tnt-hunter
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- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
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I went to a state park to detect the day after Labor Day and there were 3 others there as well, 2 of us in the water and 2 on the beach. I worked a grid in the water like usual and so did the other guy. All of the guys appeared to be working a grid and doing a clean sweep, but I looked up occasionally and noticed the one guy on the beach was leaving large gaps in his swing and he had his coil 3 or 4 inches above the sand.
The water guy moved on to another area and I kept working my area and went over the part he had done just to be sure. He must have been moving too fast and leaving gaps in his swing also because I found 4 quarters, a dime and 2 pennies along with a toe ring and an earring in the part he had covered. Now he did find 3 rings (2 of them silver) in the second area because he got there first, but the same guy missed a titanium ring and a platinum ring last year when I check behind him.
I did a small portion of the beach out of curiosity moving from one area to the next and found coins and a ring less than an inch down in the sand. All of the other folks were using good detector so the machines could have gotten the job done.
Sorry for the long story, but I wanted to make the point that if you want to get as many goodies as possible you should 1. use a coil cover and scrub the ground with your swing, 2. Overlap your swings so the active portion of the coil covers ever inch and 3. Go slow enough to be sure you have covered the area completely.
In a way I am glad they did a poor job. It means more goodies for me, but the whole reason for being on Treasure Net is to help each other to learn about this hobby so we all do it right by sharing what we find and how we found it.
Now I will climb down from the soap box and show you my finds. 6 hours found 36 coins with a face value of $3.03, a few old ring tabs, brass screws, fishing sinkers, 3 rings, 3 earrings, 3 earring backs, a game token, a starter pistol blank, a belly button ring, a poor little dime that someone beat the heck out of (you can just barely tell it was a dime).
One earring and an earring back are silver and the ring on the right is a really old style kiddy ring that has been out there a long time. It was in among a bunch of iron so it must have shifted over the winter so I could find it this year (I have detected this swimming area every year for at least 14 years, so no matter how good you are you never get it all). I know it looks rusty and ferrous, but it is actually copper or brass that has aged poorly. The stone looks like red plastic.
Here is the old kiddy ring and the beat up dime.
The next day I went to another state park that is not used as much and from the looks of it nobody else had been there detecting yet. I spent 6.5 hours finishing the water and most of the beach. I managed to find 73 coins with a face value of $5.55, toy cars (I need a bigger garage 😆), sinkers, a 22 slug and casing, tabs and foil of course, 5 earrings and 3 rings, and I eyeballed a little lizard friend.
The squiggly earring is marked 925, ring one is plated copper, two is stainless marked L316 and the last is a nice 14k wedding ring.
The wedding ring is .25 Troy ounces or 7.6 grams in weight. I found it in a dead zone in the water. I was moving along and not finding anything not even iron signals. I was thinking maybe I should speed up and get done, but I kept going slow and low and after 3 passes and 20 minutes with nothing I get a nice clear mid tone that read 68 on the VDI. Now I have had good signals like that before and gotten the blazinga prize, but this time it was a goodie.
So far so good. I hope to get to park number 3 tomorrow and maybe have some more luck. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
The water guy moved on to another area and I kept working my area and went over the part he had done just to be sure. He must have been moving too fast and leaving gaps in his swing also because I found 4 quarters, a dime and 2 pennies along with a toe ring and an earring in the part he had covered. Now he did find 3 rings (2 of them silver) in the second area because he got there first, but the same guy missed a titanium ring and a platinum ring last year when I check behind him.
I did a small portion of the beach out of curiosity moving from one area to the next and found coins and a ring less than an inch down in the sand. All of the other folks were using good detector so the machines could have gotten the job done.
Sorry for the long story, but I wanted to make the point that if you want to get as many goodies as possible you should 1. use a coil cover and scrub the ground with your swing, 2. Overlap your swings so the active portion of the coil covers ever inch and 3. Go slow enough to be sure you have covered the area completely.
In a way I am glad they did a poor job. It means more goodies for me, but the whole reason for being on Treasure Net is to help each other to learn about this hobby so we all do it right by sharing what we find and how we found it.
Now I will climb down from the soap box and show you my finds. 6 hours found 36 coins with a face value of $3.03, a few old ring tabs, brass screws, fishing sinkers, 3 rings, 3 earrings, 3 earring backs, a game token, a starter pistol blank, a belly button ring, a poor little dime that someone beat the heck out of (you can just barely tell it was a dime).
One earring and an earring back are silver and the ring on the right is a really old style kiddy ring that has been out there a long time. It was in among a bunch of iron so it must have shifted over the winter so I could find it this year (I have detected this swimming area every year for at least 14 years, so no matter how good you are you never get it all). I know it looks rusty and ferrous, but it is actually copper or brass that has aged poorly. The stone looks like red plastic.
Here is the old kiddy ring and the beat up dime.
The next day I went to another state park that is not used as much and from the looks of it nobody else had been there detecting yet. I spent 6.5 hours finishing the water and most of the beach. I managed to find 73 coins with a face value of $5.55, toy cars (I need a bigger garage 😆), sinkers, a 22 slug and casing, tabs and foil of course, 5 earrings and 3 rings, and I eyeballed a little lizard friend.
The squiggly earring is marked 925, ring one is plated copper, two is stainless marked L316 and the last is a nice 14k wedding ring.
The wedding ring is .25 Troy ounces or 7.6 grams in weight. I found it in a dead zone in the water. I was moving along and not finding anything not even iron signals. I was thinking maybe I should speed up and get done, but I kept going slow and low and after 3 passes and 20 minutes with nothing I get a nice clear mid tone that read 68 on the VDI. Now I have had good signals like that before and gotten the blazinga prize, but this time it was a goodie.
So far so good. I hope to get to park number 3 tomorrow and maybe have some more luck. Thanks for looking and may your coil lead you to good things.
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, super advice 
, but, let's try and keep that kind of good info to our greedy little selves. Know what I'm sayin'? Smell what I'm cooking?! 
and Congrats on the nice finds you found
