greasecarguy
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I've been vacationing with the family in NC for the past 2 weeks and spent 8 or 9 hours detecting this stretch of beach in front of the rental we were in. So few people also meant very few targets.
Even hitting a signal was exciting. I dug pull tabs, crown caps, hooks, weights and aluminum bits for all that time. My land machine was difficult to adjust to the wet sand and I spent very little time in the dry sand. Changing settings like crazy, I moved my sens constantly depending on the water. Finally, I got kinda used to it. If I so much as touched the ground, I had a noise that had to be rescanned, 'cause i know I am listening for that faint, broken gold tone. This drove me mad!. If water rushed under the coil, everything had to stop 'cause of the salt. It was also tough 'cause i had a 10x12 coil. Eventully, I would just move the sens up and down accordinly.
I also found a new pair of scissors and this smith and wesson pocket knife. It was just below the surface, wide open and must have been a recent drop. It wa a null as I had just a bit of disc. on. I told my son (the official digger) to be careful asit was prolly some rusty old iron piece that could be sharp. Glad I found it b4 someone stepped on it! (I was usually out at low tide when i could get to where I felt waist deep water was at high tide.)
The last night prior to departure, I went to a more populated area where there are volleyball courts and such. I worked the dry sand because it was night time. In 1 hour I found these items along with ~ 15 other junk digs. The ring was 7" deep in the dry sand and when my kid sifted the digger and said it was a ring, I knew it was gold by the readings it gave off. Clearly it wouldn't be silver with such low numbers.
10k ladies band with initials. I have checked out craigslist lost and found and there were no posts abaout this ring. I will keep checking as the 3 initals are unique. But if no one shows up, it will be sold at 1800/ounce current pricing. Maybe it's worth $60?
Anyway, the conjoined hearts are silver and the earring says silver (also mother daughter/ friends forever) but rang up gold. Looks like there are a few small stones in it too. this looks to be antique but IDK much about them.
Anyway, I took some advice from this board (thanks dew!) and another board and it paid off. Hope to get back to the parks with my partner this week!.
HH
Aaron
Even hitting a signal was exciting. I dug pull tabs, crown caps, hooks, weights and aluminum bits for all that time. My land machine was difficult to adjust to the wet sand and I spent very little time in the dry sand. Changing settings like crazy, I moved my sens constantly depending on the water. Finally, I got kinda used to it. If I so much as touched the ground, I had a noise that had to be rescanned, 'cause i know I am listening for that faint, broken gold tone. This drove me mad!. If water rushed under the coil, everything had to stop 'cause of the salt. It was also tough 'cause i had a 10x12 coil. Eventully, I would just move the sens up and down accordinly.
I also found a new pair of scissors and this smith and wesson pocket knife. It was just below the surface, wide open and must have been a recent drop. It wa a null as I had just a bit of disc. on. I told my son (the official digger) to be careful asit was prolly some rusty old iron piece that could be sharp. Glad I found it b4 someone stepped on it! (I was usually out at low tide when i could get to where I felt waist deep water was at high tide.)
The last night prior to departure, I went to a more populated area where there are volleyball courts and such. I worked the dry sand because it was night time. In 1 hour I found these items along with ~ 15 other junk digs. The ring was 7" deep in the dry sand and when my kid sifted the digger and said it was a ring, I knew it was gold by the readings it gave off. Clearly it wouldn't be silver with such low numbers.
10k ladies band with initials. I have checked out craigslist lost and found and there were no posts abaout this ring. I will keep checking as the 3 initals are unique. But if no one shows up, it will be sold at 1800/ounce current pricing. Maybe it's worth $60?
Anyway, the conjoined hearts are silver and the earring says silver (also mother daughter/ friends forever) but rang up gold. Looks like there are a few small stones in it too. this looks to be antique but IDK much about them.
Anyway, I took some advice from this board (thanks dew!) and another board and it paid off. Hope to get back to the parks with my partner this week!.
HH
Aaron
