TampaBayBrad

Those are the settings I'm using for the M15 and the 11 also. You should do well with 4 recovery. I dug a crazy deep dime this morning in the same hole as a small rusted screw with the M15. I heard the dime first among the iron grunts and then saw the TIDs bouncing to 80 at the same time I'm hearing iron grunts. I said to myself "There's something else next to that dime." They both came out in the same scoop after I dug deep enough.

That's Tom speak for "Leave it at 4". 😄

You are absolutely correct, not much to be found unless your name is okara gold. 😄 I'm going to try again Thursday. Very nice score on the Tiffany. She's happy!

And at a 45 degree angle!

Something tells me they still won't have a problem selling them.

It looks like with the recent Minelab price increase, the M15 coil has gone from $329 to $346 and the Manticore detector has gone from $1599 to $1699.

You Cali guys are killing me! Man......I wish I was there for a week or two. Nice job, interesting ring with the two marks. And heavy!

That looks like plenty of protection to me Fishersari.

Just tie a piece of string to it with a piece of masking tape on the other end for easy spotting. Post your results, sounds interesting.

🥱Ho hum....Is that all you could find Compass? Ha! That's a lot of diggin' dude! You are correct on the nickels.. just below pull tab range at 26-27. Nice hunt, too bad there was no gold other than the small pendant but gold is gold!

You're on a roll....

I would hurry back and keep hunting before it gets covered up again or somebody else finds that spot. That is truly a weekend to remember with some beauties found! Strike while the iron's hot!

Fantastic! So the inscription was clear enough to peg it's owner as one of the former land owners? That is something else. Truly a cool/unusual find. Congrats. That's something I miss about being strictly a beach hunter. I may find my share of gold, but it ain't old!

and aluminum.....

Yea, not like it used to be. But really....most of us go to the beach to hunt for gold anyway, not coins. The thing is you need something like a coin to dig occasionally so you don't get bored. Ha!

Yea, it's quite the "Gotcha" move by the various small beach municipalities up and down the coast. One area even charges $4 an hour on weekends. It all goes into the city's $$ fund for whatever they need to use it for. Yet, if I go 8 miles north at one small town, there's free parking at most all streets that have beach access points. Almost all the small beach towns from Clearwater all the way to the mouth of Tampa Bay charge $2.50 to $4 for an hour. I usually go once or twice a week for 5 hours so we're talking around a hundred bucks a month for my detecting habit. 😬

To you too Seeker. Plated is still a lot of fun to find and it looks like you scored some nice ones!

I christened my new M15 yesterday morning with a 5 hour hunt at the wrong beach. They had just done a dune restoration project there to replace dunes lost to Hurricane Idalia. Along comes a no-name storm about 2 weeks ago that cut into some of the brand new dunes and deposited the new sand all over the beach. Yay! I wasn't going to leave without giving it a good try as I had already paid my $15 for parking 5 hours. Arrived at 6 a.m., put my headlamp on and started swinging. Almost zero targets at this very busy parking lot section of beach. After 2 hours of swinging with just 4 coins to show for it, I decided it's cold, but not too cold to try the coil in the water. In I went at 8 a.m. to waist deep with the waves hitting me at chest height occasionally. Shiver, brrrr! Here's the thing. It's a LITTLE tougher to swing in the water than the 11", but not enough to deter me from leaving it on for some more use. I didn't find a darn thing in an hour and a half in the water except junk targets, (again, wrong beach) but I was happy that the coil IS possible to use for an extended period of time in the water without totally wearing out my arm and shoulders. The coverage advantage is very nice. The swing is a tad slower than the 11", but not much. Performance wise, I didn't dig many coins to really test it well. I did dig a crusty zinc penny at least 12" down running 23 sensitivity in the dry sand. I dug a matchbox car at about 15". Pinpointing was easy, no different than the 11". I don't use the pinpoint function of the detector, I just cross the target using the center of the coil as a reference point. Anyway, more time with the coil is needed for me to have an opinion on it's depth compared to the 11". I sure like the quicker coverage though! I'm happy with it. Glad I bought it. Now if that water would just warm up....

Now you have been bitten by the gold bug. Makes you want to get back out there right away and find some more! Congrats.

Gee.....Thanks a lot Okara! You got me. 😄 Now I'm for sure going at least one day this week. Gotta check out my new coil and test the water maybe. Today is for watching NFL football and my Bucs winning the NFC South! That 14k sure looks purdy. It's so sweet to see that gleaming clean gold stand out among the shells in your scoop! Yea man! Good job....

Thanks, I'll check it out. Not sure I'm ready to commit to the bother of suiting up just yet. Our cold water season is really only a couple months long and there's no depositors going in the water during that time anyway. I may get the urge....

Interesting. Out of the water I am running Beach LC, upper 4, lower 0, all metal, ferrous threshold 0, recovery 4, prospecting audio, 21-22 sensitivity. I don't have black mineralized sand. I would be out of the hobby if I dug all ferrous targets on my beaches! Crab trap pieces, tent stakes, rusted bolts and nuts are too numerous to waste time on down here. Maybe a good idea on cleaner beaches. I was looking through the manual for clarification on what you said it states about a deep non-ferrous target becoming ferrous sounding with prospecting audio. I couldn't find anything other than this: "The Ferrous Tone setting allows the ferrous tones to be turned Off. This means that when detecting in All Metal, ferrous targets will not give a ferrous tone, and instead will give a regular detection tone. This is a useful feature when searching for gold, because very weak gold targets can be pulled into the ferrous region by nearby ferrous targets or by the ground signal from highly mineralised ground. By turning Ferrous Tones Off, the gold signals will be more clearly audible." Is that the section you were talking about? If so, I understand if it's a ring deep and next to a ferrous metal or if you are at a black sand beach. Multi-IQ+ is supposed to be great at separating ferrous from non-ferrous, but we all know how marketing likes to boast. That's why it's interesting to me reading your test and the resulting ferrous indication you got on a gold ring....deep or not. Is it a 10k ring?

I don't think that is what he is saying. No way I dig ferrous sounds unless I suspect it may be junk jewelry which sometimes adds a good target "ding" sound along with the ferrous grunt. I run my ferrous volume at about 10 instead of 25 like Dankowski does and I can differentiate easily between ferrous and nonferrous. When you get a combination off both sounds, check your 2 D screen and see where it's plotted and which numbers the TID is bouncing around and if you're getting a red line to decide if you want to dig to investigate. Crossing up from different directions may result in a more "no dig" sound than just checking one direction.

Those are some nice relics from the past then. If I was a collector, I'd go back and get them from under that tree.

How old do you think those are?