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Hunted two freshwater holes today. One I knew would be cleaned out. But. The second one...is this tiny no name pond. Picked clean. Nada to show for 5 hours of work. 55 cents total maybe.

I think ill check the tides an try a beach tomorrow. Anyway...HH -Joe

ps anyone from ma lookin to go huntin later in the week/summer?
 
This is just my opinion but with machines getting better and the economy to a point where people are trying anything to help themselves along through these hard times is what is going on. Back when you had a beep and dig machine I hardly ever saw anyone detecting. Now with today's machines it don't take long to get fair but it sure takes a while to get good. Like I said JMHO. HH :minelab:
 
You have to start going where the fatties and Sunday hunters can't. That is why I hunt natural gold in the desert and WAY back in the mountains - and refined gold in the Atlantic surf. Ain't no fat folks or wannabe's in either place. Good Luck!
 
Hunting season is short in Maryland due to the water temps, So the best hunting is from july to sept...4 months.. I have seen as many as 10 to 12 hunters at a time (last year), just wondering how many will be out this year with the price of gold way up. Tried to hunt in the Atlantic last year...too ruff for me...And my buddy jeff
 
I am working on some spots you gotta go on foot to get to or have some degree of access to get to. Even bike in. I think spots that say no detecting allowed are just being horded by staff. I got the run around the other day over the phone. The dude was nice...but he couldn't really cite any legal rhyme or reason to deny access. I know for a fact that in my state, its allowed in state run facilities.

I am gonna try a very very well to do beach tomorrow...salt water. I emailed a town manager to try an acquire a sticker for parking if I volunteer as a littler picker. I hope it works out.

On top of that I might try some private campgrounds this summer. Anyway. I detected places that were untouched...and the two places I hit today had been hit hard. The place I went last weekend was cleaned out too.

Hope yiz all had better luck then me today. HH -Joe
 
Same here , I hit 12 different play grounds schools and parks in the last 3 weeks and walked away with about 2dollars and no rings not even junk ones
 
I have been interested in going to the beach and detecting. I am trying to find out, without the sales hype being thrown around, what machine to use? I will also use it to gold prospect with in the mountains. What would be a good detector for a real beach novice?
 
Hi Starvin. Unfortunately, there is no easy answer here. If you are hunting gold nuggets, in the mountains or deserts, you must use two types of metal detectors - Pulse Induction "PI", and Very Low Frequency "VLF". One is used for larger gold at deeper depths (PI), the other is used for smaller, sub-gram gold at depths to 7" or less. At the beach, you run into the same problem - for different reasons. You want a VLF detector on the dry sand because it can discriminate out iron, but you want a PI unit on the wet sand and in the saltwater, because it punches through the heavy salt mineralization. Great question, no easy answer. You will need to really research what you want to do. I own Tesoro and Minelab machines, PI and VLF. One machine, that is a tough one but I would say the Tesoro Lobo SuperTRAQ (gold prospecting and WET SAND only - not IN the water).
 
I would say do some research on best gold nugget machines. And zero in on one. And as far as water hunting goes. I am biased. But I would suggest something like this. 1280 for newb in freshwater. Great machine...built like a tank. Salt water newb...BHID. Both can be bought used reliably. My primary machine is the excal II. All three are vlf...well excal is bbs...but technically a vlf machine.

PI machines...I have no experience with and will be my next addition to my arsenal.

Good luck and HH. -Joe.
 
Sounds like some of you guys are cherry picking.

If you want to find gold rings you have to dig everything except iron. It's a lot of work, but it makes abslolutely no sense to dig 100 coins, when you can dig 99 pulltabs/foil/junk items and 1 gold ring/item. I would rather dig a few grams of gold rather than a couple bucks in clad.

I go to cherry picked sites the most, because there is less clad trash which equals more gold per targets dug.
 
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