Target Rich Day Today. I got the Silver. Kevin got the Gold

[ScubaDetector]

Had a great day in the water today. Found another good spot at the end of my second dive. I cleaned up pretty good actually. Would you believe walker #12 from this spot? Well better start being a believer!! Four Washington's, 7 merc's, Two Rosey's and two war nickels. And a silver cross and 4 silver rings. I certainly had a blast in this area.

Three buffalo, 1929, 35 and 37, and eight wheats, oldest being a 1939. Haven't researched the bottle yet. Has a small opening, probably a lotion. I found a clad quarter for once!! My first clad from this spot.

Two bracelets, One has the 10 Commandments on it. The lighter has seen a lot better days that's for sure. The hand pin is strange. No idea what was supposed to be on the loop. The pin back is still there.


My friend Kevin found the ring 5.17 grams of 18K and a very nice diamond. Has one emerald on one side, the other is missing.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

As usual a killer hunt! Congratualtions!

 

[KyDigNQueen]

Just amazing. Congrats on a stellar hunt! Looks like you found another excellent spot.

 

[tomhighland]

Congratulations. You are an inspiration to hunters everywhere. Research and effort continue to pay off.

 

[ARC]

Trench lighter in that mix ? ? ?

 

[ScubaDetector]

Trench lighter in that mix ? ? ?

I believe it is just a small lipstick AARC. I haven't tried to open it yet. It is shaped like a trench lighter, however it has a small button on it like most the lipsticks I find. Last time I opened a lipstick i got red cwap all over my hands! So I might open it but at the moment I am thinking just a lipstick.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on another great adventure nice stuff

 

[dts52]

Kreml hair cream for men was a sponsor of the Sherlock Holmes radio program with Nigel Bruce (I think in the 30's and 40's). Great finds, as always.
HH
dts

 

[ScubaDetector]

Congratulations. You are an inspiration to hunters everywhere. Research and effort continue to pay off.

I do have to admit. It wasn't my research at all. I was told about this place from a couple of waders. I promised them I would not touch the wading area and I have kept that promise. I go out to neck deep then go under and go out a bit further. My finds have all been in 6 - 8' of water.

Effort, now that I can say I put into these hunts. I hunt a in a unique way and it pays. As I have stated earlier, the weeds and the muck are terrible here. Since it isn't being stirred up by swimmers anymore since the 1960's it has turned into a nightmare. I have been putting my coil in the weeds and listening to very faint beeps. If I get one I move the invasive weeds out of the area. Then I dig through the muck down to hard packed gravel. Most the time the target is down in the gravel. I usually use my dive knife to dig. After I get the target, I put my machine down and use both arms to move the muck away. Then I detect more. The swim buckles and key tags are big pieces of brass that usually make my machine sound off first. However halves do also.

I keep going back over the spots I have hit because day after day since the weeds are gone, the current has been taking more and more of the muck away. Now the dimes and pennies and rings show up better. Some are deep down in the hard packed gravel and barely give a whisper. This area will never be cleaned out. As I have stated. It is a virgin underwater park.

Even after I posted pictures and made a couple of people angry, I still have never seen another diver or wader in this area. The waders have hammered the shallows. Sure there are more things to find but just like land parks they are very few and far between.

 

[ScubaDetector]

cool stuff! That's a lot of dive belt thingys. You consistently pull them out... what do they ring up as? Are they the same as rings, or do you have a general idea what they are before you pull them?

Skippy

Skippy, those are swim belt buckles. Before draw strings they had rubber belts with the buckles on them. On my CZ-21, they ring as a mid tone or gold ring. My Tiger Shark they ring up as a solid signal and not discriminated out at all. And absolutely no idea what they are at all until I dig them.

Us water hunters don't have the luxury of numbers. We just have beeps.

This is what I have found so far this year at this spot. The bucket is about 3/4's full

 

[Carolina Tom]

Another really nice haul. Congratulations sir.

 

[dirtdigginfool]

Scuba, since you don't have the luxury of VDI numbers, are your beeps just beeps or are they multi-toned to give you any indication of size, metallic content, trash, silver etc...? Thx in advance, ddf.

 

[Subterranean]

Awesome hunt again, Scuba. You are a man of your word, even though competition is part of the American fabric and he who works hardest gains the most. Sounds like a lot of work to get the goods out in the surf, so savor each find. Invent an underwater weed eater! Your gold ring is a stunner, congrats. Sub

 

[Reelsnrods]

That is fantastic... truly fantastic! Congrats on finding an old spot with lots of treasures to be saved!

 

[ScubaDetector]

Scuba, since you don't have the luxury of VDI numbers, are your beeps just beeps or are they multi-toned to give you any indication of size, metallic content, trash, silver etc...? Thx in advance, ddf.

On the CZ-21 they are multi tone. Low for iron, mid for lead aluminum, brass and gold. high for silver and clad. A bell tone for overload which usually are cans, however, guns, lighters, big gold rings, and the buckles if close give a bell tone. I dig them all anyway.

The Tiger Shark is one tone. I really don't care. I have nails discriminated out mostly. Rusty bent ones fool the machine BUT, it isn't hard to dig except in some spots so I don't mind digging everything. Ohh washers. Now those things are a royal PAIN. For some reason there are tons of them where the dock was.

I used to swear by the CZ-21 exclusively. However the Tiger Shark really does a wonderful clean up job and it is easier to move around in the weeds. Both machines compliment each other and I will use both from now on.

 

[ScubaDetector]

Awesome hunt again, Scuba. You are a man of your word, even though competition is part of the American fabric and he who works hardest gains the most. Sounds like a lot of work to get the goods out in the surf, so savor each find. Invent an underwater weed eater! Your gold ring is a stunner, congrats. Sub

Unfortunately that is my friend KEVIN's gold ring! GRRRRR. He didn't find one piece of silver, however he scored that thing. I think it will be mine in the near future though! He doesn't detect as much as I do and so I really think he doesn't listen to the very faint beeps. You can only tell someone so much and the rest they have to learn on their own.

 

[CASPER-2]

and they are usually pre WWII cause they stopped making them out of brass when war started - so they are a great sign for water hunters
as is proof by his finds - you start getting these and you should get silver and older gold

Skippy, those are swim belt buckles. Before draw strings they had rubber belts with the buckles on them. On my CZ-21, they ring as a mid tone or gold ring. My Tiger Shark they ring up as a solid signal and not discriminated out at all. And absolutely no idea what they are at all until I dig them.

Us water hunters don't have the luxury of numbers. We just have beeps.

This is what I have found so far this year at this spot. The bucket is about 3/4's full

 

[CASPER-2]

..that diamond ring is killer!!!