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Recently got a replacment coil on my Apex, stock one had become knock sensitive and was going crazy with emi. Garrett did a quick job keeping me up and running. Descided to take it to the local park for a couple hours, used MF for the most part and my custom mode was simply same notches as jewelry mode with the addition of the first iron block on. Lets me nose off some the flat iron like bottle caps and get a grunt so I dont dig them. ID's where fantastic, machine ran like a champ. Included my trash, not sure what the big chunk is, not iron and it is pretty hard. Little over $3 in clad, battery has 1.4 volts still and the 14k ring is 5g.

Haven't done much digging at all, heat and humidity is brutal and I figured the finds can wait it out. Hit an old park near my house, took the Tejon out with the 10x12, not a whole lot of iron but a lot of aluminum surface trash so I was hunting for the tinier targets. Ground is really hard packed as they have car shows and gatherings so it was like digging cement, can't make bit holes there and forced to make little flaps and fishing the targets out and I ended up suffing the IH 1889. Ring seems very old, tested at 10k. I have a close up on the mark.

So many, many years ago when I was a lot younger I found a nice silver love token. This tokens was made from a silver dime (probably Barber or Seated) from a local vendor. being as it was engraved on both sides, I often wondered if the young man was successful in wooing this young lady. I remember thinking this must be old because no one these days names their daughter by that name, at least not in New England anyways. I often wondered who this lady was, what did she look like, was she a nice person??? Fast forward to this weekend and my heart and prayers go out to the people of Louisiana and the surrounding areas that are affected from hurricane Ida. I hope you recover and have not lost any family. I guess the hurricane answered my questions about the young lady. I hope that gentleman ran like hell from her 😲 😄 The pictures tell it all. Stay safe everyone.

I took a short trip to an older park before work hoping to find some older silver coins, but found these instead. Not exactly what I was looking for, but I'll take it. 😎

got out for a 2 hour hunt this evening .. the lakes and rivers around are flooded .. so I hit a clad field, but they were all set up for soccer so I just did the edges .. 1st hunt ever with the vanquish 340 and it gets a solid 6 .. 4 inches down .. 14k white gold .. size 8 .. 1 amethyst .. 4 diamonds .. $3+ in clad .. 1 butterfly pendant .. kind of wish that this would have been #100 .. but it's #101 .. the start of my next 100 .. pretty sure the 1st hunt with the 340 would have paid for the machine with 1 find .. but my wife likes this one so it goes to the jewelers and gets fixed and cleaned .. nickels were ringing up at 13 .. so would you have dug a 6 in a park?

This morning I was surprised to find a gold medal along the beach at Alma Bay on Magnetic Island.. It's a gold medal for women's cricket (that's a weird batting sport here in Oz).. Whoever won it was the 'best on the ground'.. On the reverse is the name of a college in rural Victoria (on the other side of the country).. I suppose neither them or the island were under a Covid lockdown at the time she was here.. To be honest the gold medal is a bit of a consolation price.. I'm not supposed to be on the island but rather in the goldfields with my son.. as I mention in another post I was on my way up there when I broke down.. nursed the 4WD back to the island where I can work on it but will be out of action for a while.. I've contacted the college so I can return it to the rightful winner.. hope I get to meet her! I've never met a gold medal winner before..

Good to see this site is back up! Had a great time hunting the negative low tide wet sand cycles last month. This was the result of several hunts at a few local beaches. Ran the AQ in All-Metal with ATS turned all the way down and sensitivity at max. 10 gold items in total, one of them being a little bit of a bucket lister, an 18k (750) Black Diamond wedding ring. Also, loads of silver! especially chains! The wild surf during the days is doing a bang up job at jostling loose the jewelry this summer! Here are the totals: 10k - 29.9 grams 14k - 1.6 grams 18k - 6.3 grams 925 - 10.4 oz Good luck out there & HH!

started detecting april 15, 2019 .. took until today august 15, 2021 .. nickel beach gave up my 100th ring .. the little iron, once gold plated ring in the upper right .. a few gold .. a few silvers .. a few very old .. a few modern .. a few diamonds .. and notice the star on the ruby .. that was a special find

We had some wind waves last night and it was time to get out in the morning and see what the wind blew in. Most of the way there was nothing. I had no targets and then I found a little dog charm tag. It sounded a bit different and I was able to get a 'line' on some possible deep targets. I walked on for another 100 yards or so without any targets in between and then I got a -5 but it was 'deep' so I knew I had to dig it. As soon as I scrapped off about 3-4 inches the target changed to positive. I've had this happen many times on good targets. This one was a bit deeper but it finally started coming in at a 9 and I said to myself that this is a good sound. I still was not prepared for what came out of the hole. It is stunning. It is 14k/3.5g and I believe it to be real diamonds and sapphire. It was down about 12 inches. A big surprise for something that nice to come out of the hole. This was everything so not that many targets for the day and the 2 hour hunt.

Back home from the beach. Got a beautiful day today, low 80s, North wind. Went to the hill over the river, I mowed it a bit more yesterday, so I wanted to see if the Coiltek 10x5 could pull some more from a place I have searched pretty heavily with the standard coil. I wasn't disappointed. Not much, but old coins and jewelry are always welcome. Copper scale that indicates from 0 to 25 something, Gold plated stamped pin with a purple stone, may be amethyst but possibly purple dyed paste. I'm glad the stone is still there, barely held in by the pins. 1941 wheat I think, and an old stamped button from Boston. This hill is infested with nails and large pieces of iron, but the 10x5 cuts the good stuff out like a knife. 😎

And so the Little story behind these finds Is short... Weeks ago,In a rare First drop off erosion event I observed for almost a week in an old place, I Just checked doing snorkeling in swimming underwear to find ...😳 Obviously since that day, my monkey does't want to leave my shoulders 🤬

Sometimes you are just at the right place at the right time. That was the way it was today. https://www.ebay.com/itm/323941407669

My renewed effort to 'dig the bloody lot' keeps on yielding jewellery, sadly during the last few weeks it's all been fake bling-bling.. and also bucket load of dollar coins, both $1 and $2.. This is after a Covid lockdown when tourists were allowed back on the island.. it shows how dependent we are on tourists to drop their stuff for our beach hunting..

Day 3, we had a good low tide here. Got out early. Walked the beach in the other direction, made my search field a little smaller because of the concentration of hotels and condos, many more "depositors" in the Bank of the Beach. 😀 Very few out this morning, most people leave on Saturday and Sunday. Should be even fewer tomorrow. It does fill up by 10 tho regardless. Pretty trashy day, picked up a bunch of bottle caps, the new nemesis being the aluminum beer cap. These buggers are a solid 14/15. I have to dig them all. 😵 Bottle caps aren't a worry, I pick them up when I see them or they're within one scoop. Nice carabiner tho. 😀 Sold a few Equinoxes today, lots of people asking what they should buy. Here are the finds, probably the best yet but not enough Vitamin K for me, as in 14k. 🤬 Dollar in in quarters, got one of every kind again. I was getting worried and then got the nickel. The small "C" is probably silver, from Costa Del Mar sunglasses. It was a 26. I call them "Costa Del Lots". Apple watch series 3, still working. Gonna have to buy a charger, I don't do Apple. One is on the way. If I can find the owner they can have it back. Favorite find today is a 925 sterling wave ring that matches a gold one I dug in Savannah. My wife loves it. Hope to collect other colors as well. Got it confirmed, they did replenish this beach year before last. At least 1 foot of sand was deposited all the way to the point. 😵 No wonder the targets are so deep.

This site was previously hunt by many detectors but Tarsacci did the best job

I just couldn’t seem to get the BEAST coil over any gold last weekend, except a lot of costume jewelry!😡 Thanks! Aaron

Well yay. It's great to post here! Hit the beach again this morning, went where I knew there wouldn't be much but wanted to get it out of the way. Got some coins, one of each at least again. Running in Beach 1 near the water, Park 1 works until the sand gets too dry at the high tide line, then I switch back to Beach 1. Ground balance was at or near zero. This place is easy, but every now and again I hit some mineralized sand and get lots of iron tones at 2". That's when I switch to Beach. There is no EMI here until the cell phones start coming. Some excitement, this guy caught a 4' shark... I got all these again at chest height to high tide one way and knee height coming back. All modern. Trash was minimal again, all the bottle caps were on the surface, I just picked 'em up. This is all I got, didn't dig anything big or heavy except for one buried wine bottle. Ran into another detectorist, he had a White's MXT. He was just hacking around the place he was staying, high on the beach. He complained that all he got was bottle caps and pull tabs, and everything was deep. Yep. All my coins were 10-12" down, nothing in the first or second scoop. Maybe they renewed this beach recently. I told him where he might find better stuff. I had gone up the beach to talk to him, and headed back to the line I was walking, didn't want to tread on his turf. I'm going to hunt the upper beach tomorrow anyway. Got a loud 17/18 at about 4" walking back, I was gonna skip it but it wasn't too deep. Scooped and got this little sparkler: Says IBB CN 925, means Chinese sterling. It has 13 stones, 2 are missing but my wife doesn't care. 😀 I imagine they are CZ's or Moisannite. My loupe needs new batteries to turn on the UV, so I'm going with that. Also found this nice Mattel car I gave to a kid. Good morning!

Another morning at the beach. Weather is stellar here, the Camping Gods are with me. 84 and pretty dry, onshore wind. The tides are with me too - when I go out early it is low tide. Lotta beach to cover. It gets eaten up by 10 but I've already hit it. I get out at sunrise, no one on the beach. I was on the towel and tent line today, covered about a mile. Saw a kid with an AT-like detector, his girlfriend had his shovel. Watched him for a bit and he was golfing, so I knew he wouldn't find much. But I did 😁 not great but standard for this place so it seems. Trash was minimal, the bottle caps weren't an issue for me since I cranked IB to F2=3. All bottle caps were picked up from the surface. Pull tabs were a different story tho. Got me some stainless hardware. 😀 There are lots of tent stakes here too but they always show at -5 to -8, so I don't pull many. With IB at the mentioned setting a bottle cap is going to be 12/13 or 14/15, but you also get a -5 to -8 on the back swing. Easy. Every day I seem to get one of every coin, don't know why but I'm fine with it. All modern. Favorite find of the day is this rose gold Pandora "Mom" charm. It's 14k plated 925 sterling, with CZ (cubic zirconia) stones. It was a weak 7. As usual it went right to my wife. 😀 They sell for around $50. I hunted around for the rest of the charm bracelet, someone probably dug it but missed this one. https://www.reeds.com/pandora-mother-heart-charm-clear-cubic-zirconia-rose-gold-plated-plu19846393.html One thing I haven't mentioned. During this trip I am using Recovery Speed 2. Finding stuff routinely at 10" to over 12" is telling me I'm doing right?

First picture is a 9 gram 14K white gold band and a junk ring. Second picture is a cool little .925 turtle with chain and a .925 stud. The turtles back looks like blue opals, probably lab created. Everything was found in the water. These were found on two different hunts. Thanks for looking!

Hello Friends, I just wanted to share with you a couple short (3 hr) hunts I had last week. The weather here in LA county has been stifling, but luckily my limited hunt time these days is a welcomed sight...hunt in the morning and leave around noon. My first hunt last week was at a few parks that my buddies and I have hunted countless times over the years. This day only one of the parks produced silver, but it was a silver none of my buddies have found at this park before: a Walker Half. I ended the short hunt with 8 wheaties and the Walker. This past Sunday, I met a buddy at another heavily pillaged park. This park has produced many old 30's-50's era coins (a % of these are lawnmower clipped), and high counts of clad quarters. One of my buddies found over 60 quarters at this park one day a couple years ago. After finding a couple clipped Rosies within the first hour, I dug a merc with a ‘40 Jefferson in the hole. I then was swinging my coil in a mostly dirt turf area, and just as I swung my coil in front of me, I noticed a glimmer of gold laying in the dirt. The small ring is 14k, 2.32 grams, with a sapphire colored stone, and 10 diamond chips. The ring ID’d as an 8 on my Nox. I never would have dug ID’s that low at a trashy park, so I’m thankful I was able to spot it laying in the dirt. It straightened out perfectly on my mandrel. My buddy and I detected on for another hour before the humidity blasted both of us. I finished my hunt with the gold ring, 3 Rosies, 1 merc, 12 wheats, 25 quarters, and a Washington dollar coin. The marble (maybe a dyed agate marble??) I found in my pic was peeking out of a dirt spot and is coincidentally the same color as the center stone in the ring I found. Go figure! 😉 Thanks for looking! Good luck to everyone! HH, Raphis (Dan)

I decided to go back to a park I haven't spent much time in due to how busy it usually is, and it being in a more upscale neighborhood. So I started detecting just before dark for an hour until the park closed and the mosquitoes started eating me alive. It's ironic because last week, someone asked if I ever find anything good. I said sometimes, but still wanting platinum.lol Ground balance 2 Sensitivity 19 It rang up a solid 12 in 2 sweep directions, and pinpointed as about coin size, with the strong pinpoint sound. I haven't posted a lot of my better from new the last few months, I'll have to add more

I had an extra Deus S-Rod and 9" X35 coil that I wasn't using, so I ordered a ORX remote to use as a traveling detector. I received the remote yesterday, so I assembled everything and took it to a local park to try it out and make sure it was working OK. I wasn't really expecting to find much but I found $4.20 in clad, a $20 bill laying on top of the ground, and a 14K white gold ring. That is the third gold ring that I have found this year with the Deus and ORX.

Got into a very old beach this past weekend. Little surprised to see someone has been hammering the place fairly good. Looked like they were working a trough, "Low area" close to shore and maybe cherry picking? For there were several deep signals left ... So I dug all.. Was using the Fisher AQ PI.. One Gold Ring, and 8 more Silvers.. couple V Nickels and a transit toke from Washington DC. The wedding band is brass, the silver came up clean for this location and uncommon to find these dates, so that area I will be watching close. These troughs in time can slowly move into un-hunted areas.

cheez wizz. this thing would pull your ear off, found today on a beach spot

Here are a few pictures of some finds for June. I found other loads of junk rings, coins, etc. and other silver not pictured. These are the nicer ones. The solid chain is .925 and weighs 36.8 grams. A heavily worn signet ring, 14k, 6 grams... A tiny 10k with 3 stones, not diamonds and a hefty 11.8 gram platinum. All found in the water at various depths.