7 Day Beach Hunt

[F350Platinum]

It's been a while, I also need to do a wrap up of relic season, but I went to Myrtle Beach for a week. I was hoping to score some high end stuff, but I was in the Southern campground district instead of the hotel strip. Spring break had just ended two days before we got there.

The campground is enormous, more than 800 campsites and about 2,000 lease/rental houses. It also has about a mile of beach, and there are two more large campgrounds heading north as well as a couple large condo buildings.

Each morning and most afternoons I got to hunt the beach at low tide, the tide is about 5 feet so it goes way out.

There were 4 sections, High dry, trough as seen above, mid dry, and wet. The top 3 were all random finds, in the wet you could zigzag for a short time to the surf, and soon you would find a line of good finds. The best stuff was probably in the surf trough but I didn't go in the water, especially after seeing a kid running down the beach with a 3 foot shark in his hands to show his parents. 😀 Tried to get a good shot but all I got was this:

I know, what shark? 🤔

You can see the hotel district in the background, never made it there, it was about 4 miles up the beach.

Overall it was kinda disappointing, but still fun and I lost over 5 pounds over the week. I met other detectorists who were complaining instead of lying about the dearth of finds, I kinda had to laugh.

I was using the Deus 2 with the 13" coil and a modified Beach Sensitive program done sort of like my Relic Reaper program. No disc, no notch, ears for discrimination. I knew from reading others' posts that there would be all kinds of crazy IDs and sometimes no ID, but I dug everything that sounded good. Thing was everything was deep for the most part. I got so I'd scoop at least 5 times not only to beat fill-in, but to get to the find which was usually in the 4th or 5th scoop, anywhere from 8-12" deep.

Because using square full tones and turning on a find identifies almost all iron, I had no problem skipping it but dug some randomly either because it was close to the surface and dangerous, or just to check. I did find that low tones with IDs of 5 to 15 were usually bling jewelry. I also blessed the 'no beach tents' signs which kept stakes to a minimum. It was the only thing you couldn't legally do on the beach 🤣

Here's my Day 1 trash getting used to the place:

Glad I got rid of that surface trap iron!

This is my last days' trash showing that I got better but still watched for surface iron:

Ok. Now for the finds:

Crap finds

Bling finds

A small handful of junk jewelry including a tungsten ring, a stainless spinner, 3 earrings, a tiny ankle bracelet chain, and some earring parts. The best one is below, .925 with a big CZ.

Big finds:

A huge monster truck Hummer that was 2 feet down, a small toy car, sunglasses. An iPhone 13 and case that was about 6" under the surf and vertical, it would have been 6 feet under water at high tide so it is dead. A huge bling buckle found close to the surf about a foot down, I think it took 8 scoops to get it. It has rhinestones or CZs and is some kind of plated zinc.

https://www.buckle.com/blazin-roxx-glitz-belt-buckle/prd-5491537906

Coins:

99 coins, oldest was probably 70s.

The place was huge and so nice that we booked it again next year before leaving, my wife loves the local shopping and restaurants. Shame I couldn't get her a gold or silver ring.

A few more gratuitous photos of the place:

Cool spider crab

 

[Skate]

I need another picture of the shark.......

[King-Of-Bling]

Great write up and pics. I'm sure you still had a great time regardless of the hunting. Looks very sanded in and spongy. But my guess is you will try the hotel area next time. Of course the 1st thing I looked at was the gal wearing the watch. Didn't notice a ring though. Lol

[F350Platinum]

9 minutes ago, King-Of-Bling said:

Great write up and pics. I'm sure you still had a great time regardless of the hunting. Looks very sanded in and spongy. But my guess is you will try the hotel area next time. Of course the 1st thing I looked at was the gal wearing the watch. Didn't notice a ring though. Lol

Thanks KOB!

Talked to a detectorist who went up to the hotel strip, he said people were detecting all over, it cost $30 to park, and because of the time of year it was dangerous to be out there, few tourists and little security. He found some bling, but no gold.

The beach was replenished within the last couple years, so the deeper green coins were a clue.

Where I was you had to go in the water for the really good stuff. There was a trough out there that should have had some great finds. Maybe I'll try it next year.

[dogodog]

Are you sure those pull tabs aren't silver? That AAA battery and the blue pull tab are especially nice!!! What did that plastic barrette ring up as on the D2? 🤣😂🤣😂 Glad you got away and dodged my aluminum curse HaHa. Oh and just for reference was the crab a low conductor or a high?  Remember finding is fun, Not sucks. Great post as usual my friend!!!!!!!!!

[F350Platinum]

3 minutes ago, dogodog said:

Are you sure those pull tabs aren't silver? That AAA battery and the blue pull tab are especially nice!!! What did that plastic barrette ring up as on the D2? 🤣😂🤣😂 Glad you got away and dodged my aluminum curse HaHa. Oh and just for reference was the crab a low conductor or a high?  Remember finding is fun, Not sucks. Great post as usual my friend!!!!!!!!!

Thanks man,

Haha, think I told ya that right after the rain the pull tabs were ID'ing in the 80s. 🤬 They might as well be silver!

The crab was almost low conducting panini toast as I almost stepped on it after poking it with the coil 🤣 thankfully it moved.

I had a total blast, talking to people and making sure the other detectorists kept complaining. Every evening a couple of old guys came out swinging their detectors 6" above the dry, and I still hit a coin spill with about 8 coins of every denomination.

What I was thrilled about was the D2 hit that thin tiny chain with a solid signal, a low conductor.

I'd have used the barrette on Sammy if he was a female, Maltese dogs have to deal with that all the time. 🤣

[palzynski]

Beautiful pictures as usual ... Thanks F350 ...

[schoolofhardNox]

Sounds like it was a nice week of fun in the sun. You got a lot of clad, so if there was a ring to be found, you would have found it. Don't forget to check that '72 cent for double die. Sharks are my favorite 🙂

[F350Platinum]

39 minutes ago, schoolofhardNox said:

Sounds like it was a nice week of fun in the sun. You got a lot of clad, so if there was a ring to be found, you would have found it. Don't forget to check that '72 cent for double die. Sharks are my favorite 🙂

Thanks, the kid was running so it was hard to get the cell phone trained on him 😏

Finding the small jewelry fairly deep told me if there was a gold ring it would have shown up unless it was very thin. I thought of you digging deep a few times while I was scooping those holes. 😀

Yikes, tossed all the change into my clad jar, I'll try to dig it out and take a look. 🤪

[geof_junk]

5 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Thanks, the kid was running so it was hard to get the cell phone trained on him 😏

Finding the small jewelry fairly deep told me if there was a gold ring it would have shown up unless it was very thin. I thought of you digging deep a few times while I was scooping those holes. 😀

Yikes, tossed all the change into my clad jar, I'll try to dig it out and take a look. 🤪

I see you manage to focus OK on the person behind the kid. 😉