I spent Friday and Saturday at a freshwater "resort area" about an hour from home, it's a 100-acre lake with a nice buoyed swimming area, water slides and docks, restaurant, cabins on the lake,etc. I took my new White's Beach Hunter ID and this was the first real test of it since I bought it. Here's a view of the swimming area. the water under this slide was knee-deep.
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I'll save the drama, no gold at all. I was expecting great things from under the slide below, and it was a nice honey hole but only modern clad and a thin silver bracelet. The water was up to my neck, the hole under the slide where everyone lands took some tip-toe action and reaching to clear out. I left no signal unrecovered.
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Here are some general views. I was able to search under the basketball hoop, nice spot with lots of coins. At about the ladder to the right of that it got neck deep again, I'd need scuba gear to search around the diving board. This lake is spring-fed, so in spite of the drought here it hasn't affected this lake at all. I found my one silver ring and one silver earring near the bottom of this photo, about knee-deep.
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I wasn't able to get closer than about 8 feet to this floating dock, it was just too deep. You can see where I've disturbed the sandy bottom, it was easy scooping with just a few small rocks.
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Here's the loot and trash. I like the quarter ratio, it's better than most places on land I've searched. There's about $15 in clad and pennies, the silver ring and earring, and the gold-looking item is actually a gold-colored tinfoil earring.
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I had hoped that I'd hit the jackpot, but alas that wasn't the case. The bobby pins, pull tabs and junk wasn't that bad, and getting used to using the detector and scoop in neck-deep water wasn't that bad either. The water wasn't cold at all, but getting out of it into the wind sucked. I agree with some of the previous posters that the coil on the BHID needs WEIGHT on it, it doesn't just eventually float to the surface but bobs up like a submarine doing an emergency blow. I did the "sock with sand in it tied to the top of the coil" on the second day, and I'll find a better solution before I go out again. I found it to be a real fight keeping the coil on the bottom without weight on it. I also did not hit the sand on the beach, that was part of the agreement to let me search there (they were working on the beach, bringing in sand and changing out some of the play equipment they have there).
This place has been around for 50 years, and the lack of any old coins or gold convinces me that I'm not the first one to hit this place by a long shot. I figure I only got this past season's worth of goodies out of it. I was in all-metal mode the whole time except one spot by the dock, where I checked out the discrimination. The pull tabs, bobby pins and nickels are enough to convince me also that I didn't miss anything, I never left one signal anywhere unrecovered.
Steve
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I'll save the drama, no gold at all. I was expecting great things from under the slide below, and it was a nice honey hole but only modern clad and a thin silver bracelet. The water was up to my neck, the hole under the slide where everyone lands took some tip-toe action and reaching to clear out. I left no signal unrecovered.
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Here are some general views. I was able to search under the basketball hoop, nice spot with lots of coins. At about the ladder to the right of that it got neck deep again, I'd need scuba gear to search around the diving board. This lake is spring-fed, so in spite of the drought here it hasn't affected this lake at all. I found my one silver ring and one silver earring near the bottom of this photo, about knee-deep.
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I wasn't able to get closer than about 8 feet to this floating dock, it was just too deep. You can see where I've disturbed the sandy bottom, it was easy scooping with just a few small rocks.
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Here's the loot and trash. I like the quarter ratio, it's better than most places on land I've searched. There's about $15 in clad and pennies, the silver ring and earring, and the gold-looking item is actually a gold-colored tinfoil earring.
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I had hoped that I'd hit the jackpot, but alas that wasn't the case. The bobby pins, pull tabs and junk wasn't that bad, and getting used to using the detector and scoop in neck-deep water wasn't that bad either. The water wasn't cold at all, but getting out of it into the wind sucked. I agree with some of the previous posters that the coil on the BHID needs WEIGHT on it, it doesn't just eventually float to the surface but bobs up like a submarine doing an emergency blow. I did the "sock with sand in it tied to the top of the coil" on the second day, and I'll find a better solution before I go out again. I found it to be a real fight keeping the coil on the bottom without weight on it. I also did not hit the sand on the beach, that was part of the agreement to let me search there (they were working on the beach, bringing in sand and changing out some of the play equipment they have there).
This place has been around for 50 years, and the lack of any old coins or gold convinces me that I'm not the first one to hit this place by a long shot. I figure I only got this past season's worth of goodies out of it. I was in all-metal mode the whole time except one spot by the dock, where I checked out the discrimination. The pull tabs, bobby pins and nickels are enough to convince me also that I didn't miss anything, I never left one signal anywhere unrecovered.
Steve
