Got about 3.5 days in North Myrtle Beach to hunt the beach. Started out with the still pretty new to me blue tube Excal. Got in about 2 hours of hunting as it was approaching high tide and evening dark. More iron than I remember on this beach and very few targets. Next morning I charged the battery and hooked it back up and nothing. Tried the spare battery that I charged before the trip, again absolute dead silence. Contacts are clean and appear to have a snug fit. DARN!!! I didn't pack a meter for the trip so no trouble shooting on the Excal so far. That is the pain of an old used detector, even if it came to me very clean and looking in great shape.
So, out for the hunt comes old tried and true CZ6A with the FZ-12 coil on her, an even older detector, that has been dunked twice in the salt water and has so far still lived on to continue the hunt. This old friend of a detector pulled some deep lead sinkers on this trip. Also found deep pull tabs and nickles, all with ID's as they should be with a little bit of ID bounce on the deepest ones.
The CZ6a found another one of the old shell points that I find in the Myrtle Beach area every now and then. The real surprise was a deep, deep ring. Was hunting in autoTune, like I normally do with this detector at the beach, and heard a little threshold rise. Found the center of the little repeatable zip zip sound and flipped to discriminate mode. Nothing at all, not even a little snap of the detector trying to figure out if there is really something there. Back to autoTune to find center again. Three big scoops and I can get the coil into the hole to try to ID it and I get big coin high tone. Center of the target has not moved. More deep scoops and target check after each scoop. Seventh scoop finally moves the target off where it was, pulling the target towards the front of where that seventh scoop started and finally up higher into the soupy mix that was falling back into the hole. Eight scoop brought it out of the sand for good. Pretty big ring ... but I didn't recognize the marking. Back at the room, I look up P4SR ... this thing that looks like white gold that I knew wasn't because it was just too high on the conductivity, is about 80% silver with just a little palladium, platinum and gold mixed in to prevent corrosion. If only this 9.9 gram ring had been a better alloy it would really be a happy dance ring. Ah well ... the CZ6a was in her glory finding truly deep targets like she has faithfully done for a long long time.
Picture is of the bullet tip I found this trip and the P4SR ring.
Cheers,
tvr
So, out for the hunt comes old tried and true CZ6A with the FZ-12 coil on her, an even older detector, that has been dunked twice in the salt water and has so far still lived on to continue the hunt. This old friend of a detector pulled some deep lead sinkers on this trip. Also found deep pull tabs and nickles, all with ID's as they should be with a little bit of ID bounce on the deepest ones.
The CZ6a found another one of the old shell points that I find in the Myrtle Beach area every now and then. The real surprise was a deep, deep ring. Was hunting in autoTune, like I normally do with this detector at the beach, and heard a little threshold rise. Found the center of the little repeatable zip zip sound and flipped to discriminate mode. Nothing at all, not even a little snap of the detector trying to figure out if there is really something there. Back to autoTune to find center again. Three big scoops and I can get the coil into the hole to try to ID it and I get big coin high tone. Center of the target has not moved. More deep scoops and target check after each scoop. Seventh scoop finally moves the target off where it was, pulling the target towards the front of where that seventh scoop started and finally up higher into the soupy mix that was falling back into the hole. Eight scoop brought it out of the sand for good. Pretty big ring ... but I didn't recognize the marking. Back at the room, I look up P4SR ... this thing that looks like white gold that I knew wasn't because it was just too high on the conductivity, is about 80% silver with just a little palladium, platinum and gold mixed in to prevent corrosion. If only this 9.9 gram ring had been a better alloy it would really be a happy dance ring. Ah well ... the CZ6a was in her glory finding truly deep targets like she has faithfully done for a long long time.
Picture is of the bullet tip I found this trip and the P4SR ring.
Cheers,
tvr
