-Taz-
Full Member
- Mar 28, 2013
- 111
- 50
- Detector(s) used
- XP Deus, Tesoro Sand Shark
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Received my F5 in the mail today, happy days! 
But it’s a bittersweet moment since I tomorrow is leaving for the US on a week’s business trip. Something I usually look forward to, but this time a week postponement would have been nice.
Well since it has arrived I just got to make the best of it. So after dinner I tell the missus I am going out to detect for an hour or two, first problem; where to go? I now live on a barren island on the North Sea coast, it’s a large island but mostly rocks, some more rocks with a bit of topsoil and marshes. There are of course some farms, but they are tiny and mostly just have grassing sheep, not much ploughing. The options today was very limited, parks? Forget it, doesn´t exist, we use mother nature. I ended up going to what the locals here look upon as the “beach”, some low cliffs and stones with some dots of grass on top of them. If you are lucky, and its low tide, there is also a small patch of sandy bottom that reveals it self (maybe 6X4 meters). Well I was lucky the tide was out!
But before we come to the actually searching problem number two came over the horizon, well actually at the same moment I told the missus I was going out. “Hey why don’t take (oldest boy) with you?” No problem, “Wait why don´t we all go?” Again, no problem. So instead of going out and testing my new toy with some time to tweak and sweep (its my first MD ever so got a lot to learn) by my self I ended up with the missus, 2 boys (7 and 9) and two dogs.
When we got there the questions started; Can I have a go?!? No me!! No I asked first!!....and that’s 1 minute after we parked….got to the “beach”, the tide was out. Great lets try that! Probably not the best decision of the day. I hadn´t read anything about what settings you should have on a salt water beach and we were just fumbling in the dark with peeps and squeaks going of right and left. Let me tell you this, it isn´t easy to concentrate with 2 kids playing ninjas with the diggers and 2 dogs running around your feet, while the missus is watching and you just know she is laughing at you inside herself. Time to switch tactics!
Forget the sands, go for the patches of dirt and grass that has accumulated in the crevasses of the rocks over the years. It is soon apparent that the settings I was going for was more of a hit here and things calm down and we do some searching. Two first hits, foil…that’s OK, we found something, it works! Only problem, the dirt is stone hard since it hasn´t completely thawed out yet. By this time the missus is starting to give me the stink eye; “Isn´t it time you let the kids have a go”?? But but!!....ok…..![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
“men and their toys, never wants to share” she comments, and goes back to the dogs. Well the youngest doesn´t fine anything and I manage to get it back while they go off a bit with the dogs. My turn again!! And this time I get a sweet signal, and I actually found something; A Pepsi screw cork from a 80´s 1.liter bottle! Yeah!! My precious!! It’s a keeper, the first “substantial” find! Have time to find one more piece of foil before the kids come back and the oldest has his turn. Short story, even shorter; sweet signal, dig..dig..dig and dig some more, found it; A 50 øre coin (9 cents)!! Would be better with a 20 kroner coin ($3,5), but we scored!! 
It’s in a awful condition and it went out circulation last year, but what the hey, it’s a coin! By now the missus states for the forth time that she is cold, and; “now I am going home”….but…but…argh…lets go…
So what have we learned?
1 – next time, go by my self so that I get more then 45 minutes out, half of that the kids used it.
2 – get moving on a pin pointer
3 – study more what the different knobs and settings actually do
4 – go around to the farms and landowners in the area as fast as possible!
5 – this is going to be fun!!
And here it is, todays pickings (the coin on the right is a reference coin just to show how they should look)! ;
But it’s a bittersweet moment since I tomorrow is leaving for the US on a week’s business trip. Something I usually look forward to, but this time a week postponement would have been nice. Well since it has arrived I just got to make the best of it. So after dinner I tell the missus I am going out to detect for an hour or two, first problem; where to go? I now live on a barren island on the North Sea coast, it’s a large island but mostly rocks, some more rocks with a bit of topsoil and marshes. There are of course some farms, but they are tiny and mostly just have grassing sheep, not much ploughing. The options today was very limited, parks? Forget it, doesn´t exist, we use mother nature. I ended up going to what the locals here look upon as the “beach”, some low cliffs and stones with some dots of grass on top of them. If you are lucky, and its low tide, there is also a small patch of sandy bottom that reveals it self (maybe 6X4 meters). Well I was lucky the tide was out!
But before we come to the actually searching problem number two came over the horizon, well actually at the same moment I told the missus I was going out. “Hey why don’t take (oldest boy) with you?” No problem, “Wait why don´t we all go?” Again, no problem. So instead of going out and testing my new toy with some time to tweak and sweep (its my first MD ever so got a lot to learn) by my self I ended up with the missus, 2 boys (7 and 9) and two dogs.
When we got there the questions started; Can I have a go?!? No me!! No I asked first!!....and that’s 1 minute after we parked….got to the “beach”, the tide was out. Great lets try that! Probably not the best decision of the day. I hadn´t read anything about what settings you should have on a salt water beach and we were just fumbling in the dark with peeps and squeaks going of right and left. Let me tell you this, it isn´t easy to concentrate with 2 kids playing ninjas with the diggers and 2 dogs running around your feet, while the missus is watching and you just know she is laughing at you inside herself. Time to switch tactics!
Forget the sands, go for the patches of dirt and grass that has accumulated in the crevasses of the rocks over the years. It is soon apparent that the settings I was going for was more of a hit here and things calm down and we do some searching. Two first hits, foil…that’s OK, we found something, it works! Only problem, the dirt is stone hard since it hasn´t completely thawed out yet. By this time the missus is starting to give me the stink eye; “Isn´t it time you let the kids have a go”?? But but!!....ok…..
“men and their toys, never wants to share” she comments, and goes back to the dogs. Well the youngest doesn´t fine anything and I manage to get it back while they go off a bit with the dogs. My turn again!! And this time I get a sweet signal, and I actually found something; A Pepsi screw cork from a 80´s 1.liter bottle! Yeah!! My precious!! It’s a keeper, the first “substantial” find! Have time to find one more piece of foil before the kids come back and the oldest has his turn. Short story, even shorter; sweet signal, dig..dig..dig and dig some more, found it; A 50 øre coin (9 cents)!! Would be better with a 20 kroner coin ($3,5), but we scored!! It’s in a awful condition and it went out circulation last year, but what the hey, it’s a coin! By now the missus states for the forth time that she is cold, and; “now I am going home”….but…but…argh…lets go… So what have we learned?
1 – next time, go by my self so that I get more then 45 minutes out, half of that the kids used it.
2 – get moving on a pin pointer
3 – study more what the different knobs and settings actually do
4 – go around to the farms and landowners in the area as fast as possible!
5 – this is going to be fun!!
And here it is, todays pickings (the coin on the right is a reference coin just to show how they should look)! ;
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, that look for an eye catching topic. Yes, you did get my attention, but for the wrong reason. I thought this post was about being a veal, and it made me hungry 
