:usaflag:An Important Part Of Being A Water Hunter :detecting:

[Cupajo]

is being alert for finds recovered that may be overlooked, These things may be valuable, interesting or just future targets if they are dumped back in the water without being found.

Checking the dig and immediate area for more targets may result in several more targets recovered (I once found two gold rings in the same hole and another time two in one scoop!!)

Yesterday in a quick water hunt my first target recovered was a 3 oz sinker and before dumping the stones outa my sifter I swept the DF coil over it and recovered a second 3 oz sinker that was in the same scoop of sand and stone.

Usually I pass such huge sounding targets as likely being junk, but twice over the years the huge,

 

[John(Tx)]

I like digging those huge sounding targets, have found items from pocket knives to watches to toy cars....If it beeps in the water, I will dig it....HH

 

[bob.oz]

There are a number of targets at different beaches that i always seem to find,but don't recover..I've learned to ID them with land marks...i can tell others have tried to recover these BUICK'S also...I like the faint tone that gets louder after the first scoop....Multiple targets in the scoop are not always considered or even thought about till you learn from such an incident like i did last week,took the quarter out dumped the gold ring...as for anything else in the scoop..i always look for shark teeth....
As for dry sand hunting behind the motels...i never new how badly trashed our beaches get at night till i started early AM hunts... the stuff left behind by the late nite parties takes the hotel staff from every hotel out there before sun rise to clean up..and not just trash..cellphones,unopened alcohol cans and bottles,coolers clothes ,shoes,chairs,etc......all cleaned up before the guest see it..i never did..GL

 

[Merlin cadogan]

Yup you are so right Bob, I used to work in Mallorca and detect on the beach at the end of my shift as the sun was comIng up. The amount of eyes only finds, and trash was unbelievable! I'm in a real drought right now, nothing decent in the last 5 hunts, fingers crossed for this week.....

 

[mudpuppy]

Yes I agree...especially after the heavy night beach parties weekends...man-oh-man, its really a lot of looking around as you are swinging away...really a differrent way of hunting than working the dirt or in the water...heads up scanning for what we all want to see, a scratched up place in the sand where somebody dropped and lost something important and was raking for it with their fingers! Its been a lot of cellphones again this year for me.
Mud

 

[Seagull]

Way to go! I wouldn't have caught that club head.

 

[Red Dragon]

Excuse my questions, how could you detect stones under water? Unless you could see them.
How about other materials, such as clay jars or porcelains?

Anybody ever venture beyond the beach? To deep ocean?

 

[plymouthian12]

reat tips ive only found 2 arrow heads in the scoop and hoping theres more to come

 

[Cupajo]

Excuse my questions, how could you detect stones under water? Unless you could see them.
How about other materials, such as clay jars or porcelains?

Anybody ever venture beyond the beach? To deep ocean?

There is no detecting stones unless they're "hot rocks" RD!

The idea is to be very observant of what's in your scoop/sifter and as you swing your coil on the beach.

Many fine targets are missed because of walking by them when they are visible and
/or when they are dumped out when they are'nt seen in the scoop or sifter.

GL&HH Friend,

CJ

 

[scubadetector]

That is the MAIN reason I love to dive or snorkel even in 2' of water. Old bottles. gold chains and in some spots so many targets that others that can't see them would think its a whole lot of trash! In one spot I go to in Lake Huron I have to move big rocks that are in pockets of clay and detect and pull the good stuff out from around the smaller rocks. NO WAY a wader with a scoop could or would want to move the big rocks on top. I have to put my detector down and move some then detect and pull the coins and rings out of the bottom of the clay pocket. BUT with all I am finding there its worth the work.

The waders that pass up the big targets without taking them out of the water miss a huge amount of goodies.

I have only found two gold rings in one hole once. BUT it was great fanning my hand and seeing them. Wish I could do that more often!

One of the bottles I stumbled across sold for 450.00. Better than most gold rings.

I still want to stumble across the Thompson submachine gun! I know its out there somewhere. A civil war cannon that fell through the ice would be a nice find also. But I think homeland security might frown on me driving home with a cannon on top of my Explorer.

The only phones I find are ones that have drowned. I just found one last week and the simm card still works fine. Phone is toast. I have a copy of the persons bill on the phone and will be calling Sprint to see if he or she wants the pictures on it. The 4g phone is shot. Kevin found one just like it about a month ago. The simm card on it had a LOT of interesting home pictures and movies. LOL some people and their toys.

 

[Cupajo]

Thanks for your reply SD!!

Now that's my kinda hunting!!

GL&HH Friend,

CJ