DrJoePrime
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- Joined
- Sep 9, 2007
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- Location
- Long Beach, California
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 2
- Detector(s) used
- XP Deus, White's Surfmaster Dual Field, Tesoro Sand Shark, Garrett ATX
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
I had my longest detecting session last Tuesday with my good buddy, Kiana. She is a tremendously enthusiastic detectorist and her finds are starting to show up. We are both passionate beach hunters.
We started out at 5:00 AM from my house and settled on a southern beach some 25+ miles from my home. It was 5:45 and the beach was still closed...but that didn't stop us. I went right and Kiana went left. There was a beautiful 12" to 20" cut but no luck at the cut at all. However I hit a few nice pockets at the waterline. Lots of pennies but enough quarters to make things interesting. It was still dark when I got a "coin" signal that fell out of the scoop. In the dark it looked/felt like a tiny ring.
With dawn I could see it was a ring...a tiny ring with diamonds! The last photo shows the ring sitting on a dime...yep tiny ..all of 1.08 grams.
Next beach had a huge 4 to 5 foot cut! Coins galore...and at a horribly trashy site with rocky black sand and hunks of iron I picked out a small coin sized signal. I must say this is the most difficult PI type of hunting. Almost continuous iron signal and just trying to pick out the small hits. I picked out 2 coins there, one a larger half and a smaller dime. After cleaning ..it's my first Barber dime...1913! and a 1929 Walking Liberty Half!
After a nice lunch provided with Kiana we hit a 3rd beach and then moved on to a fourth. Although it was fun there wasn't anything too notable there. Kiana got me home by just about 6:00PM.
This is my first gold ring with my new (used) Dual Field. It's a PI machine that really speaks to me. Although the Sand Shark was a great experience it just didn't connect for me like the White's Dual Field does!
Big Thanks to Kiana for taking care of me for this marathon detecting session!
We started out at 5:00 AM from my house and settled on a southern beach some 25+ miles from my home. It was 5:45 and the beach was still closed...but that didn't stop us. I went right and Kiana went left. There was a beautiful 12" to 20" cut but no luck at the cut at all. However I hit a few nice pockets at the waterline. Lots of pennies but enough quarters to make things interesting. It was still dark when I got a "coin" signal that fell out of the scoop. In the dark it looked/felt like a tiny ring.
With dawn I could see it was a ring...a tiny ring with diamonds! The last photo shows the ring sitting on a dime...yep tiny ..all of 1.08 grams.
Next beach had a huge 4 to 5 foot cut! Coins galore...and at a horribly trashy site with rocky black sand and hunks of iron I picked out a small coin sized signal. I must say this is the most difficult PI type of hunting. Almost continuous iron signal and just trying to pick out the small hits. I picked out 2 coins there, one a larger half and a smaller dime. After cleaning ..it's my first Barber dime...1913! and a 1929 Walking Liberty Half!
After a nice lunch provided with Kiana we hit a 3rd beach and then moved on to a fourth. Although it was fun there wasn't anything too notable there. Kiana got me home by just about 6:00PM.
This is my first gold ring with my new (used) Dual Field. It's a PI machine that really speaks to me. Although the Sand Shark was a great experience it just didn't connect for me like the White's Dual Field does!
Big Thanks to Kiana for taking care of me for this marathon detecting session!
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yes that ring is tiny but yet so pretty,awesome find on your first Barber and of course Miss Liberty
I know there is more old coins there yonder,we just have to search deeper
It was fun gotta do it again,maybe starting from Venice Beach to Santa Barbara
