Another decent beach hunt,

[Garabaldi]

Headed out to the beach again today. Sun felt great, but it was still cold. My goal was to find some silver, but no luck. When I arrived I put my coil down turned on my machine and it buzzed. I had set my coil down on a musket ball, not a bad first target. Ended with three round balls, 3 V-nickles (1911-1907-1905), 3 buffalo head nickles and a ton of clad. I am not sure what the big spike is. I have been using my Whites M6, which does not eliminate feedback from the salt water. I am going to bring my surf diver next time, because I suspect there is silver I am missing. In two days of hunting this area I have found 7 buff nickles, 4 V-nickles and a ton of recent nickles. I am suspicious why no silver dimes. My theory is if I use the surf diver that eliminates salt feedback, I will hear deeper targets.
Dimes seem to fall deeper than nickles. I will keep you informed of my results.

 

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[BandB1]

Nice diggs, Congrats on the Nickles!

Good luck on scoring some silver, sounds like it should be there.

HH.

 

[Knightwalker]

Very nice finds.
HH in 2010

 

[Deno]

Nice hunting. I like the idea of the easy digging.

 

[TreasurdiggrNY]

Nice old beach finds hope you get the silver you're looking for, gold is good too

 

[cntrydncr1]

fantastic hunt!

 

[Garabaldi]

The lead round balls could be bullets for guns, or they might also be canister shot from the inside of Civil War artillery rounds.

I am not sure what the caliber is of the case shot, but it might be worth looking into. It is something a little different than your average musketball.

I agree plehbah.
Thanks you all.

 

[tymcmurray]

Another very nice hunt!!

Ty

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[nova treasure]

Very Nice Finds,
just to add more id to your finds. the pointed piece with the screw hole probably came off a cars convertible top. I have these on my Chevy 2 Nova.

Nova Treasure

 

[PAULWYO]

wow cool digs wtg

 

[EpsilonMinus]

Wow, nice score!

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

Your definately talented when you can haul out 100 + coins a hunt .. all those old nickels, but no silver or gold items something weird about that. Surfdiver theory is interesting .Let us know ,hope u are successful . Nice finds, "great beach", and get the silver . CMD

 

[SkyPirate]

Wow nice finds, good luck with the silver!

 

[Garabaldi]

Very Nice Finds,
just to add more id to your finds. the pointed piece with the screw hole probably came off a cars convertible top. I have these on my Chevy 2 Nova.

Nova Treasure

Thank you Nova.

Your definately talented when you can haul out 100 + coins a hunt .. all those old nickels, but no silver or gold items something weird about that. Surfdiver theory is interesting .Let us know ,hope u are successful . Nice finds, "great beach", and get the silver . CMD

I have used Whites Surf Diver at this area before and found old silver dimes. The catch is the machine has no discrimination or screen, so if it beeps you dig. I decided to try my Whites M6 to see if there was any difference. When I was finding more nickles than dimes including old nickles and no old dimes made me think something is fishy. We will see if my theory is correct. Thanks for the replies everyone.

 

[Garabaldi]

I'm heading out to get my silver.

 

[phantomfinder]

You had a great day of hunting, WTG

 

[allen]

looks like your off to a great start
with all of those old nickels !!
Keep looking, the silver will pop up soon !

 

[Garabaldi]

used the pulse diver and found two silver dimes, but in tough shape. Barber and merc. Found8 wheaties, my first Shield nicke, two mor V-nickles and a couple of Buff. nickles. The pulse diver found deeper targets. It worked.