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Edge & 5.75 coil went wading

J

Jackpine Savage

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at the local beach just after dawn today. The beach is right next to a river inlet that has had at 3 or 4 different bridges built over it in the last 120 years. Also, it was the site of ice houses for storing ice into the summer months and I don't know what all else. Anyway, the shallows are full of iron of all sizes and types. Its not unusual to scoop a target and get 2-3 rusty nails in the scoop or a large rusty mass of whatever. Previously I have hit this beach with the ML Advantage and TS800 coil getting copper pennies even a couple IH's. This AM the Edge equipped with the small coil strutted its stuff! :)

<p><center>Junk ring, 1891-S Seated Dime, 1937 Buff and no date IH along with the rest of the finds.
 
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Magnetic rake for ferrous targets in the water? I was going to do that for a couple lakes up in Michigan, but never got the chance. I might do it still, for some of the lakes, or local swimming holes here in OK.
 
Hi Allen,

How are things going back in OK? Thoe boys must be getting big by now.

I think I would start by first digging all the overload signals. Its not as bad as the CZ's but the small coil does overload more than the stock coil it seems anyway. It will haveto wait until this fall before I do anything major, don't want to tear up the swimmin hole too much just before the season starts! Dang zebra mussels are starting to take over the area and its getting kinda nasty for wading. Will wait and see how much actual swmming gets done there this year.

Tom
 
They're 4 right now. My daughter is getting to big to pick up. She'll be 3 this August.

You definitely want to clear the big targets first, as well as learn where all the big magnetic targets that can't be moved are. One beach I used to hunt had steel posts driven down into the lake bottom, that originally supported a roller-coaster. And, of course, the tire rims that are used to anchor buoys. You don't want to get the "rake" stuck on a target that can't be moved, and that you can't get it off of.

HH from Allen in OK
 
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