jasong mentioned.  Several of us have hunted a pattern there that tried to trace the old lake shore at a time when the gold was moving down.  Nuggets stopped close to the existing shoreline.  It is a much less productive pattern now.

    Your picture was taken at a time when the lake level was low so it has much more salt exposed.  Your picture also does not show the dam which really isn't that big but it is effective.  There can be some good fishing above and below the dam.

    When you get a good snow in this area everything in your picture will be white except the water but it doesn't last too long and if you want to go skiing you have to go back to Reno/Tahoe about 100 miles west.

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