6 Days At The Beach, Meh

[F350Platinum]

This year's Emerald Isle Beach trip is behind me, it's a place we go for my wife's birthday week, (😀) and she doesn't mind me going out early in the morning and some evenings. I get up at 6, hop on the trusty golf cart, and go.

I condensed this all to one post because quite honestly it wasn't a spectacular week despite finding a ring for a woman, and getting out as much as I did. By 10am the beach was packed, and I found I was pretty much the only detectorist on the beach every day, but don't know if anyone was nighthawking. I checked the beach cameras but didn't see anyone. After the nice woman posted my ring find on Facebook they started showing up. 🤔

What I was impressed with is how my Deus 2 performed, I dug many coins at around a foot deep, and even buried my own gold ring about 8-10" in the wet sand and got a solid 64 both ways as a test.

I've been tweaking a program I'll call "The Hoover" which seems to do very well at this beach and a couple others I've been hunting, but sadly I didn't find any gold that I know of. The best part of the program is the verifiable ability to skip most junk, I've had a finds to trash ratio of over 50% every time I go out. Iron is always iron, and aluminum is a touch trickier but once the sound of it becomes familiar, you can dig it all and see for yourself. 🙂

My friends call it the "Matchbox Slayer", and you'll see why 🤣

In 6 days this is what I got for non coin finds:

An assortment of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, a pair of cheap but whole sunglasses, a very cool "Pill Fob" made of stainless steel, a working Casio watch, two lighters, and some small jewelry bits. The chain may be gold but the "E" pendant which probably was why I found it is plated. No hallmarks.

Next are the coin finds:

138 coins, $13.68 in change. The darker coins are many of which I found at nearly a foot deep.

The trip was not without something decent, my wife took a bracelet and a pair of silver earrings. 😀

".925 IBB TH" Hallmark, Thailand silver, International Bullion Board.

Here are the settings I was using all week:

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"The Hoover"

Based on Beach Sensitive

Options menu:

Audio 9

Audio filter 5

Audio type high square

Display profile xy, I use this to push the ID and Ground readings to the corners which keeps the glare from hiding the numbers. Sometimes the graph is useful too.

Fe tid on

 

Menu:

Disc 10

Full tones

offset ft 0

Bottle Caps 5

Notch off

Silencer 0

Sensitivity 95

Salt Sense 3

Freq Max 40

Iron volume 6

Reactivity 1

Audio response 3

Ground Balance menu:

Tracking GB on

Magnetic reject

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Never really had to change much, and it worked well in the water too. If you try it PM me with questions, comments, and abuse 🤣 I promise you'll find lots of Toy cars, they are going to be in the 90s.

[ColonelDan]

I wouldn’t hesitate in saying that you had a very successful 6 days.  I can guess each day was many hours in length.  
I can see dedication oozing from you on that trip. 
 

Good job😊

[F350Platinum]

29 minutes ago, ColonelDan said:

I wouldn’t hesitate in saying that you had a very successful 6 days.  I can guess each day was many hours in length.  
I can see dedication oozing from you on that trip. 
 

Good job😊

Thanks Colonel,

I told a Marine on the beach yesterday who was interested in detecting and the Deus that it takes a bit of autism to be so persistent. He admired my thoroughness and told me a great story about EOD showing up when he was in Kuwait. 😀 I said it would be great for his health.

Most days it hit 92 and around 80% humidity, thankfully there is a beach bar on top of the dunes that sells Gatorade. Had to stop in a few times but the climb was difficult. 😀

[CPT_GhostLight]

Beautiful beach and a great haul for the week, well done! You got silver, quite a bit of jewelry, tons of coins, a caravan of matchbox cars, recovered a lost ring, and stayed on a gorgeous beach, I'd say that a winner of a week! Congrats! 😎

[F350Platinum]

1 hour ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Beautiful beach and a great haul for the week, well done! You got silver, quite a bit of jewelry, tons of coins, a caravan of matchbox cars, recovered a lost ring, and stayed on a gorgeous beach, I'd say that a winner of a week! Congrats! 😎

Thanks Cap'n,

It is a nice beach, they replenished it a couple years ago with a white powdery sand that sticks to everything 😀

Hitting stuff buried under the new sand is fun, showed me I'm doing ok, but I would like to have given my wife a nice gold gift. She doesn't play with toy cars anymore. 😁

Despite my ring test, there just weren't any rings that I could find, going in the surf was brutal, the waves were short interval and 3-6'. Not for this geezer!

[Valens Legacy]

Nice hunting and you had a few nice presents for your wife.

I am sure that you went to the beach bar and only had Gatorade, and that is not a pill bottle you found. They make those for another white powder.

Good luck on your next outing and stay safe out in this heat.

With all the cars and trucks that you dig up you will soon be able to open a used car lot on your tailgate.

[TampaBayBrad]

1 hour ago, Valens Legacy said:

and that is not a pill bottle you found. They make those for another white powder.

Or a loved one's ashes.

[TampaBayBrad]

Nice job F350 for working the dry. Too bad the surf wouldn't calm down for you. That's where you may have gotten the wife's gift!

Good looking beach territory. Surprised you didn't get more bling. We have the soft powder sand down here too. Easy to dig in but when it collects on your coil, you can feel the extra weight.

[F350Platinum]

5 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Nice hunting and you had a few nice presents for your wife.

I am sure that you went to the beach bar and only had Gatorade, and that is not a pill bottle you found. They make those for another white powder.

Good luck on your next outing and stay safe out in this heat.

With all the cars and trucks that you dig up you will soon be able to open a used car lot on your tailgate.

Thanks VL,

The Fob had 3 little pills in it, I will cop to trying to identify them. 🤣 The numbers were obliterated but they were so small they were probably nitroglycerin or some other heart medicine. I plan to use it for the same.

I carry a pretty good amount of water with me on the beach, at least 2 bottles. Learned to do that on my tour of  Turkey in the 90s. It was in the 90s and about 80% humidity. Got dizzy the first day and had to down 2 bottles of Gatorade to make it back to my golf cart. 😵 The next time wasn't so bad, only one. They charge a premium for that stuff! 🥴

No worries, while I was there I ordered a new 32 ounce water bottle for my gear from my favorite manufacturer, it supposedly will keep water cool for 24 hours:

🤣 It even has a screwed on dog water bowl.

[F350Platinum]

3 hours ago, TampaBayBrad said:

Nice job F350 for working the dry. Too bad the surf wouldn't calm down for you. That's where you may have gotten the wife's gift!

Good looking beach territory. Surprised you didn't get more bling. We have the soft powder sand down here too. Easy to dig in but when it collects on your coil, you can feel the extra weight.

Thanks TBB,

I did gear up and attempt a surf run once. Most days the flags were red or yellow/red indicating rip risk. The beach faces South and with a good summer onshore wind the waves are really short interval. I really should have used the 9" coil but was too lazy to go through installing it. 😀 The 13" is simply crazy to use. 🤪

Isn't that sand basically pulverized coral?