Popular Post mn90403 Posted February 3, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted February 3, 2019 Late this afternoon after the rain had stopped and the tide was coming in I was able to get out for a 2 hour hunt on the beach. We've had a storm but the wave effect was not as great as it could have been. When I started detecting I noticed some dig holes both old and new. I found a few quarters missed by those and I jumped over to a beach I know well. It had very few targets. Too bad because when things are right I've found some nice rings there. I went back to where I had found the quarters and started gridding getting a few of the pennies and a couple of the micro-jewelry pieces. Some of them were difficult to pinpoint and they went through my wire scoop and they were hard to see with my old eyes. (I still have really good long range but reading ...) On one of the targets I had to get down on my knees and find the target. I thought it looked like a little pearl stud. It was very small against the sand and all the trash from the rains. When I got home and looked at it with a couple of reading glasses it says .925 silver and it only weighs .15g! I think that is the smallest piece of silver I've ever found. That piece and a couple of other targets today made me learn a better pinpointing method. I now back my coil below the target until I can't hear it. I then move it up until I can hear the fringe sounds (this is the 11 inch coil). When I hear it I believe it to be at the edge of the round of the coil at 12 o'clock. If it doesn't lock on the target then I go at a 90 degree angle and try it again. It has greatly reduced my 'random' scooping I was doing when the target was in the center of the coil. I gridded this little unworked area a bit longer and then I had to strike out for more know beaches. I was thinking about the other thread on how to know a ring from trash when I got a different sound. It was not a coin sound or at least a normal coin sounding target. I dug it and indeed it was different. It was a clue! (Please guess at what my 'clue' was. It is in the picture.) This made me circle near that target. If that was there then ?? Sure enough I got a 15 (beach 1, 22) and I had HOPE! I dug down a couple of scoops and then the signal started jumping a bit. This seems to happen to me often when there is black sand and I'm within 30 feet of the water. Water did not fill the hole but I had to widen it to get down to 8 inches and get the target out. I saw the edge ... YES ... hope answered. A few people are around taking pictures so I carefully put it in my pouch. (When I got this one home it says .585 and it weighs 7.2 grams!) Of course I circled and gridded without any other targets. It wasn't a 'patch.' Darn. My reason for heading this direction on the beach was because the waves were focused ahead of me because of the wind. I wanted to get to the spot on the beach with the most energy but that would be a mile or so up the beach. There was not enough time so I circled back in the direction of the ring find and I stayed on the same 'line' until I decided to dig yet another penny. It was in the water's edge and down about 10 inches and instead of a penny it was my second ring of the day. It is a fun find but not of value. It was corroded before I removed it with vinegar. That was pretty much the hunt. I'm very impressed the Equinox 800 could find such small silver on a wet salt beach but hey, it finds tiny lead pellets all over the desert too! Mitchel 13 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinmon Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Nice!!! My guess before I saw the pic was that the “clue” was a key but I don’t see one. Maybe that larger oblong flat silver thing next to the bobby pin is part of a key? That’s my guess! ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted February 3, 2019 Author Share Posted February 3, 2019 2 minutes ago, jinmon said: Nice!!! My guess before I saw the pic was that the “clue” was a key but I don’t see one. Maybe that larger oblong flat silver thing next to the bobby pin is part of a key? That’s my guess! ? Your guess is the end of a key. It is the part that goes into the tumblers. The clue is still available for guessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampstomper Al Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 2 hours ago, mn90403 said: ...(Please guess at what my 'clue' was. It is in the picture.)... Mitchel The clue is the silver, 1 up 1 left from the .585.. Swamp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Gillespie Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Awesome beach finds. The Equinox is truly a great multi purpose detector. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdahoPeg Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 What a productive 2 hours! It would take 2-3 days or more to find that much stuff on our beaches! However, I do have quite a collection of lead fishing weights lol. Too new at beach detecting to figure out your clue though? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted February 3, 2019 Author Share Posted February 3, 2019 7 hours ago, Swampstomper Al said: The clue is the silver, 1 up 1 left from the .585.. Swamp Swamp, That 'silver' is a Canadian quarter. That is one of those coins that goes from negative numbers all the way to 25+ and never seems to settle down. They stick to magnets and they rust. I found this coin after the gold ring. Let me see if there is another 'guess' before I tell you my thinking which I see now would be easier if I showed the objects in the 'order' that I found them. Mitchel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted February 3, 2019 Author Share Posted February 3, 2019 I just woke up and now I'm seeing this post and it is obvious I didn't give enough clues for someone to pick my 'clue at the time of hunting' plus I took this photo with my phone and you can't enlarge the picture as a better picture should be able to do. At the time of the hunt there was really very little buried trash. There was surface runoff from the rains type of trash but you could see and avoid that. I'd been hunting for well over an hour with mostly the coins to show for it. Targets were relatively few for this storm I thought and when I was moving to a more 'open' area I found the clue (to me anyway). It is the squarish piece with the little hole in it. Huh? Here's my thinking. I'm finding ordinary targets for me. A few coins, a bobby pin or two, some nickels, the micro jewelry and then I get this signal. I have to dig it a bit deeper than the other stuff. When I see it it is an 'odd' shape and it has a bit of mass. It was mostly a positive number but it jumps because of the shape and edges. I really did say to myself gold could be near. (This is the hope part if you look at the trash vs ring thread.) So, my 'clue' slows down my feet and is a bit of a game with myself that once in a while pays off by keeping my head in the detecting game (concentration) for a few more moments before it wanders off! (I think Steve said something about having a head full of cats at times about his internal 'signal to noise' ratio.) What if my clue didn't result in a nice gold ring? I'd just have a bit more trash and another hope dashed but still had fun. Similar clues have resulted in large patches of good items for me but most of the time that is a after thought rather than a present thought. The short version of this hunt as my friend Fred would say is "You got lucky!' True. Mitchel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredmason Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 You are doing very well, Mitchel. The more you do it the better you get- so, luck is important but no longer the whole story! fred 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinclair Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Nice Ring!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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