DrJoePrime
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- Joined
- Sep 9, 2007
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- Location
- Long Beach, California
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- Detector(s) used
- XP Deus, White's Surfmaster Dual Field, Tesoro Sand Shark, Garrett ATX
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
With yesterday's Gold ring in my pocket (to re-check it's VDI) I went to my over-detected local southern beach (OK Seal Beach..if you must know).
I've been loving my Deus lately and put on the larger 11"X13" coil and proceeded to do the dry sand. Not all that productive but I didn't really care because I was very well aware of the Gold ring in my pocket. Saw another detectorist but he was done and heading away to the parking. Still...I persisted and digging a lot of foil and little aluminum chunks. The chunks were the remnants of soda cans littered on most of the beach by last autumn's storms. At least I only found them once and threw them away.
There was a nice little cut on the south end close to the pier. Switched to the WET SAND program but was able to up the sensitivity all the way to 99. My confidence with the WET SAND program has been growing each time I use it. The trick is to avoid all the "maybe" signals...and there's a lot of those. When you get one of the "sure thing" signals it is always real. I was getting a lot of hits. penny, penny, dime, quarter. Then a deep 95. I've learned to dig those deep 95's as they can be almost anything good. This was a real deepie .. my deepest wet sand find. At about 13 " it was a 1/4 ounce lead sinker. I keep all the sinkers and was happy to be able to get such a deep signal in the wet.
Then I got a 35 ... not a great number but at the 4K frequency and the very solid signal definitely interesting. At 4" deep I found a ring looking back at me from my scoop. Silver colored...glasses up.... YES! 14K
Of course I was very happy (you might say almost deliriously so!) .. BUT how weird and ironic to get two Gold rings only a day apart when the exact same effort and skill and detectors and sites could not get me one in over six months? So..guess where I'm going this afternoon. Armed with the Sand Shark I plan to scour that wet sand...and just maybe I'll have 3 in 3 days.
This good gold was 6.1 grams
HH Joe
I've been loving my Deus lately and put on the larger 11"X13" coil and proceeded to do the dry sand. Not all that productive but I didn't really care because I was very well aware of the Gold ring in my pocket. Saw another detectorist but he was done and heading away to the parking. Still...I persisted and digging a lot of foil and little aluminum chunks. The chunks were the remnants of soda cans littered on most of the beach by last autumn's storms. At least I only found them once and threw them away.
There was a nice little cut on the south end close to the pier. Switched to the WET SAND program but was able to up the sensitivity all the way to 99. My confidence with the WET SAND program has been growing each time I use it. The trick is to avoid all the "maybe" signals...and there's a lot of those. When you get one of the "sure thing" signals it is always real. I was getting a lot of hits. penny, penny, dime, quarter. Then a deep 95. I've learned to dig those deep 95's as they can be almost anything good. This was a real deepie .. my deepest wet sand find. At about 13 " it was a 1/4 ounce lead sinker. I keep all the sinkers and was happy to be able to get such a deep signal in the wet.
Then I got a 35 ... not a great number but at the 4K frequency and the very solid signal definitely interesting. At 4" deep I found a ring looking back at me from my scoop. Silver colored...glasses up.... YES! 14K
Of course I was very happy (you might say almost deliriously so!) .. BUT how weird and ironic to get two Gold rings only a day apart when the exact same effort and skill and detectors and sites could not get me one in over six months? So..guess where I'm going this afternoon. Armed with the Sand Shark I plan to scour that wet sand...and just maybe I'll have 3 in 3 days.
This good gold was 6.1 grams
HH Joe
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!Had fun last time, hope to get out to SB same time this year!!
