Critterhunter
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Scooped a small handfull of coins and only got one semi-keeper. A round makeup compact about the diameter of a half dollar or so. It looks to be maybe copper or brass and might be old, as I've dug similar ones on land in the past about the same size that look somewhat similar. It's in pretty good shape. As always when I dig one of these, I always hope that when I open it it'll have some silver coins stuck in it, but once again no dice on that. I read a few months back of a guy in I think the MXT forum who dug one and it had some silvers or some other old coins in it if memory serves. Keep hoping one day that'll be my luck to.
Oh, about the guy using the inexpensive entry level machine. I had gridded a section of dry beach about a week or so ago and today while I was water hunting a guy with his entry level machine comes along and is hunting that same section of sand just wandering around. I pretty much scooped any target that even halfway broke out of a null when I gridded that section, so I figured it might be rough going for him covering the same ground and not even gridding it himself.
Anyway, so I'm taking a break from the water and walk over to say Hi to him. I didn't mention me gridding that area or anything because I didn't want him to think I was trying to discourage him or something. Just wanted to make a little polite conversation and see how he was doing.
Well, the guy hadn't been there a half hour, and yet when I walked up to introduce myself he pulls out a 14K thin woman's gold ring that he just pucked out of the sand! After he showed me it I then laughed at myself and went ahead and told him he just make me look really bad because I thought I had gridded that area of beach really well a week or so ago. He then said it might have been a fresh drop because he saw it by eye sticking out of the sand as he went to swing over that patch of ground. That made me feel a little better, because I'm thinking it was indeed either a fresh drop or maybe the tractor smoothing out the sand had laid it flat where as before maybe it was standing on end or something.
All I know is that for all the dry sand gridding I've done over about the last 3 weeks, the only piece of jewlery I've got show for it is one junk earring. Should have spent that time water hunting and left the dry sand hunting for colder days, because I'm quickly running out of time to do any more water hunting. The water is still decent at around 70, but the air today had a little nip to it, so I only water hunted just above my knees so as not to get my clothes wet. I know if I did that it would have been too cold to keep hunting.
Oh, about the guy using the inexpensive entry level machine. I had gridded a section of dry beach about a week or so ago and today while I was water hunting a guy with his entry level machine comes along and is hunting that same section of sand just wandering around. I pretty much scooped any target that even halfway broke out of a null when I gridded that section, so I figured it might be rough going for him covering the same ground and not even gridding it himself.
Anyway, so I'm taking a break from the water and walk over to say Hi to him. I didn't mention me gridding that area or anything because I didn't want him to think I was trying to discourage him or something. Just wanted to make a little polite conversation and see how he was doing.
Well, the guy hadn't been there a half hour, and yet when I walked up to introduce myself he pulls out a 14K thin woman's gold ring that he just pucked out of the sand! After he showed me it I then laughed at myself and went ahead and told him he just make me look really bad because I thought I had gridded that area of beach really well a week or so ago. He then said it might have been a fresh drop because he saw it by eye sticking out of the sand as he went to swing over that patch of ground. That made me feel a little better, because I'm thinking it was indeed either a fresh drop or maybe the tractor smoothing out the sand had laid it flat where as before maybe it was standing on end or something.
All I know is that for all the dry sand gridding I've done over about the last 3 weeks, the only piece of jewlery I've got show for it is one junk earring. Should have spent that time water hunting and left the dry sand hunting for colder days, because I'm quickly running out of time to do any more water hunting. The water is still decent at around 70, but the air today had a little nip to it, so I only water hunted just above my knees so as not to get my clothes wet. I know if I did that it would have been too cold to keep hunting.
