a Few Tips

[cjc]

Look for the physical center of a site. As well, try to determine the center of the activity that takes place there and where the most heavily traveled routes are.
2.Look for those areas of a site where people transition as they get ready to go. That can involve changing from beachwear to street clothes, sports gear to street clothes, or just from wet swimwear to dry clothes.
3.Examine your sites in terms of the mechanisms wherby jewelry could be lost. Look for the rough going, obstacles on trails and fall hazards.
4.Where you have an area that has produced jewelry finds in the past, work it using a variety of methods and detectors. This is especially true where you have changing grades and moisture levels.
5.Where possible, work in all metal mode. To improve your accuracy, learn to confirm your targets in all-metal to save needless digging. Recognising narrow, round non-ferrous indications is the most important skill you can have with any detector.
6.Learn as much as you can about the grade and strata of any beach sites you hunt. Be alert for changes–especially in the busy sections.
7.Never underestimate the importance of good, old-fashioned coverage. When a site has produced before or shows good potential, do the job of hunting it whether you are discouraged or not.
8.Learn to use as many detectors as you can–each will teach you about the others.
9.If you hunt shoreline sites, buy a pulse. At worst, it will help to develop your patience and learn more about the skill of sizing and shaping of responses in all metal mode.
10.Never miss a chance to read or hear about exactly how a big find was made.
cjc
clivesgoldpage.com.

 

[Jim Robertson]

Lot's of great points. I have also learn to SLOW down while hunting. It is import to cover a lot of ground but it is more import to cover it well. Thank again CJC

 

[tvr]

cjc,
Always good to have reminders. I keep going back to a couple of your books. I have beaches that I visit once or twice a year and find them easy to read on some visits and on other visits I can't seem to read them well at all. Wife has gotten very interested in digging to the hard shell layer, above the high tide water line, and recovering dozens of unbroken shells. Since we started setting her up first, I've found more success detecting where her hard shell line hit only a foot or two down. If we are digging three or more feet down for her shell line, we both do better moving up or down the beach until we find a shallow shell layer.
Cheers,
tvr

 

[cjc]

wish i'd learned to stay off the overburden sooner. i'ts the lowest most solid part of the entire beach that will produce the gold consistently. Find the marl and the gold will be there. had a six gfoot strip two years ago that went for about a hundred yards, it produced 4 1/2 ozs on four weeks.
cjc
clivesgoldpage.com

 

[cjc]

That's very true, Jim. With this gully my pattern was about five steps and back. When you are on good low ground the material is dense with a lot of black sand. Slow is the way to go.
cjc

 

[dewcon4414]

Wise man once said...... you dont know what you dont know. We know its about getting your coil over the gold........ but recognizing it is the key no matter what detector you use. IF someone would produce a PI that operated like an Xcal in PP with disc mode to check targets.......... buddy id be all over it. To me ...... its about recognizing iron.......thats LEAVERIGHTS to me, everything else i check. I check that overburden edge just where it meets the hard pan carefully....... it tends to push those small gold targets in there.... right along with the bobbie pens lol. Just curious Clive....... what do you do with all those beauties you find? You get some seriously nice tickets.

Dew

 

[cjc]

I put them on the carpet and roll in them like a dog.
no, actually there in a safety box. my y2k.
cjc

 

[dewcon4414]

I need you to adopt me and put me in your will lol. Id have to be a lot smaller dog than you to roll in mine........so maybe ill just pull um out and sniff um. Congrats on all that gold.

Dew

 

[acemagurgle]

Thanks Clive for the refreshers , they've helped me tremendously here in Southern California , the beaches here have had stormy high surf and have created great conditions for us beach hunters