BH's post asking where I'd got to started me thinking. Where the heck had I got to? Piled under a mountain of work, that's where! All work and no play makes BDA a dull boy, that's for sure.
I got out on the weekend for a quick spin at one of my old hunting grounds that I've hunted to death and managed a 1939 british half penny, King George the IV. I was really just trying to relax because my job is stressing me out to the max at the moment, but I took what I could get from that barren surf. It just wasn't good enough though, so I decided to put my gear in the back of the little red toenail I drive and try to hit Horseshoe Bay on my way home from work and score up a little loot. A pirate without his loot is like a cowboy without his horse.
Low tide was at 1910 so I got to the beach at 1830 and got down to looting. The Excal was acting up and falsing all over in the 2 foot surf, very strange. I immediately ran into some cuts a foot deep at waist depth but the Excal just squawk and squalled at me so that I couldn't make heads or tails of the signals. I continued on into calmer waters but there was still a lot of racket in my headphones. Adjusting sensitivity did little to solve the problem and it took me a while to realize that I'd set the threshold to high, dumb, dumb, dumb. That rookie mistake made me realize how rusty I'd become over the past few months of inactivity. I changed up the threshold and maxxed out the sensitivity and my Excal purred like a kitten, then I started getting hits. A couple of pull tabs, a sweet bit of nitro with rhinostones and gold plate that read 'Baby Phat', then I remembered the cuts and retraced my steps. I entered the series of cuts and within 5 minutes I got a vaguely familiar tone that is music to the ears, GOLD!
I dug away at the target while the surf pounded me and then the signal dissappeared, I searched around the hole but nothing, then I checked the scoop and as the pink sand melted away I saw the lovely gleam of gold with a silver inlay. Could it be platinum I wondered? No such luck but a really nice and very heavy 14k unit was what the benchmark said, a definite keeper. A messed around in the surf for another half an hour but I was expecting an overseas call so I packed up and head for home after spending a little over an hour hunting. It felt Really Good to have a Real Hunt after the past few months of just walking in the water to wind down after a stressful day on the job.
I'm Back Me Hearties!
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NItro and 14k Ring
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14k Queen Yellow Gold Ring with Hammered White Gold Inlay
Cheers,
BDA
I got out on the weekend for a quick spin at one of my old hunting grounds that I've hunted to death and managed a 1939 british half penny, King George the IV. I was really just trying to relax because my job is stressing me out to the max at the moment, but I took what I could get from that barren surf. It just wasn't good enough though, so I decided to put my gear in the back of the little red toenail I drive and try to hit Horseshoe Bay on my way home from work and score up a little loot. A pirate without his loot is like a cowboy without his horse.
Low tide was at 1910 so I got to the beach at 1830 and got down to looting. The Excal was acting up and falsing all over in the 2 foot surf, very strange. I immediately ran into some cuts a foot deep at waist depth but the Excal just squawk and squalled at me so that I couldn't make heads or tails of the signals. I continued on into calmer waters but there was still a lot of racket in my headphones. Adjusting sensitivity did little to solve the problem and it took me a while to realize that I'd set the threshold to high, dumb, dumb, dumb. That rookie mistake made me realize how rusty I'd become over the past few months of inactivity. I changed up the threshold and maxxed out the sensitivity and my Excal purred like a kitten, then I started getting hits. A couple of pull tabs, a sweet bit of nitro with rhinostones and gold plate that read 'Baby Phat', then I remembered the cuts and retraced my steps. I entered the series of cuts and within 5 minutes I got a vaguely familiar tone that is music to the ears, GOLD!
I dug away at the target while the surf pounded me and then the signal dissappeared, I searched around the hole but nothing, then I checked the scoop and as the pink sand melted away I saw the lovely gleam of gold with a silver inlay. Could it be platinum I wondered? No such luck but a really nice and very heavy 14k unit was what the benchmark said, a definite keeper. A messed around in the surf for another half an hour but I was expecting an overseas call so I packed up and head for home after spending a little over an hour hunting. It felt Really Good to have a Real Hunt after the past few months of just walking in the water to wind down after a stressful day on the job.
I'm Back Me Hearties!
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NItro and 14k Ring
[attachment 59083 P6060003-2.JPG]
14k Queen Yellow Gold Ring with Hammered White Gold Inlay
Cheers,
BDA