Hey, "Doctor", did you ever get down to the PB Shore Club in San Diego after I found that 1947 5 peso silver piece in Pacific Beach last year with my HH PI? I am sure you will remember, because you PM'd me about it, asking me to tell you where I found it...I am terribly disapointed you don't find my posts more exciting, but I think I will keep posting anyway. I find it a little suprising that you would try to glean information from a "boring" poster like myself...
Sorry to bore you guys even more, but I have to expand on this because it is sooo ironic...it was almost exactly a year ago (May 28th 2011, please go to my post of that date on this forum) that I got my third PI...a Detectorpro Headhunter Pulse. I had had the PI 1000 and the Sand Shark, which I had used on the beaches of San Diego religiously. I made lots of great finds with the Sand Shark and thought it was the cat's pajamas. (The PI 1000 is really too slow to use in the wet sand and very shallow water). The problem was, sometimes I would also use an Explorer with a WOT to cover the vast amount of sand in the area at low tides. I say this was a problem because it just became blatantly obvious to me that overall, I was finding more and deeper targets with my Explorer than I was with the Sand Shark. Believe me, I liked swinging the Sand Shark a hell of a lot more than the Explorer with the WOT!!! The latter is more like working than spending a relaxing evening at the beach, even with a "swingy thing". This was just counter to everything I had been told about a VLF vs. a PI in an area of high mineralization like San Diego. I could only run my Explorer at around 16 sensitivity, but it was still deeper than the Sand Shark. I had been using the Sand Shark for several years and really just did not want to believe what I was seeing. It took me months before I believed it. To futher complicate matters I did not yet know how to air test a PI and I did not yet understand the validity of the air test. I got an Excal. The results were the same. It was deeper than the Sand Shark. I sent the Shark to Tesoro and it came back with a clean bill of health. I then actually went to the beach and buried rings on strings in the wet sand and tested the detectors over them. It was a revelation. It was then that I determined to try another PI. I got the Headhunter Pulse. The very first time I used it, I went over sand I had just crushed with all my machines...it was right in front of the PB Shore Club in Pacific Beach, right by where I parked my car to start detecting every time I went there. The very first time I used the Headhunter, I came up with a very blackened 1947 5 Peso Silver coin. It wasn't much in terms of value, although it is almost an ounce of .900 fine silver. The amazing thing was that it was May in San Diego and we had not had any erosion to speak of all year...the beaches had been building for weeks and weeks. Yet up came this huge blackend silver coin on one of the most heavily detected beaches in San Diego. The coin was amazingly deep and had obviously been there for a very long time...I made a post about the machine and the coin on this forum almost exactly a year ago. A certain member PM'd me and asked me where I found the coin. And now it has come full circle. I know this post was really, really, really boring, but it does have the advantage of being the truth. Sorry if any of you feel your time has been wasted.
