Beautiful weather and wonderful water conditions! Wife now says she wants to move to Panama City Beach. It is certainly now high on the list of potential retirement locations!
With the water so clear, I learned a couple of things:
-Tabs go through the 5/8 inch holes in the RTG travel scoop that I have, even though dimes do not. I could watch it happen and then see the tab flutter to the bottom for more careful recovery to keep it in the scoop.
-All the targets I lost around the sides of the scoop opening as water washed over during the lift were light weight, either foil or tabs and a very few of the bottle caps. Now when I am losing targets in murky waters, I won't be as concerned that I am dropping heavy targets like gold.
As I have experienced in other trips to Florida, there was not a lot of iron stuff in the water; a few hair pins, but not like more northern east coast beaches I've hunted. I packed the HH Pulse and used it for nearly all of the hunting. I only pulled up 4 fish hooks during the trip, and not a lot of other iron (other than bottle caps, but I dig those too, even when using the CZ or Excal).
Totals:
119 tabs
187 bottle caps, all beer or hard cider for the readable ones (and all the beaches are posted no glass and no alcohol, go figure, lol).
61 pennies
18 dimes
15 nickles
24 quarters
very little jewelry. The three rings are: plated copper, tungsten and cobalt chrome.
I am afraid that the tungsten and cobalt chrome are on the increase, not only for cost reasons, but for style reasons too. Checking out of the facility, a young lady at the desk asked how I did detecting and when I mentioned a cheap tungsten ring, she said that her husband had an expensive tungsten ring and she loved the designs that are available that you can't get in gold. Asked what she considered expensive for the ring, she said $200. All I could say was that I bet her husband has a very nice ring.
At the airport my wife spotted a young man with a wedding band on with the same carbon fiber inset that the tungsten ring I found in the water has. Looks like a styling trend that I hope goes the way of the leisure suit!
Cheers,
tvr
With the water so clear, I learned a couple of things:
-Tabs go through the 5/8 inch holes in the RTG travel scoop that I have, even though dimes do not. I could watch it happen and then see the tab flutter to the bottom for more careful recovery to keep it in the scoop.
-All the targets I lost around the sides of the scoop opening as water washed over during the lift were light weight, either foil or tabs and a very few of the bottle caps. Now when I am losing targets in murky waters, I won't be as concerned that I am dropping heavy targets like gold.
As I have experienced in other trips to Florida, there was not a lot of iron stuff in the water; a few hair pins, but not like more northern east coast beaches I've hunted. I packed the HH Pulse and used it for nearly all of the hunting. I only pulled up 4 fish hooks during the trip, and not a lot of other iron (other than bottle caps, but I dig those too, even when using the CZ or Excal).
Totals:
119 tabs
187 bottle caps, all beer or hard cider for the readable ones (and all the beaches are posted no glass and no alcohol, go figure, lol).
61 pennies
18 dimes
15 nickles
24 quarters
very little jewelry. The three rings are: plated copper, tungsten and cobalt chrome.
I am afraid that the tungsten and cobalt chrome are on the increase, not only for cost reasons, but for style reasons too. Checking out of the facility, a young lady at the desk asked how I did detecting and when I mentioned a cheap tungsten ring, she said that her husband had an expensive tungsten ring and she loved the designs that are available that you can't get in gold. Asked what she considered expensive for the ring, she said $200. All I could say was that I bet her husband has a very nice ring.
At the airport my wife spotted a young man with a wedding band on with the same carbon fiber inset that the tungsten ring I found in the water has. Looks like a styling trend that I hope goes the way of the leisure suit!
Cheers,
tvr
..well, you had a good time and found some stuff...thats a nice looking little knife there!
40$ is Awesome! 
I dont want to cash in my silver or gold just yet, and its getting tough to find enough clad to support this addiction...I'd take 40 bucks all day long for those tungstens, cobalts, titaniums, stainless, lustriums, etc...why, a fellow could get excited about hunting for them at that price!