Beach finds help.

[IDigVirginia]

Today is my last day at Myrtle Beach. I have been here since Sunday and I've found around $2 in clad and several bottle caps and pull tabs. I understand that you have to swing your detector over and object to find it but I want to make the best of my evening hunt tonight. I have seen numerous YouTube videos of people walking up and down these beaches that appear to be digging ring after ring, gold chains, earrings, old coins etc. Am I looking in the right areas? I search the high tide line (where all the shells collect right below the dry sand) and the places where people sit during the day. I have a Garrett at pro. I'm not trying to sound disappointed or greedy. I just want to have the best chance of finding the good stuff and I'm not experienced at beach detecting. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone and happy hunting!

 

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[david680]

Well, those video's often have hours of nothing edited out. And there are some hunts they just erase the tape. So expecting what you see there is a bit much. Not a beach hunter myself but pretty sure you'll do best in the water.

 

[sasekate]

I like to go at low tide and go out as far as I can. I just pick up a tide schedule for the area. My beach hunter is waterproof so I can use it under water. Good Luck!!!

 

[OldSean]

It's just like fishing. Sometimes you get skunked, sometimes you get little ones and rarely you get the monster. Over time you get to know your area. Keep at it and you will get " the big one". Along the way you will have fun, get exercise and find a lot of interesting stuff

 

[Sandman]

Today is my last day at Myrtle Beach. I have been here since Sunday and I've found around $2 in clad and several bottle caps and pull tabs. I understand that you have to swing your detector over and object to find it but I want to make the best of my evening hunt tonight. I have seen numerous YouTube videos of people walking up and down these beaches that appear to be digging ring after ring, gold chains, earrings, old coins etc. Am I looking in the right areas? I search the high tide line (where all the shells collect right below the dry sand) and the places where people sit during the day. I have a Garrett at pro. I'm not trying to sound disappointed or greedy. I just want to have the best chance of finding the good stuff and I'm not experienced at beach detecting. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone and happy hunting!

Some of these video's are fake as they need subscribers so they get sponsored. Keep your coil level to the sand the whole length of the sweep.

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[trapperart]

Good luck be patient the good stuff will come

 

[Johncoho]

My wife and family usually go to North Myrtle in Sept for a family thing and I spend most of my free time on the beach with the detector. Many hours spent looking and I usually find a lot of clad, some junk jewelry, and sometimes one big ticket item for the whole week. Don't get discouraged. I usually find the good stuff as far out as I can get at low tide. I have found a 14K engagement ring with 1/3 carat diamond, an 18k ring with bagette diamonds, valued at $1500, and some other small gold and silver items. But this was over a three year period, one week at a time. Good luck. This may be your lucky night.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Most of the lost gold would be in the water where people frolick and horse around.
Beaches usually have a good amount of people that search them.
If your there for a short amount of time search places you notice the most people.

I have found silver rings in dry sand at beaches, but the only gold i ever found at the beach was up next to the sea wall which is extremely hard to detect because of the metal rebar in the wall. I think that was the only reason it was there and i found it.
Keep searching you never know when or where gold will turn up.

 

[CASPER-2]

you hit at wrong time of the year - kids still in school and vacationers have started goin - so youre hitting spots that have been hammered all winter and spring by the locals down there
- theres a ton of vet hunters that are down there - you should have tried to hook up with a few - might have increased your chances a little because they may have told you where and where not to bother
had you gone down in july or aug - think you would have had chance for fresh drops at least

 

[texjim]

Casper said it best. I go to Cape May in June and have the same problem you do. I rather pay the cheaper rates then go down in July. Good luck and keep at it.

 

[G.I.B.]

I loaned one of my machines to a friend and it was his first time on the beach with a detector.

He got an earring and a watch.

I hate him now- he's never touching my machine again.

Let the rat-******* buy his own machine.

Keep hunting. It will happen- gotta give it time.

 

[ScubaDetector]

I am in Michigan and only a few hunt my areas. Look at my last hunt. Over 100 pieces of trash and only a few good targets. Lots and lots of detectorists hit the beaches in Florida. I did for 3 weeks one year. 688 coins and one gold ring. Those three weeks I was in the water a good 18 hours each and every one of those days.

All you can do his hit it hard and keep at it. Also remember that the ring has to be lost in order to find it. You can hunt for days where thousands of people have been and not find a ring or a piece of gold.

Some hunt all hours of the day. The beach goers notice and make sure to take off their jewelry.

 

[Seif5034]

My recent experience beach hunting I found that the most productive areas were the most populated areas of the beach. Specifically the towel line. Although I did find some targets at entry ways and tide line.

As other said. You will find all the trash on the beach along with the good. Keep in mind that everything you dig could have been a $3,000 ring. Over the weekend I got just under $3 in clad and a few pieces of junk jewelry in between a LOT of trash. (bottletops, pulltabs, canopy stakes, nails, screws, gum wrappers). This was on a Florida beach.