etrac on beach

[Charles (Upstate NY)]

We used to have a guy that came to our metal detector club meetings with all kinds of unbelievable finds to enter into the find of the month categories. No one ever believed his stories. No one is that lucky. You showed that pic in a thread from 2015 yet you claim this was as recent as last fall? http://www.findmall.com/read.php?19,2238992 And here they are again from a thread in 2014http://www.findmall.com/read.php?19,2068880 And here are the same pictures on another thread at a different site from 2013http://www.tractorbynet.com/member-of-the-month/member-of-the-month-deathtoblackberries/. And you claim you live in Washington state.

Yes I am that lucky, haters gonna hate I guess. It was Joe Demarco and I who dug the 40 8 reales from one hole OH SNAP there goes your theory on that. I never claimed I dug anything last fall, apparently you can't read and comprehend. I haven't hunted in 4 plus years I'm 3,000 miles from the NJ beaches I moved back home to WA state several years ago. You may now apologize. ;-)

 

[Charles (Upstate NY)]

All this talk of one guy missing it and the following one finding it .......a bit of cods wallop in reality, don't you think?

Nope, here's my most embarrassing story proving it. At the time I had maybe 2 years beach hunting under my belt, plus 9 digging in the dirt with Explorers. I met up with the NJ Legend to hunt a beach in south Jersey. I was using my dirt method of gridding an area, dragging my scoop behind me, up and down the beach slope, covering every foot of that beach. Meanwhile the NJ Legend headed south to the other side of the rock jetty, meandering, zig zagging, doing his thing. He came back to my side of the jetty a while later, I had gridded maybe 3/4 of that beach. He came around the end of the jetty, zig zagging in my direction and stopped dead in his tracks and motioned me over. He said, sweep your coil there...I looked down he was pin pointed right on top of one of my scoop drag marks. OMG it was a giant WHONNNNG platinum ring tone, he dug it and yep a big fat platinum wedding band. Anyone can miss a target, its surprisingly easy with an Explorer if I'm not overlapping my swings the way I had it setup. He was using a Sovereign setup so that it would pick up targets several inches beyond the coil, he wasn't detecting as deep as I was, but his coil was covering more surface area per swing. That ring just happened to be on my scoop drag mark, at the end of my swing so I obvious swung, stepped, swung again and missed that ring perfectly. How he happened to put his coil on that one spot...well that's why they call him the legend lol.

 

[Charles (Upstate NY)]

Guys listen, when I started detecting few people would share any knowledge, they didn't want some new guy digging 'their' stuff. Which made it pretty difficult on the new guys like me. The owner of Findmall took pity on me and emailed me a few tips on using the Explorer and that changed everything. Ever since then I have freely shared my knowledge of the machine, settings, and field observations. Years ago I published a series of advanced articles on the Explorer, people told me it transformed how they were using the machine, their finds shot up, they were happy. That's all I'm doing here, posting observations from the field. Its up to you, use it, doubt it, ignore it. Good luck out there!

 

[tiftaaft]

I haven't hunted in 4 plus years I'm 3,000 miles from the NJ beaches I moved back home to WA state several years ago.

I live in Washington State as well Charles... planning on trying my luck this spring/summer on the coastline... have you done any hunted on the "left" coast, or did you stop before you moved back to Washington? I am interested in your comments about targeting the gold signals (or discriminating the non-gold signals as the case may be). It is all about perspective.. .right? I mean, guys have no problem discriminating out gold id's in exchange for zinc and clad (and a possible silver)... bending my mind around to the opposite seems easy to say, but actually hunting that way will take some work. I for one am interested in any pointers you may have, your success has obviously proven out!
Tim.

 

[Charles (Upstate NY)]

I haven't hunted in 4 plus years I'm 3,000 miles from the NJ beaches I moved back home to WA state several years ago.

I live in Washington State as well Charles... planning on trying my luck this spring/summer on the coastline... have you done any hunted on the "left" coast, or did you stop before you moved back to Washington? I am interested in your comments about targeting the gold signals (or discriminating the non-gold signals as the case may be). It is all about perspective.. .right? I mean, guys have no problem discriminating out gold id's in exchange for zinc and clad (and a possible silver)... bending my mind around to the opposite seems easy to say, but actually hunting that way will take some work. I for one am interested in any pointers you may have, your success has obviously proven out!
Tim.

See your PM I just sent you a massive brain dump on this.

 

[Rob in (Ca)]

Deep & Stable

 

[Surfinsafari]

We used to have a guy that came to our metal detector club meetings with all kinds of unbelievable finds to enter into the find of the month categories. No one ever believed his stories. No one is that lucky. You showed that pic in a thread from 2015 yet you claim this was as recent as last fall? http://www.findmall.com/read.php?19,2238992 And here they are again from a thread in 2014http://www.findmall.com/read.php?19,2068880 And here are the same pictures on another thread at a different site from 2013http://www.tractorbynet.com/member-of-the-month/member-of-the-month-deathtoblackberries/. And you claim you live in Washington state.

Yes I am that lucky, haters gonna hate I guess. It was Joe Demarco and I who dug the 40 8 reales from one hole OH SNAP there goes your theory on that. I never claimed I dug anything last fall, apparently you can't read and comprehend. I haven't hunted in 4 plus years I'm 3,000 miles from the NJ beaches I moved back home to WA state several years ago. You may now apologize. ;-)

yeah and I am calling Bravo Sierra on you story. You have proved nothing. Joe Who?

 

[Charles (Upstate NY)]

We used to have a guy that came to our metal detector club meetings with all kinds of unbelievable finds to enter into the find of the month categories. No one ever believed his stories. No one is that lucky. You showed that pic in a thread from 2015 yet you claim this was as recent as last fall? http://www.findmall.com/read.php?19,2238992 And here they are again from a thread in 2014http://www.findmall.com/read.php?19,2068880 And here are the same pictures on another thread at a different site from 2013http://www.tractorbynet.com/member-of-the-month/member-of-the-month-deathtoblackberries/. And you claim you live in Washington state.

Yes I am that lucky, haters gonna hate I guess. It was Joe Demarco and I who dug the 40 8 reales from one hole OH SNAP there goes your theory on that. I never claimed I dug anything last fall, apparently you can't read and comprehend. I haven't hunted in 4 plus years I'm 3,000 miles from the NJ beaches I moved back home to WA state several years ago. You may now apologize. ;-)

yeah and I am calling Bravo Sierra on you story. You have proved nothing. Joe Who?

LMAO points and laughs ^^^

 

[E = Mc2]

I use mine on the beach when I can get home. I run it in All-Metal (because I like to hear -something- now and then to make sure the detector is still working )and I crank the sensitivity as high as it will go without falsing.

The only problem I encounter is a brief falsing when transitioning from dry to wet sand, no matter the settings. Dug a Hotwheels at roughly two feet in very wet sand once.