Sirius

3 hours ago, 619_805_okie said:

For your sacrificial annode only iron?

Yeah it's the only thing. Red on iron, black on the thing I wanna clean. My adjustable power supply is old so it takes a bit of time for it to really get going.

My electrolysis set up is a Mason jar and alligator clips that are connected to a adjustable power supply. Washing soda is added to water and I use any old iron I find metal detecting. Remember it has to be iron only!

15 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

Good decision to look there ! 

Keep going back , still lots stirred up offshore , that big tub was scraping and bouncing on the way in no doubt..🥸

 

Its over, the sand is in. Had to hit a different location further south. No jewelry this time, but found a ton of coins. 1 silver dime found.

6 hours ago, 619_805_okie said:

There's one guy who hunts this beach every morning at daylight and he finds a ton of jewelry. Then a second guy who lives a block away from the beach who told me last year he found 115 rings atvthis beach so i think so, given the small size of the beach. In the past few months ive seen maybe 10 different detectorists there.

I havent detected in the water yet. 4 are from thre dry sand and the gold ring was right at the water line in the wet sand but not underwater.

I need info on this beach! Is it norcal or socal? 

It's already kinda getting there. The backhoes have moved further down the beach and the coinline is getting scattered as it wasn't in one area anymore. I went on thursday and didn't find anything significant; Decent amount of coins though.

2 hours ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Great snags, Sirius, you got to jump on situations like that, well done!

I'll be checking it out again tomorrow, gave a youtuber some info about it as well so hopefully he's not there when I get there!

I can take advantage of people working on the weekdays and claim all the goodies for myself. Plus the tide will be lower than usual tomorrow so I'll be able to search more of that area! Hoping it didn't get sanded in these last two day!

The beach I went to and focused on today is the one where the dock and concrete ship got destroyed by the recent storm. The removal of the dock allowed for alot more stuff to flow in and thus many things have been found near where the dock was. I thought I was too late for all the good finds, but apparently new stuff keeps getting washed in, and the backhoes are still around shifting the sands alot during the weekdays. They prevent people from going into the area while they're working, but when they leave it's pretty much virgin hunting grounds; first come first serve. I managed to time it and get back to the site before the construction crew left and pretty much cleared the beach of most of the goodies. Mostly clad, but some silver as well! 3 silver dimes at least, a crucifix and a grad tassel charm from 1959. Really cool and old stuff. I'll be heading back soon enough as it's been dry lately at all the other beaches.

My Legend is perfectly fine, but in the off chance that I would have to send it in for repairs there might be hurdles that I would have to go through to send it in. Namely finding all the serial numbers for the detector, the coils and especially the headphones (which done seem to have a serial number). Where would you find all of these numbers?

Too lucky! You find more gold and silver with that GPX than your manticore I would say. Can you search the wet with the GPX or is it not water proof?

16 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

The depositors are kinda scarce right now uptah camp .

There will be more with the hotter weather coming soon.👍 

 

Some of the cool stuff I find are old though. I guess my main concern is everything just getting sanded in so I can't even reach the targets. The gold had rocks filling the inner part of the band and the silver just looked old due to the design. (I got it cleaned up and it looks great)

8 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

That's a lot of beaches .

Too bad about the ring , it's a honker.🥸

It is a real shame. My luck with gold ain't too great and with everything sanded in, it's rough out there. Might spend less time out on the beaches to let it (hopefully) wash more stuff in.

On Thursday I hit up the beach I normally hit and found it sanded in. Even in the good spot. So I went further down and found even more nothing. Upon my return trip back to the entrance, I happened upon a target and discovered it to be a heavy and somewhat tarnished ring. Inside was stamped Mexico but it didn't have any other markings besides that. I got too ahead of myself I kept thinking it was 10k gold because it was tarnishing green and somewhat gold in color. Unfortunately when I finally did get back and ran an acid test on it, it was not 10k gold so im a bit disappointed in that. Oh well a ring is a ring.

Today I hit up 6 beaches to find a beach that would produce. Went to all my regular spots, but found practically nothing except this one silvery pendant that I initially thought was a junker (due to the gemstones initially looking like plastic in the sun when I dug it out). It has the color of silver and when I looked again, the gem in the middle looked like it was cut, while the ones above and below shone like opals. I reckon that they're likely to be real. Still it was odd that it rang up as 24-26 on my legend. 

No luck on the beach search though, everything is pretty much sanded in for now. The last beach I did go to had a pier or something that went out towards the ruins of an old ship. Unfortunately that pier got wreaked in a storm, and so did the ship, so they tore it down recently. It would have been good to look there after they removed the pier but I was 2 days too late. Missed out on some silver but its alright. There's always new opportunities elsewhere.

How do you guys cash in your clad? Need advice cause some of my clad is pretty trashed and i'm not sure if they'd still take it.

2 hours ago, Rick N. MI said:

Nice find. It looks old.

That beach is close to 100 years old if not older, people have found seated coins there, so it has alot of potential. The one thing that is bad about it is that you have to pay to get in which lowers chances of finding stuff in my opinion.

9 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Nice find and I hate finding bullets when detecting as you never know what they might do.

Good luck on your next hunt.

Pretty sure that it's been in the ocean long enough for the gunpowder/primer to become inactive. perfectly safe as far as i'm concerned.

It really is a great machine! Do give us updates on how it runs on the field!

What machine were you using and what did the watch band ring up as?

 The beach I was on had a ton of finds but usually only at this one spot in front of a house. Usually the finds were scarce before the house, and there's practically nothing further down the beach either. The first target was the bullet encased in rock close to the parking lot. The next group of targets I hit was the coin line in front of the house. There, I found various coins, including a silver Roosevelt dime. Thinking I had cleared the area, I ventured further down hoping that something about the beach changed, that would allow for coin lines. In the end I found nothing worth mentioning, except the lucky out of place silver ring that just happened to be there. Venturing even further, I found nothing, so I backtracked and was going to check that coin line again just incase I missed anything. On the way back, my detector picked up this low tone 24-26-32 target. I Dug the target and found this folded up coppery looking thing which i thought was a piece of junk. The strip of metal had  spiral designs on it and was brown in color with some copper tarnish. At that point I thought it was copper junk jewelry with some gold plating and just tossed it in my finds pouch. When I got a better look at it today, I thought that it might be something of value, so I checked with my detector again and it rang up gold numbers. "Strange" I thought to myself. "This warrants further investigation." So I decided electrolysis would be the answer, and worked on cleaning this item up along with a few other things I found curious. Turns out this "copper" strip of metal was not copper at all, but was so heavily tarnished (and still kinda is) that it hid the gold underneath. This was indeed gold. But just to make sure, I did the acid test and it is indeed 10k gold. Quite a lucky find, but I think there's a lesson in all of this: clean your copper looking jewelry if it rings up as gold.  😉 

I need to learn how to take in the atmosphere, the finds are slim to none here as well. But being at the beach is great nonetheless. It's the adventure i'm looking for, not just the end goal!

you shoulda just broke it to him, that these were a scam. Its an expensive mistake, but one he has to learn.

Places where many green coins are found are usually where things have consolidated for a long time, which do mean jewelry and other objects of value tend to end up in the same area. I also found that areas where i've found stuff before could keep providing more as long as the conditions are right. Usually when I check places that historically I've found very little or nothing, I won't find much there later on no matter how often I check. But places where I have found stuff, (as long as it isn't sanded in) I will often find stuff there. The kind of stuff found varies though, based on wave action and the pattern that gravels move. (if your beach has gravels and rocks) Stuff tends to end up in front of gravel patches if you have any. So a gravel patch that is deep onto land is usually a good sign; check in front of that. If you have a gravel patch out near the waves check behind it, sometimes stuff like coins and jewelry can end up stuck behind the patch and to the sides of the patch where waves are uninhibited from pushing stuff up from the water.
When finding stuff like jewelry, if you find at least one, circle around from that spot and go slow. Like objects stay with like objects, so heavy stuff like silver and gold will hang out near each other. I can tell you a number of times where I found 1 ring, and then found something of similar caliber near it. I found a silver ring and near the ring was a silver dime. A gold ring found, and a silver ring was not too far off. Much like coin lines you will find jewelry buried near each other if you've found a patch. Coin lines and jewelry also tend to stay near each other because both are heavy, especially if the coins are green. I personally just dig every target I can hit in a coin line (which is often horizontally trending), because i'm not too far off from digging something cooler than green coins.
If you find an abnormal amount of can slaw you're in a bad patch. Light stuff only means something is inhibiting the heavier stuff in that particular beach or part of the beach from being carried up higher onto the beach. Move on quickly if you keep finding can slaw.

These are all just from my observations and the numerous times i've gone to the same beaches over and over again. I'm new to this, only 3 months in the hobby of metal detecting but I think I got a pretty okay track record for silver rings thanks to all the tips and tricks I learned from youtube and here.
 

23 hours ago, midalake said:

This guy who hunts in tennis shoes and does not go near the water? I am supposed to listen to him? 😏

He normally wears water shoes.

ah I see so I just missed the targets, gotcha.

I'm not entirely sure if this is true or not, as I'm not familiar with the inner workings of a metal detector. But i've heard somewhere (probably from a YT video) that moving your coil over a target will send a electromagnetic wave down that charges the target, and this allows it to be detected by your machine.
That being said, I've found it to be very helpful to go over the same areas i've already swung my coil over once because I would find targets I missed during the first swing. My reasoning for this is that the first swing charged the target, but my machine didn't register it initially so I just kept walking. A second swing over the same area should produce a reading as the target is already charged as I walked over it again, thus I can target the object until I get a clearer reading. 
What do you think about this? I would only do this if I found a coin line as I know there would be targets in the vicinity, but it tends to work out. I found a ton of targets I missed on the first swing and even on the second swing; gotta be through just incase there's a ring I missed!

3 hours ago, CTidwell said:

This guy does a lot of beach hunts in Cali with his Legend.  Finds a lot of stuff too.  Highly recommend his channel.

 

I love his channel, I hope to one day meet him out on the field!