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    Sons Of The Beach

    in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics

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    Thank ya , thank ya very much , I thank ya and Priscilla thanks ya too...

    Now the jinx is broken I'll hit the OOB bet it was crowded too .(Old Orchard Beach) Billions of square feet to cover there !

    Decipherin' my accent writing is a hunt in itself I guess.🤨

    You guys ,don't be pickin' on Badger fer not knowin' zackly what I wuz sayin'. Them fella's in New Hampstah ain't used ta us gull drool downta the coast , they only got 15 miles of it dontchyaknowww ! 

    (and BTW , it's almost all beach !)

    The dime was probably there way before this trip , just didn't cover that exact spot yet is all ! I'm convinced there could be a few more, the beach is a mile long>>>>>>>>>>>>>and timing the negative tides when the park is open AND not crowded  Gotta go by the rules or NO DETECTING !!!!!! It's a State Park. Makes days like this a rare treat. BUT they don't give out very many passes , so It's usually ALL MINE ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR the recovery 3 and inching along probably didn't hurt either.

    The sand doesn't get stripped or filled in too much though for some reason ?

    Between the mouths of two rivers , one of which keeps having some big things called DDG 1000 go by.  https://www.navy.mil/Resources/Fact-Files/Display-FactFiles/Article/2391800/destroyers-ddg-1000/ (I sometimes wonder what might have been lost overboard as they go by ???)🤔

    Yup the kids are fun ,,,, sometimes , mom apologized for the kid's interest  ! 

    No Problemo lady . I'll need to apologize to her when she hears  "ALL I want for christmas is a GPX 6000" 

    It's been 12 years since my last fix on the pirate ship ......kinda missed it . What can I say ? YW MineLab THAT will be a detector sale some day !  I knew that when she said "treasure" !! yup yup.

     

    Plow guy is here  ! I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEEEE ! Bazeenia!

     

     

    Sons Of The Beach

    in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics

    Posted

    Badger   :  "Kinda hard to follow the story but sounds like you got a Half Dime.  Good work.  No pics?"

    I was having a hard time following that kid !

    Well I can't tell if it's the top half or the bottom half but pretty sure it's a dime ..👁️👁️

    Not pic post capable yet , (would need to lug the computer with me ATM) ,,,priorities  but I have a plannnnnn  , bwa ha ha ha ! Step 1  Replace the flip phone........😋 

     

     

     

    Sons Of The Beach

    in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics

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    Sons Of The Beach 

    Season 3

    Southern storm in town and the temps hit the 60s on the coast yesterday.I                         So I spent the day watching the white stuff melt......... orrrrrrrr NOT !

    The surf was UP big time and the tide was LOW . 11" coil Beach 2 this run  and recovery speed 3  . The blood red Roger rules, No target gets out alive . 30 yards of flat below the 1st drop  to the waterline , well , sorta. Half of it was in the surf wash and it was sudsin' up like the blizzard l couple of weeks back. No boots again so playing tag with the wash made it hard to get close to that sweet spot out in the wash zone but of course I tried ,,,and got a couple of wet socks before it was ... BEEP  over,, , a 30 .  About 10 scoops  , the hole was sloppy wet and caving in as quick as I could pull the scoops out completely under a couple times when the wash won but ,,finally out of the hole . A few distributin' kicks and a quick swing  and bang , oh yeah . Opening bid a qwaatah !

    Left the fully charged pointer in the holster. 

    Spiral out steady as she goes mister low and slowwwww ignoring the foam a foot deep and my coil looked like a half dissolved marshmallow and so did my wet boots but was thinking those wool socks were doing their stuff and my soggy tootsies were actually warm annnnnd another BBweep on the second rev. loud and shallow maybe one scoop on this one?  but LOOKOUT RUNNNN  ! It was underwater and so was my foot  skuh kuh kuh kuh kuh , I didn't  make it ! .   Only 6 scoops this time and in the sand was , is that arrrING ? poke poke  NO a broken off edge of a  Stinkin' Zincoln , OH My Goshk ! Well , some of the rest of it was just below ...  one foot extra wet now (c'mon woolies!)  spiral spiral BIP ? wuzzabip ?  It's a 6 !!! Ooh huh huh huh huh....scoop ,and GOT it ! kick swing drag my foot across again hit built in pinpoint and ,,,,it's,,,,,gone? OK , fire up the profind  bzzzzzzzzzz grab the tip with the sand  poke poke it's a clip off a wire trap .awwwwwww

    Looks like the work of the  KRAKEN !😳 

     Spiral spiral ,,,,,spirallll ,,,,,, nuts' head for the rocks  , oooo a nice cut from the wash next to the ledge !  Yup yup !   and 10 steps to another beep ! a high one ! 24  , di...hmmm scoop only go 3 inches before hit ledge. only one tool left and the plastic spoon was clearing the rest of the sand easily. the profind sez there ! it looks like another ring....it's silver ! ,,It'sssssstuck in a crack in the ledge just like a nuggie ! and I can't get it oOUT.arrrrrrrgh , gotta go back to the car lot to see if I have a screwdriver of the straighr slot variety on the trunk....but ....I can't leave an open hole  arrrrrrrrrrrrr ! Fill it in. pick up everything and back up the hilllllll.   Found that old bent driver in mom's tool kit ! and shlepped everything back down to the "scene of the beep"  RATS kids  , playing in the foam right , over my preciousssssss!.ahhhhhhhhhhhhh ! 

    But they're NOT digging !  Guess I COULD use a water break ..Never mind ! Those kids sure do move fast !  back to work Mr Lazy . Scoop , spoon spoon spoon , glove glove it's still there ! Duh , kids didn't have a screwdriver !  careful nowwwww, scrape scrape ,still stuck hard, well , it's a really old screwdriver so jam it in that ledge pops !  PRY .it got a little looser ,,,pry on the other side LOOSER , , dang not a ring and looooooser. It's OUT , a dime worn half thickness and totally smooth on one side and not much left on the other , but it's NOT CLAD !!!!!!!!!!!   Noxie's first silver treasarrrrrrr found and in the pouch ! with a clad qwaaatah and a two piece zinc thingy .  A nothing hour of swinging later except for an incredible surf show just a quick run away !  

    That's when it happened , real treasure !    One of the kids in the foam was near me and I told her mommy that she "couldn't buy that much fun at the toy store !" and she agreed , but the little girl was looking at the nox and scoop . 

    Yup , "What are those things ?"  so I began to explain .."Are you looking for TREASURE Mister ???"  🤗     " I sure am !" ,,      "CAN I HELP ?    "Well , OK for a little while IF mom says you can...

    "Can I  can I can I ? " mom caves  "You can be my wave lookout . Tell me when a wave is coming " as I took off the headphones so she could hear the detector... ..

    And we swung , and swung , and the threshold dipped out. "OH , is that treasure?"   "I hope so ,,HERE COMES A WAVE !". I stepped on the scoop and ran ! like my foot wasn't already soaked ...   so we waited ,,,and then she ran out and got ,,,the , scoop !!! ahhhhhhhhhh ! NOOOOOOO ! skuh kuh kuh kuh kuh  I tried to keep my eye on the spot. but by the time the wash was over it was gone........ but the nox still worked and it was back under the scoop 5 times as quick as I could pull 'em out. and " RUN WAVE " we made it this time and the scoop was still in the hole too ! But the 5 scoops and the hole were right there ,,,,,,gone ! But the scoop wasn't , and then another wave was back , the tide was coming back in !  But my crew went out and happily brought it back to shore for me.  Now d id I mention it's still Februrary ? ,,,and the sea temp is 35* ?  Mom wanted to go get a heavier coat out of the car so I told me crew she probably should go with mom so's she wouldn't worry 'bout the Kraken and stuff.  

    Headphones back on and of course  I pulled a couple of pull rings (also silver ring colored) and a rusty Corona cap in short order. and me crew comes running back ,,"Did you find anything?"  "unh huh " ,, "what WAS IT ???" and I showed her the contents of the pouch  which included the coins , the zincoln was the object that got the most questions so I decided to share the booty with me crew and gave her the zinc pieces to show her friends and  then my treasure and her mom headed to the lot with this ol' Son Of The Beach  ,,,with a "half dime" in the poke !! 

    Hey , does that count ?

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    Beach Season Has Begun

    in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics

    Posted

    OK , deal !

    Swinging the 800/15 combo sends me back to the car for the little coil after an hour tops.

    By then I have a good idea where to go back over with the 6  so , it works out.

    And if I dig 20 holes in a 3-4 hour session it's a good day.   The audience would be asleep by the intermission, so you're probably gonna have to play the lead......😉

     

    Beach Season Has Begun

    in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics

    Posted

    Every time you post a hunt like that ,,,I just imagine swinging a heavy 5K for that long ...and then add on the amount of holes you must dig .(and possibly fill in too).......

    I would be dead for a week of sundays !

    I now think you must look like Conan the Barbarian  (with a custom coil on that big ol sword) .  

    I plan on pitching this idea for a blockbuster Hollywood movie , so please don't spoil it by not fitting the lead role ....but , if I have to, I guess,, I could step in for the sake of realism !😜

    Nice haul , as usual .

     

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