:usaflag:Silver and Gold with Small Stones.:detecting:

[Cupajo]

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 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

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

on the sandy beaches. I have never hunted on a sandy beach or down on the Texas Gulf Coast. Maybe one of these days I will give it a try after seeing all the good things that you are finding. You are doing great! Kelley (Texas)

 

[Cupajo]

Thanks Fred!!

The finds are from in the water.

This area in the water is mostly large stones with a little sand overlay when the hunting is at it's best.

It is a physical challenge to recover anything.

Many of the signals are just rusty iron, but must be dug up, because there is no way to know what is there without the diggin.

If it was about the money I would be better off working at Wall-Mart as a greeter as far as the return for effort expended!

I cashed in many gold rings when gold was at $635.00 and got a lot of money, but when I factored in the time and effort spent recovering the gold I realized more money could have been made at Mc Donald's, but I would not have as much fun!!

Thanks for your reply Friend,

CJ

 

[Wayne in BC]

and persistent detectorist Cuppa! I never found many rings but a few good ones and some trashy stuff.

 

[Cupajo]

Why thank you Wayne!!

Anyone with a good detector who knows how to use it and is willing and able to move tons of sand, gravel and small boulders can do the same!!

My best to you and your lady,

CJ

 

[Micheal_R]

Any time out is quality time!!

fair winds

Micheal

 

[George-CT]

Saw quite a few guys down at Watch Hill RI. Right down to hard pan....

 

[Cupajo]

Ahh Michael,

Once again you show me that we are kindred spirits!!

CJ

 

[Cupajo]

George I don't even know where that is!

It have been so convenient over the years for me to hunt locally that I don't even know where else to go.

This AM I climbed into my dry suit, as the tide isn't dropping much in this moon phase, and spent three more hours diggin hair-pins, nails, bottle caps and 1 fair sized silver ring.

I just got a call to go find a wedding band forr an older gent ten miles or so from here.

I'll post the silver ring later.

CJ

 

[George-CT]

of it from Google earth. You are seeing about 1/4 of the beach area. It goes all the way to Pt. Judith. In the picture where the see the 3 green icons together, about in the middle on the beach is a good place to start. Your legs will give out long before you finish. Miles of beach. I hunt this all winter after storms.... Love it there. Big area there to park in right at the beach. Its just over the dune. From your place your about 1 hour. Thats what it takes me from here. Often my wife takes her horses along and rides the beachs while I detect.
About the only soft ground here in the winter. It's open to open sea there so you want to pay attention to those North east storms....

Misquaimicut Beach is a good place to start. Summer, this place is wall to wall with tourist.

Type in Watch Hill, RI in Google Earth and swing right. More beach there than you could hunt in 2 life times....
Then again, nothing wrong with it right in your backyard in walking distance.

George-CT

 

[Cupajo]

Thanks for the info George!

I think it would be tough trying to "really get to know" a beach as large as Hammanassat or the RI beaches like I have the smaller local beaches.

Being in the salt water in 15 or 20 minutes is a lot easier for me than driving for an hour just to get to another area especially when there are seeveral local beaches I haven't tried yet.

It's in the mid-30s this AM and the water is fairly calm, so I may get out there in a couple of hours when the tide is right.

Yesterday I found out it is already too cold in the water to wear my dry suit without a lot of insulation.

After three hours I was peeing ice water!!

CJ

 

[Cupajo]

Here's the silver ring as premised.

It's interesting in that the continuous chain that wraps around the band rotates, something I have never seen before.

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The call I got to locate a wedding band was an interesting experience even if I wasn't able to find the ring for the 80+ year old gentleman.

He described it as a moderately sized platinum band and it fell off in the grass and leaves near his barn when he was putting away pool equipment for the winter.

He thought he felt it when it dropped off, but about an hours searching in a fairly small space convinced me that it was not there.

Once the leaves were gently blown away we could see the packed soil underneath with wispy grass growing out of it and a ring would have really been very visible.

I showed him how the Ace 250 responded to a nickle using the speaker so he would hear the signals and there wasn't one repeatable signal to be found except the nickle.

A couple of possibles prompted me to demonstrate the Pro-Pointer so he could see exactly where the signal was and that it was something buried in the soil, not on top of it.

He then realized that maybe he only thought it had dropped off where we were hunting and perhaps he would look around in the barn and house or better yet have his wife (who finds everything) look for it when she gets home.

He expressed gratitude that I would take the time to help him even though it hadn't panned out and asked if he could pay me for my efforts.

I explained how I had only recently started asking for a $20 fee to pay for batteries and he handed me a folded bill and with a smile told me this should buy a few.

All in all it was a pleasant experience and I felt as though the heart-felt handshake and thank you meant he thought so too.

As I drove away from the multi-million dollar estate, I glanced at the folded bill and was pleased to see a fifty!

Locating the ring is important and I have managed to find and return 38 as of this moment, but sometimes just making an earnest effort to find one is enough,

CJ