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Great stuff, Dogodog! Ya gotta love a hunch panning out. Guess you're liking that Equinox. Nice silvers and cool relics!

It says EXTRA so it's probably COLOUR. I've seen that on a few buttons. 🙂

Kinda sad to think about, but probably true. 😕 I'll have to find out how deep the silt and sand go. Haven't dug more than a foot for anything yet, most stuff shows up in the first 8".

Outstanding stuff Chris. This has to be a lot of fun for you and the better half! 👍👍 Maybe a carbon fiber rig for the Equinox? Might help and give her a bigger coil.

This morning was as windy as yesterday, 30 mph with gusts to 45. It was supposed to settle down and stay kinda cool, so I decided to jump in the waders and hit the river. Never saw so much beach before! The tide was way out. I knew low tide was after 12 further down the river so going a couple hours earlier would do. Even the old V8 engine block was out of the water today. In 5 hours I did pretty good. Got some trash but nothing too trifling, a couple of pull tabs and a beer can or two, some fishing tackle, shotgun shells and some odd bits of lead. Bronze bead or roller of some sort, it is not hollow. Nice fancy rivet with a sun pattern, even the shank is patterned. Thin brass device holder of some sort, looks like it had an insert, either stone or cloisonne. Not sure what the copper circular object is but it is thick, heavy and appears to have snapped off something. 1918 Buffalo nickel, undated Buffalo, wheat and IHP with no dates. I had to break them out of their encrustation. The Buffalos were 9/10, the pennies both 14. And the find of the day, I was surprised: Solid brass Brown Bess musket buttplate with engraving. At first I thought it was for an Enfield but it's too big. Dates from mid 1700s to mid 1800s. Either this place was hit hard for silver or I need a PI detector. 😀 Nickels and pennies are everywhere, there's gotta be some silver coins here.

This hill is for sale, wish I could dig. Worse it's waterfront, so I have to be careful to not cause erosion. There are a couple of older places I can go anyway. Thanks Joe, I wonder what the "Line" is sometimes. I post a lot, I hope this saga is helping other new people, and at least amuses the experienced. Now that I'm retired there isn't much for me to do anymore for validation in the world. If I'm seen as spamming I hope someone will let me know. Otherwise I am having a blast and sharing it! Bumble on! 🤪

I use the Garrett pouch, or a Calces365 on the beach. The 365 had mesh on the bottom of both pockets to let dirt out. They are both less than $15.

Another lovely day here, winds at 30 with gusts to 45. It was sunny and fairly warm so I got a quick hunt in on the hill behind my house, I am now calling it Mason Jar Hill because I have found about 50 mason jar lids there, I think it was a dump. It was bush hogged recently giving me an opportunity to search it more. I don't keep any of the lids, they are all rusty and corroded. I doubt anyone would care. I was only there about an hour before I got tired of the wind and the deer flies. Usually deer flies are suppressed by the wind but lucky me, not today! There were some spots on the hill that were out of the wind. Finds: Nice green 3oz jar, I think I damaged it digging for whatever else I was after. Heavy glass. Mangled token marked "Good for 50¢ in merchandise", sadly the vendor could not be read on the back. Old zipper pull, 1919 wheat, and a piece of decorative metal. Here is what the jar is, I found it. Got a lot more to do here, it's only about a half acre but it's all hill. Trash was mostly handgun bullet shells and the ever present Mason jar lids. The lids ID from 21-32, so I have to dig them all. 😵

Great advice and thanks! The Equinox simultaneously goes from 5Khz to 40 Khz, unless a single frequency is selected. I can select 4,5,10 or 15khz on the 600, may try some single frequencies. However, I can't do that on beach mode, and the modes that aren't beach are noisy. I'll try it anyway !

Hey GB, It's coming up as a 1500s 8 reale cob, but I didn't see anything exactly the same on BOTH sides. There are lots of fakes out there, Atocha wreck and such. I think I bought one when I was in Key West. 😀 https://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=214138

Hey GB, Truthfully I post my ID's because I know you are interested in them 🙂 and while I'm a prolific poster, I hope it benefits. If not y'all let me know. At low tide there's some beach, at high tide nothing. Everything I find is wet daily. Both Chase and I have searched the high ground, he was lucky enough to find a silver quarter. I think the heavier coins may be deeper than I can detect, this area flooded a couple of years ago and it really messed things up.

Long handle is a great tool, I built mine similar to a popular YouTube bunch that does a lot of river hunting north of me. I need to remember to bring my sling for the detector so I can use two hands on the scoop. 😀

I've seen some other posts regarding running the Equinox underwater. I'll stick my neck out and say that I've read that I should be using tracking ground balance. Can the Equinox be ground balanced in situ, in the water? Seemed to work but I'm afraid to tweak too much from default. Or, should I just switch to tracking? I'd like to get as much depth as I can, I'm sure there are heavier coins deep in the silt. There is another thread that had a lot of useful recommendations regarding beach hunting, but this isn't a beach 😀 there is enough of something to render my Garrett Carrot unusable for the most part, I was successful in finding and extracting a target from a piling but everywhere else it goes nuts when I simply touch it to the water.

I've been thinking of asking about just that, thanks. I want to get the most depth I can as I know heavier coins are out there. I always run the detector in all metal, I had sensitivity at 22, Beach 2 for the salt and black muck that makes my carrot unusable, although it does work in some places. Should I go higher? Beach 2 is totally quiet, no interference or stray tones as high as 24 sensitivity. I almost wish there was some gravel, there are virtually no stones anywhere in the river here. It would make for more stable footing.

Thanks. Some places I stand I start to sink in, and yes others immediately go down to about 6" when I test them with one foot. Glad I have the long scoop handle, and I keep moving. This is much more difficult than farm or beach hunting. I think I should always wear waders or some kind of steel shank boot. There is a lot of glass and metal in the area.

Nothing special today but still productive. I'm thinking the steamboat unloaded passengers on one side (the high pilings), and cargo on the other (ramp). Hacked around the "passenger" side but didn't go too far out. The sand got kinda loose, and once gave way. There was a 26 ID object in the pilings, dug out out with my pinpointer and trusty composite shovel, when I got it out it ID'd a 31, it's on the left in the trash photo: It's just some sort of aggregate rock, haven't done anything with it yet. The license plate was a 36, again I thought I'd hit the jackpot. 😵 Even the Comet can lid was a solid 22 😀 The finds: Odd brass object, some kinda strainer or lamp thing? Here's the back: 1892 IHP, it was totally encrusted, but carefully peeling away the black brought forth what was left. Unidentifiable wheat penny, no date. Came out as is. IHP was a 19/20, wheat was a 21/22. There is a small area all these coins are all coming from, I'll keep hitting it. I think it may be where people were swimming. Might rake or dig it down a bit to see if there are any silvers there.

That would be @Tom_in_CA.

Be careful, my only advice. 🙂 They seem to auction for upwards of $1,000, so if it's real you just paid for something! Best of luck to ya.

That is my thought as well on it, Tom. I can only hope it is real, but it would take a museum assay to prove it. However, Okara found it it in NY, anything is possible.

Reverse image search. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it produces bupkus. 🤪 You posted a great photo so you got great results! I've used it a few times to identify stuff. Google Lens. Runs out of the Google app on my phone.

William 1 silver penny from 1066-87: https://anglosaxoncoins.homestead.com/William1and11.html Worth a few bucks if it's real.

Kayak fishing was a lot of fun. I think I'm too old for it now. I've seen some ridiculously huge catches myself. Got a lot of Atlantic Croakers and Catfish. I got into it before anyone really made an affordable fishing kayak, I took a Sit on Top and tricked it out, thus no place for a large fish. Used to tow them back on a stringer. I'm probably over the top on safety here. It made sense to me to be careful, got some warnings about this area.

I have heard from my duck hunting buddies when I told them I was going to river hunt that if you slip or fall into the deep water, the waders can fill up and drag you down if you can't get out of them easily. There is a shelf in this place where I'm hunting. If you wear a tight belt over them you do get some buoyancy, but it might not be the buoyancy you want... The other problem of course is water temperature, the colder it is the more it will affect you quickly. The PFD should keep my head up. It's only about 15-20 feet deep in this branch, but some places are deeper. My waders are chest high and heavily insulated, I thought I would be out in the river when it was colder. The boots have a steel shank and are heavy. I used my scoop to check some of the softer exposed areas, and one step took my foot 6". Pulled it out and backed off! It's all sand on top with sticky/stinky black muck underneath that will stain your hand. Currents run pretty fast here, I was kayaking once and got caught on a creek when tide was going out and had the same tree as my goal for almost 45 minutes of paddling. I traded my fishing kayak for some construction work. 😀 The rockfish was about 30" long and weighed about 20 pounds. When I got it to the kayak I cut it loose because I had nowhere to put it. 😀 Later on my boat I got a 42" that weighed 32 pounds. It was like rescuing someone from the river! They don't pull you off the kayak, they take you for what kayak fishermen call "The Sleigh Ride". You use your anchor to stop that so you can reel it in. If you don't have one and don't cut the line you may get caught in a current you have to fight, or end up a long way away!

The scoop is very strong, I can lean hard on it or use it to pull me out. Someone asked me why It is 6' long, that's one of the reasons. I may add a second Raptor handle facing in the other direction. Walk softly and carry a big stick! 😀 I'm wearing chest waders so my boots won't get removed by the muck. Waders are inherently dangerous so I use a Mustang auto/manual CO2 type II PFD from my boating days. The water is barely in the 50s right now. My phone is waterproof and in a floating waterproof bag. The rescue squad isn't far away, but I'm not the type that throws myself on the good graces of others. The nickel is and was a 9/10. 🙂 It's about as thin as those reales I dug! Weighs 2.5g. It looks just like it did when I scooped it. Your question prompted me to think of other safety stuff I could use, and it occurred to me that I also have a portable aluminum spring loaded anchor that I used when kayak fishing. It would work like a grappling hook. Saved me once when a large Rockfish pulled me out into another river.