I just got my wilcox 300 in! Gotta love overnight shipping.. I'll take a picture of it when I get home. Its the perfect size to attach to the new fanny pack.
One mod I am going to do no matter what is drill a 1/2" hole to HHO weld or solder a steel pushbar for my feet when I'm digging in hard soil or clay. I can tell that I probably won't need to replace this tool. Its design is ingenius and adding a pushover wI'll only make it more useful.
Its also the exact same length as my Minelab Go find 60 (i didn't intend for that but I'll take it lol) so it will fit in the same bag as my minelab for discreet storage or travel.
I'm going to attach the trowel via molle straps on my "tactical" fanny pack. I'm also going to attach my new GP Pointer (fairly good quality garrett carrot knockoff) and my brass coin probe, a small fixed blade knife (~1.5" blade with a really long handle that I made myself), multiple storage puches to separate trash items/iron/keepers/valuable items, a brass blade for scraping hardened or tarred sand off of suspected silver items (brass is softer than silver and won't cause any blemishes, especially if used with a soft touch) and everything else I need to bring with me on a daily basis.
I usually just use a couple of small waterproof canvas bags that clip to my beltloops, but I had one fall off the other day and barely noticed. I would hate to loose a bag full of rings and coins to the surf.
But this thread is about my digger.
I forget to mention why I wanted something so heavy duty:
The man-made beach that I normally hunt has targets I can't get to with my sand scoop. There is a very dense clay layer that ranges anywhere from 3" beneath the sand to 8" beneath the sand. This is where I have managed to pull up some really old really cool finds but I had to use a knife to dig through the clay and got lucky finding a gold played/solid gold button and a 1964 silver Kennedy and some other neat less noteable things.
I regularly get targets that I physically can't dig. Now I hope that will be a thing of the past. I'm positive there is a huge amount of untouched silver because nobody detects the beach that I go to. Its considered the trashiest beach in L.A.bit it also has the most good solid targets of any beach I've ever seen.
I feel like a little kid who wants to go play in the dirt with his new shovel. This is why I love metal detecting. It brings back that child like giddiness we all eventually lose because of having to be an adult every day.
Sometimes I just wanna play in the mud' regardless of I find anything valuable or not...
