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Well maybe they won't update it again until you're ready. 😁 Best wishes on the surgery!

Nice Lapis ring kac! 👍 The deer head indicates hunting, or sport. Great relic, congrats. I like how they inlaid it in the horns too. Is the inside under the stone hollow?

Hey @Deep Beeps, Try the settings for Beach Sensitive i posted in this article: It's not perfect but I am pretty sure you'll skip a lot of iron, and most pull tabs and aluminum bits will produce a "brassy" tone that you can also ignore after proving it to yourself. 🙂 Nothing to lose!

It's a toy motor with an internal wind up spring and a real prop. 😀 Don't know what toy boat it goes to. I had a 12' Trident RIB with a 25 black Merc, there's a lot of sayings about the older black Mercury engines, basically they work when they want to. 😀 Mine was no exception. 🤣 Boat is in the Bahamas now. It was fast, when it ran.

That's the second one I've found since starting this hobby 🤣 first one worked, that one was broken. Probably a Mercury. 😁

Nice hunt. Campgrounds are a great place to find coins, especially if the campground is old. Don't ignore the relics, and in gathering areas even gold rings are possible. Bands+drinks=drops. For some reason few think to ask management if they can dig, and since I found live ammo buried next to a fire pit at one of mine, they gave me a full pass to dig anywhere. 😀 They can never find my holes, and I have dug literally hundreds of coins there. Good job sorting out the trash from the treasure after a bit. 👍 Ya have to get out there to get anything. Like the tiny toy car, been finding a lot of them lately. 🤣 Any silver in that pile?

Thanks, I'm leaning to plated because it isn't all that heavy and has no hallmarks. 🙂

Headed up to that same beach again today for another 6 hours, found a new section that doesn't get detected as much, so it seems. Got two more toy cars, the Corvette is really old but can't tell if it's a red line, it's badly corroded but all die cast. Got there really early but didn't need to, I was the only detectorist there all day. 48 coins, one junk earring and a nice Tree of Life pendant that may be gold. The oval is a State Park penny smashed in a rolling machine. It was totally encrusted but I was able to get details, it's a park across the river about 30 miles south. Forgot to include the trash, just a handful of bits. Older pull tabs are still fooling me from time to time, probably when I get bored not digging stuff for a bit. The new ones are pretty consistent.

Typical run there is 6 hours for me. So, $12. You can stay the whole day for $21, but if you leave early no refund. It's all done through an app, I don't try to feed the machines. They very often don't work.

My two beach scoops, one heavy stainless and the other titanium, are both on Steve's handles. 👍 I'd like to get a 5 or 6 foot one for river hunting but they work great at the beach. 🙂

Coins are still pretty good here but you can find 50 of them and still not reach US $1. 🤣 one of my beaches gets replenished with sand from a very old place, so I get old coins sometimes. It also has a gambling house so sometimes visitors drop lucky coins. 🤣 I've probably found 5 tungsten rings at that same beach, one that was so gold it blinded me. Heavy too. 🤪

You've always been saying put one on a stick, maybe it stuck. 😀

Thanks Mark, We get what we get. Seems to be a decline in precious metal loss lately, no comment on why that would be. 🤔

Agree completely with this, I was able to use beach sensitive in the water, some others use the diving program. Variable salt conditions, black sand and other minerals. My program works well but was only tested in my conditions. You have to fiddle with the settings to get what works for you. Thus far the vanilla programs have not produced the best results. Most of fiddling is by logic and understanding the controls (read the manual) the rest is "feel" and knowing what strata you are dealing with.

If you have a dedicated metal detector store around they might do it for you, I know mine would whether you bought it there or not. Don't blame you at all for fearing complications. I've worked with just about every type of computer for over 40 years and still worry something will go wrong. 🤪

Thanks! Yes the first time I had stopped sweating and was a bit dizzy, drank two bottles of Gatorade and sat in the shade for about 15 minutes. Going up all those stairs was a bit of a test. 🙄 I get to do this 3 times or more a year, Myrtle Beach (We used to go to Tybee Island), Emerald isle, and the Outer Banks. The Outer Banks campground has relic hunting and sometimes water, but I have to get in it from a dock and it's often too deep. Scratches the itch for sure, all my farm permissions are planted. Got two local beaches that have stuff on them too. One is about 50 yards, and the other is about 3/4 mile. A couple years ago I met a guy with a Sovereign digging craters there, he showed me a gold ring. Yeah, Emerald Isle would be the place for you! 🙂

Thanks man, I wondered if it was just me. 😀 Haven't seen many other finds posts, so I did it anyway to show the lurkers it's not all wine and roses. 🙄 At least I got some silver. I'm figuring after doing my own ring test that if gold was there I would have found it, or it was too deep for the D2. I'll admit I didn't chase a few really faint signals, and the ones I did were all crap. 🙂 Here's hoping we both have better luck! 🥂

Yikes, now I don't feel so bad. 😀 It also costs me 2 hours of diesel to get to mine and back, my wife doesn't want me to get sand in her convertible. 😁 I get about 18mpg but that's still around $20 more. It's a hobby. 🙄

Thanks TBB, I did gear up and attempt a surf run once. Most days the flags were red or yellow/red indicating rip risk. The beach faces South and with a good summer onshore wind the waves are really short interval. I really should have used the 9" coil but was too lazy to go through installing it. 😀 The 13" is simply crazy to use. 🤪 Isn't that sand basically pulverized coral?

Thanks VL, The Fob had 3 little pills in it, I will cop to trying to identify them. 🤣 The numbers were obliterated but they were so small they were probably nitroglycerin or some other heart medicine. I plan to use it for the same. I carry a pretty good amount of water with me on the beach, at least 2 bottles. Learned to do that on my tour of Turkey in the 90s. It was in the 90s and about 80% humidity. Got dizzy the first day and had to down 2 bottles of Gatorade to make it back to my golf cart. 😵 The next time wasn't so bad, only one. They charge a premium for that stuff! 🥴 No worries, while I was there I ordered a new 32 ounce water bottle for my gear from my favorite manufacturer, it supposedly will keep water cool for 24 hours: 🤣 It even has a screwed on dog water bowl.

Thanks! Not many posting finds lately. 🤔 I have quite a lot of them now, so I'm going to let the grand kids look them over and pick what they want 🙂 in a way they're as good as gold anyway.

I found a few there last year, hopefully one good one this year. 🙂

Thanks Rick, it is fun but would be a lot better if parking wasn't $2 an hour. 😵 Someday I'll find something that makes it worth it, but it's beach hunting nearby.

Thanks! Just some summertime entertainment. 🙂 In the 1800s to the early 1900s this was a popular steamboat landing and beach. My wife used to go to the beach here over 50 years ago. Because the river is in one state and the beach another, they cleverly built a gambling house, which is now a modern one. The posts are from the old docks. I have a similar landing near my house, but it's inland so no gambling 😀 it's long gone. Lots of cool relics there until Chase and I finished it off. They say some stuff is out in the river but you'd have to scuba.

Thanks Cap'n, It is a nice beach, they replenished it a couple years ago with a white powdery sand that sticks to everything 😀 Hitting stuff buried under the new sand is fun, showed me I'm doing ok, but I would like to have given my wife a nice gold gift. She doesn't play with toy cars anymore. 😁 Despite my ring test, there just weren't any rings that I could find, going in the surf was brutal, the waves were short interval and 3-6'. Not for this geezer!