Monday Hunt at Silver Beach, St. Joe Michigan

[gtodude]

This past Monday my son and I went to St. Joe to do some beach hunting. We got there early and there was only 1 fellow detectorist there. After a couple hours, there were more guys with detectors than I have ever seen on SW Florida beaches! :shock: After hunting the dry sand for about 5 hours, we called it quits and left with $8.83 in clad, a matchbox car, a piece of copper which looks to be part of a girls hair clip and a little girls cupcake ring. Unfortunately the ring wasn't silver but still a decent day of hunting. We were digging coins anywhere from fresh drops to almost a foot deep.



I'm not sure if anyone from here was there, but everyone kind of minded their own business and did their own thing. I said hi to a couple guys that came near us but neither are members so I invited them here.

Sorry about the grainy picture, I need to find a way to resize pics from my iPhone without making them look all goofy.

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Nice job!

 

[A2coins]

this hobby is growing fast sounds like a fun day

 

[gtodude]

I think the hobby is growing and dying fast at the same time, meaning that a lot of people take up the hobby and quickly get frustrated and get out. There are some that stay for the long haul but unfortunately the younger kids these days are too interested in video games rather than actually going outside and enjoying nature. It's quite sad actually. It's amazing how society has changed in the 42 years that I have been around...I can't imagine the next 42.

I did notice that many of the guys out there on the dry sand must not want to get their coils sandy because most of them were not scrubbing the beach. They had their coil at least 6 inches off of the sand, not that I am judging but that would explain the depth of my finds being somewhere between 4-10 inches deep.

It was quite interesting watching the park guys groom the beach. It made for an easy way to grid the beach as we detected, when we left you could see our tracks over a great majority of the beach.

It almost looked like an archaeological dig happened there.

 

[galba68]

this is happening with guys on the fields, too..they buy the latest expensive detectors, and they had their coils, like you said, few inches off the dirt, afraid that something will happen to coil, because,MY GOD, my machine is soooo expensive..and , they find nothing, then come frustration, and most of them give up and sell detectors..it sad, that we dont see young people do metal detecting more often..way of life in US and EUROPE is so different than 20 or 30 years ago..

 

[Hawks88]

Nice haul of coins. Congrats

 

[Gare]

Nice finds Thank you for the memories . My folks used to take me there more then 60 years ago. I still remember riding the bump um cars there

 

[Trezurehunter]

Looks like it was a nice beach hunt.