9/13 Sand Shark At The Beach

[Smudge]

Well, took the Sand Shark to the Central Florida Beaches this morning to make up for not getting there Sunday. Lousy day, sad to say. Only 13 cents in clad for 5 hours work.

The bucket shot is below. My junk count continues to grow:

Bottle Caps: 64
Pull Tabs: 7
Bobby Pins: 22
Screws/Washers: 13
Batteries: 1
Tie Wraps: 1
Other Assorted Junk: 19 (including that gigantic "springy" looking thing).

The foil packaging in the smokes set off the Sand Shark. Impressive.

Better luck next week. Maybe. :P

 

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[EpsilonMinus]

Man, that seems unbelievable that you didn't have better success, at least with the clad, even... Sounds like you need to start stalking whoever is getting the good stuff, and get them to teach you their secret method of zen-discrimination. How is it that all the goods are gone and all the caps are still there? I can't count the times I have seen people on this forum talk about how caps and gold/coins appear in the same register, so they end up digging them all. Must be some super-detectorist over there. Or, someone is wiping out the entire beach and not picking up the trash.

 

[KEYSHUNTER]

125 bottle caps =1 ring in my world keep at it

 

[Smudge]

Man, that seems unbelievable that you didn't have better success, at least with the clad, even... Sounds like you need to start stalking whoever is getting the good stuff, and get them to teach you their secret method of zen-discrimination. How is it that all the goods are gone and all the caps are still there? I can't count the times I have seen people on this forum talk about how caps and gold/coins appear in the same register, so they end up digging them all. Must be some super-detectorist over there. Or, someone is wiping out the entire beach and not picking up the trash.

That's the price you pay using pulse induction. It doesn't discriminate. You have to train you ear for the tones to see if you want to dig and that's not an easy process. It takes time. So I dig lots of junk. :P

The beaches here in Central Florida haven't been producing much lately, but some people are still making some really nice hits. I'm considering getting a discrimination machine for the dry sand sand and limiting the sand shark to wet sand/surf, which is what most detectorists are telling me to do anyway.

The nice part about the pi on dry sand is that it gives you some excellent training on the tones. So that's pretty useful.

 

[detectahead]

If nothing else, you're doing a great cleanup! You know it's out there, keep at it!

 

[mlayers]

Well in my book all fo the junk adds u to $$$$$. Just save it and at the end of the year take it to the recycle center and turn it in for $$$$$.....Matt

 

[VBDave]

And don't discount the cigarette boxes. I find em all the time with my Shark, and on at least 2 occasions there's been cash rolled up inside!

 

[petersra]

And don't discount the cigarette boxes. I find em all the time with my Shark, and on at least 2 occasions there's been cash rolled up inside!

I have heard about "cash in the box" and even "gold in the box", but I haven't found a treasure filled cigarette box yet. Still looking. Smudge, I hope you didn't throw yours away before you looked inside. You got good exercise digging all that junk and you performed a community service, so all was not wasted.

 

[S.S.Tupperware]

I hear ya on slow.... there is just so much sand that all my finds come in pockets and they are slim. I use the DF so I don't hunt the fluff with it. I have a DFX with an 18 in excellerator on it, and clad or good finds have been slow in the dry as well. I hope this up coming storm will stir some things up. I know ,even with the people out there hunting there is loot out there , but damn if I can find it...

 

[Smudge]

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I have heard about "cash in the box" and even "gold in the box", but I haven't found a treasure filled cigarette box yet. Still looking. Smudge, I hope you didn't throw yours away before you looked inside. You got good exercise digging all that junk and you performed a community service, so all was not wasted.
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Oh you'd better believe I checked inside!

Just sand and tobacco shreds though.

 

[DewGuru]

Keep with it ... I also use the Tesoro Sand Shark, do quite well with it, and love it. I do however refuse to hunt the dry sand with it ... Entirely too much trash for that. I dig a small amount of trash in the wet sand and very little in the water, short of bobby pins, of which I have a bucket slap full of em. Keep at it and you'll getter done - Tampa area here.

 

[Smudge]

Keep with it ... I also use the Tesoro Sand Shark, do quite well with it, and love it. I do however refuse to hunt the dry sand with it ... Entirely too much trash for that. I dig a small amount of trash in the wet sand and very little in the water, short of bobby pins, of which I have a bucket slap full of em. Keep at it and you'll getter done - Tampa area here.

Thanks, and you're correct. I'm working the Sand Shark in the dry sand mostly to educate myself. Soon it will be strictly be wet sand/surf.

Is there a secondary market for bobby pins?

 

[Willee]

Them their PI detectors are great beach cleaners.
Thanks for sweeping the beach of all that junk.
Believe it or not ... there are those that just dump it back on the beach after seeing what it is in their scoop.
Next time you or some other metal detector user hits that beach there is that much less junk to contend with.

 

[Smudge]

Thanks.

I always pick up the trash and always fill in the holes.

 

[tnt-k9]

1. I always assume that the detectorist who worked an area ahead of me were ethical and took the trash with them. Sooooo I always think it's a good sign when I'm getting pull tabs and other trash. It means to me that there hasn't been anyone working the area which increases the likelihood that I might find something good.

2. I always check the cigarette packs. Haven't found anything yet but it stands to reason that someone might put something in there thinking that the box will be easier to find and they end up forgetting about it or it gets buried accidentally.