Any oldtimers from the real Gold Ring Era ! ?

[Northern Lights]

Anyone hunt the ancient times, The Glory Hole days, before Garrett came out with a weighted coil or the Sea Hunter, we made our own extension coils and floated Ground Hogs or Deepseekers on inner tubes. That was the real Golden Era, when 200 or 250 gold rings was not an unreasonable target for the season, because we were hitting virgin town beaches or Provincial Park ( State Park ) beaches, that produced time & time again because we were getting the accumulation of years of swimming. Those numbers didn't last long, only 2 or 3 years before everyone else got on the bandwagon and started traveling around looking for that next virgin beach. Anyone else have any antidote's from that period ?.

 

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[mumszie]

I often wondered about the guys that used to hunt "way back when". The tales they could tell - the finds they could show.....

 

[gravediggermax-vabeachva]

VA BEACH OLD TIMES

i have heard about stories from the 60's-70's after bad storms

certain areas - all sand would wash away and leave hard clay/mud bottom exposed

one could and did just walk along and pic rings out from the cracks and crevices - 100's at a time

i have never seen it, but i am waiting

 

[Chico Rico]

I hear they all went in and purchased an island in the Caribbean and lived happily after in a hammock under the mango trees sipping rum straight from the barrel. Wish I was part of that action. I love old timers!

 

[Dixie Digger]

yep im one of them! when i started water hunting we used big blocks of styrofoam and floated a whites 49'r and then a 6000di and then a Garrett Sea Hunter pi. wow i found buckets of old aluminum hair curlers and plastic ones called "Spoolies".and those darn bathing cap snaps drove me crazy! .i think in 1 year i found a shoe box of Mercury Dimes,and Flying Eagle Quarters and Buffalo Nickles. the most rings i ever found in one day was 21 in a small lake in Ohio and its still there. and the real treat came in the fall when they would draw down the lakes to winter pool and drop them about 12'....then you could get the loot that was too deep to wade. wow i miss the good old days!!!

 

[JP]

Your stories are breaking my heart

I feel strange to say how excited I was when I pulled 5 rings out in one day (3 silver and 2 junk).

Those had to have been fascinating times to hit areas that had many years of swimmers and no one had ever hunted it. I know that they were good times and now it is nearly impossible to find a site like that.

Good luck to all.

JP

 

[Sandman]

I remember floating a Garrett ADS-7 on a tube and using a weighted coil on a broomstick. I would only scoop the targets that read from iron to penny so as to not waste time scooping coins. I would get those in the fall since there were no other nerds doing this thing. Some lakes would be drained, but the real fun was on the coast beaches.

Forget laying in a hammock sipping run, maybe laying in a bed with an warm milk.