When I had my usual early morning look at the water this AM I decided it was so calm I would have no problems with missing those tiny signals that wind, waves and RFI can really cover up.
It was 11/2 hours past dead low with the tide headed toward high when I waded out there and started digging.
It turned out to be one of those "Pay Your Dues" days!!
RFI was a problem during the morning commute with planes and trains causing the Dual Field to chatter! Enteruptions occurred several times during the hunt, but I was still able to hear the stronger signal responses (All Junk Metal!!)
Sand was from 8" to too deep!!
45 targets with only three coins (and one of those a trashed Zincoln!!), no silver (Except possibly for a tiny ear stud that isn't marked , but looks kinda like silver.) and no gold!!.\
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The usual fishing sinkers, a piece of 2" lead pipe, some brass including a really old buckle that I chased down between some stones with a hole you could drop a VW Bug into and cover it up!! (Someone asked me what lies under the stoey bed? was it clay or other hardpan, bigger stone? Or what? Well when digging the buckle up I found out that once I got through the layer of stones, in that spot, there was more sand!! That could change farther down the beach in any direction.)
There is a pocket knife that is, at the moment, a large blob of rusty substance that I will break away just to see what's left of the knife.
Most of the targets were deep and a few I managed to chase deeper from poor access down among the stones!!
Easily twenty of them were those tiny jogs in the threshold that were repeatable, but almost impossible to hear unless it is very quiet out there.
It was still great to get out there in 35Degree weather even without sunshine!!
We're having snow showers and rain at the moment, but I'm hoping for a quiet morning tomorrow and another stroll through the Rock Garden,
CJ
It was 11/2 hours past dead low with the tide headed toward high when I waded out there and started digging.
It turned out to be one of those "Pay Your Dues" days!!
RFI was a problem during the morning commute with planes and trains causing the Dual Field to chatter! Enteruptions occurred several times during the hunt, but I was still able to hear the stronger signal responses (All Junk Metal!!)
Sand was from 8" to too deep!!
45 targets with only three coins (and one of those a trashed Zincoln!!), no silver (Except possibly for a tiny ear stud that isn't marked , but looks kinda like silver.) and no gold!!.\
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The usual fishing sinkers, a piece of 2" lead pipe, some brass including a really old buckle that I chased down between some stones with a hole you could drop a VW Bug into and cover it up!! (Someone asked me what lies under the stoey bed? was it clay or other hardpan, bigger stone? Or what? Well when digging the buckle up I found out that once I got through the layer of stones, in that spot, there was more sand!! That could change farther down the beach in any direction.)
There is a pocket knife that is, at the moment, a large blob of rusty substance that I will break away just to see what's left of the knife.
Most of the targets were deep and a few I managed to chase deeper from poor access down among the stones!!
Easily twenty of them were those tiny jogs in the threshold that were repeatable, but almost impossible to hear unless it is very quiet out there.
It was still great to get out there in 35Degree weather even without sunshine!!
We're having snow showers and rain at the moment, but I'm hoping for a quiet morning tomorrow and another stroll through the Rock Garden,
CJ
