Well, Another Weekend Is "Water Under The Coil" Now :shrug:

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

And yet another weekend with gold AND silver, so no complaining here!

Hit the 5 AM low tide from 3:30 to 6:30...not as many targets as I got yesterday morning, but enough to keep my Excalibur singing. There is a tiny diamond in the center of the rose in the silver ring. I suppose it's real...maybe can use it for a replacement if my phonograph needle goes out. (Whoa...he said "phonograph needle"...what's THAT???)

Anyway, here's the booty...

 

[GraveDiggerMax-VaBch-Va]

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[JOE in MD]

I hope you left at lease one ring for me on Tuesday!!
JOE in MD

 

[houndawgg]

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[Sanddigger]

I talking about 10kt, two tone men's wedding band with 5 diamonds. Where was everyone at 5 AM low tide Sunday morning. It was dead calm too.

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Ina, we'll get a picture of it for you and I'll be glad to post it. I emailed you. Congrats!

 

[scoutingbear]

Mike,

Can not believe this. Here I am in San Diego. While out yesterday, I found two silver rings.

Here they are.

Now maybe you will know why I put in the subject line.

 

[VaBeachRon]

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[Danny (OBX)]

Is the gold in the surf (water) or in the wet sand? I need a little wisdom. I have not had time to go hunting yet to amount anything, but seems you are doing pretty well up there. Thanks for any info you can share.

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Danny, I pretty much exclusively hunt using the same formula.

- Start hunting about 1.5 to 2 hours before low tide until about 1.5 hours to 2 hours after low tide.

- Hunt the wet sand at the water's edge and work an "S" pattern, traveling along the wet sand...looking for the "target line" if there is one to be found.

- If I travel for a spell and get nothing, I will move a little higher up and a little lower down in the wet sand, looking for a hot spot. Of course I will find individual drops and deepies as well.

Sometimes my travels take me into the surf a little ways and sometimes almost to the top of the wet sand. And if the wet sand isn't producing (which is rare right now) I will experiment a little with the dry sand, but I mostly don't care for it.

All of this stuff I've been posting the last few weekends was from the wet sand at the water's edge at low tide. I'd say that about a third of it was in shin-deep water. When the surf isn't too rough I will try to get into the shell and rock crush in the first trough but lately the waves have been pretty relentlessly breaking there and I'd rather wait until it was calmer rather than fight the surf.

 

[Mike (Virginia Beach)]

Wow. Well, it does say Avon under it so it's probably more likely that most jewelry to see wider distribution. And I don't know about yours but mine is pretty big in size. I would say an 11 or bigger. It's far too big for ANY of my wife's or daughter's fingers, even their thumbs. So I'm not surprised mine was lost. Still, quite a coincidence.

 

[Sand Shagger (NMB)]

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[beachguy777]

That's a beautiful gold ring, and yea, I still know what a phonograph needle is. I'm dating my self here, but I still have three of them. I still have all my old records for 35 years or so ago. Heck, why get rid of them if they still play, however I think I'm gonna try and transfer them over to CD's when I get the time. I've got a little cheezy recorder program in Windows Xp I was messing around with but it copied The Breeze from Hawaii pretty well, so I thought I'd try it on my albums some time. I wonder if there's an outlet somewhere in town or on the internet where you could sell used rings and stuff. Just wondering about that, in case I ever get a few rings myself? Seems like they'd be worth more that way than to sell any of them for melt down value. I read about that in one of my books, but it sounds a little depleting.