I've been checking my hunting grounds everyday from up on the dry sand to see if the sand may have moved away from some of it so that I wouldn't have to deal with sand and a heavy stone base too.
Today I thought I would do a "get wet survey" and find out just how much the sand had uncovered.
There were a couple of spots where I managed to luck out with my Dual Field and here are the finds after moving lots of stone into my sifter.
This AM I spent three hours removing bits and pieces of iron, wire, nails, 10 bottle caps (Mostly Bud Lite!!), seven quarters, a nickel, two dimes, and two pennies from an area of the beach I hunt that had been exposed by the shifting sands.
One and a half hours into the hunt I retrieved this nice 14K ring (W/three small diamonds), small and of a design I have never seen before. It is worn thin on part of the band and my scoop bent it when I dug it from among the large stones where it lay. The sizing joint separated and the ring is now oval in shape.
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(The re-dish tint is from the lighting used when I took the picture.)
A half hour later the large silver (.925) ring next to the gold one dropped from Poor Mans Back-Hoe into my sifter along with maybe twenty plus pounds of stone, gravel and sand.
The wide ring is silver and the one to the left is junk it seems.
These were from a hunt of 4 plus hours a week or so ago when the sand had covered everything.
Still gettin one now and then,
CJ
It has been maybe 15 hours or so of digging since I found gold, so never get discouraged.
It's out there if Ya dig long and hard enough!!
I quit countin after 300 gold rings!!
Today I thought I would do a "get wet survey" and find out just how much the sand had uncovered.
There were a couple of spots where I managed to luck out with my Dual Field and here are the finds after moving lots of stone into my sifter.
This AM I spent three hours removing bits and pieces of iron, wire, nails, 10 bottle caps (Mostly Bud Lite!!), seven quarters, a nickel, two dimes, and two pennies from an area of the beach I hunt that had been exposed by the shifting sands.
One and a half hours into the hunt I retrieved this nice 14K ring (W/three small diamonds), small and of a design I have never seen before. It is worn thin on part of the band and my scoop bent it when I dug it from among the large stones where it lay. The sizing joint separated and the ring is now oval in shape.
[attachment 177745 Rings10-28-10005Large.jpg]
(The re-dish tint is from the lighting used when I took the picture.)
A half hour later the large silver (.925) ring next to the gold one dropped from Poor Mans Back-Hoe into my sifter along with maybe twenty plus pounds of stone, gravel and sand.
The wide ring is silver and the one to the left is junk it seems.
These were from a hunt of 4 plus hours a week or so ago when the sand had covered everything.
Still gettin one now and then,
CJ
It has been maybe 15 hours or so of digging since I found gold, so never get discouraged.
It's out there if Ya dig long and hard enough!!
I quit countin after 300 gold rings!!
