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    Why I wear boots in the water

    Seemed to push sand in and cover things up. Been up and down about 3 miles of beach and have not found a shell bottom, only sand. I did get a recent drop ring ... fairly big men's tungsten ring. In the water right on the top; one scoop. Might try to get out later this week as the north winds are...
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    I Think This Might Be The #1 Reason We Have So Much Competition Today

    Yup. I'm seeing fewer people detecting on the beaches these days. It seemed to peak right before the pandemic. Seems with fewer people wearing gold, more people doing all transactions with cards and not cash, that the work to find good targets has discouraged some people. Had a guy walk up to me...
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    Why I wear boots in the water

    Was detecting for a couple hours today. Waves in the three to four foot range still so I stayed to the sand and only got my ankles wet. Saw a guy fishing pull in a shark that was about 3 to 3 and a half feet long. He did the classic picture pose with a shark. Stood over it straddling it and...
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    Gigmaster hunts the water with our own OBN aka Old Beechnut aka Joe Beechnut

    Too bad there was not much video of working the water. Joe may have wanted to prevent identification of his specific hunt areas and I understand that. Lessons learned in the Maryland bay and tributary areas apply very directly to the bay side beaches near Virginia Beach. Visits to the beaches...
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    Hitting Beaches in DE as Hurricane Erin approaches

    Was out for a little in North Myrtle Beach last evening. The waves were about 3 feet with nearly 8 seconds between them. That long interval between waves makes detecting nice ... just need to be facing the waves so as to bounce with them rather than taking a direct hit. I was not finding pools...
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    Why I wear boots in the water

    What amazed me was the lady's comment about not expecting to see anything like fishing equipment come up from the bottom when every morning at sunrise there are people all set up and surf fishing. Between 9 and 10 am the surf fishers leave when the beach starts to get crowded with the sunbathers.
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    Why I wear boots in the water

    Besides keeping the sand, gravel and shells out, finds like this one are why I wear boots. Dug this up today when about belly deep in the water. A lady who was nearby with two kids on boogie boards saw it come up and said she had no idea stuff like that was in the water and she would not want to...
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    New Nokta PI

    I'll believe they are about to release the PI detectors when Dilek Gonulay, the Director of Sales and Marketing department at Nokta Makro says they are about to release them. She has been about the only source of accurate information I've seen about their releases.
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    My “new” Dual Field PI & hanging out with OldBeechnut (OBN)

    I don't worry too much about that. Been bumped in the water by manatees, have caught sharks in some of the waters I detect and figure that they are looking for something that tastes better than an old fart like me will taste. I lived in Maryland for many years. Detected the bay tributaries and...
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    My “new” Dual Field PI & hanging out with OldBeechnut (OBN)

    Yup. I prefer the water too. It supports the weight and that helps the back a lot. As the years go on, I am less inclined to work in the higher waves and low period time between waves. Give me under two foot waves and five to six second periods or more and I'm very happy. I do very little land...
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    My “new” Dual Field PI & hanging out with OldBeechnut (OBN)

    Enjoy the the Dual Field while you can. Looking at the picture reminds me why I don't like pictures of me to be taken ... I hadn't seen OBN in about four years ... ever since we moved south. None of us are getting any younger. I'm glad we are still getting out and detecting though. May God be...
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    bought one of the Detech Arrow coils for my F75 LTD.

    I have a Tesoro cleansweep coil that I use on a Tejon that gets about 4 to five inches. It does not do well when it gets into grey looking sand or the sand gets damp with salt water. The F75 handles the wet salt sand and the grey sand much better. Been thinking about getting the Arrow coil for a...
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    bought one of the Detech Arrow coils for my F75 LTD.

    I've been thinking about getting that coil for my F75 to do the blanket line after busy beach days.
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    New Nokta PI

    Oldbeechnut most likely ... he seems to know just about everyone who is detecting in the water. He did some temperature measurements on various parts of the case. I have not had an issue with electronics failures even with hunts were it is in the high 90s and I keep to the wet sand because of...
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    New Nokta PI

    Get into some really highly mineralized dirt and a PI might be the only way to get good depth. Thinking of Culpeper, Virginia and similar soil conditions. In the water I have experienced a PI opening up a whole new world of targets because of depth. One trip in particular was very memorable in...
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