kc10bull
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Well I went on my first water hunt of the year! Finally got a pass from my wife to hunt all day. I had found a fresh water swimming hole on google back in December, it was a park but out of the normal path for most people or so I thought. Packed up all my gear and the wife trots out and jumps in the truck with me! Surprise I'm tagging along today, to keep you know who out of mischief. Anyway it took 2 hours to get to this out of the way park. Went in and talked with the rangers, they were friendly, then I ask about the swimming spot and they informed me that due to other water / sand hunters last year not filling there holes and leaving trash around, they no longer allowed people to detect in the park. I tried my best, and discussed our great hobby and promised to leave no traces and the trash I recovered would be properly disposed of. They still turned me down but said that I could go into the park for free and check out the swimming hole and the rest of the park. The wife and I took a tour of the park and when I saw the swimming hole I just knew this would have been an outstanding place to have detected. Upon exiting the park I stopped and thanked the rangers for the tour, gave them a business card and ask them if anyone looses something in the swimming hole I would be happy to come out and recover the lost item. They informed me that was nice and they would keep my information and give me a call when someone looses something! So all was not lost.
So now I had to figure out where to go and the wife ask to go to St. Pete beach so off we go 2 more hours of driving. Detecting time 3 hours, results: 1 hot wheels car, one quarter, 2 dimes, and a penny. Lots of bottle caps, pull tabs and parts of aluminum cans and one hoop ear ring. Saw a lady swinging her detector and she waved, went to talk to her and found out his was her first hunt with her new garretts detector. I ask her if she had any questions boy did she, she was swinging the coil a foot off the sand. I gave her some lessons on how to properly swing the coin and recover items from the sand. I then pulled out my 2 gold test rings 8k and 14k that I use and ask her to see if she could locate them. No luck not even a little beep. I made some adjustments to her detector and then she could here the tones perfectly. Then she found a hot wheels car burried at 3 inches. She was really excited. I informed her about the metal detecting club meeting at Bill Jackson's in Pinellas Park on te 4th Monday of the month at 7 pm and she thanked me, off she went with her friends to discover more treasure.
Oh and the wife and I sat and watched a beautiful sunset together, a great way to end a day of detecting! I didn't find any gold in the water. But we did have a golden moment watching the sunset .
So now I had to figure out where to go and the wife ask to go to St. Pete beach so off we go 2 more hours of driving. Detecting time 3 hours, results: 1 hot wheels car, one quarter, 2 dimes, and a penny. Lots of bottle caps, pull tabs and parts of aluminum cans and one hoop ear ring. Saw a lady swinging her detector and she waved, went to talk to her and found out his was her first hunt with her new garretts detector. I ask her if she had any questions boy did she, she was swinging the coil a foot off the sand. I gave her some lessons on how to properly swing the coin and recover items from the sand. I then pulled out my 2 gold test rings 8k and 14k that I use and ask her to see if she could locate them. No luck not even a little beep. I made some adjustments to her detector and then she could here the tones perfectly. Then she found a hot wheels car burried at 3 inches. She was really excited. I informed her about the metal detecting club meeting at Bill Jackson's in Pinellas Park on te 4th Monday of the month at 7 pm and she thanked me, off she went with her friends to discover more treasure.
Oh and the wife and I sat and watched a beautiful sunset together, a great way to end a day of detecting! I didn't find any gold in the water. But we did have a golden moment watching the sunset .
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