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:usaflag: 3.5 Hour Water Hunt!! :detecting:

Cupajo

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When I waded out with my Dual Field at low tide this AM the water was dead calm, but after a couple of hours of hunting a fairly brisk breeze started out of the east/s.east. The air temp was in the mid-40s F.

The 42Degree F. (surface temp) water kicked up enough wave action to make hunting a bit of a struggle with the sifter bouncing around creating a moving target for my heavy scoop load of sand and stone.

After 3.5 hours, so as to avoid burn-out, I called it a day. I had found 57 targets and recovered 55 including 22-coins (none silver or old), 1-brass arcade token, 1-.22 Cal. bullet, 4- fishing sinkers and the rest was misc. junk.

No gold or silver, but it was great getting out in the water again and next time out I won't have to dig these targets!

GL&HH friends,

CJ.

PS 22 hours on the Dual Field batteries so far and the signal is still strong!
 
THANKS FOR THE REMINDER THAT NOT ALWAYS WILL WE FIND GOLD OR SILVER BUT ITS THE "GETTING OUT OFF OF THE COUCH" THAT COUNTS.
I am not shouting, just cap locks and too lazy to retype, maybe just maybe I better get out for a hunt.:detecting:

Gerry
 
I agree getting out is the best part. I see you use a floating sifter. Do you find it helpful as I am sure you do. We have some small object here and feel I am chasing them when I had them in scoop before flushing.
Also I was going to ask for names of your books. I saw reference in prior post and would like to find it in bookstore,
Thanks for the post
 
You hit the same beaches regularly, as I do and clearing out the junk is time well spent. This will pay dividends later in the season.
 
Hi Briley,

I'm not sure which books you are referring to.

Perhaps books by Clive on metal detecting?

CJ
 
BDA I see it the same way!

Next time out those items will not be there to take me away from digging up treasure!

GL&HH Friend,

CJ
 
WTG CJ. I got out to hunt the wet sand for a couple of hours yesterday and didn't find any silver or gold either but really enjoyed the hunt. The DF does seem to go easy on the batteries. I have changed them out a couple of times, not because I had to but because I was worried that I had so much time on them. HH!
 
Cupajo said:
Hi Briley,

I'm not sure which books you are referring to.

Perhaps books by Clive on metal detecting?

CJ
I miss understood in prior post I guess. I understood you had written a book and it may have been said your book as in the one you own not one you had written. I will research the Author you have listed and see if I can find something in this area. I am looking for help in reading the water and currents and know what to look for. I blindly search now with a little (dangerous thing) knowledge and understanding of what I see. I watch the water and see the sand shifting and in many directions just looking for some advise or direction on where is the best place to start. I know experience is knowledge but with the written word we can cheat a little more than the ones before us.
I have seen it go from beach to water to beach to water and each time it deposits in a different location it seems. Sometimes there are troughs and some time there are pot holes. The problem is getting in these different developments without drowning at the time. It really appears I am being toyed with as the days the water looks like I need to be in it is too rough. The days I can go in it is full of sand. I will meanwhile wait for the day both come together and discover if my thoughts are accurate.

Thanks for the reply
 
:thumbup: from :ukflag: Sounds like 2010 is getting underway at last, temps rising your way and here in the UK. Thanks for a post that isn't dripping in gold - though I really, really do like those too. It's just that I've been out on wet sand several times in the last two weeks and found junk, junk and only junk. Yeah, ok, that stuff is off the beaches, can't say it's been a massive clean-up effort, though.
So, positive thinking ... stiffen the sinew and press on, press on. Every duff target is one dig closer to a good one.

Briley59, sounds to me like you are more or less where I'm at, that is somewhere on the lower slopes of the learning mountain and staring hopefully upward. Here's a place I found recently with some very good info on beach hunting. It was mentioned elsewhere on this forum and I checked it out. 'The Golden Olde'

http://www.nmhra.netfirms.com/pulltab/

Good luck out there and peaceful, pleasure-full huntin'
 
Hi again Briley,

CJC (or Clive James Clynick) has written several very authoritative texts on metal detecting with a variety of machines and using specific methods.

He has been hunting for many years as I understand it and has gleaned all sorts of wonderful information which he is passing on to we fellow hunters via this series of small texts (9 of them as of 2009 jam packed with valuable info!!)

You can E-mail Clive at cliveclynick@rogers.com

Also Google Clive's Gold Page.com for his web-site.

GL&HH Friend,

CJ (Similar initials may cause confusion!)
 
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