LawrencetheMDer
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- Feb 22, 2014
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- Detector(s) used
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Minelab Manticore, Minelab CTX3030 w 11" and 17" DD coils,
Minelab Excalibur II w 10" coil, Equinox 800 (4) w 11" and 15" coils,
Troy Shadow x2 w 7" coil, Pointers; Garrett Carrot, Pro Find 35,
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
Been heavily hunting this washed-out black sand and stone covered beach for past 2 months. Recently spent 5 ½ hrs metal detecting the beach and found only 38 coins. Pulled 589 coins, Titanium ring and 2 silver items from the beach so far this year.
The below graph shows number of coins/hr found at this beach over the past 2 months. The trend line is DOWN. In other words, I’m raking the beach clean. Interesting to see new coins showing up in the finds, as the beach gains popularity with warmer weather. Going to shift my MD hunting to low tide and the surf.
The real problem with the beach is that it hasn’t revealed any gold. A nearby beach, where I found just as many coins this year, yielded 2 gold rings and a platinum ring. The gold has to be there…somewhere. Perhaps now that I’ve gotten all the junk coins out-of-the-way I can rescan the beach REAL SLOW and hunt for deeper targets more likely to be gold. This beach (and coin finds) are destroying my gold:coin ratio. I like to keep it in the 1:200 - 1:250 range. Right now it is at 1:414 for 2016! Aaaauuuuu. Have to find gold or I'm going to have a seizure.
Coins in 2016=1,243
Gold (and Platinum)=3
Silver=3
The below graph shows number of coins/hr found at this beach over the past 2 months. The trend line is DOWN. In other words, I’m raking the beach clean. Interesting to see new coins showing up in the finds, as the beach gains popularity with warmer weather. Going to shift my MD hunting to low tide and the surf.
The real problem with the beach is that it hasn’t revealed any gold. A nearby beach, where I found just as many coins this year, yielded 2 gold rings and a platinum ring. The gold has to be there…somewhere. Perhaps now that I’ve gotten all the junk coins out-of-the-way I can rescan the beach REAL SLOW and hunt for deeper targets more likely to be gold. This beach (and coin finds) are destroying my gold:coin ratio. I like to keep it in the 1:200 - 1:250 range. Right now it is at 1:414 for 2016! Aaaauuuuu. Have to find gold or I'm going to have a seizure.
Coins in 2016=1,243
Gold (and Platinum)=3
Silver=3
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Maybe this beach is used primarily by people who don't wear much jewelry like kids and fisherman etc. I like to hunt beaches that I know a lot tourists and or middle aged to elderly people frequent because they tend to be wearing the good stuff. Then again, sometimes its just not there. I've had my share of days finding .35 (in crusted pennies) and a couple of bottle caps and pull tabs. Breathe in, enjoy and thank God for another day spent at the beach.
