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  1. A couple of Legend finds at my local beaches. This heavy Dunhill Rolagas lighter was dropped in soft sand on the towel line = disappeared instantly. This watch was recovered from the wave wash zone. B
  2. The main park I wanted to go to was closed today due to storm damage, so I went to another park down south. Turns out it was trashed so bad that every step I took ended with me finding a beaver tail and barely any coins. I also found a ton of crushed cans and various other junk. I've mostly stuck to beaches and had tremendous luck there, but with parks it's a whole other game that requires more investigation. Luckily I pulled a bunch of trash today that i'll be using to test my detector on. Hopefully i'll figure out a way to distinguish between trash and coins with enough testing. Anybody got any tips on hunting parks?
  3. I am a novice metal detectorist armed with a Nokta Makro Legend, a garrett carrot, sand scoop, and boots. Went to a number of beaches and found them lacking in signals, but also found beaches loaded with signals. The ones that were especially bad, were ones where you had to pay to get in, or were not popular (aka not near a city). Also beaches that are completely washed out of sand, lacked the infrastructure to hold good targets unless you waited till low tide; to which you might have more room to work with. The best beaches I've found are the free ones; with people actually getting into the water (or at the very least getting their feet wet) with a decent amount of visitors. The best targets were the ones found at low tide; which just happened to be at the end of the day so working quickly is a must. One beach provided a ton of targets along with solid finds of some small pieces of gold and silver. Compared to other beaches I've explored in the past week, it was just loaded with targets which increased chances of finding something cool. I was wondering if anybody had more to add to this? It would great to learn more about detecting techniques on the beach/ knowing the kinds of beaches that should be explored if you're looking to find a ton of targets.
  4. A while ago Phrunt suggested I run a magnetic over my beach to see how much black sand there was.. I was trying my luck at magnet fishing this morning but it turns out a magnet with a pulling force of 500 kgs is useless for the job.. But dragging the thing a few metres over dry sand was an eye opener.. 😮
  5. Hi Everyone, What is the best advice/tips that you can give to a beach detectorist to find jewelry or other valuable targets? Just curious because I know that years of experience beats all in most cases. Have a great day!
  6. Well it's my birthday, I can get hands on my new beach scoop and show it here. My fabulous wife bought me a Dune Titanium beach scoop, I have a great CooB stainless scoop too but wanted to try and build the lightest scoop I could but the most unbreakable. We will see how this plays out. A couple weeks ago I finally cracked the PVC shaft for my CooB scoop while digging at a local beach with notoriously heavy sand. @Jeff McClendon was right, but the laminated bamboo insert saved the day, and it's still not broken. However, the shaft flexes a lot more so I retired it. I've had great luck with @steveg's Detector Rods, I have one for the Deus 2 and my Equinox 600, they're excellent, so I figured he'd also make a heckuva shaft for a beach scoop. Since I got a new scoop, I ordered one for both. I was not disappointed. Here's the scoop, I sent pics of the welds to a friend who has welding experience, he said it looks good. 👍 For those of you who don't know, Titanium is extremely light, strong, and corrosion resistant. The grayish look is what you want to see, it's an oxidation that helps prevent corrosion. Water only makes it better. That's why you see airplanes that have been underwater for a long time still intact. The only downside is that using pure titanium is expensive, I hope this one is, it will cost you $250 for even a small one, and the price goes up to $600+ for other name brands. That's just the scoop, the shaft is additional, so expect to pay a minimum of about $400 for one. Expect to pay about $300 for a large quality stainless scoop and shaft. Above is my new dynamic duo, CooB stainless on the left, and Dune on the right. Both are 2mm metal, very strong. I've used the CooB for 2 years now and it still looks new, I just rinse it after it's been in the water. I was pleased that the Dune was the same thickness. On both of them I add a Raptor handle, they're cheap and really strong. They come with rubber inserts, and I install them just forward of the balance point (toward the shaft cap) once the scoop is attached to the shaft using a 2" 14/-20 stainless bolt with a stainless Nylock nut. Steve puts a plug in the bottom of his shafts to make that point strong, drilling a 1/4" hole made me a bit nervous, and he told me not to use a retaining screw that ships with the Raptor. You could use it on a wood handle but the torque would crack and split carbon fiber. The tough rubber inserts prevent slipping and cracking the handle, do not overtighten the bolts! Steve's shafts are 2.5mm CF so they're a little heavier, and would be less prone to crushing, but I can see that easily happening. Weight? The assembled CooB rig weighs 4.5 pounds, and the Dune 2.9. the Dune is also smaller. The Dune is a 6.5 inch scoop, and the CooB is about 9 inches. Each will have its use, and backs up the other. An expensive project but fun, I hope they will last a long time now.
  7. Yesterday I went to my beach and left the 6" Equinox coil on for an extended hunt. I had used it a couple of days before on a high iron beach so that I could hear targets clearly. Yesterday's hunt turned out to be an experimentation of sorts. What could I really find on a 'tough' beach with the little coil. I've found gold jewelry on the beach with it before. When I first got the coil I wasn't able to go nugget hunting so I went to a beach. Right out of the box as they say I found 4 little gold rings many years ago. I pretty much put the little coil away over the years in favor of the 15" coil and occasionally the 11" coil. Coverage is the operating logic to that. I feel 'naked' without the big coil. Yesterday I was willing to experiment. After selecting the frequency and then ground balancing I was able to go to 25 on the sensitivity/gain. This let me hear my threshold and without chatter so it was a matter of swing speed. There weren't a whole lot of targets so each time I'd find one I would try to find a patch. I managed to find a couple of them as you can see and some interesting targets in the 1.5 hour hunt. The rack on the left is one of the largest objects I've found on this beach. It was down about 8" and it weighs about 5 lbs. Some of the quarters were down about the same depth. The knife blades were iffys I think because they are mostly stainless steel. The silver Thailand earrings were in the wave wash and are very light at 3.2 g and were found together as displayed. After a bit of learning the capabilities of the little coil again I then wondered what is best. Do you take a small coil and use it at maximum sensitivity or do you take a larger coil and turn down the gain? This would go for other types of detecting as well. This is certainly a reason to have multiple coils.
  8. Here in rural Pennsylvania if you trout fish you fish one of two ways. You either wait for the trout stocking truck to arrive and fish or you hike into the wilderness to find the native trout that no one else fishes for. Everyone follows the stocking truck, very few hike into the wilderness. I have discovered that metal detecting is very similar. If you dirt hunt you either hunt in public parks or public lands or hunt on permissions. Public lands require the newest and best equipment. Permissions require skill and knowledge of the equipment that you own. On the beach you either wait for the stocking truck or summer tourist to arrive or you hunt on beaches that are sort of like permission hunts. On tourist beach you are competing with anyone who walks on the beach with a detector. On the South Carolina islands beaches of Daufuski, kaiwah, Tybee, Fripp Island, Isle of Palms...etc, you have to rent a property on the beach to be able to metal detect. This makes it a permission. You can not just drive to the beach and detect, you have to pay to play, but this payment usually gives you exclusive detecting of the island since no one else does this. No one can just drive to Daufuski Island and hunt for the day and drive home. It doesn't work. You have to rent if you want to hunt Daufuski. VRBO is your permission on exclusive islands. I find it amazing that the youtube hunters on Atlantic public beaches have no content to post currently. The stocking truck of summer has run it's course. But I can go to a permission beach and find gold any week of the winter. Permission beaches never run out of finds. Metal detecting requires many skills. Research, equipment and knowledge can give you a huge advantage. Happy hunting and I hope this post helps you to become a better hunter.
  9. The storms are a few days behind us but there are a few good waves coming in to make some patches. I found one patch today on one of my 'go to' local beaches and got a couple of golds! One has some stones (10k/2g/diamonds) to go with it. The other is a 14k gold earring that is not so rare this year. It is my 2nd one after many years of the similar style being always junk.
  10. Detected the park today for the first time, and was playing around with the settings. I found alot of bottle caps and pull tabs along with some change. Main thing I used was M2 on field mode with a recovery speed at 4, and a tone break of 4. Everything else is pretty much factory settings. I definitely do not know what I'm doing it and I'm mostly just winging it. What settings did people find most effective for beach detecting? I'm headed to the beach tomorrow and advice would be most appreciated!
  11. Today I went to good beach and a not so good beach! It is easy to know the difference between them. I can put some of my excuses away for a while. haha The trash to rings ratio was one of the best I've ever had. I was hoping to have the full day rather than just 2.5 hours but that didn't happen. I'm quite pleased with it anyway because it was not my intended beach. I had to get gas and that determined the new direction I had to go with limited time. Here is the not so good beach that I spent more time at than the good beach. (I don't think it will be that way tomorrow!) The 4 gold rings include a rare gold earring. The total weight is not too great but it was so much better than any of my previous hunts on the gold count. On my way out of the beach I ran into a forum member, Slim. I showed him what I found and I hope he was able to get some goodies of his own.
  12. Been awile since I've posted anything here. But I've been on an EPIC run the last 2 weeks. Last 4 hunts have produced gold. Some beaches have massive cuts. Others have been been overpowered by the surf , bringing sand down. A few sanded in , while others are unhuntable due to no sand at all. Yesterday's hunt hitting 4 beaches. I was out 11 hours but that included alot of drive time. Hunted well into the dark. 8 silver coins. 1 walker , 3 Washington's , 1 merc , 3 Rosie's. 2 pendants , 6 rings , 2 of which are 14k totalling 10 grams. Clad 31-5c , 72-10c , 26-25c. Total= $15.25. I didn't count the pennies. Some sinkers and trash for your enjoyment ! GL out there everyone.
  13. In all my time metal detecting I've never found so many nice things to start off a year. Starting New Years Day and ending with yesterday's hunt (8 hunts) I found 10 pieces of gold jewelry, over 20 pieces of silver and probably around one thousand coins. Of course, this was all made possible by the storm-driven surf that has been pounding the California coast this year and eroding select beaches. Yesterday I came back down to earth with no gold or silver. To add insult to injury, my TDI Beach Hunter's shaft snapped into 2 pieces and I noticed a considerable amount of condensation on the inside of the clear plastic control housing. Fortunately, one of my detecting friends, KOB, had parts and tools in his vehicle and I was able to continue with the hunt. The TDIBH condensation issue was a surprise to me but, apparently, well-documented on this forum and others. I've since read that a small amount of condensation was "normal" but this certainly doesn't inspire confidence.
  14. After finding my first gold ring my coil ears decided to call it quits. I guess it’s to be expected after having the 800 for 4 years (2000+ hrs hunting) and kicking it to knock off the sand that gets stuck to it. I wasn’t about to quit so I rigged up a bungee cord to it and hunted for 3+hrs to finish my day. I ended up with 10 rings, 5 junk, 2 silver. Of the remaining 3, one is 10k, other 14k and the last one Platinum with diamond chips. I also found what looks to be a melted gold tooth ( last item at the very bottom by the gold rings). Life knock me out for a little over a year and I’m barely recouping. Thanks for looking and happy hunting.
  15. For metal detecting on the beach, what is a very good beach scoop with a long handle that will not rust and is very high quality? It doesn't have to be extremely high quality I just don't want it to rust or break for a very long time. I bought one for $130 and the metal handle folded and the hardware was eaten up by rust, so I'm just trying to do some research before ordering one this time. Thanks in advance for your help! :)
  16. On New Years Day I drove to 6 beach spots hoping to find a productive one. I didn't even take the detector out of the car at most locations because it looked like the big surf was not doing much sand moving. However, I saw some small cuts at the last stop and started finding targets pretty regularly. The larger ring is 14K yellow gold and weighs 6.6 grams. The smaller ring is rose gold and is stamped "18K 0.39". I assume that the 0.39 is the total carats of the small diamonds encircling the ring. At first I feared that the ring was one of those ubiquitous, gold-plated, silver, Pandora rings that look so good but aren't too valuable but it weighs 3.3 grams and passed the acid test. It's a beautiful little ring but it is missing a couple of the stones on the bottom. Very late in the hunt I scooped out the silver bar (see earlier post) and I think I said to myself, "You've got to be kidding me!". This hobby has provided so many surprising moments over the years. It was the perfect way to end a hunt and start a new year.
  17. A feel good story about Pommy detectorists on a Ozzy beach.. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jan/02/a-day-at-the-beach-a-haul-like-this-is-insanely-rare-it-does-feel-like-fate-i-suppose
  18. Later I will make a more detailed report about a recent beach hunt but I just had to share this one most unusual find. When I scooped it out onto the beach from the wet sand it looked a little bit like a dog tag but when I picked it up I thought, "no way!". Sure enough it was a 1 ounce, .999, silver bar. Maybe someone carried it in their pocket for good luck? I searched around to see if there were more to no avail. Being almost pure silver I thought that it would clean up easily but it took a couple zaps of electrolysis to lift the black off.
  19. This is a good way to end the year. It has been over a month since I found a gold ring. This one is a nice 14k band that weighs 7.5 grams. It has an inscription in it that says July 26, 2013. I should have written a date in mine but I used one I found at the beach for my wedding band. On a previous hunt this week I found some nice silver. Happy New Year! The GOLD: The Silver The blue pendant with fine chain literally hurt my ears. I've never had something do that with the Nox at 21. It must be the silver cage that holds the glass. The fine chain broke apart as I was digging. There was a separate chain found also.
  20. After many years of metal detecting I'm amazed that I still discover nice finds days or weeks after a hunt. A week ago there were bulldozers making winter sand berms on a local beach so I decided to hunt behind them hoping that they would uncover some goodies. Targets were few and far between so I only hunted an hour or two before heading home to beat rush hour traffic. I finally emptied my finds pouch this morning and looked more closely at a small ring that I had assumed was silver. It was dull and a bit rough but when I examined the inside expecting to see "925" I saw "14K" instead. A quick acid test confirmed that it was gold and it cleaned up without much effort. At 2 grams it isn't the biggest ring but $65 in scrap gold value covers gas for a couple more hunts so that's a win!
  21. Unlike its real gold, Magnetic Island's gold coins are a replenishable resource.. They seem to sprout best during school holidays and tend to favour sunny beaches, particularly in the shade of palm trees.. Amazingly they also grow underwater, favouring the cooler deeper water at the back of bays.. I've got a hunch that gold coins are spread by feral animals, mainly humans.. These gold coins (Ozzy $1 and $2) were found during the week at my favourite hunting grounds ($65).. I've included some pictures of what these beaches look like.. Whilst they're never crowded, since the Corona virus has been eradicated they've been getting a steady stream of visitors again, even from overseas.. The beach in front of a backpackers called XBase and along Horseshoe Bay are the most productive as far as gold coins are concerned.. Both have pubs right on the beach.. Inside the shark nets at Horseshoe and Picnic Bays are also worth an early morning hunt at low tide.. Picnic Bay.. If your eyes make it that far, you'll see the corner of the shark net on the right.. XBase Beach.. Geoffrey Bay.. About halfway along this bay is the 'Silver Mine'.. A good spot amongst the trees for old silver coins and the odd bit of gold jewellery.. Alma Bay.. My home bay.. Arthur Bay.. Horseshoe Bay.. Radical Bay..
  22. Got a 18k Stella Baptism Pendant 2.48g today with some coins. Shame someone lost it. Date on it says 1994. Checked online found one close to it from Stella and the advertisement says vintage. If 1994 is vintage then some of us are .. well you know.. old. Listing said around 500 bucks melt is only 100 go figure. The 1 pict is what I saw when I dug the hole. Gold in the hole. Gold going in and gold coming out. Wish I found the 18k chain to go with it today. The iPhone is from yesterday along with a few cheaper trinkets I found — toe rings and lots of coins to. At first I thought the turtle ring was real then reality set in when I picked it up. The little seashell is silver plated. Yep another iPhone Pro Max this is the latest and greatest one. 6 inches down in tide line. Yes it still works, but locked. No text from anyone yet on it. Who in the heck gets in the ocean with their 1000 dollar phone? Well they do. This is my 8th one in about 3 moths. If we were going by retail numbers that puts me at 8000 bucks for iPhones. Wish I found that in gold. Steve H your ‘Good Luck Tomorrow’ must have helped with the gold find today. PI Man - Gary
  23. Got 6 rings over 2 days about a week ago. Unfortunately 5 are steel and the other one at least is silver. But it is always good to find rings. I’ll be back at it tomorrow.
  24. Hurricane Kay was wonderful to me! Prior to Kay I was having a very slow year for gold finds but she changed all that in 1 week. I know that Kay was not so good for LA County beaches but, as Strick pointed out, a few beaches down south had massive amounts of sand movement making for some ideal hunting conditions. I think I hunted about 6 nights in the last 8 days and even though I encountered several other hunters, there were enough targets to go around. I found an amazing number of gold jewelry items but most were below 2 grams and nothing even close to being a "honker". Many targets were hiding in and around the black sand making them more difficult to find, even with my pulse detectors. On one hunt I used my Equinox but the black sand was making the Nox so chatty that I was getting a headache. My Nox's TID's were pretty useless as virtually all targets registered as negative numbers until I got them out of the holes. I am helping a couple of friends who are getting started in metal detecting and, fortunately, they were both able to experience hunting in a target rich environment. However, every time I went to the beach this past week I did not know what to expect - I either anticipated the beach to be sanded back in or full of holes from hunters who got there before me. GL&HH!
  25. Last night I went to one of my normal beaches. It was target rich after an afternoon of high tide, wind and waves. It has been several months since a day like yesterday and the beach was loaded with targets. When I got to my normal starting spot, I was a little disappointed with the slope of the beach. It didn't appear to be cut. I looked at the moon, the waves and took a couple of steps and BAM! I found myself at the bottom of a 4-5ft CUT! My hat came off with my light, sand got in my rubber boots, the detector went to one side and luckily the scoop and handle went to the other side. I didn't know what happened. As it turned out I was fooled by an 'infinity look' at the top before I tumbled. Of course I learned all of this after the fall rather than before. It looked like a steep slope but not a cut. When I put myself together, I started hunting this cut that was larger in some areas and less in others. This was one of my go to beaches that had very few targets the days before. It was the same beach I used the 5000 on a couple of days ago and then the 800/15 which I used last night. I wish I had my cell phone to take a picture of the cut. When you work a cut like this you wonder which direction to go. It would have been an easier choice if I had entered the beach in a safer manner. I started working it and noticed the sand was a bit fluffy against the walls. This helped in my fall but didn't hold the targets I was expecting. I didn't see anyone else out so I hurried to work the cut first which means you walk it and go one swing away from the wall. You don't walk down the slope to the waves ... yet. The wall I worked was close to a mile. It held the stainless-steel chain and cross and a couple of the 8 rings. I switched back and worked the wall back below my first swing. I was finding 'patches' of quarters and dimes but I still wanted to 'cherry pick' the wall listening for good tones. When I was done with that I walked back again going lower and getting the 15g silver ring and some of the heavy weights. Unfortunately, there were no heavy gold rings in these patches. I did manage the one gold wire ring. This is the tally. 76 Quarters (personal best) 66 Dimes 24 Nickels 55 Pennies 48 Pieces of junk 19 Pieces of jewelry This is 291 recoveries in my 5 lb bag at the end of the night. So let's say 300 including a few pieces I didn't keep. I dug at many targets that were just black sand at times without a recovery. Quite a few targets could be recovered shallow with a couple of scoops but many required a lot more effort. So let's say an average would be a bit above 3 scoops per target. That is where I get my 1000 scoops! Who knows where I'll go tonight. I hope it is some place with more gold. Here are the coins. Here is the jewelry. (Added 11/4 The silver chain is 21g) Here is the trash. Here is the 5 lbs of stuff. This was from Sunday Night. This was from Saturday Night with my 5000/Coiltek.
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