12 pieces of gold

[Gary Drayton]

I was not working on Friday so I took a trip to the Treasure Coast in search of Spanish treasure. All I found was a couple of bronze ship spikes, a musket ball and piece of indian pottery. On the drive home I decided to stop at a tourist beach to try to keep my gold streak going, I found an eroded beach and 12 pieces of gold jewelry. Everything is marked 18K, 14K & 10K with a few small diamond chips for good luck.

 

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[Whydah]

Nice work Gary, certainly worked in your favor... Just think how many other WORKED OUT places hold Gold for you.... Happy Holidays

 

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[lookindown]

The beach in question is heavily hunted, I saw 12 people metal detecting in the 4 hours I was there, although the beach was eroded I am sure all the local regular beach hunters already recovered all the easy to find gold bands. I probably picked up some of the harder to find smaller gold finds that the Excal/CZ users walked over. Will let you know on the book addition.

12 people detecting and you found all that gold...so the 3030 is that much better than an Excal or a CZ..come on Gary.

 

[Gary Drayton]

12 people detecting and you found all that gold...so the 3030 is that much better than an Excal or a CZ..come on Gary.

Please reread the original post, I merely stated that the other beach hunters were using Excals and CZs. they were all moving on the beach pretty fast, I assumed they walked over the smaller gold finds that I found. Maybe the other beach hunters did well also ?

 

[bigscoop]

12 people detecting and you found all that gold...so the 3030 is that much better than an Excal or a CZ..come on Gary.

If you look closely most of those are pretty fine gold items, thin profiles, not big chunky gold or items that present very thick/dense signatures. I've used a CZ for years, both the 20 & 21 and I can tell you that in a moving saltwater environment it is unlikely that the CZ would signal on the majority these items unless they were practically scraping the coil with a high sensitivity setting and at a rather quick swing speed. As for the "stock" Excal, maybe with the smaller coil and high sensitivity but only if they were fairly shallow, say less then 4 - 5 inches. Add a set of really good headphones like the ones OBN is preparing to sell and that depth can be increased a bit. What I'm seeing in Gary's finds is someone who was very proficient with the Sov. GT and he's been able to apply that experience and knowledge into his use of the 3030. Odds are, if he could use the Sov. GT. out there his results would still be pretty much the same. This is just my personal take on things.

 

[biggmike]

12 people detecting and you found all that gold...so the 3030 is that much better than an Excal or a CZ..come on Gary.

I bet when the guys that read these posts go out and drop 3 grand on the 3030 expecting to find 50 gold a month but find the same as the rest of us do would probably feel like they got ripped. Most of the guys using them that I have talked to don't like them. Heck, after reading these posts I would own one if I didn't know better.

 

[Jersey Hunter]

Nice. You've been having great success, keep it up. HH

 

[Jeff Harris]

Can we just start calling you "Fort Knox?" Serious congrats on the great finds, you earned it.