TheHarleyMan2
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- Joined
- Feb 27, 2008
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- Location
- Never Know I May Live Next To You!
- Detector(s) used
- GTI 2500/Bounty Hunter
Minelab Equinox 800
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I am new at metal detecting and I found some things over a week ago after I bought my Bounty Hunter. I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a good detector so I bought a Bounty. My Fiancee' and I found some money here and there and I got used to using the detector to find some stuff. But, this past weekend was different;
We went to South Padre Island to work out the detector on a beach and get the hang of it. Of course I was a little disappointed when we got there Friday night due to seeing the beach had been plowed and bulldozed into dunes. I guess the city would rather get a bucket loader and shove all the shells, (which were good and plenty no matter where you went on the beach!), and the seaweed in the dunes making it harder for anyone to find anything
. We stayed overnight and the next morning we went further up the beach area. We found nothing and even though my detector was tuned and we found some money in Austin the last week before we left. I found that if my detector bumped lighty against a little rut in the sand the sound would go of , then to top it off, every time I scanned over the reddish looking seaweed, my detector would go off . Of course we picked up, moved, and looked through the seaweed, we found nothing, and certainly the detector didn't go off after we moved the seaweed. Has anyone ever picked up seaweed on thier detectors ? Everywhere that there was red seaweed, it would send my detector off, and of course, nothing!!!! So Saturday morning we went to the beach at the end of the paved road on South Padre Island to search and still the same thing went on with my detector!!! We dug and dug and found nothing , but shells and seaweed!!! So we left and went to Port Aransas to search there.
We got there Saturday afternoon and found that the beach was pretty packed with cars on the beach. We checked into our hotel and then went back to the beach. We scanned where mostly the cars were parked after they left in the evening and we found some penny's, dime's and a nickle. I didn't expect to find much anyway, due to the fact of me getting frustrated with my Bounty Hunter in South Padre Island, thinking it was a piece of crap and why was it picking up seaweed? Well, I got my pin-pointing down and found some money pretty quick in Aransas Pass. We couldn't find any maps with the Texas Treasures in any stores and while we left to come back this morning we stopped at a store and low and behold, a map of where people are finding things!!! Just my luck!!
We went to South Padre Island to work out the detector on a beach and get the hang of it. Of course I was a little disappointed when we got there Friday night due to seeing the beach had been plowed and bulldozed into dunes. I guess the city would rather get a bucket loader and shove all the shells, (which were good and plenty no matter where you went on the beach!), and the seaweed in the dunes making it harder for anyone to find anything
. We stayed overnight and the next morning we went further up the beach area. We found nothing and even though my detector was tuned and we found some money in Austin the last week before we left. I found that if my detector bumped lighty against a little rut in the sand the sound would go of , then to top it off, every time I scanned over the reddish looking seaweed, my detector would go off . Of course we picked up, moved, and looked through the seaweed, we found nothing, and certainly the detector didn't go off after we moved the seaweed. Has anyone ever picked up seaweed on thier detectors ? Everywhere that there was red seaweed, it would send my detector off, and of course, nothing!!!! So Saturday morning we went to the beach at the end of the paved road on South Padre Island to search and still the same thing went on with my detector!!! We dug and dug and found nothing , but shells and seaweed!!! So we left and went to Port Aransas to search there.We got there Saturday afternoon and found that the beach was pretty packed with cars on the beach. We checked into our hotel and then went back to the beach. We scanned where mostly the cars were parked after they left in the evening and we found some penny's, dime's and a nickle. I didn't expect to find much anyway, due to the fact of me getting frustrated with my Bounty Hunter in South Padre Island, thinking it was a piece of crap and why was it picking up seaweed
? Well, I got my pin-pointing down and found some money pretty quick in Aransas Pass. We couldn't find any maps with the Texas Treasures in any stores and while we left to come back this morning we stopped at a store and low and behold, a map of where people are finding things!!! Just my luck!!
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But i still want the GTI2500... Ebay has some good deals that include pinpointer and all 
