After a brutal and dismal week of beachhunting, hunting miles of barren sand, I went to the coinstar yesterday and cashed in a total of 4.03...OK I kept some fresh drop change, but still, I figure I only found about 8 or 9 bucks all week and covered 40 miles of sand...
..such is beachhunting, its boom or bust.... that danged old BHLandstar got me thinking about his massive clad haul last weekend, and I needed to hear some PINGS very much badly! Since its rained real well all week, I figured I'd go on a clad stab spree this am and give the beach a rest...I scoped out a sports/highschool complex I've never been to and formulated a plan...35 miles away, after getting up at 5 and checking the Forums, I headed on over there...got out of my car at 6.09am...
Fired up the F70 quick broom set for light fast work, found something very interesting in all the sportsfields that some of you may have seen...Terramat! I'm not sure thats what its called, but its some sort of nylon net down in the grass?...you know how some totlots have that black fabric under the chips? Well this stuff is different, its like a net, and its green, and its maybe 1"mesh...absolutely impossible to dig a trowel through, hard to even cut with a knife!...seems to have been laid down when a field is resurfaced under the sod... PERFECT for a clad stabber with a screwdriver!
Well sir, my feet were plenty soaked in short order, the grass was deep and wet, I figured it would make an easy job of cutting my toenails once I got home, and I was right, didnt have to use the right angle grinder...
I commenced to hitting Q signals at the 4,5,6" depth...ran through the sidelines and concession area pretty fast, stopped and thought a little, reset everything for deeper targets and went back through...more Q's! took another breather and went to the car and dumped out my heavy pouch...it was only 9:16am and the beer store does'nt open until noon!
So I went back in there after the dimes and nickels..then I freestyled under the bleachers with little effect, hotrocks, and somebody is working this place for fresh surface drops and doing a good job of it! I found another Q heavy area near the longjump pits, and got a 4Q stack and the Dollar coin along with nickels and more Q's there....I knew I had a great day going...only grabbing Q's, and shallow D's and solid N's...so heres the total:
236 coins, for 43.48, and a knife.....I was back in my rig by 11:12 and drove slowly home to arrive at the beer store at Noon...I believe this is my best day in the shortest time on clad...and the inspiration of our brothers, a nice fast rig, and a screwdriver made it all happen!
Mud
..such is beachhunting, its boom or bust.... that danged old BHLandstar got me thinking about his massive clad haul last weekend, and I needed to hear some PINGS very much badly! Since its rained real well all week, I figured I'd go on a clad stab spree this am and give the beach a rest...I scoped out a sports/highschool complex I've never been to and formulated a plan...35 miles away, after getting up at 5 and checking the Forums, I headed on over there...got out of my car at 6.09am...Fired up the F70 quick broom set for light fast work, found something very interesting in all the sportsfields that some of you may have seen...Terramat! I'm not sure thats what its called, but its some sort of nylon net down in the grass?...you know how some totlots have that black fabric under the chips? Well this stuff is different, its like a net, and its green, and its maybe 1"mesh...absolutely impossible to dig a trowel through, hard to even cut with a knife!...seems to have been laid down when a field is resurfaced under the sod... PERFECT for a clad stabber with a screwdriver!
Well sir, my feet were plenty soaked in short order, the grass was deep and wet, I figured it would make an easy job of cutting my toenails once I got home, and I was right, didnt have to use the right angle grinder..
.I commenced to hitting Q signals at the 4,5,6" depth...ran through the sidelines and concession area pretty fast, stopped and thought a little, reset everything for deeper targets and went back through...more Q's! took another breather and went to the car and dumped out my heavy pouch...it was only 9:16am and the beer store does'nt open until noon!
So I went back in there after the dimes and nickels..then I freestyled under the bleachers with little effect, hotrocks, and somebody is working this place for fresh surface drops and doing a good job of it! I found another Q heavy area near the longjump pits, and got a 4Q stack and the Dollar coin along with nickels and more Q's there....I knew I had a great day going...only grabbing Q's, and shallow D's and solid N's...so heres the total:
236 coins, for 43.48, and a knife.....I was back in my rig by 11:12 and drove slowly home to arrive at the beer store at Noon...I believe this is my best day in the shortest time on clad...and the inspiration of our brothers, a nice fast rig, and a screwdriver made it all happen!
Mud
Sadly, I think clad stabbing IS the winner in that particular contest! It's nowhere near as much fun as detecting a nice heavy 925 silver ring or a 14K 14 plus grammer ring but you have to pay for the gas to get to the beach, or park, or wherever!!! and maybe a parking lot fee and lunch and drinks while your detecting! I