6 hours on the beach..........NUTS

[John 'n' W.Va]

I was on the beach at 6:30 am. I left at 12:30 pm.

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Two pirates went north, so I went south. The north beach looked very flat.

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I was in t-shirt and sandals and the water was 65 deg.F.
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An hour of MDing I found 3 big sets of holes on the beach. They offer a good opportunity to find some treasure. They were 4 to 5 ft. deep and very large. Couldn't do anything about it. I can get by with a few inches of water. The ace doesn't do well in fast moving salt water. There is a lot of falsing. I just didn't have the equipment to get down to the treasure. A pirate was heading my way and I told him about the holes. He was an older gentleman with pretty white tennis shoes and didn't want to get them wet. Why would someone own a Garrett Sea Hunter and not go in the water?

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I had a good situation to find some treasure. I see my limitations and I think I will forgo beach MDing till the tourist arrive. There is lots of treasure in the dry summer sand. Summer treasure comes from tourist. Winter treasure comes from the sea. The winter beach is for the hardy, both detector and man. I pushed my detector to its limits.
Most of my finds were in the water. The fork is stainless steel. The ace is sensitive. I got a couple of hair pins.
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Salt water tips on Daytona Beach for the Ace:

senastivity..4-3
use all metal mode
PP is very vague,detune pp works good
Fast moving water makes it false..sen. 1...no good cure
swing level
You can hear and learn a false hit from a good hit
You can notch out below penny and eliminate most falsing and all gold
Pennies 4" and quarters at 6" in wet sand
Stay in the dry sand and you can beat them all(well, it seems like it)

 

[Uncle Willy]

I'll say this - you are determined. Looked like fun.

Bill

 

[DavHut]

Nicely done, John! Thanks so much for the great details. I like oyour comment: "Summer treasure comes from tourists, Winter treasure from the sea."
Why would someone have a PI Sea Hunter and avoid the water?
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Too much work, too casual an approach.

 

[John-Edmonton]

That brown looking specimen, top right looks like coprolite (you look it up) Nice batch of loot you got. Too bad that the spoon is s-steel. It would make an awesome looking ring. I imagine, while I am typing this reply, you are sawing logs
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[John 'n' W.Va]

I checked all the nasty stuff when I got home. It is magnetic, so is that round ball next to the fork. It is a metal pin stuck in wood. Coprolite is mainly calcium phosphate.
When you wrote your post I was in church. Ha,Ha.
I get up most mornings on the week ends around 6 am. I have things to do.

 

[DavHut]

thats what we need, a copro-tector.

 

[John-Edmonton]

I don't know about anyone else, but I have on occasion melted my shoes into a pile of dog-dodo. Not the most pleasant experience either. I always end up leaving those shoes outside over night for the next couple of hunts until it finally gets removed.

 

[DavHut]

I assume you mean you inadvertently meandered into a canine yard-mine, John. In that case, they stay outside indeed!

 

[awhitster]

n/t

 

[Oak]

Oak -- sweet home Alabama

 

[draaiorgel]

Well done John,
Thanks for the tips.
If I had a water MD I'd be in that water in a flash especially with your kind of weather.
Reckon that guy just burnt some money, I suppose easy come easy go.

Ian & Eileen

 

[Uncle Willy]

Hose them down.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Or right next to the pile of doo doo as a gift to the homeless.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

6 AM is the middle of the night.

Bill