Water hunting gold

Gary Drayton

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All Treasure Hunting
I found an 18K wedding band and three mercury dimes a couple of days ago on a low tide using my Excalibur way offshore on a ledge.
I completed my weekend honey do list, grocery shopping, mowing the lawn, cleaning the pool and managed to earn enough wife credits for a 3 hour water hunt this afternoon and back to the ledge to find some more gold.
Beautiful calm water and my CTX 3030 was purring under the water, I had Barry the Barracuda making sure I did not leave anything behind for the locals. I found 3 silver rings, a silver chain and two honking big gold class rings from in between the cracks and crevices on the ledge. The gold class rings both weigh over 1/2 ounce each and are soaking in lemon juice to get the coral encrustation off, along with some more old silver coins.
HH Gary
 

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birdman

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Jan 28, 2005
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Gary your the man!
 

mercury1

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Wow, nice finds! And cuda posing for a pic.
 

SonnyFl

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Barry's back! Barry's back! Does that mean the waters are warm and clear? Great job Gary! :cry :cry :beer
 

JustinNH

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Very impressive- congrats!
 

Talon

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Great job! Were you snorkeling?
 

lorraine

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Terrific finds, Gary!

Congratulations on fine detecting!

Lorraine
 

Buzzlitebeer

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Dec 29, 2012
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Lol Barry the Barracuda! nice finds congrats. Glad to see you got paroled long enuff to hunt.
 

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Gary Drayton

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Dec 28, 2007
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Fort Lauderdale Florida
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Minelab Excalibur
Minelab Sovereign GT
Minelab CTX3030
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Great job! Were you snorkeling?
Thanks for all the nice replies, yes I had to use a snorkel and mask out this far in the water. Here a couple more photos, cleaned rings and one taken after i used my boot to fan the sand off the target.
 

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Sand Gnat

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Very nice Gary!
 

OBN

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Fine treasure Gary, Good to see your slipping out......
 

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