We Lost An Entire Beach

[bigscoop]

Ever had this happen to you.....you arrive at a random place to discover that it is loaded with targets but that you're ill-equipped to hunt it effectively so you leave thinking that you'll return there someday better equipped. Now, several years later you're trying to remember where that place was and you can't seem to find it again. Try as we have Mike and I just can't remember where that little beach was at? Must be getting old, I guess.

 

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[Beezly]

Have you tried google earth? Might jog your memory

 

[smokeythecat]

I bought a GPS last fall and have been marking good finds ever since. I haven't lost a beach yet.

 

[tlane38003]

Sounds like its time for a ctx i think there is a program that makes it have excaliber tones

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[bigscoop]

Have you tried google earth? Might jog your memory

Don't have a name? It was just one of those little places you run into while on road.

 

[bigscoop]

Sounds like its time for a ctx i think there is a program that makes it have excaliber tones

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That's a pretty expensive GPS..........(I know where there's a few used CTX's for sale if you're interested?)

 

[ARC]

Don't feel bad...

I know a guy who's "huge lead bar" that he found while fishing in the keys...
that sat for 2 years on his dock...
turned out to be a silver ingot.

When told what he really had... he cannot remember where the PILE of them was.

He's been searching ever since.

 

[tlane38003]

That's a pretty expensive GPS..........(I know where there's a few used CTX's for sale if you're interested?)

I might be not share if it would be smart however to get something that pricey without a warranty but I know some have a transferable one .thanks bigscoop

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[bigscoop]

I might be not share if it would be smart however to get something that pricey without a warranty but I know some have a transferable one .thanks bigscoop

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Very pricey, indeed. Before I spend that kind of money on any machine it would have to find the gold for me............as it is, we still have to find it, all the machine does is confirms that's it's there. Everything else is just bell & whistles.

 

[sprailroad]

In one word, Yes.

 

[tlane38003]

Very pricey, indeed. Before I spend that kind of money on any machine it would have to find the gold for me............as it is, we still have to find it, all the machine does is confirms that's it's there. Everything else is just bell & whistles.

Yep I have a se pro and a excal but its the bells and whistles that I am most interested in share the machines I have will find as much but I like toys yes!!

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[bigscoop]

Yep I have a se pro and a excal but its the bells and whistles that I am most interested in share the machines I have will find as much but I like toys yes!!

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Just imagine in today's world being a manufacturer trying to design a machine. I mean, there are so many wants & dis-wants depending on each detectorist personal desires and budget it would be a pretty tough task, yet at the working end of the machine there's only just so much that a manufacture can provide, the very best of all these additional features only adding additional cost.

I've been looking at other machines, primarily a good land machine but cost VS features, many of them undesired and of little working end help that I just can't see paying for features that will never come into play for me. On the other hand, trying to find a quality detector at an affordable price that only offers just the features I desire is like trying to pick the longest toothpick from the box, not to mention that many of these skimp at the working end.

 

[Sandman]

I know of several spots that are always good but now in my old age I am unable to hunt them.

 

[bigscoop]

I know of several spots that are always good but now in my old age I am unable to hunt them.

I hunted a steep hillside the other day for a couple of hours, up and back down, up and back down, not to mention kneeling on that hillside to recover targets. At the end of the day I felt a little disjointed in a few places......

Altitudes, since my heart surgery I really feel the sudden pressure of higher altitudes in my chest. Sort of freaks me out a little......

 

[tlane38003]

Just imagine in today's world being a manufacturer trying to design a machine. I mean, there are so many wants & dis-wants depending on each detectorist personal desires and budget it would be a pretty tough task, yet at the working end of the machine there's only just so much that a manufacture can provide, the very best of all these additional features only adding additional cost.

I've been looking at other machines, primarily a good land machine but cost VS features, many of them undesired and of little working end help that I just can't see paying for features that will never come into play for me. On the other hand, trying to find a quality detector at an affordable price that only offers just the features I desire is like trying to pick the longest toothpick from the box, not to mention that many of these skimp at the working end.

Thanks for you thoughts bigscoop I got to use a f75 for a short time recovery speed was awesome but I found it to be a chatter box (imho) recovery speed is defiantly one of the things that most interest me in the ctx as well as the other features only turn of for me is cost but detecting seems to be a very inexpensive hobby in comparison to other hobbies I also am a competition bulls-eye shooter and that is way more costly and will probly never make me any money all my detectors have payed for themselves happy hunts and sorry to hear about you heart problems

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[bigscoop]

I considered the F-75 just for that recovery speed you mentioned, dealing with "a lot" of "really trashy" areas and I was curious how it might perform with a small coil in all of that trash? I really wish Fisher would produce a Cz-20/21 with interchangeable coils, if they would I'd own it!

 

[Rocklander]

Sounds like the begining of 90% of the treasure stories and legends I have read. Now I know that it does actually does happen in real life! Lol! Hope you find your spot again. Good luck.

 

[Oddjob]

Lost many of things to include a beach before; however that was because of a Kayak expedition in Greece. Found a great spot, but all we had where AT Ps, I know it was a great spot because even the AT P was doing great on those salty beaches. Two months later I was working down there in the area, had my CTX and for the life of me could not narrow it down. The day we nailed that beach we had been to 5 other islands. Only one of use who had GPS said he did not even bother turning it on until we needed to at the end or the trip.

 

[cudamark]

I considered the F-75 just for that recovery speed you mentioned, dealing with "a lot" of "really trashy" areas and I was curious how it might perform with a small coil in all of that trash? I really wish Fisher would produce a Cz-20/21 with interchangeable coils, if they would I'd own it!

Have you looked into getting a Deus? For us old farts in hilly and/or trashy areas, they hold a lot of promise. They're real light and do well in iron infested ground.

 

[bigscoop]

Lost many of things to include a beach before; however that was because of a Kayak expedition in Greece. Found a great spot, but all we had where AT Ps, I know it was a great spot because even the AT P was doing great on those salty beaches. Two months later I was working down there in the area, had my CTX and for the life of me could not narrow it down. The day we nailed that beach we had been to 5 other islands. Only one of use who had GPS said he did not even bother turning it on until we needed to at the end or the trip.

On the day we hunted that beach we had been touring up north all week, lost count of the number of places we happened onto and hunted and that was one of the beaches we hit on the way back, that way back just sort of being a, "leisurely at random route."