Popular Post Dan(NM) Posted January 20, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 20, 2020 Beautiful here in central Texas, so I headed down to the lake to see if I could score any jewelry. I made my first pass to the water and was headed back up to the shore when I spotted a park ranger truck pull up and stop. He got out and headed my way, so, I put my gear down and walked straight to him and stuck out my hand and introduced myself. I knew as soon as he stuck out his hand and smiled, he wasn't here to harass me. He told me his name and began to ask me how I was doing and that I should keep my eyes open for arrowheads as quite a few have come from the beaches on the lake. I was able to get some good info from him about which park was the most popular and where most of the swimming took place. He also told me that the lake level was down quite a bit from full capacity and trying to give me an idea as to the best place to hunt might be. I also was told that I'm the only one he's seen hunting on this beach :super: Anyway, after about 10 minutes, he wished me good luck and drove off. The next 3 hours was digging nothing but garbage. Toward the end of the hunt, close to the water, I got a nice, solid, repeatable 9, pinpointed it and grabbed what I thought was a piece of wire. Fortunately I was able to pull it from the sand without breaking it. I was very pleased to see a charm and both ends were intact. I'm pretty sure it's silver from the looks of it. As luck would have it on the next pass and down by the water, within 6-8 feet of the other necklace, I dig another one. Up until this point of hunting the lake I hadn't dug one until today. Unfortunately it's junk, it read 3-4, but, a solid repeatable signal. My settings were as follows Park 2 GB 5 Sens 21 Recovery 3 Iron bias F2 0 2 tones Digging from -1 up 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Gillespie Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Looks like a fantastic hunt. Congrats.? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Valen Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 That was a long hunt for those 2 necklaces, but you gained a lot of information from the park ranger I bet. Wish your next trip is better for you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happa54 Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Nice hunt Dan. You sure went through the garbage for those necklaces. All keepers makes it worth the effort. Do you hunt primarily in 2 tones? What is your tone pitch set at? I've never hunted in or near the water although I'm surrounded by it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan(NM) Posted January 21, 2020 Author Share Posted January 21, 2020 13 minutes ago, Happa54 said: Nice hunt Dan. You sure went through the garbage for those necklaces. All keepers makes it worth the effort. Do you hunt primarily in 2 tones? What is your tone pitch set at? I've never hunted in or near the water although I'm surrounded by it. Thank you. I hunt in 2 tones 99% of the time. I have my pitch set at 25 for what I want to dig and 1 for what I'm going to pass on. To me, it's the challenge of wading thru the garbage for a keeper or two. It's a lot of work, but very satisfying in a weird sort of way. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveg Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 NICE digs, Dan! You have FAR more patience than I do! ? But, it's paying off for you, with some nice keepers, no doubt about it. NICE! Steve 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan(NM) Posted January 21, 2020 Author Share Posted January 21, 2020 6 hours ago, steveg said: NICE digs, Dan! You have FAR more patience than I do! ? But, it's paying off for you, with some nice keepers, no doubt about it. NICE! Steve Thank you Steve. It's one thing when you hunting a certain site to "hope" there's something good to be found and "knowing" something worthwhile will be found. I've hunted this type of place back in the early 90's and found a ton of jewelry, I was the first one to hit that swimming hole. I had no idea what masking was or the idea of a fast recovery machine. I'm sure I left more gold rings than I found ? I don't mind cleaning the trash out, because the payoff is going to be big at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Beechnut OBN Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 That was a great hunt with treasure and some good communication with the Ranger. Just about all Rangers I have come across have been very friendly, even if they were asking me to leave. Which is rare. I would say you really helped clean the place. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal_Cobra Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Nice score! Believe it or not the F75 LTD was decent at finding chains like that. It's been a few years since I used it at the beach, so I forget the settings, but with very specific settings it would nail something like that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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