Haven't had much to brag about lately

[harvdog42]

I was detecting the wet sand at my favorite beach. It is my favorite beach only because it is the closest. There weren't many targets to be found but enough to hold my interest. I was finding a few sinkers here and there which is always a good sign. Out came this ring. I thought it was titanium at first because titanium is becoming the norm around here. Titanium and Tungsten Carbide.

Upon closer inspection at home, (my eyes are getting bad in my old age) I was able to see that it is was a Piaget 750 (18K) white gold ring. 9.7 grams. There has been a lot of beach activity this summer here in S. Ca but not much wave action. The wet has been pretty dead for the most part. Maybe this fall when the currents change things will pick up.

HH

Harvdog

 

[mudpuppy]

The beach here has been slow too, not the typical summer at all, finding more up on the dry sand than in the water. Here's to hoping August will be a good one!
Mud

 

[tvr]

Very nice ring. About $400 in melt value at today's price. I hit a very sanded in beach last Saturday and got a junk ring, a small silver earring and a bit of clad. Nice to get out though.

Congrats on good heavy gold!

 

[harvdog42]

So what do you do TVR when the beach is sanded in? My guess is you go hunt the dry. Most of the detectorist I see hunt the dry even when the wet is producing. I much prefer to hunt the wet. It is kind of funny though when I see a guy hunting the dry when the wet is producing. He probably thinks I'm crazy when I'm thinking the same about him. To each his own I guess.

HH

Harvdog

 

[mudpuppy]

one of the beaches I hunt is about 3 miles long, yet one little 50yd strip coughed up 3 gold and two silver this year, fresh drops all and on the dry, the wet yielded one silver. I know this, because I hunt it daily! The beach has areas where certain people like to hang out, the windsurfer section is always good for sunglasses, the "smoker" section is great for lighters, but this little strip has the young mothers with their children, the rings are small in the 2 gr range, and I think people are trying not to lose their stuff in the water, so they instead lose it up on the sand. The final sweep of this beach will be the strip right along the road where everybody parks, I see lots of gold chains up there on young men milling about, acting cool, but its got a lot of bottlecaps and trash there too. I've only got one gold out of the wet this year, and it was an old drop in a cutout in chest deep water, lots of older clad there, and a little silver necklace charm, so nobody got to it yet. We just didn't get the right conditions in the water for folks to really splash around a lot, but the dry is seeing halfway decent activity. I'm seeing lots of newbies up on the dry, and the sandmachine sweeps the ground daily, so a fellow has to get there early before it wipes out the sign from yesterday...
Mud

 

[harvdog42]

You make some good points Mudpuppy. I immediatly thought of life guard towers when you mentioned bottle caps. I almost hate going near towers because the immediate area around them tends to be loaded with bottle caps. You mentioned competition. I do believe there is more competition in the dry. Like you said, you have to be the early bird when it comes to prime locations in the dry. I've also noticed that Labor day is like a switch. The dry goes almost completely dead around here soon after labor day . The silver lining is that Labor day usually marks the beginning of some radical current changes here in S. Ca. When conditions are right, the wet can be extremely productive after Labor day and you can almost smell the gold. Recently, however, that gold smell has been tainted with Tungsten Carbide odor. I'm still a working stiff so I'm mainly a weekend hunter. Retired people have an advantage in that regard. What detector do you use by the way?

HH

Harvdog

 

[gmanlight]

Now u have bragging rights

 

[tvr]

So what do you do TVR when the beach is sanded in? My guess is you go hunt the dry ...

Some of both. On that Saturday when I got out further than waist deep the bottom firmed up a bit but I was not finding any targets waist to shoulder deep on that day. Water was a bit cool and I did not have the wet suit with me. When I was feeling chilled, I went dry and wet sand hunting until I warmed up and then back into the water. Most of what I found that day was about half way between the low tide and high tide lines. Did not fit the pattern of finding more things in the lower scallop shaped cuts outs either. A bit of a different day that I did not feel like I had anything figured out about the beach. Looks like it is going to be a couple of weeks before I get back to a beach.
Cheers,
tvr

 

[mudpuppy]

Yeah, lots of junk rings, TC and SS and I found a class ring made from "lustrium" which is a chrome/nickle composite..I swing a F70 Harv, up on the dry, and a CZ 20 in the water...all up here on the eastern shores of Lake Mich. This full moon actually causes about a 1' tide and changes the waters edge, so a guy can scoot along swiftly with the coil right in that trough. most fresh drops in the wet are up on the sandbars where folks like to play in the waves and get tumbled, absolutely zero targets then, Bam! Once we get some good storms, the sandbars move around and some cuts open up for a few days, I still work, but get up and out early during the week. really spotty hunting, at least on the dry you can see where something went on the day before from the tracks and junk left behind, so a guy can cover a lot of real estate in a hurry. All in all, beach hunting is tough! once the soccer season and school homecomings and whatnot start up, I dont hit the beach again unless a big storm blows out some cuts.
Mud

 

[deepseeker442]

nice ring wtg