DrJoePrime
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- Sep 9, 2007
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- Detector(s) used
- XP Deus, White's Surfmaster Dual Field, Tesoro Sand Shark, Garrett ATX
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
Well, here's the anomaly:
My favorite finds have been Gold rings and my average recovery rate has been close to a ring a month. Best of times I've gotten 6 rings in 3 weeks...worst of times ...maybe 2 months between rings. So now my last Gold ring was September 4 and try as I might NO GOLD RINGS!
Until Saturday last....I was at the local boaters beach looking for deep old coins and hoping for Silver. This beach has only a 2" sand cover over a hardpack sand concretion. My regular sand scoop gets damaged trying to dig beyond about that 2". I carry a small garden pick to get down deeper. My efforts have been rewarded by a few Silver quarters and dimes and wheat pennies.
I was using my Deus DRY SAND program modified to 4K with disc at 22 and small coil. I picked up some wheat pennies at about 6"+ and then got this darn foil signal at about 31. I scuffed the sand with my foot and the signal moved so I knew it was shallow. I very nearly ignored the signal..figuring 99.9% chance it was foil...but decided to pick it up to clean the beach. So I scooped up the "foil" and nearly fainted when it showed up as a silver ring!
But wait...31 would not be silver! Slipping my glasses up I looked inside the ring...YES! Not Silver..NOT Junk! 14K
This was not my first Gold ring but after 6 dry months it sure felt like it! Gold is Good! This one 4.95 grams of goodness.
The wet sand was very tempting and although my PI's are much deeper I wanted to get more experience with the Deus in wet sand. I picked up enough signals to keep me satisfied (well, it doesn't take much). A few clad coins and some neat (to me) stainless steel washers nuts and bolts. Deepest signals were about 4" to 5". Then a ring! A pretty one but unmarked so probably junk...but still case worthy due to looks.
My enthusiasm that evening so so high that I decided to order the much needed new ring cases. I had 4 before (36 ring capacity) and I am on my 5th (maybe 6th) case already. I've done this by reusing the older cases and putting the rings in "storage". Coming soon..2 (72 ring) cases and 2 (36 ring) cases with a ton of foam ring holder inserts.
Gotta Love this hobby!
HH Joe
My favorite finds have been Gold rings and my average recovery rate has been close to a ring a month. Best of times I've gotten 6 rings in 3 weeks...worst of times ...maybe 2 months between rings. So now my last Gold ring was September 4 and try as I might NO GOLD RINGS!
Until Saturday last....I was at the local boaters beach looking for deep old coins and hoping for Silver. This beach has only a 2" sand cover over a hardpack sand concretion. My regular sand scoop gets damaged trying to dig beyond about that 2". I carry a small garden pick to get down deeper. My efforts have been rewarded by a few Silver quarters and dimes and wheat pennies.
I was using my Deus DRY SAND program modified to 4K with disc at 22 and small coil. I picked up some wheat pennies at about 6"+ and then got this darn foil signal at about 31. I scuffed the sand with my foot and the signal moved so I knew it was shallow. I very nearly ignored the signal..figuring 99.9% chance it was foil...but decided to pick it up to clean the beach. So I scooped up the "foil" and nearly fainted when it showed up as a silver ring!
But wait...31 would not be silver! Slipping my glasses up I looked inside the ring...YES! Not Silver..NOT Junk! 14K
This was not my first Gold ring but after 6 dry months it sure felt like it! Gold is Good! This one 4.95 grams of goodness.
The wet sand was very tempting and although my PI's are much deeper I wanted to get more experience with the Deus in wet sand. I picked up enough signals to keep me satisfied (well, it doesn't take much). A few clad coins and some neat (to me) stainless steel washers nuts and bolts. Deepest signals were about 4" to 5". Then a ring! A pretty one but unmarked so probably junk...but still case worthy due to looks.
My enthusiasm that evening so so high that I decided to order the much needed new ring cases. I had 4 before (36 ring capacity) and I am on my 5th (maybe 6th) case already. I've done this by reusing the older cases and putting the rings in "storage". Coming soon..2 (72 ring) cases and 2 (36 ring) cases with a ton of foam ring holder inserts.
Gotta Love this hobby!
HH Joe
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You did a great job on the photo with the plant.
Keep the faith and the gold will come. Congrats again.
