Menu
What's new
Find's Treasure Forums

Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!

You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.

Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.

Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.

Click here to register!

Need Support Help?

Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you

Changed email? Forgot to update your account with new email address? Need assistance with something else?, click here to go to Find's Support Form and fill out the form.

Search results

  1. R

    Hunting old ghost towns

    I have been looking for other places to hunt, the beaches are good but sometimes I feel like hunting other places, tot lots and parks are good to, but still looking for other places. I googled florida ghost towns and found a site that seems to have a pretty good list of town that no longer exist...
  2. R

    Wet suit in warm water?

    Perhaps people with more water hunting experience can answer this question for me. I read in another post that they make you more buoyant, what are the other advantages? I have seen at least three other water hunters here in the warm water of the Gulf of Mexico wearing wetsuits, but I only...
  3. R

    Strange jewlery find help please

    A couple hours on the beach this morning turned up a half dozen coins and a set (yes a set) of earings near the surf line the marking on the back is "925 rse", I know 925 usually means silver but these are gold in color. Could rse mean gold plated silver? Ken
  4. R

    Surf way to rough today so just wet sands searching

    Just a few hours out at the local beach and I turned up 4 clad coins (2 dimes 2 pennies, 1 wheat ear) a small silver cross (looks like a charm from a bracelet) and a few lead fishing weights. The cross sits completely on top of a penny. Ken
  5. R

    Second ring with the Sand Shark!!

    Actually I found this a couple of days ago but didn't figure out it was silver until late last night. It was in 2 to 3 feet of water and several inches below the surface of the sand. It looked like it had been there for a long time, it was even starting to get sea sand / rocks stuck to it. When...
  6. R

    Do you save you junk scrap metal?

    I have a large bin in the back of my small suv that holds my junk metal finds, i know most metals are not really worth much, but does anyone save their bottle caps, pulls tabs etc, etc? I hate to just toss it in the trash and have it end up in a landfill somewhere. I figure I have steel...
  7. R

    Targets to small that fall through my scoop and shells that make it hard to see the targets that don't

    Now that I am a confirmed water hunting addict. I have a couple of questions. First targets that are to small and fall right through my scoop, the kellyco cheapo one. I know that some earings and make even chain and bracelets can fall through my scoop, I find a target, dig, check the hole, no...
  8. R

    Best way to hunt a large park

    Today I tried to hunt a large county park, very large. It has a tot lot that I have hit up before and found some coins and junk costume jewelry. Today I just walk around randomly swinging the detector, and found some clad coins, and old style pull tab cans. You know the kind that they haven't...
  9. R

    Yahoo!!! I found my first valuable ring!

    There was a loud YAHOO!! heard on Clearwater beach this morning. It was my first time at this beach, after a guy I ran into on Siesta Key beach told me about Clearwater beach. At first I was just dry sand detecting with my GTAX550 and not finding much just a couple of pennies and a few bottle...
  10. R

    Tumbling medium-What do you use

    On my way back from the beach yesterday I made it a point to stop at Harbor Freight and pick up a 3 pound single barrel tumbler. I tried it last night on some pennies I recovered. I loaded it up with about 100 pennies or so, some VERY encrusted, some not so bad but still in need of cleaning. I...
  11. R

    Just curious

    Just wondering if anyone has ever tried hunting old & abandoned airfields that have not been turned into neighborhoods? I found a couple of sites that list old and forgotten airfields. I was thinking that around where old hangers one stood might be an interest place to detect. Then again they...
  12. R

    A nice time (piece) at the beach this morning

    I spent about 3 hours dry sand hunting at a local beach this morning and found probably my most valuable single find so far, a working men's Bolova bracelet watch. It must have just been deposited there in the last couple of days. It was only maybe an inch below the surface of the sand. Plus I...
  13. R

    Got my feet wet!

    I went to a local beach today for a few hours this morning with the Sand Shark. Hunting in the water is VERY different from hunting on the land. But I got to start to get the feeling of the new detector. First thing I learned was that the closer you are to the surf line the more influence the...
  14. R

    Joining the water searching crowd

    I have been bitten by the pics of the stuff people find in the water, plus after fining a 925 silver necklace on the beach last week, it's a bit like drugs, once you have some you need more. So I just ordered a Tesoro Sand Shark from metaldetector.cc they offered free shipping in the USA so it...
  15. R

    Tesoro history and quality?

    I admit I am new (fairly to the hobby) but hearing the name tesoro, I didn't recognize it but I just went to their site and browsed through the history, they have been around for a while @ 1980, and they have lifetime warrantys on their products. So I am looking for my first PI detector to get...
  16. R

    Okay I am officially addicted to jewlry

    Now the question is, can a detector that is designed to work in and under water work as well on dry land and dry beach sand as a detector that is designed to work on dry ground only. I just went to the garrett site and looked at the Sea Hunter Mark II. And is it true as I have read that people...
  17. R

    So if all the settings are important

    Such as "tone", "ground elimination balance", 'sensitivity" and the other settings on an old Whites 4900 why do more detectors not have them? I went to the beach today for a couple of hours and played around with the 4900 and then realized that I had not read the instructions as thoroughly as I...
  18. R

    My new but slightly used detector

    I just bought a slightly used whites 4900 dl pro from a guy on craigslist. I looked at it, it looks like it was used about 6 times. It looks like new. It's got more knobs and settings than my garrett GTAX 550. I need to read the owners manual which came in the original box. I figure for $75 I...
  19. R

    Recovered item cleaning

    Ultrasonic versus a tumbler. Probably been covered here before but a quick search didn't yield the answer I was looking for. So lets say that I have coins (probably mostly clad, some I can't tell that is how bad they are) and a couple of pieces of jewelry that need to be cleaned up. They seem to...
  20. R

    Today's finds!! Italian silver (925)!!

    A load yahoo was heard on the beach this morning! So that is two silver finds in two weeks! The silver today was a chain and pendent with a image of one of the Popes. And then a Brazilian dollar coin. And then 61 cents in pocket change (1 quarter,2 dimes,1 nickel and 11 pennies) Pretty good haul...
Top