Mike (Virginia Beach)
New member
...only the second night ever that I got FIVE RINGS! The first time I did that was my very first hunt with my new Sovereign Elite two summers ago. Also my 8th straight hunt with GOLD. So I'm real happy.
So...I hit the beach for the 3:20am low tide and hunted from about 1 to 6 or so. I found the junk ring and a little clad in wet sand and in the shallow water but was mostly not hitting much down there. So when that happens, I go higher up in the wet sand and see if I can find the "coin line". Well almost to the top of the wet, I found it. First it was nickels and they just kept coming. And they were deep too, most at a foot or more. We're talking faint signals...I thought they were all rings. And then I found some rings, then some dimes, and then quarters from hell. I got like 15 nickels, 13 dimes, 20 quarters...all deep...lots of digging. And in that same area was most of the jewelry too. Spider helped me for a bit...I went and got him further up the beach...come on man, I can't dig it all...bring that Explorer down here. He did, and when we got done it looked like a minefield out there after EOD came through.
(And the tide came in and filled the holes, before anybody asks) And then it was over. The targets were gone...we cleaned it out. So that goes to show that sometimes you need to "think outside the box" a little if the normal routine isn't producing. The tide had apparently come in a bit further than normal the night before and the surf was a little more powerful and the result was that enough sand moved around to unlock some of Davey Jones' locker for a small section of beach.
"Lumpy" is ticked at me...he says he didn't sign up for all this heavy lifting!
Thanks to David from Suffolk for the nifty idea of having the latch-on-a-lanyard to put my rings on as I find them. "Ring management" is definitely an issue these days.
Oh, and the "virgin mother and child" is 10K. I don't think I'll be replacing the Anchor and Eagle pendant on the 18K chain from the other night with this...
Finally, do you think those silver rings you find that are somewhere between brown and black in color because the salt has taken it's toll on them for so many years are pretty much ruined? Think again, because with a little electrolysis they can be like new. Check the last two pictures for a "before & after".
So...I hit the beach for the 3:20am low tide and hunted from about 1 to 6 or so. I found the junk ring and a little clad in wet sand and in the shallow water but was mostly not hitting much down there. So when that happens, I go higher up in the wet sand and see if I can find the "coin line". Well almost to the top of the wet, I found it. First it was nickels and they just kept coming. And they were deep too, most at a foot or more. We're talking faint signals...I thought they were all rings. And then I found some rings, then some dimes, and then quarters from hell. I got like 15 nickels, 13 dimes, 20 quarters...all deep...lots of digging. And in that same area was most of the jewelry too. Spider helped me for a bit...I went and got him further up the beach...come on man, I can't dig it all...bring that Explorer down here. He did, and when we got done it looked like a minefield out there after EOD came through.
(And the tide came in and filled the holes, before anybody asks) And then it was over. The targets were gone...we cleaned it out. So that goes to show that sometimes you need to "think outside the box" a little if the normal routine isn't producing. The tide had apparently come in a bit further than normal the night before and the surf was a little more powerful and the result was that enough sand moved around to unlock some of Davey Jones' locker for a small section of beach. "Lumpy" is ticked at me...he says he didn't sign up for all this heavy lifting!
Thanks to David from Suffolk for the nifty idea of having the latch-on-a-lanyard to put my rings on as I find them. "Ring management" is definitely an issue these days.
Oh, and the "virgin mother and child" is 10K. I don't think I'll be replacing the Anchor and Eagle pendant on the 18K chain from the other night with this...
Finally, do you think those silver rings you find that are somewhere between brown and black in color because the salt has taken it's toll on them for so many years are pretty much ruined? Think again, because with a little electrolysis they can be like new. Check the last two pictures for a "before & after".
