LawrencetheMDer
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- Joined
- Feb 22, 2014
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- Location
- Ohio and Florida
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Manticore w M8, M11 and M15 coils, , Minelab CTX3030 w 11" and 17" DD coils,
Minelab Excalibur II w 10" coil, Equinox 800 (4) w 11" and 15" coils,
Pointers; Garrett Carrot, Pro Find 35,
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
As the title implies, in my shortened season of 3 ½ months on the western coast of Florida, I collected 12.3 lbs of micro trash while metal detecting. And this is the minimum. It doesn’t include pounds of lead fishing weights (that I sell for scrap), or larger objects like whole cans that I collect but dispose of quickly. And, yes, there are a few larger pieces in the pic but the vast majority is tiny and some, no a lot are real tiny; like less than 0.01 grams the smallest my scale will measure. Amazing what the Manticore detects. This season I hunted mostly wet and dry sand where junk outnumber good targets by about 4:1. [Very cold and no one went in water Dec – end of March.] An educated guess of the actual number of pieces of micro trash, based in-part on the number of kept good targets [I found 1,195 coins, alone, this season.] would be 5,000 – 7500. Now multiply this estimate by the 1,000s of Metal Detectorists that (seem) to hunt the beaches I hunt and one will begin to recognize the valuable service we provide to the general public and to the environment. FOR FREE! Further, regarding safety; the hooks (one measured 7” a few years back), broken glass bottle tops with caps, screws, nails, sharp metal scrap, pointed remnants of crab traps, the list goes on, the number of injuries Metal Detectorists prevent is immeasurable. Laws, rules and regulations should promote metal detecting and welcome Metal Detectorists to visit their beaches; the general public and the environment would greatly benefit.
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