Hunting Dry Sand That Never Sees Tides Or Water?

[Critterhunter]

I asked this a few months back but I'm looking for more motivation. I'm hunting beaches on the great lakes and some smaller inland lakes. Thus far I've got one gold ring, one silver, and about 4 junk rings. These were in the dry sand that never has seen water or of course tides since we are not on the ocean. My main question is how many of you do well finding rings in dry sand like this? I would figure it would be a productive area due to sun bathers, sun tan lotion, fingers shriveled up and walking from the water, playing Frisbee or other sports, hiding your rings in the sand under your blanket, mother's making sand castles with kids, people sticking rings in their shoes and forgetting about them when they pick things up to go, etc.

I'm primarily a land hunter for old coins. My second love would probably be land hunting for rings. Beach hunting is something I haven't really done much over the years, but this year I've done a decent amount of both water hunting and dry sand hunting. Thus far more rings have come for me from the dry sand. I know I've dug a decent amount of rings in the dry sand for what little I've done this year, but I'd still like to hear some others who do well doing that. It will give me motivation to hunt the beaches during the winter months and also mix more of that in with my water hunting next summer.

Thus far I see no pattern to the rings. A few within 10 or 20 feet of the water, a few right at the towel line 3 to 50 feet from the shore, and still yet one or two way at the back of the beach near the garbage cans.

 

[Jason in Enid]

There really is no "pattern" that I have found. People lose them at the blanket zone, they lose them farther up playing footbal, etc and they lose them walking from the bathrooms and to/from thier cars. The good thing about the dry sand is that coins don't get burried ultra deep like in the surf.

 

[John(Tx)]

n/t

 

[Jason in Enid]

I don't mind digging trash in the dry sand. I wish it was that easy digging in the dirt. If I get the trash out now, the goodies are easier next time.

 

[Gerry]

Dry sand or Fluff as I call it is certainly easier, the key to it is to have a light weight scoop that is very porous allowing the sand to vacate the scoop quickly. Fluff hunting has way more targets i.e. trash, coins and pleasantry of finding the odd ring. Don't forget when doing dry sand that the Volley ball courts and probably ten feet perimeter around the court is a good place to detect. I have found three rings of which one was a keeper all within four feet of the out of bounds of the V Ball courts.

Gerry

 

[BigDan]

I usually do not hunt the dry sand due to competion. I figure there are 25 land hunters for every 1 water hunter. My edge is in the Saltwater because of Excalibur I use. My time is better spent there. I must disclose however that my best find came ftom the dry sand when I was just a newbie

 

[Jiminsandiego]

Some of my best gold rings have come from the dry sand here in San Diego. Sometimes I like to go on very busy days to get an idea of where the most people are and what they're doing. The lady building a sand castle with a huge diamond ring, the teenagers wrestling with gold chains on, footballs and frisbees being tossed around etc.. All these things give me optimism and confidence which are two important factors in successful fishing (and metal detecting in my opinion). I always like it when I'm finding lots of clad coins as some of my best finds were found after a couple handfuls of coins. I've been told that it was better hunting here before they banned alcohol on the beach (bummer), but there are some places where they still drink illegally. The water never warmed up this year (coldest in 30 years) so not to many swimmers,most people stayed on the "blanket line". Sometimes I just have that feeling that I'm gunna score and I've got a feeling that you're going to get something good.
Scoop em up Critterhunter
Jim

 

[Critterhunter]

Thanks for the motivation. Just looking to hear from others who have done well in the dry sand that never sees water. My friends and I dug a lot of stainless steel and titanium rings this year along with the usual assortment of junk ones. I think the price of gold and the bad economy has found a lot of people scraping their gold and buying cheap ones to wear instead. I've got a lot of beaches to grid out this winter. A few of them are so trashy that I'm shocked. It's nothing to dig 7 or 8 round tabs in under an hour. Where are all the beach hunters that should be digging these? More than likely the few guys I've seen are just not picking them up, because I've seen them throwing their trash right back down on the sand. How many times in twenty years have these guys dug up that same round tab I wonder? I'm not complaining though. After hearing the horror stories from some of you beach hunters in other states where nothing is left by sun rise, I'm glad I've got plenty of beaches with plenty of signals to dig up.

 

[element]

here in the UK (cornwall) we dont have as many people in the water as you guys over the pond.. All my rings have been found in dry sand or in the wet sand. Either they were lost on the dry and moved down into the wet zone or they were dropped when the tide was in.. I have found rings right at the low water mark on a real low tide but they have always been junk rings.. One day maybe I will find a keeper there. Noone that I know of hunts in the surf here...

 

[deerman]

I hunt the water in michigan with some dry sand hunting and have found most good loot is found in the water as for pull tabs i wish i only got 8 to 10 an hour more like twenty to thirty and hour with screw caps about the same on some spots,so when i
find anything good i cross grid it well and thats were most good loot is among the tabs and caps others don't want to dig up theres alot under the junk but you have to dig the junk to get the gold

 

[Jadesun]

Here in hawaii the beaches aren used all year long.
I hunt dry sand wet sand and all areas people hang out on the beach.
Most of my gold ring finds have come from the dry sand.
There is a wall that runs the length of one of the beach parks here.
I detect that wall all the time and have found some nice gold and silver jewelry.
On one of these hunts I found a coin purse with over 300 dollars in it.
Dry sand can be very productive love hunting it!