What was your deepest find, what detector did you use???:detecting:

[treasurefiend]

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[thinkin2]

Before all of the renourishment started we used to find lots of Civil War stuff on Folly Beach. I used to find minnie balls, buttons, cartridge box belt plates (commonly called eagle breast plates) and tons of other things including period bottles, etc. Hard to say what was the deepest but probably a minnie or a belt plate well over a foot down. I mostly used the Fisher CZ6 when it first came out. Excellent machine. Also, before then Technetics came out with a strange looking unit called the ST and it was probably the deepest unit I ever used but it had a design flaw. If I recall correctly if the batteries completely drained the charging process would reverse polarity or something like that and totally fry the circuitry. I'm no techno guy but seems like that's what I heard. Too bad because up to that time I never saw anything that could compete with it on a salt water beach.
Jerry

 

[Mike Moutray - St.Louis MO]

The deepest hole I dug was 2 1/2 feet deep for a beer can using the Explorer with the 15" WOT in the dry sand at the beach.... this was right after the WOT came out and we were testing it that day - very faint broken signal. The deepest land hole was 14" for a silver-dollar sized make-up compact using the Explorer with the stock coil... that was a lot of work for a disappointing signal, could have at least had a wheatie inside it or something... HH, Mike.

 

[nugget]

About 3ft with the Infinium LS, it was a nest of 4 aluminum soft drink tins:veryangry: I have got AUD 50c pieces at Surfers Paradise one was at 17" and the other at 18" in wet beach sand (measured with a tape measure). Slight signal, dug about 3" off and the signal was very firm. HH regards Nugget.

 

[Gulf Hunter]

The undisputed champion, FO SHO! It was recovered in the summer of '06, over the 2nd bar on a - tide. The water was ankle deep. I was using a GQA2 PI and the signal was barely audible or repeatable. It was past my elbow in the hole and took me a good 30 minutes to fan up. It is 10K, 12.4G's, has 120 baggett diamonds and custom designed, like a slot machine. It is VERY gaudy, but sometimes when I feel like blingin', I wear it on my pinky finger, LOL! It appraised at $2700 and it is currently my most valuable find. Would consider a trade for 2 Credit Suisse .999 1 troy oz. bars of fine gold, any takers?
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[treasurefiend]

WOW, great find brother!!!

 

[nugget]

WOW GH a magnificent piece. Congrats, I'm only 5' 3" so past your elbow would be waist deep for me!!! ha ha HH regards Nugget.

 

[thinkin2]

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[fedder]

I dug up a beer can that was over 2' deep with an Explorer. After that, I learned not to do that anymore because it is too much work and little payoff. My deepest quarter was over a foot deep, but that was not the norm. Fortunately rings were never more than 6" to 8".