Sirius

TBH the fact that I thought it was junk ruined the moment initially! But now i'm quite happy with the find! I went back to the same park today, but this time it only gave up a stainless steel ring that is way too big for my fingers. It's a Spikes stainless steel ring.

It's a baby bracelet so it wouldn't fit anywhere! Still i'm surprised that I found this piece, it definitely took alot of effort to find due to all the trash. Though to be fair I found it in the field so it was more tolerable as there were less targets. It also looks corroded in some places; mainly this one nub that looks like copper tarnishing. Also some parts of the chain looks like it was welded together and is also tarnishing? I could also be dirty cause I didn't clean it very well. The rest of the chain and center panel look fine though.

My first significant find at a trashed out park. Signals everywhere but most beeped from 26 to 36 indicating pulltab. This interesting piece ranged from 17 to 19 for the middle then 33 to 35 for the chain part. It's stamped with an unfamiliar numbers so I figured it was junk. Still a better find than what I normally find! (Clad)

Sadly that beach was a wash, no swimming allowed so nothing to find. Searched a park today and it's rough with all the trash. I definitely prefer beaches!

The areas around where I live used to be heavily farm land, so the best i'd find deep down is big iron, even in parks. Ngl I envy the east coasters with their old lands and old finds.

To be honest you might not need a detector to go that deep depending on the parks you go to, so it might be better to be able to filter out some aluminum? Like most of the parks around me are about 60 years old and stuff doesn't get buried that deep in that amount of time. if extra depth is needed, then a bigger coil might do. Though pin pointing the target might be a bit more difficult due to the large coil!

i'm about to, heading up this time perhaps tomorrow. Today is a holiday so people might have headed to the beach today!

I've already put a home depot iron rod on my currently broken scoop so it's probably 4-5 Lbs right now. I think that xtreme scoop would be an improvement!

I picked up another one today! But the beaches are running dry. Most are sanded in now, and the beach that has given me a ring every trip is small. I'm pretty much having to thoroughly search it to find a ring IF i'm lucky! I need another storm to wipe out the sand so I can find more stuff.

yeah i'm new too, 3-4 weeks in and i'm up 10 silver rings, maybe a gold earring but man i've not found any more gold after that. I've learned that stuff tends to consolidate in areas for quite a while until changes occur like sanding in, or even more erosion. You'll just keep finding more stuff in hot spots until they stop producing basically. Alot of my rings were discovered in generally the same areas.

here I thought these tools would be stronger than a rock. I guess i have to go for the easy pickin's as to not break them.

Also my other issue may be that I used the scoop as leverage to pull up heavier stuff. Sometimes it's rocks, but sometimes it's a lodged piece of big iron stuck in the sand. I also desire a wide enough scoop to get the object in 1 or two scoops cause other wise they just sink in muddy quicksand if the tide is up and it's partially sanded in. Zincers? more like Sinkers

gravelly sands sometimes contains heavy rocks. I guess i just gotta move em by hand then.

how are the welds? Could they move heavy rocks with no problem? That was my main issue, sometimes there were heavy rocks in the way and I had to scoop them out. I reckon that's what caused it to fail completely too much weight putting strain on the top panel.

you have more luck than I do! I'm only finding silver, but it's always a welcome surprised nonetheless! Did you find the gold on the wet?

Build quality of scoops from amazon are extremely poor. Xtremescoops has a 10 yr warranty on their scoops and I need something durable to last me more than 3 weeks of use. Main concerns are handle and weld quality.

lol i'm dumb, it's all one piece. Mb mb

Making fake rings to fake out detectorists

Small stuff doesn't seem to be a issue for these big name detectors. If you can find pickers you can find small jewelry. My legend can find small stuff too on a 13 in.

The sea always finds a way to provide. As long as the conditions of not being sanded in is met, and plenty of beach erosion to keep all heavy stuff in one spot. Stuff refreshes daily unless there's rocks blocking the waterline. So it might be worth doing multiple searches of the same area until it gives up!

Great tips, thank you!

I am the same can't listen to the guy ramble for too long.

It seems like despite the sanding in affecting the main beach I visit, other beaches nearby aren't as affected, and still produce a decent amount. beaches that were especially eroded away now have some sand, and it's easier to detect on those beaches now. Also since not alot of sand was deposited on those beaches, they will still produce , compared to a beach that got 6-7 ft of sand. Found 2 silver rings and a silver dime at that beach today, and another silver ring at another beach that also wasn't as affected. Beaches tend to hold patterns to where they deposit their goodies. The first beach I went to was suggested by someone on youtube as they said they found a large amount of coins and 2 rings at a specific location after a major storm. That storm was well over a month ago, but when I checked it out; there was still stuff to be found. Further down the beach I found practically nothing/ light weight stuff like can slaw. The second beach still continues to deposit good stuff on the left side of that beach. Quarters mainly, but that confirms that more heavier stuff ends up on that side compared to the right side.

Followed the same pattern for a the original park I hunted at, much better coin to trash ratio but still alot of trash as expected! I didn't cut out any targets as i wanted to hear it all and train my ears to the sounds of trash and treasure. Treasure is pretty rare, and i have still yet to compare sounds with what little gold I found on the beach and stuff I find at parks. An interesting bit I discovered is that modern day pull tabs tend to make a high pitched sound like coins, but they double tap. That is you'll hear the initial beep but then a fainter but still high beep comes right after when you swing over multiple times. I'm guessing it's because of the pull tab holes that prompts the machine to make these noises.

These guys sure like their china ceramics!