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Question for Water Hunters, Chasing targets, yea or nay?

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OUTATIME

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Got a question for all you guys that hunt in the surf...

This weekend, while detecting about waist deep in the surf, I had three targets that moved around in the surf after I disturbed them with the coil/scoop.

One of the targets turned out to be a pair of sunglasses, one a pulltab, and the other I was unable to recover.

Question, when you guys run across a "moving" target, does it ever turn out to be something good?

I would assume that if it is gold that it would probably "stay put" but then I started thinking well maybe gold chains would move around????
Anybody ever dig a moving target that turned out to be gold?

Thanks
OUTATIME
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Yes, the surf is a powerful force, it will move just about anything. I've actually watched a 20c coin come rolling down the sand like a wheel with the receeding wave! I've lost some good target signals myself because of the powerful surf. I try to recover all signals if possible, this eliminates having to dig them lateron. Hope this helps. HH regards Nugget.:detecting:
 
I had a target flopping around on me in chest deep water that took me 15 minutes to recover, there was alot of current and I almost gave up on it but I'm glad I didn't as it turned out to be a gold wedding band with a date of 1928 inside..
 
I've found that in fresh water lakes,a moving target is usually aluminum foil (pieces,cigarette packs,etc.).Some are hard to catch.Also, tabs will float away a short distance when kicked up.Alum cans will be near the bottom and also float away fast if bumped,but they give a very loud signal that about blasts your headphones off.A lot off other junk can give you a hard time locating,too.
Waterbug
 
The last gold chain and cross I posted, was on top of the sand and was rolling around. At first I couldn't get a pinpoint on just where it was, because, it was rolling back and forth. I finally did what I should have been doing all along....verifying the target with my eye, and then I scooped it right up. I find that sometimes I become too dependant on what the detector is telling me and I fail to rely on what my eyes can tell. Sometimes, I get a small piece of metal (like a stud earring) that will go right through the holes in my scoop. I lose it over and over again until I remind myself to stop and let the silt settle and use my eyes.
 
it would sound like Gold!
If I go for a target and it walks on me, I will take a pass, it's a flake of foil, can, tail or other trash.
I once watched a hunter make chase 20 feet or more while waist deep. It was a foil wrapper from a rubber!
I swing an Excal..
 
I chased a wallet with keys in it for a few minutes until I realized what it was. I then nudged it into my scoop with my foot. It had a young man's drivers license, credit cards, and $60.00 in it. I called him and he was sure glad to get it back!!!

HH Friends,

Cupajo
 
I'll chase any good sounding target to a point but only to a point. Occassionally the ticket turns out to be attached to something that will give it extra drag so that the target moves around (a piece of wood with a copper screw in it comes painfully to mind), or it's an odd shaped item like the replica renessaince cross I found that was murder to get in my scoop. If the wave action is light and the ticket moves more than a foot or two I'm thinking pull tab for sure. I used to chase every target and they were almost without exception flat pull tabs, canslaw or foil. With only so much time to work a beach at low tide i focus my energy on good targets that don't lead me on a wild goose chase. Besides, it's frustrating to chase a target for 5 minutes only to find out that you're the proud owner of a peice of aluminium canslaw.
I always wear polarized sunglasses when I hunt so that I can visual ID these sorts of targets, also great for spotting aluminium grommets from tennis shoes.(those buggers will keep slipping through the holes in my scoop until the cows come home and I don't want to dig them again the next time I hunt that beach)

Cheers,

BDA:cool:
 
It's hard to believe it's a lake. Looks like the gulf.
 
Hi Again,

I mentioned in the earlier post about using my boot to nudge a wallet into my scoop. That has worked many times for securing other objects that were trying to get away, most often aluminum cans. Some were large and didn't fit in my scoop until I forced them in. Smaller objects that can often be coaxed back a ways in the scoop if you leave a little room in the scoop by making a shallow cut, skimming the surface using your boot as back stop to keep the snap top or bottle cap from scooting away. Tip the scoop way back and lift gently. Works well for me.

The only way I have been able to consistently recover sneaker eyelets etc. is by using a large plastic sifter w/ lots and lots of small holes (3/16"). It works because even tiny bits tend to stay in the pan if they aren't washed out by water flowing faster through a few holes in a small sifter. Use the Locater Probe of choice and handle the pan gently. Rough water makes this a whole nother game!!!

GL&HH Friends,

Cupajo

PS If you recycle recovered cans be sure you rinse them well. I didn't and the small shrimp making it their home really smelled up the closet where the cans were waiting to be recycled!!!
 
tide times we check wave postings. Have gotten ribbed about our surf or what LITTLE there is! :rofl:


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I chased a Diamond earring for 5 minutes once. It was falling Thur the scoop. If I am having a slow day I chase anything and everything, but I find if it drifts around in the surf most of the time it is junk. Just go with your gut. HH
 
Same thing happen to me turn out to be foil , every ring I have ever found never has moved or did I have to chase ,, great post by the way.. Guzz1
 
Concerning the video earlier in the post. Lake St. Clair is a wonderful lake to detect in. Average depth is 9'. There is a deep shipping channel through it. Whoever detects it knows about Strawberry Island and Gull Island. Two wonderful places for rings and coins. The beaches are bigger than most city parks. You can wade out in the sand for it seems like a mile.

You need a boat to get to both islands. Strawberry is 6 miles out from M59 by Selfridge AFB. Very beautiful out there on CALM days. I have been out in my boat on rough days but not that rough!!

Here is my boat at Strawberry. I am anchored in water no deeper than 4' and I am that far from the island.

strawberry.jpg


Chasing targets is eazy for us divers, and I take EVERYTHING out. If i even thought I was digging a signal that I had found before I would be ticked!! I hate wasting air and time.
 
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