Mike (Virginia Beach)
New member
Every muscle in my body is sore this morning...I dug some holes that were so deep I had to ask for directions! IN CHINESE!!! 
The Excal was sure showing it's stuff last night. I had the sens cranked to 10 O'Clock and was working the wet sand and shallow water at low tide. Ran into Big Rich, another Mike with an Excal, and another Rich from New Jersey with a Fisher 1280...he's here for a week, so we should all meet him. Things were pretty dead for everybody with an amazing absence of targets. The beach is heavily slanted, like it was last summer when we were sanded in pretty bad. But there are areas where some erosion and movement has occurred and I hit an area high up in the wet sand, beneath a fairly prominent cut of a couple feet or more where the deep signals were plenty...especially the crazy-deep quarters and dimes. Many or from the '60's and '70's. But the sheer numbers of holes dug and targets recovered was amazing. 30 quarters, 32 dimes, 17 nickels, and 51 pennies. A lot of the pennies were "bubbled up" and sounded like potential good signals. I left the pennies out of the pics except for some of the more horrendous ones. Also scored a working watch, bare-bones gold ring, junks ring, and the silver pendant "Amanda". You can tell that was down there a while. And a very nice looking '36 wheatie...don't see many of them at our beach.
Anyway, here are some pics...
The Excal was sure showing it's stuff last night. I had the sens cranked to 10 O'Clock and was working the wet sand and shallow water at low tide. Ran into Big Rich, another Mike with an Excal, and another Rich from New Jersey with a Fisher 1280...he's here for a week, so we should all meet him. Things were pretty dead for everybody with an amazing absence of targets. The beach is heavily slanted, like it was last summer when we were sanded in pretty bad. But there are areas where some erosion and movement has occurred and I hit an area high up in the wet sand, beneath a fairly prominent cut of a couple feet or more where the deep signals were plenty...especially the crazy-deep quarters and dimes. Many or from the '60's and '70's. But the sheer numbers of holes dug and targets recovered was amazing. 30 quarters, 32 dimes, 17 nickels, and 51 pennies. A lot of the pennies were "bubbled up" and sounded like potential good signals. I left the pennies out of the pics except for some of the more horrendous ones. Also scored a working watch, bare-bones gold ring, junks ring, and the silver pendant "Amanda". You can tell that was down there a while. And a very nice looking '36 wheatie...don't see many of them at our beach.
Anyway, here are some pics...
