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Wrapped Gifts on the Beach

LawrencetheMDer

Active member
Like ALL metal detectorists, I like finding gold. But I also like finding wrapped gifts while hunting the beach. Let me explain; once in a while I detect an unrecognizable clump of iron-rust that I’ll refer to as a “wrapped gift”. Usually, the gift is very heavy and concealed or “wrapped”. Apparently, these gifts overwhelm my ferrous filters on my Manticore & Equinox 800 detectors. What is inside of my wrapped-in-rust gifts?

There are various ways to unwrap such gifts including the use of electrolysis, acids (e.g., vinegar) or brute force.

Below is a key lock “unwrapped” from one of my beach gifts. I took a hammer and placed the wrapped gift on a cement driveway and smacked it a few times to unwrap the rust. [I have never found anything of value unwrapping a gift]. But wait, there’s more:

Below is a picture of 2 still-wrapped gifts, just presented to me by Machine gun beach during a recent hunt. Both were about 8” down and came in the high 90s range on the Manticore, if I recall correctly. I didn’t measure them but you can get an idea of size based on the size of the standard hammer head.

What’s inside?

I surgically removed the rust with loving smacks. The top gift is a battery terminal. The bottom gift is the remains of a spark plug (type unknown). Cool.

This is how slow it has been on the west coast of Florida.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Happy Hunting

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