bob.oz
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Been twenty five days since my last XTerra beach hunt post. Something is always found, but nothing significant in the last 12 beach hunts with the XT705. An Ipod, 925 earing and $56.36 clad to be had in total!!
The rings are junkers, but the dolphin/abalone is nice looking. The group picture of finds were all found with the 6" HF DD coil. I decided to try it out on a couple dedicated hunts in back of a few beach bars only. These areas are where all the beach goers lay, play, and drink! The sand is littered and well blended with tabs, bottle caps and twist offs. I hunt these areas all the time to the tune of grunts and tones repeating in uninterrupted frequency in my headphones. Fresh drops are easy and often found when using the 5x10 HF DD Elliptical coil, but getting past the trash to the somewhat deeper targets that have been turned under by the rake is not that easy.
So I tried 2 times, @5hrs, of slow and go with the 6" HF DD. I was able to distinguish and separate the targets location down by the swing...Narrowing it down to a single tone and steady ID in between all the trash. Just surprised no gold with all those (16) nickels!!! Not just the nickels, but notice how a lot of the coins have been there a while judging by their condition. I also had 28 cents in pennies not pictured. So when you consider most of the coins I get are shinny fresh drops...... that little coil can read between the trash nicely. The closest gold is the round pendant/charm that's 1/20 12k GF. Lots of smalls.. buttons, nuts, beads, fishing crimps, stainless cuff bracelet, charms, one hitter, etc,..etc.
*** I am rocking out with a newly acquired Ipod that survived burial by the beach rake and at least one night of rain. Even has some good tunes that I like...., but I will be loading it with some good old southern rock, The Boss, smooth Jazz and some Frank.................Zappa, not Sinatra! GL ALL
The rings are junkers, but the dolphin/abalone is nice looking. The group picture of finds were all found with the 6" HF DD coil. I decided to try it out on a couple dedicated hunts in back of a few beach bars only. These areas are where all the beach goers lay, play, and drink! The sand is littered and well blended with tabs, bottle caps and twist offs. I hunt these areas all the time to the tune of grunts and tones repeating in uninterrupted frequency in my headphones. Fresh drops are easy and often found when using the 5x10 HF DD Elliptical coil, but getting past the trash to the somewhat deeper targets that have been turned under by the rake is not that easy.
So I tried 2 times, @5hrs, of slow and go with the 6" HF DD. I was able to distinguish and separate the targets location down by the swing...Narrowing it down to a single tone and steady ID in between all the trash. Just surprised no gold with all those (16) nickels!!! Not just the nickels, but notice how a lot of the coins have been there a while judging by their condition. I also had 28 cents in pennies not pictured. So when you consider most of the coins I get are shinny fresh drops...... that little coil can read between the trash nicely. The closest gold is the round pendant/charm that's 1/20 12k GF. Lots of smalls.. buttons, nuts, beads, fishing crimps, stainless cuff bracelet, charms, one hitter, etc,..etc.
*** I am rocking out with a newly acquired Ipod that survived burial by the beach rake and at least one night of rain. Even has some good tunes that I like...., but I will be loading it with some good old southern rock, The Boss, smooth Jazz and some Frank.................Zappa, not Sinatra! GL ALL
On the beach, I'm thinkin' that a little "Dirty Love" would be appropriate. 
6am on my way to MD and FZ is singing "Dirty Love"..... blasting away, "Come on, Frenchie"....Snap it!
