Popular Post Slimpickuns Posted October 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 8, 2021 Had another good month hunting the low tide wet sand slopes at a few local beaches. Some large surf eroded out a few areas, lots of black sand and lots of targets! Spent half the time in "All-Metal" and half in "Tone Mode". For me, tone mode comes in very handy when weeding out those annoying pesky tent stakes when there is an abundance of them on the beach. I ran stock settings for tone mode and it worked out great at one of the beaches I was working that was littered with tent stakes! The find of the month was a nice 14k LeVian ring, the surprise find of the month was another gold tooth crown, which makes my 3rd for the year! Acid tested it and confirmed it's 18k. I see Compass found one recently too. You would think the cremation process would completely melt the crowns into blobs, I guess the heat doesn't reach that point? Anyway it was a fun month. I went out recently after the oil spill for a night time negative low tide hunt, beaches were pretty sanded in unfortunately. I did encounter some tar blobs on the beach, but I always wear muck boots when hunting the wet sand anyway so I had no issues with oil on my feet. I was surprised to see a surfer out in the night time waters and also someone walking their dog on the shore.. So totals for the month were: 10k - 2.1 grams 14k - 15.7 grams 18k Dental Gold - 4.1 grams 925 - 3.65 oz Thanks for looking, GL & HH out there! 15 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoolofhardNox Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 Awesome finds. How often do you hunt per month to get this amount? Lucky that some areas eroded out and released their goods! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe D. Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 Great work Slim, Very much the opposite of your forum name!! And that ring is one of the most beautiful i have seen come off the beach!!?? Were all the stones intact?? I wish Fisher would get their s$$t together for the AQ production model, but in the meantime, you, JoeOBN, and a few others are at a nice advantage! But I'm not jealous;?? You guys are out there doing all the hard work!! Keep at it, as long as you can!!??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimpickuns Posted October 10, 2021 Author Share Posted October 10, 2021 12 hours ago, schoolofhardNox said: Awesome finds. How often do you hunt per month to get this amount? Lucky that some areas eroded out and released their goods! Thanks SchoolofhardNox, This last round of hunting in Sept was around 7 or 8 times If I remember correctly, which is usually what I've been averaging this year for hunts per month. All hunting this year has been in the wet sand, I just don't have the will to trudge on dry sand anymore... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimpickuns Posted October 10, 2021 Author Share Posted October 10, 2021 11 hours ago, Joe D. said: Great work Slim, Very much the opposite of your forum name!! And that ring is one of the most beautiful i have seen come off the beach!!?? Were all the stones intact?? I wish Fisher would get their s$$t together for the AQ production model, but in the meantime, you, JoeOBN, and a few others are at a nice advantage! But I'm not jealous;?? You guys are out there doing all the hard work!! Keep at it, as long as you can!!??? Thanks Joe D! Luckily all the stones are intact and present on the LeVian ring, the main stone is chocolate quartz, surrounded by white & chocolate diamonds, with 2 pink sapphires, one on each side of the ring. Yea it's been very quiet on the Fisher AQ production front...I put myself on their waiting list a few months ago for a 2nd Fisher AQ Ltd to have as back-up just in case but I haven't heard anything since..I'm not really interested in the final production model to be honest, only because I have no plans on going in the water or under it. Here in SoCal, the surf is just too crazy for this landluber to handle and ankle deep is as far as I go. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoolofhardNox Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 29 minutes ago, Slimpickuns said: Thanks SchoolofhardNox, This last round of hunting in Sept was around 7 or 8 times If I remember correctly, which is usually what I've been averaging this year for hunts per month. All hunting this year has been in the wet sand, I just don't have the will to trudge on dry sand anymore... That's some good hunting for only 7 or 8 hunts. You definitely have your system figured out well. Why worry about dry sand anyways, when you can be on solid ground getting solid gold ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamid Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 Very nice ??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimpickuns Posted October 11, 2021 Author Share Posted October 11, 2021 On 10/10/2021 at 11:37 AM, Hamid said: Very nice ??? Thanks Hamid! Have you been out hunting lately? Haven't seen you post finds in a long time.. What machine do you use these days? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dewcon4414 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Great average..... and that one ring is a killer you been crushing it. Got a couple of guys with AQ issues constantly. I know Fisher said they are making improvements but it doesnt seem reflected by the repairs in the limited..... and the down time not so good. Id like to have one of the production models..... but id have to see if these issues are resolved and repair times improved. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimpickuns Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share Posted October 13, 2021 Thanks Dewcon4414! Yea I think I might of gotten off easy as far as problems go with the AQ, When I first got mine about a year ago, the threshold nob wasn't working, I sent it back to Fisher and they replaced the threshold pot, took about a month before I got it back. Thankfully it has been working great ever since though.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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