Smoogle
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- Jul 24, 2011
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- Location
- North Coast NSW.
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- Tesoro Sand Shark, Stavr Krepish II Scoop, Plugger Balanced Shaft.
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
GOOD AND BAD NEWS AT THE JEWELLERS TODAY. THE 3 STONE RING IS STERLING SILVER WITH CZ's BUT THE LITTLE RING I FOUND AWHILE BACK PROVED TO BE 9CT ROSE GOLD (I could not read the hallmark - but the jeweller made short work of it), THE TINY STONE REMAINS A MYSTERY AS SHE SAID IT WAS NEITHER DIAMOND NOR CZ - SHE FELT IT MAY BE A SAPPHIRE AS IT HAS FLASHES OF YELLOW? pic added.
Hi all - I visited my Dad over the last two days - he lives north of Brisbane so I thought I would expand beyond my horizons of perfect beaches here and try some new stuff whilst I was there.
I decided to devote a hunt to my sadly neglected uMax, the SS has been so fun and well I barely even hunt the dry sand anymore, so the silver has remained dormant. I chose a swimming hole I knew when I was a kid - freshwater and OMG I had fun. Discrimation is SO COOL. I was whipping over the bottle tops ( I set just below foil) and picking up coins (14 in all), a neat St John's Bronze Medallion for Lifesaving, a hallmarked sterling teaspoon and assorted trash, my best find was a 925 Silver Band in about 1ft of water ( stressed hard about the coil being waterproof but it was ok)- and best of all I passed over it, focused on the pebbles and smooth river rock and there she was poking out - fun to snatch it up without digging, oh and a junk dragon thingy ring to add to my ring count ... Dad was stoked at how much I'd pulled while he was "at the club" - that reads at the club swilling XXXX the local brew.
Next morn I'm up at Crack of and I drive down to the bay - about 15km's from Dad's - it was a popular holiday destination from about 1895 - 1965 until the roads opened up to the beautiful beaches to the North and South. Well at first I was confused to say the least on the wet sand, my SS was acting like my uMax over damp salt - signals everywhere - I mean with every swing - multiple signals ( I found out why later) , I passed it off as all the junk cause there was heaps and decided I would only dig obvious screamers or nice sounding stuff, I got sick of it about 1/2 hr in and got into the less than inviting water - not ten minutes later and I'm digging signals under heavy shells / rocks at about thigh deep, the water proved cleaner, and I can't find this target. My hole is like an upside down mushroom - all roomy at the bottom - so I've learnt to dig out the sides and I threw it out, but no luck - I went deeper and the weirdest thing it came out in the scoop attached to a big chunk of natural clay , never seen clay at the beach before... recovered it with a rush picked off the sticky clay- seeing the tarnished underside first and think oh cool silver, spun it and saw the bling. Surely to good to be true and now I'm undecided - will test it tomorrow - if it is real I'll post pics as I'll be stoked - but I seriously doubt it -I can't recognise the metal / condition - no doubt experienced punters will know - it does look old though.
Went to the next beach up and found my problem - Red Ironstone everywhere via beach replenishment / construction) - it was everywhere - the SS just found every inch of ground.
So I had fun - got to come home tonight and had to have a ramble on Tnet - most will have tuned out by now I'm sure - but I'm finding I can't keep up with the possibilities for both the hunt / machines v's time!
Hi all - I visited my Dad over the last two days - he lives north of Brisbane so I thought I would expand beyond my horizons of perfect beaches here and try some new stuff whilst I was there.
I decided to devote a hunt to my sadly neglected uMax, the SS has been so fun and well I barely even hunt the dry sand anymore, so the silver has remained dormant. I chose a swimming hole I knew when I was a kid - freshwater and OMG I had fun. Discrimation is SO COOL. I was whipping over the bottle tops ( I set just below foil) and picking up coins (14 in all), a neat St John's Bronze Medallion for Lifesaving, a hallmarked sterling teaspoon and assorted trash, my best find was a 925 Silver Band in about 1ft of water ( stressed hard about the coil being waterproof but it was ok)- and best of all I passed over it, focused on the pebbles and smooth river rock and there she was poking out - fun to snatch it up without digging, oh and a junk dragon thingy ring to add to my ring count ... Dad was stoked at how much I'd pulled while he was "at the club" - that reads at the club swilling XXXX the local brew.
Next morn I'm up at Crack of and I drive down to the bay - about 15km's from Dad's - it was a popular holiday destination from about 1895 - 1965 until the roads opened up to the beautiful beaches to the North and South. Well at first I was confused to say the least on the wet sand, my SS was acting like my uMax over damp salt - signals everywhere - I mean with every swing - multiple signals ( I found out why later) , I passed it off as all the junk cause there was heaps and decided I would only dig obvious screamers or nice sounding stuff, I got sick of it about 1/2 hr in and got into the less than inviting water - not ten minutes later and I'm digging signals under heavy shells / rocks at about thigh deep, the water proved cleaner, and I can't find this target. My hole is like an upside down mushroom - all roomy at the bottom - so I've learnt to dig out the sides and I threw it out, but no luck - I went deeper and the weirdest thing it came out in the scoop attached to a big chunk of natural clay , never seen clay at the beach before... recovered it with a rush picked off the sticky clay- seeing the tarnished underside first and think oh cool silver, spun it and saw the bling. Surely to good to be true and now I'm undecided - will test it tomorrow - if it is real I'll post pics as I'll be stoked - but I seriously doubt it -I can't recognise the metal / condition - no doubt experienced punters will know - it does look old though.
Went to the next beach up and found my problem - Red Ironstone everywhere via beach replenishment / construction) - it was everywhere - the SS just found every inch of ground.
So I had fun - got to come home tonight and had to have a ramble on Tnet - most will have tuned out by now I'm sure - but I'm finding I can't keep up with the possibilities for both the hunt / machines v's time!
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