DocBeav
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- Minelab Equinox 800, Minelab CTX 3030 (17", 11", 6" coils), Minelab Excalibur 800, Minelab Excalibur 1000 (w/OBN's Remote Pinpoint mod and CTX headphone connector)
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Hit the beach a few hrs before low in the evening and the beach still had a lot of people out and about. A "Journey" concert was happening there on the beach (guessing a cover band) so I had some music to hunt by! There were a couple other local and out-of-town pirates out there too but it seemed like slow going for most of us. I was about 1/2 way through my outbound leg when I got a nice strong 12.09 at the water's edge. Fingers crossed for gold I pulled out a nice pendant that is marked 916 (22K) and weighs 2.9 grams. I hunted around for the chain with no luck and let a few others know where I found it (maybe one of them can get lucky and snag it). One of my yoga/hippie neighbors ID'd it as the "Om" symbol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om
Happy to have some gold in the pocket at that point but the rest of the leg was pretty lame. I did get a junk mood ring and a large "wing ring" that looked nice but it's junk as well.
On the return leg I was out and away from the water and hitting the upper slope. It had been harder to access earlier with all the depositors still lingering but after they started going off to the bars and bed there was more room to work. I had gotten some trash along the way and wasn't too surprised to get a 12.25 on the CTX that immediately went to an iron/ferrous sound. I hit it from a couple angles to check it thinking it was for sure a bottle cap (you CTX users are used to the sounds like that too I bet....) I dug it anyway as you just never know. First scoop nada, still there, second scoop It was out and I saw it laying on the beach, nice men's ring. Heavy but with the sound it was I thought maybe plated junk or something. I scanned the hole again and the iron was still there by itself. I found it about 4 inches below the ring, a big old bobby pin. Once I realized that was where the crappy sound came from, I pulled the ring outta my pocket, threw it on the beach and got a solid 12.25 on it. I could see it was marked so I knew I had a good one! Didn't know how good till I got back to the car and saw it was 18K!
An 18K ring and a 22K pendant was not a bad haul for a night raid on the beach!
Good luck all, hope you are finding the good stuff too!
Happy to have some gold in the pocket at that point but the rest of the leg was pretty lame. I did get a junk mood ring and a large "wing ring" that looked nice but it's junk as well.
On the return leg I was out and away from the water and hitting the upper slope. It had been harder to access earlier with all the depositors still lingering but after they started going off to the bars and bed there was more room to work. I had gotten some trash along the way and wasn't too surprised to get a 12.25 on the CTX that immediately went to an iron/ferrous sound. I hit it from a couple angles to check it thinking it was for sure a bottle cap (you CTX users are used to the sounds like that too I bet....) I dug it anyway as you just never know. First scoop nada, still there, second scoop It was out and I saw it laying on the beach, nice men's ring. Heavy but with the sound it was I thought maybe plated junk or something. I scanned the hole again and the iron was still there by itself. I found it about 4 inches below the ring, a big old bobby pin. Once I realized that was where the crappy sound came from, I pulled the ring outta my pocket, threw it on the beach and got a solid 12.25 on it. I could see it was marked so I knew I had a good one! Didn't know how good till I got back to the car and saw it was 18K!
An 18K ring and a 22K pendant was not a bad haul for a night raid on the beach!
Good luck all, hope you are finding the good stuff too!
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The CTX is a great machine,, dig it all.. esp the low tones.. you just never know.. great job.
