X marks the spot

[Orient-250]

Well,

As a newbie I must not know the tricks yet, this is my 4th hunt and no Rolex, no matching necklace and bracelet 24K or diamonds or coins from the olden times,

You guys share a secret map I am sure. I am in Japan so I guess something must be in the ground somewhere.

But in absence of anything more than bottlecaps I will wake up at 4am, drive to the beach for 2 hours and try my luck.

Will update once I find a cool spike or pushpin !!!!

 

[CRUSADER]

Well,

As a newbie I must not know the tricks yet, this is my 4th hunt and no Rolex, no matching necklace and bracelet 24K or diamonds or coins from the olden times,

You guys share a secret map I am sure. I am in Japan so I guess something must be in the ground somewhere.

But in absence of anything more than bottlecaps I will wake up at 4am, drive to the beach for 2 hours and try my luck.

Will update once I find a cool spike or pushpin !!!!

I don't know anything about Japan but if they have ploughed fields, thats where you want to be.

 

[Orient-250]

Yeah people have their land, usually with corn or other veggies, and the rice fields. "Old"-country is a bit of a drive away from the big city, and very local.

I have mostly checked the parks, but it seems all is just a few decades old and all I find is garbage left behind.

The beach is insanely busy during the summer months (now) but so far just spikes and alloy foil. I will try to get on the beach around 5am, although high tide, it's good training. Still getting used to my Garrett 250, mostly all sounds the same to me.

Planning a trip to some historic battle fields areas later in the year, at least those that are not golf clubs now.

 

[CRUSADER]

Yeah people have their land, usually with corn or other veggies, and the rice fields. "Old"-country is a bit of a drive away from the big city, and very local.

I have mostly checked the parks, but it seems all is just a few decades old and all I find is garbage left behind.

The beach is insanely busy during the summer months (now) but so far just spikes and alloy foil. I will try to get on the beach around 5am, although high tide, it's good training. Still getting used to my Garrett 250, mostly all sounds the same to me.

Planning a trip to some historic battle fields areas later in the year, at least those that are not golf clubs now.

I guess it depends what your targets are. If they are rings & modern change, then get down the beach as you say. If they are something much older, & in Japan that could be really old, then best research the farm land. You will be surprised what is in a empty looking field. Yes it has junk as well, but without this junk you have no activity & therefore no goodies.

 

[g-olden years]

Welcome to t-net! Your sense of humor is cool. Here's 3 beach-detecting techniques that have availed my son & I of coins, silver and gold: If any of the beaches have large rocks in them or wharf pilings or buried big iron, you should detect right up against those things as sometimes wonderful items are pushed up right against these large objects -- that's how I dug my first, gorgeous custom-made gold ring, right up against old buried iron. Also notice where beachgoers tend to flop down on the sand, spread beach chairs & towels because they tend to cluster all about the same distance from the surf, forming a line of dropped lost items under the sand. Similarly follow with your detector the lines of shells and pebbles that the outgoing waves have left on the beach. Off beach, I agree with Crusader that you should detect fields, and also near & up against old foundations, and in parks and sports fields, getting permission first for those inland areas. THAT SECRET MAP THE REST OF US USED TO HAVE IS NOW A LOST AND BLOWING IN THE WIND SOMEWHERE NEAR YOU! HAVE FUN! Andi

 

[Orient-250]

Cheers!!

My wife made the smart remark that japanese tend not to wear jewellery as much, that might make it more challenging.

Me and my boys (x4) usually go together and have a fun time anyways, so even just finding bottle caps is not time wasted.

Thanks for the beach tips, I will make some good pics and movies of the beach tomorrow morning and my finds....

 

[Orient-250]

Age must be getting to me, common sense long gone.

Went to the beach finally, but did not have a chance till about 9pm to actually grab my ace 250 and hit the beach.

Just to realise feet in sand that the ace 250 is not backlit and I have to go by sound only. ..... No problem, until ... Pin pointing.

Note to self ; need some sort of light source, pref the sun

 

[Argentium]

Orient -250 , First off a hearty welcome to T- net lot's of good info on this site for sure . I'll tell you right up front that I've never hunted
a beach in my nine years of detecting , but there used to be a guy posting on this site - username of CRACKBADGER - that guy was in
the military I think and was stationed in asia somewhere . The punchline is that he used to find an enormous amount of gold on the beach,
and he was using a Garret's Ace 250 for a while - he was posting a lot of high karat gold (22, and 24 K) Perhaps some of his posts are
archived (he had a lot of videos also ) I'm not high tech enough to tell you how to find his posts or videos , but folks here are very
helpful and somebody can probably get you there . Good luck friend !

 

[Orient-250]

Now that woke me right up!!!!
I will do a search and see what comes up.

--- 10 seconds later --

Excellent .... Over 500 posts by him so got some digging (in the forum) to do


Thanks a lot!!

 

[49r Relics]

Welcome to the t-net forums :-)

A couple tips for beach/ocean detecting, run minimal discrimination and get yourself a good long handle sand scoop. With this scoop you will be able to easily dig targets in the dry sand. Because it is easy recovery, dig all signals as some of the choppy signals on the ace 250 that are indicating up around penny to quarter are likely deeply buried goodies just out of range of the detector. When working around waves near the water, for obvious safety reasons, always keep your eyes facing the ocean and your machine is not water proof or resistant. If you hunt in the wet sand between waves, scoop quickly and then rescan if signal is in your scoop move up to dry sand to sift and recover the item from the scoop. If you didn't get the item in that quick scoop and your being chased back by the next wave, drop your scoop in the sand and scrape a deep line as you retreat, you may be able to follow the line back down.

Lastly, the beach gives up lots of jewelry and coins after storms where there has been a significant erosion event or even the opposite where wave action has brought lots of sand up on to the beach. As others have said, look for lines of rocks, shells, etc as this is where wave action has all the heavier items concentrated. The Ace 250 is a good machine for getting into the hobby but if you are going to be hunting mostly on beaches you will want to upgrade to a water resistant or submergible detector. Most of them have special circuitry and software algorithms designed to work in saltwater environments where land machines have trouble because of the salt and black sand.

At dark use a headlamp.

Best of luck, stay safe out there.

 

[TheTreasureAddict]

Hey Orient, I know a couple guys over there. Are you on the mainland. I have a good buddy in Okinawa and he could help you out with some spots or people, send me a pm if your interested.

CB

 

[Orient-250]

Hiya crack,

Tokyo area,
Sometimes try to hit kamakura